Enable AI with enterprise data using new IBM watsonx.data features on AWS
IBM and Red Hat Blog
This article announces new features for IBM watsonx.data on AWS, an open data lakehouse platform for AI and analytics applications.
- Gluten Accelerated Spark Engine improves Apache Spark SQL performance for data analytics workloads
- AWS PrivateLink support enables secure, private connectivity without exposing traffic to public internet
- GenAI-powered Assistant (public preview) provides natural language guidance for product navigation
- Pay-as-you-go pricing on AWS Marketplace offers flexible consumption without upfront commitments
- Vector database integrations (Milvus and AstraDB) support generative AI workloads like RAG applications
- Detailed implementation patterns show secure data pipelines using AWS services and watsonx.data engines
These enhancements help organizations build AI applications with unified access to enterprise data while maintaining governance, security, and performance.
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