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Recent Blog Posts

  • Veeam Immutability: Everything You Need to Know
    With ransomware attacks becoming a daily challenge, immutability in backups is no longer a luxury — it’s essential. Veeam delivers a strong, practical approach to immutability, giving businesses tamper-proof data protection that safeguards critical information. In this blog, we’ll break down Veeam’s unique approach to immutable backups, explaining the steps to set it up and its real-world … Read more
  • Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace
    Today, we are announcing Buy with AWS, a new way to discover and purchase solutions available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner sites. You can use Buy with AWS to accelerate and streamline your product procurement process on websites outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This feature provides you the ability to find, try, and … Read more
  • Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes to help data scientists and developers of all skill sets to get started training and fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) in minutes with state-of-the-art performance. They can now access optimized recipes for training and fine-tuning popular publicly available FMs such as Llama 3.1 405B, Llama … Read more
  • AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators
    Building on the work that we and our partners have been doing for many years, Amazon is committing up to $100 million in cloud technology and technical resources to help existing, dedicated learning organizations reach more learners by creating new and innovative digital learning solutions, all as part of the AWS Education Equity Initiative. The … Read more
  • Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight
    Today, we announced a new capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight that helps users perform scenario analyses to find answers to complex problems quickly. This AI-assisted data analysis experience helps business users find answers to complex problems by guiding them step-by-step through in-depth data analysis—suggesting analytical approaches, automatically analyzing data, and summarizing findings with suggested … Read more
  • Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas
    As a data scientist, I’ve experienced firsthand the challenges of making machine learning (ML) accessible to business analysts, marketing analysts, data analysts, and data engineers who are experts in their domains without ML experience. That’s why I’m particularly excited about today’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcement that Amazon Q Developer is now available in Amazon … Read more
  • Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)
    Today, we’re announcing the preview of multimodal toxicity detection with image support in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This new capability detects and filters out undesirable image content in addition to text, helping you improve user experiences and manage model outputs in your generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails helps you implement safeguards for generative AI applications … Read more
  • New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval
    Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces four enhancements that streamline how you can analyze data with generative AI: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (preview) – A fully managed capability of Amazon Bedrock that streamlines the generation of valuable insights from unstructured, multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos. With Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, you can build … Read more
  • Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)
    Today, Amazon Bedrock has introduced in preview two capabilities that help reduce costs and latency for generative AI applications: Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing – When invoking a model, you can now use a combination of foundation models (FMs) from the same model family to help optimize for quality and cost. For example, with the … Read more
  • Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one place
    Today, we’re introducing Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, a new capability that gives you access to over 100 popular, emerging, and specialized foundation models (FMs) through Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, you can now discover, test, and deploy new models from enterprise providers such as IBM and Nvidia, specialized models such as Upstages’ Solar Pro for Korean language … Read more
  • Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans to help data scientists train large foundation models (FMs) within their timelines and budgets and save them weeks of effort in managing the training process based on compute availability. At AWS re:Invent 2023, we introduced SageMaker HyperPod to reduce the time to … Read more
  • Maximize accelerator utilization for model development with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance
    Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governance, a new innovation to easily and centrally manage and maximize GPU and Trainium utilization across generative AI model development tasks, such as training, fine-tuning, and inference. Customers tell us that they’re rapidly increasing investment in generative AI projects, but they face challenges in … Read more
  • Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID: Identification + Restoration = Business Resilience
    You may recall this year’s VeeamON included a Top-Secret Session teasing an exciting new product offering. Fast forward, and we’re now thrilled to announce Veeam Backup for Microsoft Entra ID is here! Why Back Up Microsoft Entra ID? You’ve probably heard the saying “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to … Read more
  • Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queries
    Today, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, which is a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI, bringing together widely-adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities. At its core is SageMaker Unified Studio (preview), a single data and AI development environment for data exploration, preparation and integration, big data processing, fast SQL analytics, … Read more
  • Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applications
    Today, we announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift support for zero-ETL integrations from applications. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse unifies all your data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helping you build powerful analytics and AI/ML applications on a single copy of data. SageMaker Lakehouse … Read more
  • Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
    Today, I’m very excited to announce the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, a capability that unifies data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helping you build powerful analytics and artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) applications on a single copy of data. SageMaker Lakehouse is a … Read more
  • New Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse
    Amazon DynamoDB, a serverless NoSQL database, has been a go-to solution for over one million customers to build low-latency and high-scale applications. As data grows, organizations are constantly seeking ways to extract valuable insights from operational data, which is often stored in DynamoDB. However, to make the most of this data in Amazon DynamoDB for … Read more
  • Discover, govern, and collaborate on data and AI securely with Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance
    Today, we announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, which is a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI, bringing together widely-adopted AWS machine learning and analytics capabilities. This announcement includes Amazon SageMaker Data and AI Governance, a set of capabilities that streamline the management of data and AI assets. Data teams often face challenges … Read more
  • Announcing the general availability of data lineage in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone
    Today, I’m happy to announce the general availability of data lineage in Amazon DataZone, following its preview release in June 2024. This feature is also extended as part of the catalog capabilities in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. Traditionally, business analysts have relied on manual documentation … Read more
  • Introducing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker: The center for all your data, analytics, and AI
    Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, a unified platform for data, analytics, and AI. The all-new SageMaker includes virtually all of the components you need for data exploration, preparation and integration, big data processing, fast SQL analytics, machine learning (ML) model development and training, and generative AI application development. The current Amazon … Read more
  • Amazon Q Business is adding new workflow automation capability and 50+ action integrations
    Amazon Q Business, a generative AI–powered assistant designed to enhance productivity across various business applications, became generally available earlier this year. Since its launch, Amazon Q Business has been helping customers tackle the challenges of improving workforce productivity. In this post, we have two announcements for Amazon Q Business: AI-powered workflow automation in Amazon Q Business (coming … Read more
  • New capabilities from Amazon Q Business enable ISVs to enhance generative AI experiences
    Since its launch, companies have been using Amazon Q Business to improve their employees’ productivity with a generative AI–powered assistant that helps them make better decisions based on company data and information. Employees also use various software applications provided by independent software vendors (ISVs) to complete their tasks. Many ISVs are creating their own generative … Read more
  • New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests
    Last year at AWS re:Invent, we previewed Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI–powered assistant for designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software across integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse (preview), JupyterLab, Amazon EMR Studio, or AWS Glue Studio. You can also use Amazon Q Developer in the … Read more
  • Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET (preview)
    .NET Framework, introduced in 2002, runs only on Windows and although it’s still supported, it’s no longer in active development. However, cross-platform .NET, launched in 2016, is open source, runs on Linux, and is lightweight and higher performing. It receives regular updates, with new features and performance improvements every year. By porting your .NET applications … Read more
  • Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads (preview)
    Today, we’re announcing the public preview of new Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads Amazon Q Developer accelerates large-scale transformation of enterprise workloads with domain-expert generative AI agents supervised by modernization teams in a unified collaborative web experience. Using the transformation capabilities of Amazon Q Developer, modernization teams can deliver … Read more
  • Investigate and remediate operational issues with Amazon Q Developer (in preview)
    The growing complexity of modern software makes troubleshooting difficult, requiring deep knowledge and manual work across various systems. This results in slower problem-solving and less efficient operations. More and more customers need automated tools to handle routine tasks and simplify complex processes, so they can resolve issues faster and focus on delivering inovations for their … Read more
  • Introducing GitLab Duo with Amazon Q
    Amazon Q Developer has transformed the traditional development workflow by integrating a wide range of generative AI capabilities within the environments where developers work from. This seamless integration helps to maintain focus while accelerating a wide range of development tasks beyond coding for enhanced productivity. With its vast community of developers, GitLab is a popular … Read more
  • Introducing Amazon Nova: Frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance
    Today, we’re thrilled to announce Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance, available exclusively in Amazon Bedrock. You can use Amazon Nova to lower costs and latency for almost any generative AI task. You can build on Amazon Nova to analyze complex documents … Read more
  • Introducing multi-agent collaboration capability for Amazon Bedrock (preview)
    Today, we’re announcing the multi-agent collaboration capability for Amazon Bedrock (preview). With multi-agent collaboration, you can build, deploy, and manage multiple AI agents working together on complex multi-step tasks that require specialized skills. When you need more than a single agent to handle a complex task, you can create additional specialized agents to address different … Read more
  • Prevent factual errors from LLM hallucinations with mathematically sound Automated Reasoning checks (preview)
    Today, we’re adding Automated Reasoning checks (preview) as a new safeguard in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to help you mathematically validate the accuracy of responses generated by large language models (LLMs) and prevent factual errors from hallucinations. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails lets you implement safeguards for generative AI applications by filtering undesirable content, redacting personal identifiable information … Read more
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