AWS in Switzerland and Austria (Alps)
Streamlining AWS Automation: Cloud Platform Engineering at Crealogix
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 […]
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) […]
Data Protection and Responsible use of Amazon Bedrock in Switzerland
Security is our top priority. Our customers depend on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their mission-critical applications and most sensitive data. As technologies evolve, customers continue to face stringent security requirements around data confidentiality and privacy. Importantly with the adoption of generative AI, new security risks emerge. For example a traditional risk “who can access […]
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 […]
Swiss customers build their modern data strategy on AWS
In today’s data-driven world, organizations around Switzerland are leveraging AWS to build their modern data strategies. Companies like Roche and Simpego use AWS to develop analytics, data-centric applications, and AI solutions. AWS offers a comprehensive set of data capabilities that enable companies to make better, faster decisions, leverage generative AI, and optimize their business. In […]
Die Post-Quanten-Kryptografie: Eine neue Ära der Sicherheit
Wenn verschlüsselte Daten zwischen zwei Parteien oder Systemen ausgetauscht werden, kommen typischerweise asymmetrische Verschlüsselungsverfahren zum Einsatz. Diese verwenden ein Schlüsselpaar, einen öffentlichen Schlüssel zur Verschlüsselung und einen privaten Schlüssel zur Entschlüsselung. Ein Beispiel dafür ist die RSA-Verschlüsselung. Die Sicherheit von RSA beruht auf der mathematischen Schwierigkeit, grosse Zahlen in ihre Primfaktoren zu zerlegen – ein […]
Flying to production – How GVM Sion transformed aircraft reservation and management
Fig 1: Flying over the Rhone Glacier How long does it take you to deploy to production with new features for a new customer? Is your answer less than one minute? In this blog post, we will describe how Switzerland’s oldest flight school, the Groupe de Vol à Moteur de Sion (GVM Sion), deploys to Amazon Web Services AWS in under a minute with the […]