General Electric on AWS

Avio Aero is a GE Aviation business and the GE group’s companywide center of excellence for mechanical transmissions and low-pressure turbines. It has more than a century’s experience in overcoming technological challenges through continuous investment in research and development, strong relationships with leading universities and international research centers, and collaborative partnerships with key operators in the global aviation industry. During a recent period of strong growth, Avio Aero found that its on-premises high-performance computing (HPC) solution delayed response to customer requests.

As a leading global medical-technology company, GE Healthcare provides a broad portfolio of products, solutions, and services used in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients and in the development and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals. To provide faster access to healthcare data and help improve diagnoses and treatment, GE Healthcare launched the GE Health Cloud on AWS, giving healthcare professionals a single portal for sharing and accessing enterprise imaging applications.

GE Power technology produces a third of the world’s electricity and equips 90 percent of power-transmission utilities worldwide. Using data analytics on AWS, GE Power helps its power-plant customers save millions of dollars, stream 500,000 data records per second, and scale to support the ingestion of 20 billion sensor-data tags.

In recent years, GE has embraced machine learning as a driver of better patient outcomes, with applications ranging from data mining platforms that draw on patient records to analyze quality of care to algorithms that predict possible post-discharge complications.

Legacy GE Oil & Gas, from 2014 to 2016 migrated 500 applications to the cloud as part of a major digital transformation, helping it attain a 52 percent reduction in TCO. With its cloud-migration project, the company reexamined—and in many cases, eliminated—legacy processes. This not only lowered IT costs but also increased speed to market and agility, improving competitiveness in an industry with immense market challenges.