Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. Today, we are launching a new feature that allows customers to securely ingest data from various sources into their knowledge bases. Knowledge Bases […]

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capability that allows you to connect foundation models (FMs) to internal company data sources to deliver relevant and accurate responses. Chunking allows processing long documents by breaking them into smaller chunks, enabling accurate knowledge retrieval from a user’s question. Today, we are launching […]

Today, we are announcing the preview launch of Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management and Prompt Flows. Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management simplifies the creation, evaluation, versioning, and sharing of prompts to help developers and prompt engineers get the best responses from foundation models for their use cases. Developers can use the Prompt Builder to experiment with multiple […]

Fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model in Amazon Bedrock is now available in preview. Amazon Bedrock is the only fully managed service that provides you with the ability to fine tune Claude models. Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic’s most compact model, and is one of the most affordable and fastest options on the market […]

Today, AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL announces general availability of data preparation authoring, a new no code data preparation user experience for business users and data analysts with a spreadsheet-style UI that runs data integration jobs at scale on AWS Glue for Spark. The new visual data preparation experience makes it easier for data analysts […]

Today, Amazon SageMaker announced general availability of a new inference capability that delivers up to ~2x higher throughput while reducing costs by up to ~50% for generative AI models such as Llama 3, Mistral, and Mixtral models. For example, with a Llama 3-70B model, you can achieve up to ~2400 tokens/sec on a ml.p5.48xlarge instance […]

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now allows you to read data from a volume while it is being restored from a backup. The feature “read-access during backup restores” allows you to improve Recovery Time Objectives by up to 17x for read-only workloads […]

AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports generating column-level aggregated statistics for Apache Iceberg tables. These statistics are now integrated with cost-based optimizer (CBO) from Amazon Redshift Spectrum, resulting in improved query performance and potential cost savings. Apache Iceberg support statistics such as nulls, min, max, but lacks support for generating aggregation statistics such as number […]

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a service that provides fully managed shared storage built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, today announced support for the NVMe-over-TCP (NVMe/TCP) block storage protocol. Using NVMe/TCP, you can accelerate your block storage workloads such as databases and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with lower latency compared to traditional iSCSI block […]