Riding the Clouds of Innovation: GFT Technologies' Unforgettable moments from AWS re:Invent
Let's cut through the cloud and spotlight my favorite game-changing announcements that are making waves in the IT world and how GFT Technologies will help you navigate and implement the changes to accelerate your cloud transformation!
1. Enhanced AI & ML Services: A Smarter Cloud:
AWS has made a significant leap in AI and ML capabilities, an advancement that is not just a step but a giant leap in making AI more accessible and efficient for a wide range of applications.
- Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock, a previously released application for scaling AI models, is now generally available for the East and West AWS regions in the United States. Amazon Bedrock provides access to advanced AI models for predictive analytics and customer insights. Financial institutions can leverage these models for risk assessment, fraud detection, and personalized customer services.
Add to this PartyRock – AWS’s hands-on, code-free service to easily build and scale generative AI applications from Bedrock!
- Amazon Q (Generative AI assistant)
Amazon Q can help you get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using the data and expertise found in your company's information repositories, code, and enterprise systems. When you chat with Amazon Q, it provides immediate, relevant information and advice to help streamline tasks, speed decision-making, and help spark creativity and innovation at work.
Amazon Q is customized for workplace applications. Connecting to company data, information, and systems, with more than 40 built-in connectors, it can automate complex decision-making processes, handle customer queries and generate reports—all of which is crucial for enhancing customer service and operational efficiency. Built with security and an understanding of your company’s system, Amazon Q is ready for implementation; all you need to do is choose the right AI specialization partner to guide you.
- Amazon’s AI Ready initiative
Amazon’s AI Ready initiative provides free AI skills training to both experienced and young professionals to address the talent demand in the financial sector. This initiative is crucial for financial institutions looking to build in-house AI expertise for implementing advanced analytics and AI-driven decision-making. AI Ready includes eight new free courses and a scholarship program for those seeking certifications from other eLearning institutions.
- New Amazon SageMaker capabilities
Amazon SageMaker is a machine learning (ML) service that offers managed infrastructure and tools. It streamlines the process of building, training and deploying machine learning models. This helps our customers create advanced predictive models for market trends, credit scoring and fraud detection
GFT has been at the forefront of Generative AI with the establishment of AI.DA Marketplace to help customers with the orchestration of GFT’s AI and data expertise and solutions around Customer Experience, Visual Inspection, Customer Engagement, and Recommendation Engines.
2. Robust Security Enhancements: The Digital Safe:
Security in the cloud has been bolstered with AWS's latest updates. The introduction of new capabilities in Inspector, control Tower, Detective, GuardDuty and IAM Access Analyzer is a testament to AWS's commitment to providing ironclad security, ensuring that data integrity and privacy are never compromised.
- Amazon One Enterprise
Having been a CISO, I can appreciate that data security is one critical area, but AWS is expanding to the physical aspects of security with Amazon One Enterprise. A secure palm recognition software that allows for enterprise access control. This enhances security in sensitive areas like data centers and corporate offices, crucial for maintaining data integrity and regulatory compliance in financial institutions.
GFT is recognized by AWS for their Security expertise with AWS Security Certified Engineers and the AWS Security Competency.
3. Quantum Computing Breakthroughs: Peering Into the Future:
The quantum computing updates from AWS are nothing short of revolutionary. The new Bracket Direct is set to redefine computational boundaries, offering unprecedented access to dedicated, private access to the full capacity of various quantum processing units (QPUs) without any queues or wait times. This could be the key to solving complex problems in fields ranging from finance and healthcare to retail and aerospace
4. Accessible and Improved Cloud Solutions: Cloud for All:
In a move to democratize cloud computing, AWS announced several initiatives aimed at simplifying cloud technology for users of all skill levels. This initiative is crucial in bridging the digital divide and fostering innovation across various sectors.
- Amazon S3 Express One Zone
This high-speed storage class is designed for scenarios where immediate data access is critical, such as real-time analytics and transaction processing. Amazon S3 Express One Zone not only improves access speed, but it also reduces request costs. It’s compatible with other AWS services with automatic scaling based on consumption, so implementing this tool with GFT can eliminate the need for multiple storage systems for low-latency workloads. - Database and Analytics
Zero-ETL integrations simplify data integration processes, reducing the effort required for data transformation and loading. At re:Invent, AWS introduced several integrations for Amazon Redshift and Amazon OpenSearch service, along with Amazon Aurora’s limitless database that supports automated horizontal scaling to process millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data in a single Aurora database! - Serverless innovations
AWS’ serverless applications allow companies to build and run applications without the responsibility of server management. With these solutions, companies can manage and analyze data at scale, supporting high-performance data analytics and real-time transaction processing with minimal operational overhead. Two of my favorite announcements were Vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch serverless, which makes it easy for users to build modern ML-augmented search experiences and generative AI applications without needing to manage the underlying vector database infrastructure. And who doesn’t like the fact that AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high volume requests? - New capabilities for AWS Supply Chain
During re:Invent, AWS announced four new capabilities for its Supply Chain to support upstream processes. These capabilities include supply planning, streamlined communication, sustainable data management and conversational AI. This can help financial institutions optimize their supply chain management with advanced forecasting and replenishment tools, reducing inventory costs and improving responsiveness to market demands.
5. Sustainability Initiatives: Green and Clean Tech:
AWS's new sustainability initiatives are a breath of fresh air, literally. With the launch of AWS Graviton4, the new energy-efficient AWS processor and AWS Trainum2 Chips that power high-performance computing for training models. These chips offer faster processing for AI, risk analytics, and data-intensive tasks at lower costs and improved energy efficiency. AWS is leading the charge in eco-friendly cloud computing, showing that technology and environmental stewardship can go hand in hand.
Conclusion
Let GFT accelerate your cloud transformation journey to AWS
AWS re:Invent 2023 wasn't just about flashy new tech; it was a roadmap for the future of cloud computing. Whether it's smarter AI, groundbreaking quantum computing, sustainable solutions, user-friendly platforms, or impenetrable security, AWS is steering us toward a more innovative and secure digital horizon and GFT Technologies is here as your trusted partner and advisor to guide you on your journey.
GFT Technologies brings a wealth of knowledge and best practices to accelerate modern platform transformations on AWS for our customers. As an AWS Advanced Partner, we leverage our team of over 1,200 AWS engineers and industry experts, 680 AWS certifications, and AWS competencies in Financial Services, Cloud Migration, DevOps, and Security.
Here are the top 3 reasons why partnering with GFT Technologies will revolutionize your digital transformation journey:
- Cloud leadership: We are proud to be the #1 AWS cloud migration MAPs partner in LATAM and #3 in the world, successfully adding 100+ in 2023 to our already extensive portfolio.
- Tailored Approach: From strategy, assessments and planning to execution and optimization, GFT Technologies tailors customized strategies to address the unique challenges and objectives specific to your industry and regulatory landscape—all with minimal disruption to your business operations.
- Advanced Analytics and AI Expertise: GFT Technologies specializes in harnessing the power of data analytics and AI to transform your data into a strategic asset, driving business outcomes and innovation.
So, let's dive in deeper, explore these announcements, and see how GFT Technologies and AWS together can transform your digital landscape. AWS has set the stage; now it's our turn to embrace these innovations.
