Anthropic, AWS step up FDE push

Anthropic and AWS are scaling forward-deployed engineering as a core go-to-market lever for enterprise AI, signaling that implementation expertise is now as important as model capability. For CIOs, this means AI adoption will increasingly depend on vendor- and partner-embedded specialists to shorten deployment cycles, improve outcomes, and overcome a severe talent shortage; IT organizations should expect more hands-on vendor involvement and need to tighten governance, architecture standards, and internal upskilling.