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When Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Knowledge, was an intern at Amazon in 2005, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, was his first supervisor. Nineteen years later, the 2 shared a stage on the VivaTech Convention to replicate on Amazon’s historical past of innovation—from pioneering the pay-as-you-go mannequin with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reworking buyer experiences utilizing “good old school AI”—in addition to what actually retains them up at night time within the age of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI).
Requested if opponents ever saved him up at night time, Dr. Werner insisted that listening to buyer wants—corresponding to guardrails, safety, and privateness—and constructing merchandise based mostly on these wants is what drives success at Amazon. Dr. Swami mentioned he considered Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock as prime examples of profitable merchandise which have emerged on account of this customer-first strategy. “If you find yourself chasing your opponents, you will find yourself constructing what they’re constructing,” he added. “When you truly take heed to your prospects, you might be truly going to paved the way in innovation.” To be taught 4 extra classes on customer-obsessed innovation, go to our AWS Careers blog.
For instance, for customer-obsessed safety, we construct and use Mithra, a robust neural community mannequin to detect and reply to cyber threats. It analyzes as much as 200 trillion web area requests day by day from the AWS international community, figuring out a median of 182,000 new malicious domains with exceptional accuracy. Mithra is only one instance of how AWS makes use of international scale, superior synthetic intelligence and machine studying (AI/ML) expertise, and fixed innovation to paved the way in cloud safety, making the web safer for everybody. To be taught extra, go to the weblog put up of Chief Info Safety Officer at Amazon CJ Moses, How AWS tracks the cloud’s biggest security threats and helps shut them down.
Final week’s launches
Listed here are some launches that bought my consideration:
Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 in Amazon Bedrock – With the brand new Amazon Titan Picture Generator v2 mannequin, you may information picture creation utilizing a textual content immediate and reference pictures, management the colour palette of generated pictures, take away backgrounds, and customise the mannequin to take care of model model and topic consistency. To be taught extra, go to my weblog put up, Amazon Titan Image Generator v2 is now available in Amazon Bedrock.
Regional expansion of Anthropic’s Claude models in Amazon Bedrock – The Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Anthropic’s newest high-performance AI mannequin, is now accessible in US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Areas in Amazon Bedrock. The Claude 3 Haiku, Anthropic’s compact and reasonably priced AI mannequin, is now accessible in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Areas in Amazon Bedrock.
Private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets – Now you can handle non-public IPv6 for VPCs and subnets with Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM). Inside IPAM, you may configure non-public IPv6 addresses in a non-public scope, provision Distinctive Native IPv6 Unicast Addresses (ULA) and World Unicast Addresses (GUA), and use them to create VPCs and subnets for personal entry. To be taught extra, go to see the Understanding IPv6 addressing on AWS and designing a scalable addressing plan and VPC documentation,
Up to 30 GiB/s of read throughput in Amazon EFS – We’re growing the learn throughput to 30 GiB/s, extending easy, absolutely elastic, and provisioning-free expertise of Amazon EFS to assist throughput-intensive AI and ML workloads for mannequin coaching, inference, monetary analytics, and genomic information evaluation.
Large language models (LLMs) in Amazon Redshift ML – You need to use pre-trained publicly accessible LLMs in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart as a part of Amazon Redshift ML. For instance, you should use LLMs to summarize suggestions, carry out entity extraction, and conduct sentiment evaluation on information in your Amazon Redshift desk, so you may convey the ability of generative AI to your information warehouse.
Data products in Amazon DataZone – You may create information merchandise in Amazon DataZone, which allow the grouping of information property into well-defined, self-contained packages tailor-made for particular enterprise use circumstances. For instance, a advertising and marketing evaluation information product can bundle numerous information property corresponding to advertising and marketing marketing campaign information, pipeline information, and buyer information. To be taught extra, go to this AWS Big Data blog post.
For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New at AWS page.
Different AWS information
Listed here are some extra information objects that you simply may discover attention-grabbing:
AWS Goodies by Jeff Barr – Need to uncover extra thrilling information about AWS? Jeff Barr is all the time in catch-up mode, doing his greatest to share all the attention-grabbing issues that he finds or which can be shared with him. Yow will discover his goodies as soon as per week. Comply with his LinkedIn page.
AWS and Multicloud – You may need missed an incredible article concerning the present capabilities AWS has and the continued enhancements we’ve made in multicloud environments. Within the put up, Jeff covers the AWS strategy to multicloud, supplies you with some real-world examples, and evaluations among the latest multicloud and hybrid capabilities discovered throughout the lineup of AWS providers.
Code transformation in Amazon Q Developer – At Amazon, we requested a small staff to make use of Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation emigrate greater than 30,000 manufacturing purposes from older Java variations to Java 17. Through the use of Amazon Q Developer to automate these upgrades, the staff saved over 4,500 developer years of effort in comparison with what it will have taken to do all of those upgrades manually and saved the corporate $260 million in annual financial savings by transferring to the newest Java model.
Contributing to AWS CDK – AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open supply software program growth framework to mannequin and provision your cloud utility sources utilizing acquainted programming languages. Contributing to AWS CDK not solely helps you deepen your information of AWS providers but additionally means that you can give again to the neighborhood and enhance a instrument you depend on.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS re:Invent 2024 – Dive into the first-round session catalog. Discover all of the totally different studying alternatives at AWS re:Invent this yr and begin constructing your agenda right now. You’ll discover classes for all pursuits and studying types.
AWS Innovate Migrate, Modernize, Construct – Study confirmed methods and sensible steps for successfully migrating workloads to the AWS Cloud, modernizing purposes, and constructing cloud-native and AI-enabled options. Don’t miss this chance to be taught with the consultants and unlock the total potential of AWS. Register now for Asia Pacific, Korea, and Japan (September 26).
AWS Summits – The 2024 AWS Summit season is nearly wrapping up! Be part of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: São Paulo (August 15), Jakarta (September 5), and Toronto (September 11).
AWS Neighborhood Days – Be part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by knowledgeable AWS customers and trade leaders from all over the world: New Zealand (August 15), Colombia (August 24), New York (August 28), Belfast (September 6), and Bay Area (September 13).
AWS GenAI Lofts – Meet AWS AI consultants and attend talks, workshops, fireplace chats, and Q&As with trade leaders. All lofts are free and are fastidiously curated to supply one thing for everybody that can assist you speed up your journey with AI. There are lofts scheduled in San Francisco (August 14–September 27), São Paulo (September 2–November 20), London (September 30–October 25), Paris (October 8–November 25), and Seoul (November).
You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events.
That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
— Channy
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