The recent Amazon outage is a clear indicator that even major cloud providers are susceptible to downtime, causing widespread disruptions. This serves as a critical warning for startups, retailers, and SaaS teams: systems unprepared for surges in AI-driven traffic are vulnerable. With Adobe forecasting a 520% increase in AI-driven holiday traffic, it's imperative to assess the readiness of your current infrastructure.

Retail competition is fierce and it’s only getting MORE competitive. With modern retailers like Amazon.com and Shein, retailers have to modernize and automate like the large retailers but struggle with internal resources and with decision making on what technologies to adopt. 

Amazon Quick Suite represents a major leap forward in agentic AI  intelligent systems that don’t just automate tasks, but actively make and execute decisions within the boundaries of enterprise governance. Designed to run natively inside AWS, Amazon Quick Suite integrates seamlessly with over 1,000 enterprise applications, creating a secure, end-to-end automation layer for retail operations

Multimodal AI and Autonomous Agents: How SoftStackersAI is Seeing the Reshaping of AI Integration

Athlete tracking has become a pivotal element in understanding and improving performance. By leveraging machine learning models on AWS, we can estimate 3D poses from 2D video footage, offering a comprehensive view of an athlete’s movements. This process involves extracting key skeletal points from video frames, which are then used to create detailed 3D representations.

Turning a startup into a thriving business requires the right tools, resources, and strategies. It also requires skill and resources. At SoftStackers, we are a top AWS partner that provides startups with consulting, architecture development, and support, ensuring you can focus on what you do best—innovating.

In today's rapidly evolving business environment, generative AI has emerged as a powerful tool with the potential to drive innovation, boost productivity, and enhance efficiency. However, successful implementation of any new technology, including generative AI, requires a thoughtful, problem-centric approach. This guide offers a strategic roadmap for businesses considering generative AI, emphasizing the importance of starting with business challenges rather than technology solutions.

It almost goes without saying that cloud security is paramount.

As organizations increasingly migrate their operations to the cloud, protecting sensitive data and maintaining secure environments have become critical tasks. AWS, as a leading cloud service provider, offers a robust suite of tools and services designed to enhance security and mitigate risks.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges that require innovative solutions.

The need to remain competitive, agile, and secure has never been more critical.

We believe AWS has the most well rounded and interoperable product ecosystem and have chosen AWS to be our primary cloud partner. In this article, I’ll discuss our reasons for making this decision and why we are seeing our SMB clients come to the same conclusion.

Effective cloud financial management is essential for maximizing the value of your cloud investments. Here are key tools and strategies to help you manage costs and optimize performance:

Utilize cost and usage reports to gain insights into your spending patterns. These reports provide detailed data on AWS services, pricing, and savings plans, allowing you to make informed financial decisions.

Managing application access efficiently is key to maintaining security and productivity in any organization. Here’s a structured approach using IAM Identity Center and Amazon Q Developer.

IAM Identity Center provides a centralized solution for managing workforce access. By integrating with an external identity provider (IdP), you can ensure a single point of control for permissions, enhancing security and flexibility.

Amazon Security Lake centralizes your security logs into a common format, simplifying integration and analysis. By using the AWS Security Reference Architecture, you can configure Security Lake in a multi-account setup, making preparation efficient and thorough. Security Lake supports various data sources, including AWS services and third-party tools, to streamline data consolidation and integration across mixed environments. This preparation phase is crucial for identifying potential vulnerabilities and ensuring all necessary logs are enabled

This year, small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are expected to invest over a quarter of a billion dollars in cloud technologies. But what types of SMBs are leading this charge? According to research from the tech trade group CompTIA, healthcare and various professional services sectors, including retail, construction, and accounting, are at the forefront.