AWS Expands Amazon Connect Into AI Tools for Hiring, Healthcare, and Supply Chains

AWS Expands Amazon Connect Into AI Tools for Hiring, Healthcare, and Supply Chains

Amazon is turning its own operational AI machinery into something other companies can buy. On April 28, AWS announced four agentic AI products under its Connect platform, expanding the software beyond contact centers and into supply chain planning, recruiting, customer engagement, and healthcare administration. The pitch is straightforward: if Amazon can use AI to coordinate…

Amazon AWS launches AI-powered office tools to enter business software market

Amazon AWS launches AI-powered office tools to enter business software market

With the SaaS market valued at around $300 billion, AWS is positioning itself to compete with Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Salesforce Inc. using AI agents that automate tasks like hiring and demand forecasting. | Photo Credit: BENOIT TESSIER Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit, best known for providing technology infrastructure to corporations, is looking to sell…

AWS launches Amazon Quick desktop AI assistant that works across your applications, tools, and data

AWS launches Amazon Quick desktop AI assistant that works across your applications, tools, and data

Security-conscious organizations in the financial services sector are adopting Quick, such as New York Life, the largest mutual life insurer in the United States. “Amazon Quick has fundamentally changed how we operate—how we make decisions, execute strategies, and respond to opportunities,” said David C. Gregorat, CTO, Institutional Life, New York Life. “We’re an Institutional Life…

Google, Microsoft, AWS, Tencent, and IBM Led the $79.38 Billion Market in 2025

Google, Microsoft, AWS, Tencent, and IBM Led the $79.38 Billion Market in 2025

Company Logo Key opportunities in the AI software platform market include expanding use in healthcare and BFSI, growth in automation and predictive analytics, integration with immersive tech, and cloud service adoption driving scalability. Rapid growth is expected in Asia-Pacific, with innovation in generative AI and model deployment. Artificial Intelligence Software Platform Market Artificial Intelligence Software…

AWS Cuts AI Agent Setup To 3 API Calls In AgentCore Update

AWS Cuts AI Agent Setup To 3 API Calls In AgentCore Update

Amazon Web Services has introduced a managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets developers stand up a working autonomous agent through configuration rather than orchestration code. The preview, paired with a new command-line interface, a persistent agent filesystem and prebuilt skills for popular coding assistants, signals that AWS sees deployment friction, rather than…

AI startup Anthropic commits $100 billion to Amazon’s AWS over next 10 years

AI startup Anthropic commits $100 billion to Amazon’s AWS over next 10 years

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to commit more than $100 billion to Amazon’s AWS cloud platform over the next 10 years to train and run its Claude chatbot. Amazon will invest $5 billion immediately as part of the new agreement announced this week by the companies, and up to another $20 billion in the…

Rockwell Automation to Demonstrate Cloud‑Connected Factory Design and Industrial Operations with AWS at Hannover Messe 2026

Rockwell Automation to Demonstrate Cloud‑Connected Factory Design and Industrial Operations with AWS at Hannover Messe 2026

DUSSELDORF, Germany, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK), the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, will demonstrate new approaches to factory design and industrial operations at Hannover Messe 2026, highlighting how cloud‑connected data, digital twins, autonomous systems and industrial AI can work together to support more flexible, resilient…

AWS Unveils Generative AI Essentials Course

AWS Unveils Generative AI Essentials Course

Image generated with Google Gemini. AWS has launched Generative AI Essentials, a new training course focused on helping developers work with generative AI in practical, production-oriented ways. The course is available on Coursera and edX. According to AWS, the course is aimed at developers, students, and early-career professionals, and reflects growing demand for applied AI…