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Biopharma R&D: The evolving formula for discovery and development

Innovation after innovation is advancing the biopharmaceutical industry, enabling better treatment of complex diseases. The industry has historically made its h…

Polyethylene: Widely produced—but not one-size-fits-all

Manufacturing polyethylene is a highly competitive business. Success depends greatly on access to feedstocks, yet investment doesn’t always follow economics.…

Pharmaceuticals: Innovating and advancing around the world

The continued rise of monoclonal antibody therapies and demographic changes are powering growth in the pharmaceuticals industry.…

Batteries: Scaling the engine of electrification

Demand for batteries is surging as electric vehicles and storage grow, but competitiveness depends on securing materials, ramping up gigafactories, and building…

EAF steel: Beyond the blast furnace

Global steel investment is flat, but DRI-EAF production is gaining share in advanced economies.…

Automotive R&D: Charging ahead in EV platform development

Improvements in batteries and recharging, not to mention geopolitics, have increased consumer appetites for electric vehicles. Automakers are flocking to China …

Economic conditions outlook, June 2026

In early June, executives were more downbeat on the economy than they have been in years and reported divided expectations for the coming months. Energy prices …

Australia’s grid opportunity: Why it’s time to flick the switch

Australia’s energy transition has entered a new phase. Moving beyond “should we?” the question is now how to deliver an affordable, reliable, secure, and compet…

Plan for midstream adjustments

It’s normal for companies to encounter unique issues throughout their technology and AI transformation journey. The key is being prepared to adapt.…

Implement a backup strategy for Amazon Quick Sight BI assets

In this post, we cover best practices for implementing an effective backup strategy for BI assets in Quick Sight. We start by covering the options for selecting…

Build an agentic AI healthcare claims pipeline with Amazon Bedrock and AWS HealthLake

In this post, we show you how to build an automated claims processing pipeline using two key Amazon Bedrock capabilities: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation for int…

Multi-tenant LLM analytics with row-level security: How we built a secure agent on AWS

In this post, we show you how PAR built a production-ready multi-tenant LLM analytics system that enforces row-level security through a three-layer architecture…

Pair Nova 2 Lite with Claude for cost-optimized document processing

In this post, we show how pairing Amazon Nova 2 Lite with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers an efficient solution for digitizing scanned documents at scale…

Synthesize the big picture and analyze trends with BigQuery's AI.AGG function

We recently announced the preview of the BigQuery AI.AGG() function. With AI.AGG(), you can use natural-language instructions within a single line of SQL to sum…

Cloud CISO Perspectives: How Google Cloud Security uses AI internally

Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we’re discussing how we use AI to chart a path to autonomous software development lifecycle …

Debugging production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability

In this post, you learn how to debug production agent failures using built-in observability capabilities. We walk through common failure patterns, show how to a…

African bedrock: How the continent’s minerals can help power the world

Critical minerals underpin everything from AI to low-carbon energy, and African mining sits at the epicenter. Three key moves can help unlock the continent’s na…

GenPage: Towards End-to-End Generative Homepage Construction at Netflix

In an AI-driven world, the fastest learner will win: An interview with McKinsey’s Sven Smit

As he steps down as chair of McKinsey Global Institute, Sven considers the current AI moment, where the next big ideas are coming from, and how institutions wil…

Securing agentic AI with perimeter guardrails: What's new in VPC Service Controls

As enterprises scale autonomous AI agents into production, enabling safe innovation requires robust architectural guardrails. AI agents connect across tools and…

How Cara pioneers domain-specific AI for enterprise insurance brokerages with AWS

In this post, we explore how Cara, built in cooperation with AWS, addresses these challenges. We walk through the technical design decisions and the AWS service…

Build interactive PDF text extraction from Amazon S3

In this post, you’ll build a server that extracts text from PDF files in Amazon S3 in real time. This protocol-based approach provides programmatic document acc…

Production-grade AI agents for financial compliance: Lessons from Stripe

In this post, you learn how Stripe built a production-grade AI agent system for financial compliance. We cover the technical architecture of Stripe’s ReAct agen…

Building profit resilience in European private banking

Private banks face a critical decision point: Strengthen their business focus and monetization discipline, or risk declining profits.…

Turning sustainability compliance into a competitive edge

How financial institutions can turn mandatory reporting of financed emissions into a growth opportunity.…

The age of thinking machines: Perspectives on the future of robotics

The next frontier of AI is physical. Embodied intelligence, in the form of robots, could change how we live and work by 2040.…

What it takes to become—and remain—an effective CEO

Between the first 90 days and the last, here’s how leaders can successfully manage people, products, processes, and themselves.…

Building agentic AI applications with a modern data mesh strategy on AWS

This post shows how to build a governed, serverless data mesh on AWS that provides the secure, scalable data foundation production agentic AI requires.…

Build self-service AWS Health analytics to find actionable health insights with AI agents powered by Amazon Bedrock

In this post, we show you how to build Chaplin (Customer Health and Planned Lifecycle Intelligence Nexus), an open source solution that uses AI agents exposed t…

Implementing super resolution by deploying SeedVR2 on Amazon SageMaker AI

In this post, we demonstrate how to implement video upscaling using SeedVR2 on SageMaker AI. We cover the solution architecture, walk through the deployment ste…