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How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

How AI actually ships: enterprise case studies, engineering lessons from production, adoption data and ROI evidence.

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Run agent-driven Amazon SageMaker HyperPod operations with InstantStart
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Run agent-driven Amazon SageMaker HyperPod operations with InstantStart

HyperPod InstantStart is an open source control plane that composes Amazon EKS orchestration with the managed capabilities of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. It driv…

Build a Physical AI model factory with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on SageMaker HyperPod
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Build a Physical AI model factory with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 on SageMaker HyperPod

Building a Physical AI system takes a continuous pipeline, not a single training job. This post shows how to run that model factory (synthetic data generation, …

Voices on Quality: Unlocking warranty value in consumer automotive
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Voices on Quality: Unlocking warranty value in consumer automotive

Warranty and goodwill costs automotive OEMs billions each year, but a more strategic approach can deliver significant P&L and cash impact within 12 to 24 months…

Utilities at an inflection point: Four strategic evolutions ahead
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Utilities at an inflection point: Four strategic evolutions ahead

European utilities face a period of discontinuity: Electrification, renewables, flexibility needs, AI, and policy shifts are reshaping economics, driving four s…

Author Talks: What the world’s best owner-CEOs get right
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Author Talks: What the world’s best owner-CEOs get right

How do exceptional leaders create enduring institutions? Three McKinsey authors reveal the leadership core behaviors and mindsets behind Asia’s most successful …

The power of purpose, culture, and grit: An interview with JoAnne Bass
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The power of purpose, culture, and grit: An interview with JoAnne Bass

The Air Force’s former top enlisted leader reflects on the value of lifelong learning, writing your own playbook, and preparing the next generation to serve.…

Shapers and founders: The traits behind outsized value creation in Asia
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Shapers and founders: The traits behind outsized value creation in Asia

A set of common traits underlies Asian founders’ success: Passion for their work, ongoing curiosity, boundless energy, and a strong belief in their people.…

Best practices for building agentic automations with Amazon Quick Automate
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Best practices for building agentic automations with Amazon Quick Automate

Learn best practices for building production-grade, agent-based business process automations with Amazon Quick Automate: choosing the right process, designing f…

Set up OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with LiteLLM on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock
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Set up OpenAI ChatGPT Codex with LiteLLM on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock

Deploy a customer-operated LiteLLM gateway on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate, connect it to an OpenAI model on Amazon Bedrock, and configure Codex to route request…

Integrating Outlook with Amazon Quick for AI-powered email automation
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Integrating Outlook with Amazon Quick for AI-powered email automation

Integrate Microsoft Outlook with Amazon Quick to automate email management, calendar scheduling, and workflow coordination. This post walks through the end-to-e…

Migrate agentic workloads to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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Migrate agentic workloads to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

An agent that works in a notebook is not an agent in production. This post walks through migrating a LangGraph customer support agent to Amazon Bedrock AgentCor…

AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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AI-driven development lifecycle using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Engineering teams adopting the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) often struggle to turn concepts into working code. This post walks through two reference…

Embed Quick Sight visuals using Cognito user authentication
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Embed Quick Sight visuals using Cognito user authentication

Learn how to embed individual Amazon Quick Sight visuals into a React application with per-user access control. This walkthrough uses Amazon Cognito authenticat…

At last, customers first: AI-powered personalization can help banks create value
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At last, customers first: AI-powered personalization can help banks create value

Banks can better compete against digital-first rivals by using AI to deliver more effective, hyperpersonalized customer engagement. Here are four key components…

Made in America, again? Rethinking US manufacturing resilience
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Made in America, again? Rethinking US manufacturing resilience

Rebuilding American manufacturing could cost up to $2 trillion. What will it take to get today’s factories up to speed?…

Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference
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Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference

Australian teams can now access OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference from the Asia Pacific (Sydney) a…

Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities
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Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities

Learn how University Startups and its AWS partner g/d/n/a scaled Trinity, a conversational AI solution for students with disabilities, into a serverless multi-a…

From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
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From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Learn how a global interdealer broker built an automated architecture documentation pipeline on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that analyzes .NET code bases, generate…

How an AWS team detects dashboard content failures at scale using Amazon Bedrock
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How an AWS team detects dashboard content failures at scale using Amazon Bedrock

Business intelligence dashboards can fail silently, showing blank, stale, or wrong data even when every infrastructure monitor reports healthy. Learn how an AWS…

Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS
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Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS

Learn how to build a generative AI-based support operations platform on AWS that converts training videos into structured SOPs, applies Retrieval-Augmented Gene…

Private equity confirms a timeless principle: Purchase price matters
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Private equity confirms a timeless principle: Purchase price matters

Recent data shows that buyout firms that maintain strict price discipline are delivering significantly higher MOIC than their peers.…

Getting started with Mantis, our open-source bug finding-and-fixing harness
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Getting started with Mantis, our open-source bug finding-and-fixing harness

AI models have clearly proven their ability to discover and exploit vulnerabilities without much, if any, human assistance. To help defenders gain the advantage…

Why progress is more physical than we think
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Why progress is more physical than we think

From tomatoes and copper to data centers and steel, the modern economy depends on a material world hidden in plain sight.…

Climbing higher: Securing Switzerland’s competitiveness in a changing landscape
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Climbing higher: Securing Switzerland’s competitiveness in a changing landscape

Switzerland remains one of Europe’s most attractive locations for multinationals—but attractiveness is no longer self-sustaining. The question is not whether it…

Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS
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Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS

Claude Fable 5.1 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. This post covers Claude Fable 5.1's improvements, the Enterprise Frontier Safegu…

From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI
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From theory to delivery: How Atos upskilled 400 engineers in agentic AI

When Atos set out to upskill 400 engineers in agentic AI, hands-on learning was the missing ingredient. Over three days, engineers built multi-agent systems on …

How Boomi Scribe streamlines documentation using AWS
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How Boomi Scribe streamlines documentation using AWS

Boomi Scribe is an AI-powered agent on AWS that automatically generates documentation for enterprise integration workflows. Learn how Boomi uses Amazon Bedrock,…

How ZS democratized secure ad-hoc analytics with Amazon SageMaker
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How ZS democratized secure ad-hoc analytics with Amazon SageMaker

Learn how ZS built a security-hardened Amazon SageMaker platform that balances developer agility with healthcare-grade governance, serving 1,000+ daily active u…

How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments
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How t54 built a trust layer with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments

t54 built x402-secure, a trust layer on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments that scores every endpoint before an autonomous agent pays it. See how session budgets…

Securing Amazon Quick from POC to production: Agents, Flows, and Spaces
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Securing Amazon Quick from POC to production: Agents, Flows, and Spaces

Amazon Quick proof-of-concept projects often stall when security teams review the production plan. This post walks through designing dashboards, Spaces, knowled…