IBM expands watsonx portfolio on AWS

During the annual IBM Think conference, IBM (IBM) announced it is working with Amazon (AMZN) Web Services, or AWS, to make the full portfolio of IBM offerings within the watsonx artificial intelligence, or AI, and data platform available for use with AWS services. The companies plan to integrate IBM watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker — a service to build, train, and deploy machine learning and generative AI models with fully managed infrastructure, tools, and workflows — to help Amazon SageMaker and watsonx customers manage model risk and support compliance obligations in connection with recent regulatory requirements such as the EU AI Act. This integration rounds out the availability of the watsonx platform in AWS Marketplace, which already includes IBM watsonx.ai and watsonx.data as customer managed offerings. Available in June, watsonx.governance and Amazon SageMaker will help clients streamline workflows, accelerate time to market for AI initiatives, and manage AI across complex IT environments and ecosystems. They will be able to configure and track fully customizable risk assessment and model approval workflows across multiple stakeholders, providing an audit trail in both watsonx and Amazon SageMaker.