IBM is pleased to share the opening of a new joint Innovation Lab with Amazon Web Services (AWS) at the IBM Client Innovation Centre in Bucharest, Romania.

The lab will drive forward our collaboration with AW by benefiting mutual clients from 22 countries and operationalizing our latest technologies, including agentic AI and generative AI solutions built using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q, Amazon SageMaker and IBM watsonx on AWS.

Clients in the region will have more hands-on access to joint IBM-AWS offerings such as cloud modernization, mainframe application modernization, joint solutions industry innovation and IBM Consulting Advantage.

Additionally, IBM’s AWS practitioners will help visualize the art-of-the-possible and co-design prototypes to help accelerate transformation and innovation across industries such as automotive, energy and utilities, manufacturing and healthcare, among others. Clients will be able to take advantage of the use-cases and best practices from their global peers that will be demonstrated at the lab, which will enable them to rapidly build, test and scale solutions to solve their most pressing challenges.

As an AWS Premier Tier Partner,  IBM has 24,000 AWS certifications worldwide, of which 1,200+ practitioners are in the EMEA Centers, with the highest concentration in Bucharest. Last year, IBM received several AWS competencies, including Generative AI and Digital Sovereignty. These add to IBM’s roster of 21 validated service delivery programs and mastery in 29 AWS competencies. In 2024, IBM was recognised as the EMEA Consulting Partner of the Year – Finalist, in addition to receiving Global Design Partner of the Year and Collaboration Partner of the Year awards. These recognitions demonstrate that IBM and AWS are trusted partners for the Cloud journey in the European region.  “

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