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Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning

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Back in July, we introduced Agents for Amazon Bedrock in preview. Today, Agents for Amazon Bedrock is generally available. Agents for Amazon Bedrock helps you accelerate generative artificial intelligence (AI) application development by orchestrating multistep tasks. Agents uses the reasoning Continue reading Agents for Amazon Bedrock is now available with improved control of orchestration and visibility into reasoning→

Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training

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Today, I’m excited to share that you can now privately and securely customize foundation models (FMs) with your own data in Amazon Bedrock to build applications that are specific to your domain, organization, and use case. With custom models, you Continue reading Customize models in Amazon Bedrock with your own data using fine-tuning and continued pre-training→

Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock

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Back in September, we introduced Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock in preview. Starting today, Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock is generally available. With a knowledge base, you can securely connect foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock to your company data Continue reading Knowledge Bases now delivers fully managed RAG experience in Amazon Bedrock→

Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds new generative AI-powered call summaries (preview)

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We are announcing generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered call summarization in Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics in preview. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, this feature helps businesses improve customer experience, and agent and supervisor productivity by automatically summarizing customer service calls. Amazon Transcribe Continue reading Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics adds new generative AI-powered call summaries (preview)→

Build generative AI apps using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock

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Today we are announcing two new optimized integrations for AWS Step Functions with Amazon Bedrock. Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines. Continue reading Build generative AI apps using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock→

Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model

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Today, we’re announcing the availability of Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B large language model (LLM) on Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock becomes the first public cloud service to offer a fully managed API for Llama 2, Meta’s next-generation Continue reading Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model→

Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models

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Cohere provides text generation and representation models powering business applications to generate text, summarize, search, cluster, classify, and utilize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Today, we’re announcing the availability of Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models on Continue reading Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models→

New for Amazon Comprehend – Toxicity Detection

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With Amazon Comprehend, you can extract insights from text without being a machine learning expert. Using its built-in models, Comprehend can analyze the syntax of your input documents and find entities, events, key phrases, personally identifiable information (PII), and the Continue reading New for Amazon Comprehend – Toxicity Detection→

AWS Weekly Roundup—Reserve GPU capacity for short ML workloads, Finch is GA, and more—November 6, 2023

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The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup—Reserve GPU capacity for short ML workloads, Finch is GA, and more—November 6, 2023→

Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads

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Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) have unlocked opportunities for customers across organizations of all sizes and industries to reinvent new products and transform their businesses. However, the growth in demand for GPU capacity to train, fine-tune, experiment, and inference Continue reading Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads→

New Customization Capability in Amazon CodeWhisperer Generates Even Better Suggestions (Preview)

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An AI coding companion, such as Amazon CodeWhisperer, aims to improve developers’ productivity by helping them write code quickly and securely. However, in particular cases, developers need to have code recommendations based on their internal libraries and APIs they extensively Continue reading New Customization Capability in Amazon CodeWhisperer Generates Even Better Suggestions (Preview)→

AWS Entity Resolution Expands Data Matching Capabilities with LiveRamp, TransUnion, and Unified ID 2.0 Integrations

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Launched in July 2023, AWS Entity Resolution has been helping organizations like Best Western Hotels, Merkle, ActionIQ, and Thompson Reuters to more easily match and link related records stored across multiple applications, channels and data stores using advanced matching techniques Continue reading AWS Entity Resolution Expands Data Matching Capabilities with LiveRamp, TransUnion, and Unified ID 2.0 Integrations→

Pfizer boosts bioreactor efficiency with AWS industrial edge services

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Pfizer, one of the world’s premier biopharmaceutical companies, uses machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for near-real-time monitoring of mammalian cell culture bioreactors to boost batch yield and reduce the risk of contamination. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), the Continue reading Pfizer boosts bioreactor efficiency with AWS industrial edge services→

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Control Tower, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and More (October 9, 2023)

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As the Northern Hemisphere enjoys early fall and pumpkins take over the local farmers markets and coffee flavors here in the United States, we’re also just 50 days away from re:Invent 2023! But before we officially enter pre:Invent sea­­son, let’s Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Control Tower, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and More (October 9, 2023)→

Using AWS generative AI to improve defect detection in Manufacturing

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Product quality control and surface defect detection in manufacturing is very important for overall product cost reduction and customer satisfaction. Simply relying on humans to visually inspect products is unsatisfactory and does not scale; today’s computer vision models require vast Continue reading Using AWS generative AI to improve defect detection in Manufacturing→

AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available, Attend AWS Innovate Online, and More – Oct 2, 2023

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Last week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own city since 2019 so it was very special to have the opportunity to attend. It was great Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available, Attend AWS Innovate Online, and More – Oct 2, 2023→

Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Build and Scale Generative AI Applications with Foundation Models

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This April, we announced Amazon Bedrock as part of a set of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI Continue reading Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Build and Scale Generative AI Applications with Foundation Models→

Interact Conversationally with AWS HealthLake

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Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing the way we interact with technology, and AWS HealthLake is no exception. HealthLake is a secure, HIPAA-eligible data lake that allows healthcare organizations to store, transform, and analyze their health data at scale. By combining HealthLake Continue reading Interact Conversationally with AWS HealthLake→

Preview – Connect Foundation Models to Your Company Data Sources with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

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In July, we announced the preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new capability for developers to create generative AI applications that complete tasks. Today, I’m happy to introduce a new capability to securely connect foundation models (FMs) to your Continue reading Preview – Connect Foundation Models to Your Company Data Sources with Agents for Amazon Bedrock→

New – Improve Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Restore Time By Up To 85% Using Standard Retrieval Tier and S3 Batch Operations

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Last year, Amazon S3 Glacier celebrated its tenth anniversary. Amazon S3 Glacier is the leader in cloud cold storage, and I wrote about its innovations over the last decade. The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes provide you with long-term, secure, Continue reading New – Improve Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Restore Time By Up To 85% Using Standard Retrieval Tier and S3 Batch Operations→