AWS in Switzerland and Austria (Alps)

Today, we’re excited to dive deep into a shared success story with an established brand in the travel and hospitality industry, lastminute.com. As one of Europe’s first online travel agencies, lastminute.com serves millions of travelers across 17 countries through digital experiences on various platforms. For them, being digital isn’t just part of what they do – it’s who they are. However, as their business grew, legacy systems and […]

How are Swiss companies balancing innovation with strict regulatory requirements? What does an AI implementation look like in banking, public sector, and manufacturing? How is Amazon Web Services helping companies to turn their ideas into productive workloads? The AWS Summit Zurich 2025 answered these questions through real customer stories and technical deep dives. This recap […]

Cloud infrastructure costs remain a crucial focus for organizations of all sizes. In this blog post, we’re sharing the journey of Pix4D, who successfully reduced their AWS compute costs by 20% through a strategic migration to AWS Graviton processors. Their story offers valuable insights for teams considering similar cost optimization initiatives. The Challenge: Rising Infrastructure […]

Almost a year after bringing Amazon Bedrock and multiple generative AI models to Europe/Zurich, we’re introducing Cross-Region Inference (CRIS). Amazon Bedrock’s cross-Region Inference intelligently routes inference requests across multiple AWS Regions to optimize performance and availability. CRIS is enabled by leveraging geographic or global inference profiles. When using geography-based inference profiles (such as US, EU, […]

Today, we are excited to announce that the Apertus family of large language models (LLMs) developed by Swiss AI are available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. In this blog post, we explore how you can deploy these models efficiently on Amazon SageMaker AI. The Swiss AI Initiative, a partnership between ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne recently […]

This blog explores how Partners Group AG, a Swiss-headquartered private markets investment firm with over USD 174 billion in assets under management, transformed their business through strategic cloud adoption. Their collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) created a flexible foundation that aligned technology solutions with long-term business vision. Introduction In 2020, Partners Group faced a […]

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 […]