Ahead in the Cloud: GFT’s Incredible AWS re:Invent 2023


With so much to get through, there’s no time to beat around the bush. Here’s the top-line, game-changing announcements from re:Invent, and how GFT is best-positioned to help you navigate these changes and implement them to accelerate your cloud transformation.
1. A Smarter Cloud with Enhanced AI and Machine Learning
We saw the introductions of massive advancements in AI and ML capabilities from AWS, which will make AI more accessible to broader audiences, and increase efficiency across a wide range of applications.
- Amazon Bedrock
While previously released as an app for scaling AI models, Amazon Bedrock access has been rolled out to general availability in the East and West AWS regions in the US, providing access to advanced AI models for predictive analytics and customer insights. Financial institutions seeking to improve risk assessment, fraud detection, and personalized customer service will be able to leverage these models.
And with PartyRock, AWS’s no-code solution for building and scaling generative AI apps, Bedrock will be easy to use. - Amazon Q (Generative AI assistant)
Using only the data and expertise in your company’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems, Amazon Q can provide quick, contextual answers to questions, solve problems, generate content, and streamline tasks, allowing for more innovation and creativity at work.
With more than 40 built-in connectors, Q can automate complex decision-making, handle customer queries, generate reports, and more in the service of enhanced customer service and operational efficiency. And, by being limited solely to your organization’s system, it’s built with security and compliance in mind.
- Amazon’s AI Ready initiative
In preparation for our impending AI age, Amazon’s AI Ready initiative is training up the next generation of AI talent to meet demand in the financial sector. With free AI skills training for both experienced and young professionals, this will be crucial for financial institutions building in-house AI expertise for improved analytics and decision-making. AI Ready is launching with eight free courses and a scholarship program to encourage students to seek certifications at other eLearning institutions.
- New Amazon SageMaker capabilities
Amazon’s machine learning service, SageMaker, manages infrastructure and tools to streamline the building, training and deployment of ML tools, helping customers create advanced predictive models to track market trends, credit scores and fraud detection.
With the launch of AI.DA Marketplace, GFT has situated itself at the forefront of generative AI. AI.DA helps customers put GFT’s industry-leading AI and data expertise to use in solutions for Customer Experience, Visual Inspection, Customer Engagement and Recommendation Engines.
2. A Safer Cloud
AWS has gone a long way to boost safety in the cloud with new capabilities for Inspector, Control Tower, Detective, GuardDuty and IAM Access Analyzer. AWS looks committed to never compromising on ironclad security, data integrity and privacy.
- Amazon One Enterprise
AWS showed the newest on physical safety aspects with Amazon One Enterprise, like secure palm recognition software for enterprise access control.
GFT been recognized by AWS for their Security expertise with AWS Security Certified Engineers and the AWS Security Competency.
3. A Quantum Cloud
There were revolutionary quantum computing updates at AWS, like the new Bracket Direct poised to redefine computational boundaries and offer unprecedented access to the full capacity of quantum process units (QPUs) without wait times. Quantum computing can be applied to complex problems across fields, from finance and healthcare to retail and aerospace.
4. An Accessible Cloud for All
AWS announced several initiatives intended to democratize cloud computing and making the technology more accessible to users of all abilities, crucial to training up new AI engineering talent and fostering innovation across sectors.
- Amazon S3 Express One Zone
When immediate data access is crucial, like in real-time analytics or transaction processing, high-speed storage is the only solution. Amazon S3 Express One Zone improves access speed while reducing request costs, and it's compatible with other AWS services with automatic scaling based on consumption. Smart businesses could eliminate the need for multiple storage systems for low-latency workloads by deploying this in their business.
- Database and Analytic
AWS introduced several zero-ETL integrations for Amazon Redshift and Amazon OpenSearch to simplify data integrations. Along with Amazon Aurora's limitless database, these integrations should reduce the effort required for data transformation and loading, supporting automated horizontal scaling and managing petabytes of data in a single database.
- Serverless innovations
With AWS' serverless applications, companies can manage and analyze data at scale, supporting high-performance data analytics and real-time transaction processing with minimal operational overhead. Additionally, the new Vector engine for Amazon OpenSearch serverless will simplify building modern ML-augmented search experiences and generative AI applications, thanks to not needing to manage underlying vector database infrastructure, while AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests.
- New capabilities for AWS Supply Chain
AWS also announced four new capabilities supporting upstream processes for its Supply Chain: supply planning, streamlined communications, sustainable data management and conversational AI. These should help financial institutions optimize their supply chain management thanks to the reduced inventory costs and improved market responsiveness that will come with advanced forecasting and replenishment tools.
5. A Sustainable Cloud
The launch of AWS Graviton4, the new energy-efficient AWS processor, and AWS Trainum2 Chips powering high-performance computing for training models should be greeted like a breath of fresh air—literally. WIth faster AI processing, risk analytics and data-intensive tasks with lower costs and improved energy efficiency, these chips show that AWS is leading the charge for eco-friendly cloud computing.
Conclusion
Accelerate your journey to AWS with GFT's cloud transformation expertise.
From smarter AI and groundbreaking quantum computing to sustainable solutions, user-friendly platforms and impenetrable security, AWS re:Invent 2023 showed us the future of cloud computing. We’re headed toward a more innovative, secure digital horizon, and with a trusted partner and advisor at your side, the road ahead is an exciting one.
With a wealth of knowledge and best practices, GFT accelerates modern platform transformations on AWS for our customers. As an AWS Advanced Partner, with a team of more than 1200 AWS engineers and industry experts, 680 AWS certifications, and AWS competencies in Financial Services, Cloud Migration, DevOps, and Security, we’re best poised to be your copilot.
Three Reasons to Partner with GFT Technologies for Your Digital Transformation Journey:
- Ahead in the Cloud: We're the #1 AWS cloud migration MAPs partner in LATAM and third in the world and successfully adding 100+ in 2023 to our already extensive portfolio.
- Custom Strategies: Every GFT strategy is tailored to an individual client and their needs, from assessment and planning to execution and optimization, and is specific to their industry and regulatory landscape. And all with little disruption to regular business operations.
- Advanced Analytics and AI Expertise: We use data analytics and AI to transform business data into business assets, delivering outcomes and driving innovation.
Reach out today to see how AWS re:Invent’s announcements can transform your business, and how GFT and AWS together can deliver the future.

