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Money Matters: Four Methods to Unlock Investment Capacity in IT

Money Matters: Four Methods to Unlock Investment Capacity in IT

Despite projected increases in global IT spending to $5.7 trillion by 2025, companies remain caught in a funding dilemma where 70-80% of budgets maintain existing systems rather than driving innovation. Organizations can break this cycle through zero-based budgeting, innovation capacity reinvestment programs, modern FinOps for cloud optimization, and portfolio rationalization to unlock resources for growth.

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Accelerate operational analytics with Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Accelerate operational analytics with Amazon Q Developer in Amazon OpenSearch Service

Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Q Developer support for Amazon OpenSearch Service, providing AI-assisted capabilities to help you investigate and visualize operational data. Amazon Q Developer enhances the OpenSearch Service experience by reducing the learning curve for query languages, visualization tools, and alerting features. The new capabilities complement existing dashboards and visualizations by enabling [...]

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Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites

Firewall support for AWS Amplify hosted sites

AWS Amplify Hosting now offers direct integration with AWS WAF, allowing users to apply web application firewall protection to their hosted apps through the console or infrastructure as code, eliminating the need for complex Amazon CloudFront configurations.

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  • How Fair Trade USA uses AWS to improve working conditions for farmers
    Mike George, 03/21/2025
    Fair Trade USA™ is a nonprofit organization that is committed to eliminating poverty by promoting sustainable development through ethical trade. They work to ensure fair compensation, safe working conditions for farmers and workers, and sustainable farming practices. In this post, you’ll learn how Fair Trade USA leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) to improve working conditions for farmers and producers around the world.
  • Unleashing the multimodal power of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation to transform unstructured data into actionable insights
    Wrick Talukdar, Julia Hu, Keith Mascarenhas, Lana Zhang, 03/20/2025
    Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, a powerful, fully managed capability within Amazon Bedrock that seamlessly transforms unstructured multimodal data into structured, application-ready insights with high accuracy, cost efficiency, and scalability.
  • Harnessing Generative AI on AWS to Transform Retail Insights
    Aditya Pendyala, Deepak Chandak, Fabio Luzzi, Frank Rosalia, Muhammad Chaudhry, 01/31/2025
    Tapestry, a global luxury fashion holding company, oversees iconic brands such as Coach, Kate Spade New York, and Stuart Weitzman. With over 1,400 retail stores worldwide and more than 18,000 employees, Tapestry sits on a wealth of information that it could use to improve customer experiences and optimize its operations. The company needed an effective [...]
  • Transforming government application systems using intelligent document processing on AWS
    Abulele Mditshwa, Nikolaos Douranos, 01/28/2025
    Government agencies handle vast volumes of bureaucratic documents daily, ranging from tax forms to medical records. This document-heavy workflow, often reliant on manual processing, can result in delays, errors, and increased operational inefficiencies, causing frustration among both employees and stakeholders. This post explores how intelligent document processing (IDP) solutions from Amazon Web Services (AWS) can modernize bureaucratic workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance service delivery within government agencies.
  • The benefits of an email-based AI virtual assistant on AWS
    Muhammad Qazafi, 01/06/2025
    In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, companies are constantly seeking ways to enhance efficiency, streamline operations, and provide top-notch customer service. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a powerful tool to help companies achieve these goals while revolutionizing the way they interact with customers. In this post, you can read about the transformative potential of email-based virtual assistants—a standout among AI applications—powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • How Contrast AI Is automating physician documentation with AWS HealthScribe
    Dr. Kai Skallerud, Clement Perrot, Prasad Prabhu, Sarthak Handa, 12/06/2024
    In today’s healthcare landscape, the burden of administrative tasks, particularly electronic health record (EHR) documentation, consumes an average of 4.5 hours per day for physicians. This time commitment detracts from patient care and is the number one driver of physician burnout—an issue affecting 48% of healthcare workers. It is leading to a projected shortage of [...]
  • Building your first generative AI conversational experience on AWS
    Cristina Rios Iribarren, 11/28/2024
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a variety of options for building chat-based assistants with generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The goal of this post is to present in simple words some of these options and what to keep in mind to decide which to use and how to get started.
  • How federal agencies can optimize document processing using advanced AI with human oversight
    Nikhil Nayar, Ashish Mehta, Vaibhav Saxena, 10/25/2024
    Federal agencies typically collect, manage, use, and distribute a wide array of documents. Storing and distributing federal agency documents is often a complicated process; documents can range from structured formats to free-flowing documentation with personal identifiable information (PII) that needs careful redaction. And because federal agencies cover a wide breadth of domains, it is challenging to develop a one-size-fits-all approach for document processing. In this post, we explore an example of how a federal agency can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to design and deploy a solution that addresses this document processing challenge.
  • Microservices-based tax and labor systems using AWS
    Sohaib Tahir, Rhea Lingaiah, 10/21/2024
    In Modernizing tax systems with AWS, we briefly touched upon infrastructure and application modernization using microservices and serverless architectures. We hear from multiple tax and labor agencies about their desire to move to API-based architectures and adopt new technologies. In this post, we dive deeper into these areas and discuss benefits, approaches, and best practices for building modern tax and unemployment insurance (UI) applications using microservices.
  • University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust digitizes and improves patient experience with AWS
    Arnaud Lauer, Matej Palenik, 10/16/2024
    Like many healthcare providers, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust, which manages two major hospitals and serves a population of more than one million, has operated with legacy technology that relies heavily on phone calls and manual processes for contacting patients. Recognizing an opportunity to modernize, the Trust linked up with IBM Consulting for an innovative pilot project to digitize patient engagement channels using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Read this post to learn more.
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