By John Epperly, Global Managing Director, AWS Partnership, IBM and Mahmoud Elmashmi, Managing Partner, Strategic Partnerships, IBM Consulting
November 25, 2024
At AWS re:Invent, IBM and AWS will unveil new steps in our collaboration to help businesses adopt responsible AI. Together, we join forces to ensure organizations can harness the power of Generative AI with a focus on transparency, security and trust.
At the heart of IBM’s generative AI strategy is enabling clients to get the most out of data across their enterprise through the combination of open source technology and a connected ecosystem spanning multiple models, tools and applications on various platforms. By working with AWS, we optimize how our technology works across AWS environments – across Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock, as well as across the infrastructure and application layers.
We are also very committed to providing what customers want most: our high-performance products. Granite models designed for business and governance capabilities to move the right projects forward with confidence. In the meantime, IBM Business Partners Let’s take our joint customers from pilot to production and, in doing so, provide differentiated value to customers, while selling IBM software on the AWS Marketplace.
Next week at AWS re:Invent, we’ll showcase some of the ways we’re advancing enterprise-grade AI, tailored to specific business needs. Our news highlights include the IBM Granite models available on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. We’re also building on our existing partnership by launching powerful new integrations between IBM Watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker, as well as other new security, data, and automation features, such as full-stack observability for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker with IBM Instana.
“IBM is one of our largest technology and consulting partners, and together we are at the forefront of democratizing AI,” said Chris Grusz, managing director of technology partnerships at AWS. “IBM has gone well beyond making its technology available on our platforms, they are prioritizing integration with AWS at every layer of the AI stack, allowing our joint customers to choose more easily the technology that best suits their needs and benefit from responsible AI in new ways.
Driving responsible AI with IBM Granite models on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker
As companies expand the use of AI across their entire business, it becomes increasingly imperative to select the right model. The IBM Granite series of open, enterprise-grade core models enables AWS customers to evolve their AI journey with reliable, high-performance, and cost-effective models tailored to their specific business needs. IBM Granite code templates are available today on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. And just in time for AWS re:Invent, our latest Granite 3.0 The templates are now also available on SageMaker.
To strengthen our partnership and add more options for customers when it comes to compute resources, Granite models are now supported by AWS Neuron to run deep learning workloads on AWS Inferentia and AWS-based instances. Trainium. Looking ahead, we’re exploring Watsonx’s support for Trainium2, the latest generation of AWS AI chips specifically designed for high-performance training and inference, giving customers a greater choice of computing power to meet their needs. their evolving AI and machine learning needs.
Here’s a look at some of the other exciting developments we’ll be showcasing this year at AWS re:Invent.
Integrate governance, security and observability into the AI lifecycle
Today, almost every discussion about AI starts with the question of security and trust. Working with AWS, we’ve made governance an enabler of AI, providing the insights and explainability needed to help projects scale and move forward with confidence on Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. We also ensure our automation portfolio is optimized to help organizations prioritize, streamline and increase operational efficiency to ensure AI projects deliver value.
- Extended Features for IBM watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker: Already integrated with Amazon SageMaker, IBM watsonx.governance provides a comprehensive framework to govern the entire AI model lifecycle. In December, IBM and AWS plan to deliver a new streamlined user experience that directly integrates the watsonx.governance console with SageMaker, providing a customizable risk assessment and model approval workflow. Customers will be able to directly share vital information about Amazon SageMaker Model Registry models to create a unified workflow to govern AI operations.
- IBM Guardium AI Security SaaS offering available: Now available on AWS Marketplace, IBM Guardium AI Security helps discover AI deployments, ensure compliance, mitigate vulnerabilities, and protect sensitive data in AI pipelines with a common view of data assets. IBM Guardium AI Security discovers “shadow AI” and integrates with IBM watsonx.governance to help organizations govern, secure and monitor their AI in a unified experience.
- Overview of IBM Instana Generative AI Observability to help optimize AI-driven applications: IBM Instana Generative AI Observability on AWS provides advanced observability for Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker to ensure seamless operations and improved reliability of generative AI applications on AWS. Automated IBM Instana resource optimization powered by IBM Turbonomic helps organizations proactively improve performance, ensuring applications are dynamically resourced while minimizing waste and reducing cloud spend. Additionally, IBM Instana has expanded support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes services and Elastic Cloud services, providing customers with automated full observability and intelligent remediation.
- Overview of new IBM Concert and IBM Instana features: Designed to improve application resiliency by highlighting opportunities to improve operational excellence and best practices, IBM Concert provides AI-driven generative insights across AWS platforms and applications to identify, predict, and suggest solutions to issues in application environments in terms of risk and resiliency. This new capacity will be available in early 2025.
- Newly Launch of IBM Autonomous Security for Cloud (ASC): Available worldwide in December, IBM ASC is an AI-powered solution from IBM Consulting that automates cloud security management and decision-making to help minimize risk for organizations accelerating their journey to the cloud on AWS environments. It leverages Amazon Bedrock’s generative AI technology and capabilities.
IBM consulting expertise to help scale generative AI
As an AWS Premier Tier Partner and AWS Generative AI Skills PartnerIBM Consulting remains committed to deepening its expertise in AI technologies powered by AWS, including Amazonian base, Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAnd Amazon Q and AWS AI chips. At AWS re:Invent, IBM Consulting will demonstrate how the power of generative AI augments existing joint solutions, including IBM Consulting Contact Center Intelligence, IBM Consulting AIOps on AWS, IBM Consulting Digital KYC, and IBM Consulting Supply Chain Ensemble. IBM Consulting will also showcase how they help develop custom solutions using Amazon Q to meet specific business needs, including building new applications, integrating Amazon Q into existing systems, or developing custom APIs.
AWS Marketplace drives growth and customer adoption
IBM offers a comprehensive suite of software products and consulting offerings on the AWS Marketplace. Customers can now choose to purchase from trusted IBM business partners on AWS Marketplace in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States in addition to buying directly from the Marketplace.
For more information on the IBM and AWS partnership, please visit www.ibm.com/aws. Visit us at AWS re:Invent in booth #1642.
Don’t miss these sessions from IBM experts and customers exploring hybrid cloud and AI:
Join us at IBM keynote session #AIM109-S, Cloud Transformation: How SIXT Optimized IT Operations and Spend, at 1:30 p.m. PST on Wednesday, December 4.
Join us at IBM keynote session #AIM236-S, Generating Value with AI: Reimagining Toyota’s Supply Chain with AI on AWS, at 5:30 p.m. PST on Wednesday, December 4.