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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I dive into AWS’s latest move with the launch of its Generative AI Partner Innovation Alliance.
Highlights
00:03 — AWS has announced the launch of the Generative AI Partner Innovation Alliance to help scale and expand the reach of its Generative AI Innovation Center. The Generative AI Partner Innovation Alliance will give customers access to various system integrators and global consulting firms.
00:46 — The first nine partners include well-known names such as Booz Allen Hamilton and Deloitte. Julia Chen, vice president of partner core at AWS, said: ” . . . By combining our partners’ deep industry use case and services expertise with AWS’s cutting-edge Generative AI tools . . . we can help scale and accelerate the transformative power of this technology . . . ”
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01:30 — But most importantly, initiatives like this cut through the noise, enabling companies to reap the benefit of emerging technologies, and as could well be the case here, alongside a system integrator or consultancy they’re already used to working with.
