ProductionEvidence: Medium65/100

Workday Accelerates Generative AI & ML Product Development Using Amazon SageMaker

Use case typeAI platformUpdated Jun 13, 2026

Workday uses Amazon SageMaker to help engineers build, train, evaluate, customize, and deploy machine learning and large language models for generative AI product development. The company also uses Amazon Bedrock to prototype and scale generative AI capabilities across regions.

Organization
Workday
Industry
Tech & Comms
Published
May 2026

Planned next steps

  • Inference latency improved by 5x in a closed-book pilot.
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks

Normalized claim

Quantified impact: 5 x increase

AWS Solutions Case StudyMay 27, 2026Customer storyInferred claimMedium evidence strength

Inference latency improved by 5x in a closed-book pilot.

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
Customer
Workday
Provider
AWS
Maturity
Production

Workday needed to accelerate ML and generative AI product development while meeting global data residency requirements, improving inference latency, and reducing operational burden

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity supported

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Use case focus

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  • 1Generative AI Product Development
  • 2Model Evaluation and Fine-Tuning
  • 3LLM Deployment
  • Adopted Amazon SageMaker Studio, JumpStart, Ground Truth Plus, and Notebook Instances to search, evaluate, customize, fine-tune, and deploy LLMs.
  • Used a federated, distributed inference system across AWS regions.
  • Used Amazon Bedrock to prototype multibillion-parameter models and identify which AI capabilities to invest in.
  • Scaled from about 1,000 inference requests to tens of millions per day with virtually no downtime.
  • Enabled immediate deployment of new features across regions.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium65/100Evidence strength
  • Customer explicitly identified
  • Deployment status explicitly supported
  • Primary source available
  • Quantified outcome available
  • Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublished: May 27, 2026Publisher: AWSEvidence: VendorConfidence: Medium

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