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AWS – Introducing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker
Today, AWS announces the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. This launch brings together widely adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities and provides an integrated experience for analytics and AI with unified access to data and built-in governance. Teams can collaborate and build faster from a single […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Nova foundation models available today in Amazon Bedrock
We’re excited to announce Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art (SOTA) foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance. Amazon Nova models available today on Amazon Bedrock are: Amazon Nova Micro, a text only model that delivers the lowest latency responses at very low cost. Amazon Nova Lite, a very […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Aurora DSQL (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the preview of Amazon Aurora DSQL, a new serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability. Aurora DSQL allows you to build always available applications with virtually unlimited scalability, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. It is designed to make scaling and resiliency effortless for your applications, and offers the fastest […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon S3 Tables – Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables optimized for analytics workloads
Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, and the easiest way to store tabular data at scale. S3 Tables are specifically optimized for analytics workloads, resulting in up to 3x faster query throughput and up to 10x higher transactions per second compared to self-managed tables. With S3 Tables […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Trn2 instances are generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn2 instances and preview of Trn2 UltraServers, powered by AWS Trainium2 chips. Available via EC2 Capacity Blocks, Trn2 instances and UltraServers are the most powerful EC2 compute solutions for deep learning and generative AI training and inference. You can use Trn2 instances to […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports Automated Reasoning checks (Preview)
With the launch of the Automated Reasoning checks safeguard in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS becomes the first and only major cloud provider to integrate automated reasoning in our generative AI offerings. Automated Reasoning checks help detect hallucinations and provide a verifiable proof that a large language model (LLM) response is accurate. Automated Reasoning tools are […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaboration
Amazon Bedrock now supports multi-agent collaboration, allowing organizations to build and manage multiple AI agents that work together to solve complex workflows. This feature allows developers to create agents with specialized roles tailored for specific business needs, such as financial data collection, research, and decision-making. By enabling seamless agent collaboration, Amazon Bedrock empowers organizations to […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation is now available in preview
With Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation, customers can use smaller, faster, more cost-effective models that deliver use-case specific accuracy that is comparable to the most capable models in Amazon Bedrock. Today, fine-tuning a smaller cost-efficient model to increase its accuracy for a customers’ use-case is an iterative process where customers need to write prompts and response, […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB global tables previews multi-Region strong consistency
Starting today in preview, Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency. DynamoDB global tables is a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database used by tens of thousands of customers. With this new capability, you can now build highly available multi-Region applications with a Recovery Point Objective (RPO) of zero, achieving the highest level of […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon S3 Metadata (Preview) – Easiest and fastest way to manage your metadata
Amazon S3 Metadata is the easiest and fastest way to help you instantly discover and understand your S3 data with automated, easily-queried metadata that updates in near real-time. This helps you to curate, identify, and use your S3 data for business analytics, real-time inference applications, and more. S3 Metadata supports object metadata, which includes system-defined […]