AWS in Switzerland and Austria (Alps)

Enterprises operating on-premises IT face challenges including high ownership costs, significant operational effort, talent shortages, and limited scalability to support business growth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) enables businesses to easily scale their operations, supporting rapid business growth and market expansion. In this blog post, you will learn how Tecan, a Swiss-based global leader in laboratory […]

Dieser Blog bietet eine kurze Einführung in das Open-Source-SDK Strands Agents von Amazon, das die Entwicklung von Agentic AI erheblich vereinfacht. Entwickler können dabei entweder Amazon Bedrock, alternative LLM’s oder sogar lokal gehostete Modelle, verwenden. Im folgenden Beispiel wird eine Agentic AI-Anwendung mit Hilfe des KI-gestützten Assistenten für Softwareentwickler (Amazon Q Developer) erstellt. Dabei erleben […]

Generative künstliche Intelligenz (KI) hat das Potenzial, die globale Wirtschaft und Arbeitsproduktivität signifikant zu steigern. Für die Schweiz prognostiziert PwC etwa ein zusätzliches Bruttoinlandsprodukt von bis 50 Milliarden Franken bis 2030 durch den Einsatz dieser Technologie. Im Gegensatz zur traditionellen KI kann generative KI, basierend auf leistungsfähigen Sprachmodellen und Basismodellen, neue Inhalte wie Texte, Bilder […]

November 2024 marked two years since we launched the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, bringing AWS infrastructure to Switzerland with three Availability Zones and two Direct Connect locations. This robust infrastructure enables customers to build highly available and fault-tolerant applications while maintaining data residency within Switzerland. Since our launch, we’ve demonstrated our commitment to Swiss customers […]

Das traditionelle Schadenmanagement in Versicherungsunternehmen, insbesondere bei Kranken- und Unfallversicherern, ist oft ein zeitaufwändiger und komplexer Prozess. Sachbearbeiter müssen Schadenfälle individuell prüfen, was zu langen Bearbeitungszeiten führt und die Kundenzufriedenheit beeinträchtigen kann. Hinzu kommt dass manuelle Prozesse naturgemäss anfälliger für menschliche Fehler sind. Falsche Einschätzungen oder das Übersehen wichtiger Details können zu fehlerhaften Entscheidungen führen. […]

Every organization grapples with the complex challenge of operational planning and resource optimization. From selecting the most efficient routes for dispatches, crafting the optimal employee shift roster, or scheduling maintenance jobs to allocating resources effectively, businesses across industries of all sizes face a myriad of intricate planning decisions daily. These planning tasks, often involving numerous […]

Building and maintaining workloads in the cloud is slowed down when central teams manually provision AWS accounts – hampering development and innovation. The solution developed by Crealogix not only automates AWS account vending, but also provisions fully configured environments, including Kubernetes clusters, databases, and other essential infrastructure components. This automation approach ensures security, compliance, and […]

This blog post was originally focused on using Karpenter to manage worker nodes in Amazon EKS clusters. With the release of a new capability called Amazon EKS Auto Mode, we encourage you to use this more streamlined experience for managing Amazon EKS infrastructures. Introduction The Hilti Group supplies the worldwide construction industry with technology leading products, […]

This post was written by Parviz Shariff, Giorgio Sorbara, Yhawmini Balakrishnan and Jacques Detroyat from Philip Morris International, with the support of Jordi Porta and Samuel Riedo from AWS. Introduction   Philip Morris International (PMI), a multinational corporation operating across 4 continents, is undergoing a significant digital transformation journey to support our multi-category portfolio of smokefree […]

Today, we are announcing the availability of Amazon Bedrock in the Europe (Zurich) region. Customers can now access Amazon Bedrock via an API endpoint in Switzerland and have the option to process their data in country. In this post, we are providing an overview of the new Amazon Bedrock capabilities launching in the Europe (Zurich) […]