Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to be the first major cloud service provider to announce ISO/IEC 42001 certification for AI services for Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Q Business, Amazon Textract, and Amazon Transcribe. ISO/IEC 42001 is an international management systems standard that outlines requirements and controls for organizations to promote the responsible development and use of AI systems.
Responsible AI is a long-standing commitment at AWS. From the beginning, AWS has prioritized responsible AI innovation, building and operating AI services with fairness, explainability, privacy and security, safety, control, accuracy and robustness, governance, and transparency in mind. We have developed a rigorous methodology to do so.
AWS works with global standards-setting organizations to improve clarity, definition, and scope, establish benchmarks for responsible AI practices, and focus industry efforts on effective options to address risk. By being an active stakeholder in developing guidelines that play an important role in the industry. Our goal is to contribute to and advance AI standards across several key areas, including risk management, data quality, unnecessary bias reduction, and explainability.
Technical standards such as ISO/IEC 42001 are important because they provide a common framework for responsible AI development and deployment, promoting trust and interoperability in an increasingly global AI-driven technology environment. is. Achieving ISO/IEC42001 certification means that an independent third party has verified that AWS is taking active steps to manage the risks and opportunities associated with developing, deploying, and operating AI. It means that. This independent verification provides customers with additional assurance about AWS’s commitment to responsible AI and their ability to responsibly build and operate AI applications using AWS services.
“At Snowflake, delivering AI capabilities to our customers is a top priority. Our product teams must responsibly build and deploy AI, and despite the technical complexity, similar That’s why ISO 42001 is important to us. Being ISO 42001 certified means your company has a thoughtful AI management system in place. AWS “Knowing that we have ISO 42001 certified services gives us confidence in their commitment to the responsible development and deployment of our services, and also gives our customers confidence in our products.” said Tim Tutt, Vice President of Public Sector.
Accredited certificates, such as ISO/IEC 42001, are issued by certification bodies recognized by national or international accreditation bodies. This indicates that the certification is trustworthy and based on independent verification. In this case, Schellman Compliance, LLC, an ISO certification body accredited by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB), granted the certification.
