AWS in Switzerland and Austria (Alps)

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From Silos to Synergy: Philip Morris International’s Distributed Data Network

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 […]

Zurich Switzerland

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) […]

Sichere und konforme Cloud-Technologie für das Schweizer Gesundheitswesen

English version Die Digitalisierung des Gesundheitswesens schreitet voran, und die Cloud-Technologie spielt dabei eine zentrale Rolle. Doch trotz der vielen Vorteilen bestehen Bedenken bezüglich Datenschutz, Sicherheit und rechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen. Das Whitepaper von Laux Lawyers AG (auf Initiative und mit Unterstützung von AWS) bietet Lösungsansätze für diese Herausforderungen. In diesem Artikel beleuchten wir konkrete Sicherheitskonzepte und […]

Zurich Switzerland

Q1 2024 News About AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

In previous blog posts (H1 2023 and Q3 2023), we provided updates on the launched services and features in the AWS Europe (Zurich) region. We now offer another update on the latest developments. In this post, we will discuss newly launched services and significant features, instance types in the region, SaaS offerings available on AWS […]

Zurich Switzerland

Q3 2023 News About AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

Following the blog post from June where we provided an update on the first half of the year, we are now offering another update on the latest developments in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. In this post, we will discuss newly launched services and significant features, instance types in the region, SaaS offerings available on […]

Zurich Switzerland

H1 2023 News About AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

The AWS Europe (Zurich) Region went live on November 9th 2022. The Region is located in the vicinity of Zurich and consists of three fully redundant Availability Zones (AZs). The AZs are physically separated by a meaningful distance from other AZs, although they all are within 100 kilometers of each other to enable synchronous data […]