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Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes to help data scientists and developers of all skill sets to get started training and fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) in minutes with state-of-the-art performance. They can now access optimized recipes for training and fine-tuning popular publicly available FMs such as Llama 3.1 405B, Llama […]

AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators

Building on the work that we and our partners have been doing for many years, Amazon is committing up to $100 million in cloud technology and technical resources to help existing, dedicated learning organizations reach more learners by creating new and innovative digital learning solutions, all as part of the AWS Education Equity Initiative. The […]

Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight

Today, we announced a new capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight that helps users perform scenario analyses to find answers to complex problems quickly. This AI-assisted data analysis experience helps business users find answers to complex problems by guiding them step-by-step through in-depth data analysis—suggesting analytical approaches, automatically analyzing data, and summarizing findings with suggested […]

Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas

As a data scientist, I’ve experienced firsthand the challenges of making machine learning (ML) accessible to business analysts, marketing analysts, data analysts, and data engineers who are experts in their domains without ML experience. That’s why I’m particularly excited about today’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcement that Amazon Q Developer is now available in Amazon […]

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)

Today, we’re announcing the preview of multimodal toxicity detection with image support in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This new capability detects and filters out undesirable image content in addition to text, helping you improve user experiences and manage model outputs in your generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails helps you implement safeguards for generative AI applications […]

New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval

Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces four enhancements that streamline how you can analyze data with generative AI: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (preview) – A fully managed capability of Amazon Bedrock that streamlines the generation of valuable insights from unstructured, multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos. With Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, you can build […]

Return of The Frugal Architect(s)

In my twenty years at Amazon, I’ve spoken with thousands of customers across industries and roles. Their challenges are unique, but a common thread emerges time and again: the desire to reduce cloud costs while maintaining performance and driving continuous innovation. Last year during my re:Invent keynote, I introduced The Frugal Architect, a set of […]

AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it

One of our strengths at AWS has always been our ability to get primitives into the hands of our customers and observe what they do. In nearly every instance, someone uses these building blocks in interesting ways that we didn’t expect. Sometimes it’s domain-specific innovation, but other times it’s customers working around the limitations of […]