Author Archives: Lucian Systems

Leveraging SAP Data to Drive Informed Decision-Making

Extracting data from SAP systems is a critical skill for businesses that rely on this enterprise resource planning software. The process involves utilizing various tools and techniques to efficiently gather essential information needed for analysis and reporting. By becoming adept at these methods, organizations can make more informed decisions and streamline their operations. These systems […]

AWS announces Pixtral Large 25.02 model in Amazon Bedrock serverless

Today, we announce that the Pixtral Large 25.02 model is now available in Amazon Bedrock as a fully managed, serverless offering. AWS is the first major cloud provider to deliver Pixtral Large as a fully managed, serverless model. Working with large foundation models (FMs) often requires significant infrastructure planning, specialized expertise, and ongoing optimization to […]

Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications

Voice interfaces are essential to enhance customer experience in different areas such as customer support call automation, gaming, interactive education, and language learning. However, there are challenges when building voice-enabled applications. Traditional approaches in building voice-enabled applications require complex orchestration of multiple models, such as speech recognition to convert speech to text, language models to […]

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enhances generative AI application safety with new capabilities

Since we launched Amazon Bedrock Guardrails over one year ago, customers like Grab, Remitly, KONE, and PagerDuty have used Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to standardize protections across their generative AI applications, bridge the gap between native model protections and enterprise requirements, and streamline governance processes. Today, we’re introducing a new set of capabilities that helps customers […]

5 Reasons to Use Argo CD for Your Cloud Native Applications

Argo CD is a declarative, GitOps-based continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes applications. It allows developers to automate the deployment and management of applications using a Git repository as the single source of truth.  By tracking the desired state of applications in Git, Argo CD enables consistent, reliable, and repeatable deployments across varied environments, aligning with […]

Amazon Nova Reel 1.1: Featuring up to 2-minutes multi-shot videos

At re:Invent 2024, we announced Amazon Nova models, a new generation of foundation models (FMs), including Amazon Nova Reel, a video generation model that creates short videos from text descriptions and optional reference images (together, the “prompt”). Today, we introduce Amazon Nova Reel 1.1, which provides quality and latency improvements in 6-second single-shot video generation, […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025)

AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest […]

AWS Weekly Review: Amazon EKS, Amazon OpenSearch, Amazon API Gateway, and more (April 7, 2025)

AWS Summit season starts this week! These free events are now rolling out worldwide, bringing our cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn. Whether you prefer joining us online or in-person, these gatherings offer valuable opportunities to expand your AWS knowledge. I will be attending the Summit in Paris this week, the biggest […]

Cloud Cost Monitoring for GCP: An Expert Guide

Cloud costs can quickly escalate without proper monitoring systems in place. As organizations increasingly adopt Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for its technical capabilities, implementing effective GCP cost monitoring has become essential for maintaining budget control and resource efficiency. This guide outlines practical approaches to GCP cost monitoring based on real-world implementation experience and technical best […]