Category: Generative AI

Working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partner Allwyn, the city of Virginia Beach launched a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered conversational search assistant on its public website that helps residents and visitors find answers in plain language, without having to hunt through search results.

Columbia University’s Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics (LEAP), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center, collaborated with AWS to build AutoClimDS, an agentic AI system that researchers with no specialized coding expertise can use to conduct climate data science workflows using natural language. Read this post to learn more.

Teams from AWS, working with Sentient Industries, brought the power of AI directly into Excel spreadsheets. Logistics officers can now type the device description in Excel and have the power specs retrieved from a knowledge base in Amazon Bedrock. Unlike a chat-based solution, the AI directly loads the data into spreadsheet cells, creating a streamlined and efficient user workflow. The AI meets the users where they are, and this capability is now being commercialized by Sentient. Read this post to learn more.

In this post, we explore how the intuitive interface, collaborative features, and diverse learning modalities of PartyRock make it an ideal tool for educators who want to support AI literacy goals while accommodating different learning styles and technical backgrounds.

MPAC, Ontario’s property assessment expert managing 5.7 million properties, faced mounting pressure on their IT support desk. Routine requests consumed most of the support team’s resources, creating bottlenecks and impacting organization-wide productivity. MPAC needed a round-the-clock IT support solution that maintained stringent security and governance standards for a public sector organization. MPAC’s IT Support Assistant—powered by their custom MPAC Orchestrator platform and Amazon Bedrock on AWS revolutionized its IT support.

In this post, we explore how the combination of a modern AWS Cloud architecture, streaming media, and AI technologies are evolving the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) landscape, establishing a new era of enhanced mission system capabilities.

Coursera and AWS surveyed more than 750 technology executives across six countries to understand how organizations are balancing automation, human expertise, and infrastructure modernization as they prepare for an AI-driven future. The survey reveals a clear insight: As organizations move toward AI-driven operations, success begins with the cloud.

This post examines real-world examples of successful national AI programs, explores the hidden economics that make AWS Cloud infrastructure essential, and discusses why cultural sovereignty matters as much as technical capability. Whether you’re planning a national AI strategy or evaluating infrastructure options, these lessons from global leaders will help you avoid common pitfalls and focus resources where they matter most.

This post examines how Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) and NCS—an AWS Generative AI Competency partner and part of AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) Partner Innovation Alliance (PIA)—reshaped asynchronous learning through an AI Tutor Assistant. The solution enhances student learning while reducing lecturers’ preparation time by 80%, demonstrating the transformative potential of generative AI in education.

The Presidential AI Challenge is a nationwide initiative for educators and K-12 students to develop AI-powered solutions for real-world problems in their communities. With a January 20, 2026, deadline quickly approaching, now is the time to transform your idea into an impactful project. Whether you’re building a working prototype or crafting a detailed proposal, this guide breaks down exactly what you need to do to get your submission ready—specifically focusing on using PartyRock, the AWS no-code generative AI playground powered by Amazon Bedrock.