Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers look for easier, faster, more accurate, and more cost-effective ways to forecast the demand for their products, services, and materials. This whitepaper provides best practices, architectural patterns, technologies, and recommendations about demand forecasting on AWS. This paper addresses a wide array of readers, including technical professionals, non-technical professionals, and organizations with or without science teams.
We discuss general trends and AWS services, and architectures for wide variety of needs. You can use this paper to find the best solutions, next steps, and best practices specific to your business. The content is based on findings about industrials, manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), retail, and utilities; but it is applicable to other industries.