Amazon’s AWS, the world’s biggest cloud computing outfit, is making a major push to entice the public sector to join the artificial intelligence revolution, as the generative AI race with Microsoft and Google heats up.
The public sector market for cloud computing is already an important one. AWS serves 7,500 government agencies, 14,000 academic institutions and 85,000 nonprofits in 215 countries, according to company data. “Getting that stuff into production is where public sector organizations really need that support and help,” Levy said ahead of an AWS “summit” targeting the public sector in Washington.
AWS’ Bedrock platform provides generative AI to clients by allowing them to access a range of models, such as Anthropic’s Claude model, that are used to power custom-made AI tools and applications. In Britain, the Swindon Borough Council meanwhile used AWS’ cloud to build a generative AI tool to make complex leasing agreements more understandable.
AWS’ AI initiative is designed to give public actors an easy way to begin tooling around with generative AI and set aside skittishness associated with the technology.