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AWS – AWS Education Equity Initiative to boost education for underserved learners
Amazon announces a five-year commitment of cloud technology and technical support for organizations creating digital learning solutions that expand access for underserved learners worldwide through the AWS Education Equity Initiative. While the use of educational technologies continues to rise, many organizations lack access to cloud computing and AI resources needed to accelerate and scale their […]

AWS – Amazon Q Developer can now guide SageMaker Canvas users through ML development
Starting today, you can build ML models using natural language with Amazon Q Developer, now available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas in preview. You can now get generative AI-powered assistance through the ML lifecycle, from data preparation to model deployment. With Amazon Q Developer, users of all skill levels can use natural language to access expert […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails supports multimodal toxicity detection for image content (Preview)
Organizations are increasingly using applications with multimodal data to drive business value, improve decision-making, and enhance customer experiences. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection for image content, enabling organizations to apply content filters to images. This new capability with Guardrails, now in public preview, removes the heavy lifting required by customers to build […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now available in preview
Today, we are announcing the preview launch of Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (BDA), a new feature of Amazon Bedrock that enables developers to automate the generation of valuable insights from unstructured multimodal content such as documents, images, video, and audio to build GenAI-based applications. These insights include video summaries of key moments, detection of inappropriate […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock announces preview of prompt caching
Today, AWS announces that Amazon Bedrock now supports prompt caching. Prompt caching is a new capability that can reduce costs by up to 90% and latency by up to 85% for supported models by caching frequently used prompts across multiple API calls. It allows you to cache repetitive inputs and avoid reprocessing context, such as […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Marketplace brings over 100 models to Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock Marketplace provides generative AI developers access to over 100 publicly available and proprietary foundation models (FMs), in addition to Amazon Bedrock’s industry-leading, serverless models. Customers deploy these models onto SageMaker endpoints where they can select their desired number of instances and instance types. Amazon Bedrock Marketplace models can be accessed through Bedrock’s unified […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports structured data retrieval
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports natural language querying to retrieve structured data from your data sources. With this launch, Bedrock Knowledge Bases offers an end-to-end managed workflow for customers to build custom generative AI applications that can access and incorporate contextual information from a variety of structured and unstructured data sources. Using advanced natural […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides flexible training plans
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod announces flexible training plans, a new capability that allows you to train generative AI models within your timelines and budgets. Gain predictable model training timelines and run training workloads within your budget requirements, while continuing to benefit from features of SageMaker HyperPod such as resiliency, performance-optimized distributed training, and enhanced observability and monitoring. […]

AWS – Task governance is now generally available for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides you with centralized governance across all generative AI development tasks, such as training and inference. You have full visibility and control over compute resource allocation, ensuring the most critical tasks are prioritized and maximizing compute resource utilization, reducing model development costs by up to 40%. With HyperPod task governance, administrators […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon SageMaker Partner AI Apps
Today Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker partner AI apps, a new capability that enables customers to easily discover, deploy, and use best-in-class machine learning (ML) and generative AI (GenAI) development applications from leading app providers privately and securely, all without leaving Amazon SageMaker AI so they can develop […]