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 [...]

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 [...]

How are Swiss companies balancing innovation with strict regulatory requirements? What does 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 contains [...]

Building and maintaining workloads in the cloud is slowed down when central teams manually provision AWS accounts – hampering development and innovation. The solution developed by Crealogix not only automates AWS account vending, but also provisions fully configured environments, including Kubernetes clusters, databases, and other essential infrastructure components. This automation approach ensures security, compliance, and [...]

Introduction The Hilti Group supplies the worldwide construction industry with technology leading products, systems, software and services. This includes a range of construction software solutions tailored to various stages of the construction process, such as ON!Track for equipment management or Fieldwire for seamless jobsite management. All of these products and solutions follow Hilti Group’s purpose [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Das traditionelle Schadenmanagement in Versicherungsunternehmen, insbesondere bei Kranken- und Unfallversicherern, ist oft ein zeitaufwändiger und komplexer Prozess. Sachbearbeiter müssen Schadenfälle individuell prüfen, was zu langen Bearbeitungszeiten führt und die Kundenzufriedenheit beeinträchtigen kann. Hinzu kommt dass manuelle Prozesse naturgemäss anfälliger für menschliche Fehler sind. Falsche Einschätzungen oder das Übersehen wichtiger Details können zu fehlerhaften Entscheidungen führen. [...]

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’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 [...]

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 managing 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 [...]

Every organization grapples with the complex challenge of operational planning and resource optimization. From selecting the most efficient routes for dispatches, crafting the optimal employee shift roster, or scheduling maintenance jobs to allocating resources effectively, businesses across industries of all sizes face a myriad of intricate planning decisions daily. These planning tasks, often involving numerous [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]