#Amazon Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my atte...
Monday, September 16, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Parallel Computing Service, Amazon EC2 status checks, and more (September 2, 2024) #AWS
#Amazon With the arrival of September, AWS re:Invent 2024 is now 3 months away and I am very excited for the new upcoming services and announcements at the conference. I remember attending re:Invent 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. It was t...
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Empowering builders with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region #AWS
#Amazon Builders are at the heart of AWS. As Amazon’s CTO, one of the most rewarding parts of my job is meeting with builders from across the world to better understand the unique challenges that they’re encountering while building on AWS. Most...
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS #AWS
#Amazon Marc Olson has been part of the team shaping Elastic Block Store (EBS) for over a decade. In that time, he’s helped to drive the dramatic evolution of EBS from a simple block storage service relying on shared drives to a massive network ...
Monday, August 5, 2024
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Business, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon WorkSpaces update, and more (Aug 5, 2024) #AWS
#Amazon Summer is reaching its peak for some of us around the globe, and many are heading out to their favorite holiday destinations to enjoy some time off. I just came back from holidays myself and I couldn’t help thinking about the key role that ...
Monday, July 29, 2024
AWS Weekly Roundup: Llama 3.1, Mistral Large 2, AWS Step Functions, AWS Certifications update, and more (July 29, 2024) #AWS
#Amazon I’m always amazed by the talent and passion of our Amazon Web Services (AWS) community members, especially in their efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech community. Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the AW...
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock now supports additional data connectors (in preview) #AWS
#Amazon Using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, foundation models (FMs) and agents can retrieve contextual information from your company’s private data sources for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). RAG helps FMs deliver more relevant, accurat...
Introducing Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio to streamline ML workflows #AWS
#Amazon Today, we are announcing a new capability in Amazon SageMaker Studio that simplifies and accelerates the machine learning (ML) development lifecycle. Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio is a generative AI-powered assistant built natively...