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AWS Weekly Roundup: New capabilities in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Amplify Gen 2, Amazon RDS and extra (Might 13, 2024)


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AWS Summit is in full swing all over the world, with the latest one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here’s a sneak peek of the AWS employees and ASEAN neighborhood members on the Developer Lounge sales space. It featured AWS Group audio system giving lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), safety, generative AI, and extra.

Final week’s launches
Listed here are some launches that caught my consideration. Not surprisingly, loads of fascinating generative AI options!

Amazon Titan Textual content Premier is now obtainable in Amazon Bedrock – That is the most recent addition to the Amazon Titan household of enormous language fashions (LLMs) and provides optimized efficiency for key options like Retrieval Augmented Era (RAG) on Information Bases for Amazon Bedrock, and performance calling on Brokers for Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon Bedrock Studio is now obtainable in public previewAmazon Bedrock Studio provides a web-based expertise to speed up the event of generative AI purposes by offering a fast prototyping surroundings with key Amazon Bedrock options, together with Information Bases, Brokers, and Guardrails.

Amazon Bedrock Studio

Brokers for Amazon Bedrock now helps Provisioned Throughput pricing mannequin – As agentic purposes scale, they require greater enter and output mannequin throughput in comparison with on-demand limits. The Provisioned Throughput pricing mannequin makes it attainable to buy mannequin items for the particular base mannequin.

MongoDB Atlas is now obtainable as a vector retailer in Information Bases for Amazon Bedrock – With MongoDB Atlas vector retailer integration, you’ll be able to construct RAG options to securely join your group’s non-public knowledge sources to basis fashions (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL helps pgvector 0.7.0 – You need to use the open-source PostgreSQL extension for storing vector embeddings and add retrieval-augemented era (RAG) functionality in your generative AI purposes. This launch consists of options that enhance the variety of dimensions of vectors you’ll be able to index, scale back index dimension, and consists of extra help for utilizing CPU SIMD in distance computations. Additionally Amazon RDS Efficiency Insights now helps the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Amazon RDS for Oracle.

Amazon EC2 Inf2 cases are actually obtainable in new areas – These cases are optimized for generative AI workloads and are typically obtainable within the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (Sao Paulo) Areas.

New Generative Engine in Amazon Polly is now typically obtainable – The generative engine in Amazon Polly is it’s most superior text-to-speech (TTS) mannequin and presently consists of two American English voices, Ruth and Matthew, and one British English voice, Amy.

AWS Amplify Gen 2 is now typically obtainableAWS Amplify provides a code-first developer expertise for constructing full-stack apps utilizing TypeScript and allows builders to specific app necessities like the information fashions, enterprise logic, and authorization guidelines in TypeScript. AWS Amplify Gen 2 has added numerous options because the preview, together with a brand new Amplify console with options equivalent to customized domains, knowledge administration, and pull request (PR) previews.

Amazon EMR Serverless now consists of efficiency monitoring of Apache Spark jobs with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus – This allows you to analyze, monitor, and optimize your jobs utilizing job-specific engine metrics and details about Spark occasion timelines, levels, duties, and executors. Additionally, Amazon EMR Studio is now obtainable within the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Areas.

Amazon MemoryDB launched two new situation keys for IAM insurance policies – The brand new situation keys allow you to create AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) insurance policies or Service Management Insurance policies (SCPs) to boost safety and meet compliance necessities. Additionally, Amazon ElastiCache has up to date it’s minimal TLS model to 1.2.

Amazon Lightsail now provides a bigger occasion bundle – This consists of 16 vCPUs and 64 GB reminiscence. Now you can scale your internet purposes and run extra compute and memory-intensive workloads in Lightsail.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) provides pull via cache help for GitLab Container Registry – ECR clients can create a pull via cache rule that maps an upstream registry to a namespace of their non-public ECR registry. As soon as rule is configured, photographs will be pulled via ECR from GitLab Container Registry. ECR robotically creates new repositories for cached photographs and retains them in-sync with the upstream registry.

AWS Resilience Hub expands software resilience drift detection capabilities – This new enhancement detects modifications, such because the addition or deletion of assets throughout the software’s enter sources.

For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure to regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS information
Listed here are some extra tasks and weblog posts that you simply would possibly discover fascinating.

Constructing video games with LLMs – Take a look at this enjoyable experiment by Banjo Obayomi to generate Tremendous Mario ranges utilizing totally different LLMs on Amazon Bedrock!

Troubleshooting with Amazon Q –  Ricardo Ferreira walks us via how he solved a nasty knowledge serialization downside whereas working with Apache Kafka, Go, and Protocol Buffers.

Getting began with Amazon Q in VS Code – Take a look at this wonderful step-by-step information by Rohini Gaonkar that covers putting in the extension for options like code completion chat, and productivity-boosting capabilities powered by generative AI.

AWS open supply information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes about open supply tasks, instruments, and occasions from the AWS Group. Take a look at Ricardo’s web page for the most recent updates.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join upcoming AWS occasions:

AWS Summits – Be part of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Register in your nearest metropolis: Bengaluru (Might 15–16), Seoul (Might 16–17), Hong Kong (Might 22), Milan (Might 23), Stockholm (June 4), and Madrid (June 5).

AWS re:Inforce – Discover 2.5 days of immersive cloud safety studying within the age of generative AI at AWS re:Inforce, June 10–12 in Pennsylvania.

AWS Group Days – Be part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by skilled AWS customers and trade leaders from all over the world: Turkey (Might 18), Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28).

Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions and developer-focused occasions.

That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

— Abhishek

This publish is a part of our Weekly Roundup sequence. Test again every week for a fast roundup of fascinating information and bulletins from AWS!



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