AWS Announces New Partnerships to Drive AI and Cloud Innovation

AWS recently announced a series of new partnership agreements that aim to allow organizations and customers to maximize generative AI and drive innovation through cloud computing.

Through these partnership agreements, organizations can build new applications, and financial institutions can automate critical and repetitive processes and make more data-driven decisions while operating at peak performance with GenAI-enabled solutions. Additionally, one of the new partnership agreements will allow organizations to accelerate the impact of cloud-driven innovation.

Each partnership agreement comes with its own unique qualities to add value to the customers that partners serve.

Box and AWS partner on GenAI

Box Inc., an Intelligent Content Management platform, recently announced that it will be expanding its strategic partnership with AWS to empower organizations of all sizes to build new applications and maximize productivity with GenAI.

The expanded partnership will now allow Box customers to access foundation models directly in Box AI using Amazon Bedrock, starting with Anthropic’s Claude and Amazon Titan. The integration will allow companies to quickly and securely build GenAI applications and gather more intelligence from their data using a Box connector for Amazon Q Business.

“AWS and Box both recognize that the key for companies t o realize the greatest value from generative AI is the ability to simply and securely leverage their own data and content,” said Vasi Philomin, VP of Generative AI at AWS. “Together, we are making it easy and seamless for our joint customers to apply today’s most advanced generative AI models and applications to their data. The result will be new capabilities that will unlock innovation for industries, companies, and people around the world.”

AWS expands partnership with Q2

AWS is expanding its strategic partnership with Q2 Holdings, a provider of digital transformation solutions for financial services, to continue driving innovation for its bank, credit union, and fintech customers.

As part of this collaboration, AWS and Presidio, a technology services and solutions provider and a premier consulting partner within the Amazon Partner Network, will assist Q2 with expanding the use of the AWS platform to power its digital banking product. This includes GenAI for its solution suite to help financial institutions automate critical and repetitive processes and better serve their consumer and business customers.

The partnership will also allow Q2 to migrate and modernize more than 50,000 services on AWS, including its Q2 Innovation Studio and Partner Marketplace platform.

AWS and e& enter $1B agreement

Global technology group e& announced a strategic partnership with AWS recently– signing a $1 billion agreement over the next six years to accelerate the impact of cloud-driven innovation and digital transformation across the region. 

The new partnership will combine AWS’ cloud infrastructure and solutions with e&’s network capabilities to address the most stringent customer requirements across the public sector and regulated industries such as healthcare, finance, and oil and gas in the Middle East. The partnership will bring cloud solutions to align with industry regulations and meet the growing demand for secure and scalable infrastructure.

Smartsheet and AWS partner on AI

Smartsheet, an enterprise work management platform, recently announced that it will partner with AWS to launch a new connector that synchronizes data from Smartsheet into Amazon Q Business, a GenAI-powered assistant.

The new connector will enable Amazon Q Business customers to ask their intelligent assistant for information about their projects, programs, and processes managed in Smartsheet. This enablement will offer a unified search experience across their knowledge base so employees can make data-driven decisions and operate at peak performance.

“The Smartsheet connector furthers our strategy to securely integrate Smartsheet with industry-leading enterprise AI tools so customers can seamlessly work across their business applications,” said Ben Canning, SVP, product experiences at Smartsheet. “By integrating our flexible data model with Amazon Q Business, we’re unlocking access to work management data for our mutual customers so they can focus on driving business outcomes without worrying about where their data lives.”

CelcomDigi partners with AWS on digital transformation

Malaysian mobile operator CelcomDigi is collaborating with AWS as its key cloud provider to transform into an AI-powered organization and improve its service to over 20 million customers.

Since establishing the AI Sandbox with AWS earlier this year, CelcomDigi has built and piloted more than 15 GenAI applications to streamline operations. These applications allow CelcomDigi to reinforce its commitment to providing seamless mobile network coverage and service quality.

“The telco-tech industry is undergoing a transformative shift, characterized by the rapid adoption of cloud technologies and AI and data-driven innovation,” said Vikram Rao, Director, ASEAN, AWS. “AWS is proud to support CelcomDigi in our joint commitment to advance Malaysia’s digital transformation and deliver high-quality customer experiences with AI. With the AWS Malaysia Region, CelcomDigi can build and run applications with enhanced resiliency and security, lower latency, and local data residency, further accelerating their ability to serve growing digital needs and expand their user base.”

Lumen and AWS partner to enhance network operations and delivery

Lumen Technologies and AWS have announced an agreement to boost data center connectivity and optimize network delivery of cloud technologies for millions of customers, utilizing GenAI to do so.

AWS will allow Lumen to use their technologies across AI, ML, and security to modernize applications and systems and drive innovation in Lumen’s portfolio of communications, network services, security, and voice products. Further, Lumen will provide fiber connectivity to AWS data centers, helping enterprise customers build and deliver highly scalable AI applications across AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones.

“AI is reshaping industries, and the network infrastructure supporting it needs to be just as dynamic and responsive,” said Kate Johnson, president and CEO of Lumen Technologies. “AWS wants their customers to thrive in the AI economy and this network expansion will help enable that. As the trusted network for AI, Lumen is using next-generation fiber to help AWS deliver high-bandwidth solutions that will allow their customers to experience and deliver AI’s full potential.”

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