At re:Invent 2023, we introduced 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. S3 Express One Zone delivers data access speed up to 10 times faster than S3 Standard, and it can support up […]

In the last few years, hyperscalers and public clouds became a popular choice for businesses across industries. Now, however, private clouds are once again on the rise as a critical piece of enterprise IT strategies. During the current era of digital infrastructure, modern private clouds bring unique features to the table that offer significant benefits […]

Regularly upgrading IT infrastructure is essential for staying competitive, secure and efficient in IT operations. However, like with every IT project of a certain size, there are roadblocks to consider. Things like incomplete asset visibility, cost overruns and the looming threat of downtime can delay or even prevent infrastructure upgrades. This article will break down […]

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it. – Mark Weiser Many of us grew up watching Star Trek, where the crew could simply speak to the computer and it would understand not just their words, but their intent. “Computer, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]