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Healthcare educators and innovators can take an idea from concept to a working prototype, deployed on AWS, in a single day, without a dedicated software engineering team. At a hands-on workshop at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), five teams of students, start-up founders, and industry experts used Kiro, an agentic AI-powered integrated development environment […]

When a policyholder submits an insurance claim, they want one thing: a fast resolution. Every extra day between filing and payout erodes trust. For Simpego, a digital-first Swiss insurer, that urgency shaped a clear engineering goal: to remove every unnecessary delay from the claims pipeline. Simpego identified the primary bottleneck that was causing these delays: […]

Earlier this year, the GenAI Zürich Award 2026 put out a call for generative AI projects across Switzerland and Europe. The response was striking. Nearly 70 submissions arrived – from five-person startups to organizations with tens of thousands of employees, spanning healthcare, insurance, agriculture, manufacturing, education, and public services. Three award tracks — Impact Achievers, […]

AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) are reshaping enterprise software by turning complex tasks into conversational experiences. Instead of requiring deep expertise, users can now interact with systems in natural language and get immediate, actionable answers. But delivering this simplicity at enterprise scale is hard: AI agents must be accurate, specialized, and deeply […]

November 2025 marked three years since we launched the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region, bringing AWS infrastructure to Switzerland with three availability zones and two AWS Direct Connect locations. Since then, we’ve demonstrated our commitment to Swiss customers by expanding our service portfolio from 58 to 173 services – a growth driven by customer demand and […]

Introduction AWS Direct Connect (DX) offers a dedicated, high-speed physical network connection between customers’ on-premises infrastructure (data centers, offices or co-location environment) and AWS, bypassing the public internet. AWS Direct Connect leverages the AWS Global network backbone allowing for more reliability, consistent network performance, all while reducing cost. It is ideal for enterprises needing stable, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]