September 2024

Today, we are announcing the availability of AI21 Labs’ powerful new Jamba 1.5 family of large language models (LLMs) in Amazon Bedrock. These models represent a significant advancement in long-context language capabilities, delivering speed, efficiency, and performance across a wide range of applications. The Jamba 1.5 family of models includes Jamba 1.5 Mini and Jamba …

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AWS Community Days have been in full swing around the world. I am going to put the spotlight on AWS Community Day Argentina where Jeff Barr delivered the keynote, talks and shared his nuggets of wisdom with the community, including a fun story of how he once followed Bill Gates to a McDonald’s! I encourage …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024) Read More »

The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DaaS (Desktop as a Service) positions AWS as a Leader for the first time. Last year we were recognized as a Challenger. We believe this is a result of our commitment to meet a wide range of customer needs by delivering a diverse portfolio of virtual desktop services with …

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Graviton-4-powered, memory-optimized X8g instances are now available in ten virtual sizes and two bare metal sizes, with up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and up to 192 vCPUs. The X8g instances are our most energy efficient to date, with the best price performance and scale-up capability of any comparable EC2 Graviton instance to date. …

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Data engineers play a crucial role in the modern data-driven landscape, managing essential tasks from data ingestion and processing to transformation and serving. Their expertise is particularly valuable in the era of generative AI, where harnessing the value of vast datasets is paramount. To empower aspiring and experienced data professionals, DeepLearning.AI and Amazon Web Services …

Data engineering professional certificate: New hands-on specialization by DeepLearning.AI and AWS Read More »

Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) S3 storage class, now supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys (SSE-KMS). S3 Express One Zone already encrypts all objects stored in S3 directory buckets with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) by default. Starting today, you can use AWS KMS customer managed keys …

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