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Photos: 15 high profile companies that run on top of Amazon Web Services

By · November 11, 2015, 5:00 AM PST · connerforrest

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  • Netflix

    When AWS goes down a huge portion of the hottest online services go down with it. Here are 15 of the most popular brands that trust AWS with their workloads.

    Netflix recently made headlines when it announced it was moving entirely to AWS public cloud. By having its own resilience strategy, Netflix stayed operational during the last major AWS outage.

    Image: Netflix

  • NASA

    Images received from NASA's Curiosity rover are streamed through AWS products.

    Image: NASA

  • Expedia

    Online travel company Expedia uses AWS to help support its Asia Pacific customers, especially.

    Image: Expedia

  • Slack

    Slack has been with AWS since 2009, utilizing a variety of AWS tools and services for their messaging service.

    Image: Slack

  • Samsung

    The Samsung Printing Apps Center was originally deployed on AWS.

    Image: Shara Tibken/CNET

  • Nokia

    Telecom company Nokia turned to AWS and Redshift to help with scalability.

    Image: Nokia

  • Adobe

    Adobe uses AWS products to deliver many of its enterprise apps like LiveCycle Forms and Connect.

    Image: Stephen Shankland/CNET

  • Comcast

    To expand their data centers, Comcast used AWS products such as the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

    Image: Dong Ngo/CNET

  • Airbnb

    Airbnb's entire database is in Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS).

    Image: Airbnb

  • Time Inc

    Time is in the process of migrating five of its data centers to AWS.

    Image: Time Inc

  • Lionsgate

    In 2010, entertainment company Lionsgate began using AWS products like EC2 and S3.

    Image: Lionsgate

  • Yelp

    Yelp uses AWS products to increase productivity and decrease run times.

    Image: Yelp

  • Dow Jones

    Dow Jones uses AWS products like EC2 for flexibility in the data center.

    Image: CBS Interactive

  • Pfizer

    Amazon VPC and Amazon EC2 are two of the main products used by Pfizer.

    Image: Pfizer

  • Novartis

    Pharmaceutical giant Novartis built a platform using AWS tools to screen certain compounds against cancer.

    Image: Novartis

Netflix

When AWS goes down a huge portion of the hottest online services go down with it. Here are 15 of the most popular brands that trust AWS with their workloads.

Netflix recently made headlines when it announced it was moving entirely to AWS public cloud. By having its own resilience strategy, Netflix stayed operational during the last major AWS outage.

Image: Netflix

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By Conner Forrest

Conner Forrest is an analyst for 451 Research. He was formerly a Senior Editor for TechRepublic.

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