Aws news and trends

Amazon Web Services Launches AI Partner Alliance
Amazon // November 04, 2024

Amazon has launched an initiative to expand the reach of its Generative AI Innovation Center. The Generative AI Partner Alliance, announced by Amazon Web Services Monday (Nov. 4), is designed to give customers access to a network of systems experts and consulting firms to help them deploy generative...

Securing the Cyber Perimeter Starts With Safeguarding Corporate Emails
Cybersecurity // November 01, 2024

Corporate email accounts are among the most exploitable entry points for scammers. Phishing, ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks cost companies billions of dollars annually, often originating from compromised email credentials. That’s why the news this week (Oct. 30) that Amazon’s WorkMail enterprise email...

Amazon Earnings Provide Sneak Peak Into Short-Term Future Strategy
Amazon // October 31, 2024

By now you probably know that Amazon exceeded revenue expectations for Q3 Thursday (Oct. 31) driven by the strength of its AWS cloud computing division and its fall sales events. But what you might not have seen or heard is that CEO Andy Jassy played...

AWS and Plaid Advance the Business Case for Open Banking and Pay by Bank
Payments Innovation // October 29, 2024

It’s still premature to say that open banking and pay by bank have truly arrived in the U.S. However, with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issuing the final Rule 1033 draft on Oct. 22, they certainly have more momentum. The ruling seems to have...

Interviews & Exclusives
Panel: AWS and FIS Debate Treasury Management’s Digital Makeover With Cloud-Based Payments

November 12, 2024
In the post-COVID world, corporates are faced with what should be an easy decision: creating better value for the organization, speeding time to new markets and creating new business models. AWS Global Head of Institutional Payments Nilesh Dusane and FIS General Manager of Enterprise Payments Rijuta Jain told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster that treasury services are […]

AWS and J.P. Morgan Weigh In on the Cloud’s Role in Payments Modernization

October 25, 2024
Although the technology has come a long way in a short period of time, it’s not like an organization can hit a switch and migrate to the cloud. Not yet,...

AWS Says Technology Helps Firms Meet Changing Data Localization Regulations

August 27, 2024
Technology can help banks and payment companies stay in conformance with local data regulations, AWS Head of Payments Mark Smith writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “Beyond the Horizon: How...

Walmart Takes AI to Consumers as Amazon Focuses on B2B

August 15, 2024
As artificial intelligence continues transforming an array of industries, Walmart and Amazon are competing to harness generative AI to enhance their retail operations and customer experiences. Both are using the...

Quick Reads
Amazon Web Services Launches AI Partner Alliance

November 04, 2024
Amazon has launched an initiative to expand the reach of its Generative AI Innovation Center. The Generative AI Partner Alliance, announced by Amazon Web Services Monday (Nov. 4), is designed to give customers access to a network of systems experts and consulting firms to help them deploy generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Introduced last June, the Generative AI […]

AWS and Box Partner to Help Businesses Build AI Applications

October 24, 2024
Users of the Box intelligent content management platform can now use Amazon Bedrock to build applications with their data and foundation models, starting with Anthropic’s Claude and Amazon Titan. Made...

AWS and Smartsheet Enable AI Assistant to Access Work Management Data

October 09, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Smartsheet have partnered to help companies access their work management data through AWS’ generative artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. This collaboration involves launching a connector that...

AWS Makes Meta’s Llama 3.2 LLMs Available to Customers

September 25, 2024
Meta’s Llama 3.2 multilingual large language models (LLMs) are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker and via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia. This availability will offer...