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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Business, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon WorkSpaces update, and more (Aug 5, 2024)

Summer is reaching its peak for some of us around the globe, and many are heading out to their favorite holiday destinations to enjoy some time off. I just came back from holidays myself and I couldn’t help thinking about the key role that artificial intelligence (AI) plays in our modern world to help us …

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Plan your advertising campaigns with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, now generally available

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) on AWS Clean Rooms to help advertisers use their first-party signals to collaborate with Amazon Ads unique signals. With this collaboration, advertisers can generate differentiated insights, discover new audiences, and enable advertising campaign planning, activation, and measurement use cases, all without having to …

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AWS and Multicloud: Existing capabilities & continued enhancements

When I speak to large-scale AWS customers about their challenges and concerns, the conversation often turns to the topic of multicloud. Whether by intent or by accident, these customers sometimes choose to make use of services from more than one cloud provider, sometimes in conjunction with applications or services that are still hosted on-premises. In …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Llama 3.1, Mistral Large 2, AWS Step Functions, AWS Certifications update, and more (July 29, 2024)

I’m always amazed by the talent and passion of our Amazon Web Services (AWS) community members, especially in their efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech community. Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the AWS User Group Women Bay Area meetup, led by Natalie. This group is dedicated to …

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Announcing Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing the availability of Llama 3.1 models in Amazon Bedrock. The Llama 3.1 models are Meta’s most advanced and capable models to date. The Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size models that demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and offer new …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Global AWS Heroes Summit, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, and more (July 22, 2024)

Last week, AWS Heroes from around the world gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AWS Heroes program at Global AWS Heroes Summit. This program recognizes a select group of AWS experts worldwide who go above and beyond in sharing their knowledge and making an impact within developer communities. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Advanced capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, and more (July 15, 2024).

As expected, there were lots of exciting launches and updates announced during the AWS Summit New York. You can quickly scan the highlights in Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024. My colleagues and fellow AWS News Blog writers Veliswa Boya and Sébastien Stormacq were at the AWS Community Day Cameroon last …

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Vector search for Amazon MemoryDB is now generally available

Today, we are announcing the general availability of vector search for Amazon MemoryDB, a new capability that you can use to store, index, retrieve, and search vectors to develop real-time machine learning (ML) and generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) applications with in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. With this launch, Amazon MemoryDB delivers the fastest vector …

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Build enterprise-grade applications with natural language using AWS App Studio (preview)

Organizations often struggle to solve their business problems in areas like claims processing, inventory tracking, and project approvals. Custom business applications could provide a solution to solve these problems and help an organization work more effectively but have historically required a professional development team to build and maintain. But often, development capacity is unavailable or …

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Amazon Q Apps, now generally available, enables users to build their own generative AI apps

When we launched Amazon Q Business in April 2024, we also previewed Amazon Q Apps. Amazon Q Apps is a capability within Amazon Q Business for users to create generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered apps based on the organization’s data. Users can build apps using natural language and securely publish them to the organization’s app …

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