July 2024

Using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, foundation models (FMs) and agents can retrieve contextual information from your company’s private data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). RAG helps FMs deliver more relevant, accurate, and customized responses. Over the past months, we’ve continuously added choices of embedding models, vector stores, and FMs to Knowledge Bases. Today, …

Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports additional data connectors (in preview) Read More »

Today, we are announcing a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Studio that simplifies and accelerates the machine learning (ML) development lifecycle. Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio is a generative AI-powered assistant built natively into the SageMaker JupyterLab experience. This assistant takes your natural language inputs and crafts a tailored execution plan for your ML …

Introducing Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to streamline ML workflows Read More »

In a News Blog post for re:Invent 2023, we introduced you to Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. It is well-suited for demanding applications and is designed to deliver up to 10x …

Monitor data events in Amazon S3 Express One Zone with AWS CloudTrail Read More »

Get ready for the excitement of the AWS Summit in New York City, one of our biggest annual events that takes place tomorrow, Wed., July 10, 2024. In-person space is full, but you can still register to watch the keynote, where Dr. Matt Wood, AWS VP for AI Products, will announce the latest launches and …

Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024 Read More »

Today, we announce the general availability of data preparation authoring in AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL. This is 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 …

Integrate your data and collaborate using data preparation in AWS Glue Studio Read More »

Today, I am very excited to announce that the new AWS Graviton4-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances, that have been available in preview since re:Invent 2023, are now generally available to all. AWS offers more than 150 different AWS Graviton-powered Amazon EC2 instance types globally at scale, has built more than 2 …

AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 R8g instances: best price performance in Amazon EC2 Read More »

I counted only 21 AWS news since last Monday, most of them being Regional expansions of existing services and capabilities. I hope you enjoyed a relatively quiet week, because this one will be busier. This week, we’re welcoming our customers and partners at the Jacob Javits Convention Center for the AWS Summit New York on …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon S3 Access Grants, AWS Lambda, European Sovereign Cloud Region, and more (July 8, 2024). Read More »