AWS in Switzerland and Austria (Alps)
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Switzerland’s Open-Source Apertus LLMs now available on Amazon SageMaker AI
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 […]
Tecan’s Cloud Journey: From SAP Migration to Enterprise-Wide Transformation
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 […]
Effiziente KI-Agenten-Entwicklung mit AWS Strands Agents und Amazon Q Developer
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 KI im öffentlichen Sektor der Schweiz
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 […]
2Y Anniversary – News About AWS Europe (Zurich) Region
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 […]
Modernizing Platform Management: Hilti Group’s Approach to Improving Kubernetes Multicluster Operations
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, […]
From Silos to Synergy: Philip Morris International’s Distributed Data Network
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 […]
Adding Generative AI capabilities to your data in Switzerland with Amazon Bedrock
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) […]
Unleash the power of GPUs and pre-trained models: Deploying the Whisper voice-to-text model in Switzerland
Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning service that offers a comprehensive set of tools and features to simplify and accelerate the process of building, training, and deploying ML models. The seamless integration between Amazon SageMaker and the Hugging Face model hub allows for easy access and deployment of thousands of pre-trained AI models […]
Swissport’s cloud journey: Automated cross-account monitoring and incident response with AWS
In this blog post, we will explore Swissport’s cloud journey as they migrate their core business applications to AWS. We will dive into how they implemented a robust incident management solution to support their migration efforts, resulting in a 65% improvement in incident response times and an 80% increase in SLA compliance, setting a solid foundation […]







