Elastic announced a new two-year global Strategic Collaboration Agreement
(SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make it easier for shared
customers to advance their pursuit of generative artificial intelligence
(AI) using Elastic Cloud on AWS.
The new SCA will accelerate the integration of Amazon Bedrock into the
Elastic AI Assistant, enabling customers to get richer and more
contextualized and relevant results by using their preferred large
language models (LLMs), coupled with the organization's unique IT
environment and proprietary data sets. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed
service that makes foundation models from leading AI providers
accessible via an API to build and scale generative AI applications.
The first integration with the Elastic AI Assistant will be for security
use cases, with observability use cases to follow. The Elastic AI
Assistant utilizes generative AI to bolster an organization's
cybersecurity operations team. It allows users to interact with Elastic
Security for tasks such as alert investigation, incident response, query
generation or conversion using natural language, and much more.
"Randstad has been using Elastic Security to run their SOC, monitor with
in-depth visibility, and respond to threats in our cloud workloads for
years," said Stijn Holzhauer, technical lead security monitoring at Randstad Group Netherlands. "Now,
we're looking at ways to safely leverage generative AI in production
for detection engineering, especially with our small but mighty security
team. We look forward to implementing Elastic's AI Assistant and Amazon
Bedrock to decrease our investigation time, reduce skill shortage
impact, and improve our detection capabilities."
Elastic AI Assistant's open framework enables users to adapt to the
rapidly shifting LLM landscape - easily connecting to new models to
facilitate comparing and adopting domain-specific models for different
applications.
"The integration of Elastic's AI Assistant into Amazon Bedrock expands
the choice of generative AI models for customers to provide greater
choice and flexibility, depending on their needs," said Mona Chadha, director of Infrastructure Partners, AWS.
"This new collaboration with AWS demonstrates our shared commitment to
helping customers enhance their conversational AI experiences to
strengthen customer service and boost productivity," said Laurent Mechain, vice president, Strategic Alliances, Elastic.
For more information, read more about the Elastic AI Assistant here.