AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon ECS, RDS for MySQL, EMR Studio, AWS Community, and more — January 22, 2024

As usual, a lot has happened in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) universe this past week. I’m also excited about all the AWS Community events and initiatives that are happening around the world. Let’s take a look together! Last week’s Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon ECS, RDS for MySQL, EMR Studio, AWS Community, and more — January 22, 2024

AWS Weekly Roundup—Amazon Route53, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker, and more – January 15, 2024

We are in January, the start of a new year, and I imagine many of you have made a new year resolution to learn something new. If you want to learn something new and get a free Amazon Web Services Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup—Amazon Route53, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker, and more – January 15, 2024

DNS over HTTPS is now available in Amazon Route 53 Resolver

Starting today, Amazon Route 53 Resolver supports using the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol for both inbound and outbound Resolver endpoints. As the name suggests, DoH supports HTTP or HTTP/2 over TLS to encrypt the data exchanged for Domain Name Continue reading DNS over HTTPS is now available in Amazon Route 53 Resolver

re:Invent wrap up for manufacturing – not only for developers anymore!

Another re:Invent is behind us, and attendees had a busy week of learning at technical sessions, exploring interactive demos, networking with peers, and having some fun at the re:Play celebration. We had great announcements on new services, features, and solutions Continue reading re:Invent wrap up for manufacturing – not only for developers anymore!

Top-10 re:Invent 2023 Announcements Important for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Occasionally, new technologies emerge that fundamentally alter how businesses operate. But without the appropriate tools—controls, safeguards, and user experiences—the promise of new technologies can get stuck.  In the past year, many have been captivated by the potential of Generative AI Continue reading Top-10 re:Invent 2023 Announcements Important for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Zonal autoshift – Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues

Today we’re launching zonal autoshift, a new capability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller that you can enable to automatically and safely shift your workload’s traffic away from an Availability Zone when AWS identifies a potential failure affecting that Continue reading Zonal autoshift – Automatically shift your traffic away from Availability Zones when we detect potential issues

Amazon SageMaker Studio adds web-based interface, Code Editor, flexible workspaces, and streamlines user onboarding

Today, we are announcing an improved Amazon SageMaker Studio experience! The new SageMaker Studio web-based interface loads faster and provides consistent access to your preferred integrated development environment (IDE) and SageMaker resources and tooling, irrespective of your IDE choice. In Continue reading Amazon SageMaker Studio adds web-based interface, Code Editor, flexible workspaces, and streamlines user onboarding

Use natural language to explore and prepare data with a new capability of Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Today, I’m happy to introduce the ability to use natural language instructions in Amazon SageMaker Canvas to explore, visualize, and transform data for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Canvas now supports using foundation model-(FM) powered natural language instructions to complement its Continue reading Use natural language to explore and prepare data with a new capability of Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Amazon SageMaker adds new inference capabilities to help reduce foundation model deployment costs and latency

Today, we are announcing new Amazon SageMaker inference capabilities that can help you optimize deployment costs and reduce latency. With the new inference capabilities, you can deploy one or more foundation models (FMs) on the same SageMaker endpoint and control Continue reading Amazon SageMaker adds new inference capabilities to help reduce foundation model deployment costs and latency

Package and deploy models faster with new tools and guided workflows in Amazon SageMaker

I’m happy to share that Amazon SageMaker now comes with an improved model deployment experience to help you deploy traditional machine learning (ML) models and foundation models (FMs) faster. As a data scientist or ML practitioner, you can now use Continue reading Package and deploy models faster with new tools and guided workflows in Amazon SageMaker

Leverage foundation models for business analysis at scale with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Today, I’m excited to introduce a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Canvas to use foundation models (FMs) from Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart through a no-code experience. This new capability makes it easier for you to evaluate and generate Continue reading Leverage foundation models for business analysis at scale with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Amazon SageMaker Clarify makes it easier to evaluate and select foundation models (preview)

I’m happy to share that Amazon SageMaker Clarify now supports foundation model (FM) evaluation (preview). As a data scientist or machine learning (ML) engineer, you can now use SageMaker Clarify to evaluate, compare, and select FMs in minutes based on Continue reading Amazon SageMaker Clarify makes it easier to evaluate and select foundation models (preview)

Amazon Redshift adds new AI capabilities, including Amazon Q, to boost efficiency and productivity

Amazon Redshift puts artificial intelligence (AI) at your service to optimize efficiencies and make you more productive with two new capabilities that we are launching in preview today. First, Amazon Redshift Serverless becomes smarter. It scales capacity proactively and automatically Continue reading Amazon Redshift adds new AI capabilities, including Amazon Q, to boost efficiency and productivity

AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy enhances privacy protection of your users data (preview)

Starting today, you can use AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy (preview) to help protect the privacy of your users with mathematically backed and intuitive controls in a few steps. As a fully managed capability of AWS Clean Rooms, no prior Continue reading AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy enhances privacy protection of your users data (preview)

AWS Clean Rooms ML helps customers and partners apply ML models without sharing raw data (preview)

Today, we’re introducing AWS Clean Rooms ML (preview), a new capability of AWS Clean Rooms that helps you and your partners apply machine learning (ML) models on your collective data without copying or sharing raw data with each other. With this new Continue reading AWS Clean Rooms ML helps customers and partners apply ML models without sharing raw data (preview)

Analyze large amounts of graph data to get insights and find trends with Amazon Neptune Analytics

I am happy to announce the general availability of Amazon Neptune Analytics, a new analytics database engine that makes it faster for data scientists and application developers to quickly analyze large amounts of graph data. With Neptune Analytics, you can Continue reading Analyze large amounts of graph data to get insights and find trends with Amazon Neptune Analytics

Amazon Titan Image Generator, Multimodal Embeddings, and Text models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

Today, we’re introducing two new Amazon Titan multimodal foundation models (FMs): Amazon Titan Image Generator (preview) and Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings. I’m also happy to share that Amazon Titan Text Lite and Amazon Titan Text Express are now generally available Continue reading Amazon Titan Image Generator, Multimodal Embeddings, and Text models are now available in Amazon Bedrock