• Amazon Q Business, now generally available, helps boost workforce productivity with generative AI

    Updated: 2024-04-30 00:05:15
    Amazon Q Business is now available with many new features, including custom plugins, and a preview of Amazon Q Apps, generative AI–powered customized and sharable applications using natural language in a single step for your organization.

  • Amazon Q Developer, now generally available, includes new capabilities to reimagine developer experience

    Updated: 2024-04-30 00:05:00
    When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Q Developer as a preview last year, it changed my experience of interacting with AWS services and, at the same time, maximizing the potential of AWS services on a daily basis. Trained on 17 years of AWS knowledge and experience, this generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant helps […]

  • Run scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI workloads with Cohere Command R & R+, now available in Amazon Bedrock

    Updated: 2024-04-29 18:08:57
    In November 2023, we made two new Cohere models available in Amazon Bedrock (Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English). Today, we’re announcing the addition of two more Cohere models in Amazon Bedrock; Cohere Command R and Command R+. Organizations need generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) models to securely interact with information stored in their […]

  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS CodeBuild, Amazon CodeCatalyst, and more (April 29, 2024)

    Updated: 2024-04-29 15:54:33
    This was a busy week for Amazon Bedrock with many new features! Using GitHub Actions with AWS CodeBuild is much easier. Also, Amazon Q in Amazon CodeCatalyst can now manage more complex issues. I was amazed to meet so many new and old friends at the AWS Summit London. To give you a quick glimpse, […]

  • Meta Llama 3 models are now available in Amazon Bedrock

    Updated: 2024-04-23 11:25:55
    The instruction-tuned large language models have been pre-trained on over 15 trillion tokens of data—a training dataset seven times larger than that used for Llama 2 models.

  • Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock now available with new safety filters and privacy controls

    Updated: 2024-04-23 11:25:51
    With Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock, you can implement safeguards in your generative artificial intelligence applications that are customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies.

  • Agents for Amazon Bedrock: Introducing a simplified creation and configuration experience

    Updated: 2024-04-23 11:25:47
    With Agents for Amazon Bedrock, applications can use generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) to run tasks across multiple systems and data sources. Starting today, these new capabilities streamline the creation and management of agents: Quick agent creation – You can now quickly create an agent and optionally add instructions and action groups later, providing flexibility […]

  • Amazon Bedrock model evaluation is now generally available

    Updated: 2024-04-23 11:25:43
    This new capability helps you to incorporate generative AI into your application by letting you select the foundation model that gives you the best results for your particular use case.

  • Import custom models in Amazon Bedrock (preview)

    Updated: 2024-04-23 11:25:40
    With Amazon Bedrock, you have access to a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies that make it easier to build and scale generative AI applications. Some of these models provide publicly available weights that can be fine-tuned and customized for specific use cases. However, deploying customized FMs in a […]

  • Amazon Titan Image Generator and watermark detection API are now available in Amazon Bedrock

    Updated: 2024-04-23 11:25:37
    All images generated by Titan Image Generator contain an invisible watermark to help reduce the spread of misinformation by providing a mechanism to identify AI-generated images.

  • Unify DNS management using Amazon Route 53 Profiles with multiple VPCs and AWS accounts

    Updated: 2024-04-22 21:08:42
    If you are managing lots of accounts and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources, sharing and then associating many DNS resources to each VPC can present a significant burden. You often hit limits around sharing and association, and you may have gone as far as building your own orchestration layers to propagate DNS configuration […]

  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus in Amazon Bedrock, Meta Llama 3 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and more (April 22, 2024)

    Updated: 2024-04-22 17:32:54
    AWS Summits continue to rock the world, with events taking place in various locations around the globe. AWS Summit London (April 24) is the last one in April, and there are nine more in May, including AWS Summit Berlin (May 15–16), AWS Summit Los Angeles (May 22), and AWS Summit Dubai (May 29). Join us […]

  • Bungee Boys in New York City

    Updated: 2024-04-22 01:30:21
    Brad Hintze and I will be in New York City this week for Web 2.0 Expo. Along with us are our CTO Dave Mitchell, and CEO Martin Plaehn. If you’d like to get together with any of us, please drop us a note, and we hope to see you in New York.

  • Manage MySQL with Bungee SQL Admin

    Updated: 2024-04-22 01:30:21
    Bungee SQL Admin is a rich Internet application that enables Web 2.0 companies to rapidly manage MySQL & PostgreSQL database systems. No install No registration No cost Click here to launch. The Story Behind this Application In August, Bungee Labs held our first ever “SkunkDay” event. SkunkDay provides Bungee Labs employees an opportunity to show […]

  • Bungee Boys at AWS Event in Salt Lake City

    Updated: 2024-04-22 01:30:20
    The Amazon Web Services crew are back on the road with their AWS Startup Tour, and Brad Hintze and I will be joining them tomorrow in Salt Lake City. I’ll make a brief presentation around 3:30-ish, speaking about Bungee Connect and how Bungee Labs use Amazon Web Services. So if you’re in the area, please […]

  • JavaScript Biggest Threat to Silverlight?

    Updated: 2024-04-22 01:30:19
    In light of the recent announcement about Google Chrome, I found a couple articles particularly interesting: First, in “Chrome’s JavaScript poses challenge to Silverlight,” Microsoft apparently cites that JavaScript–not Flash–will be the biggest competitive threat to Silverlight. Second, in “New Firefox JavaScript engine is faster than Chrome’s V8,” Mozilla has responded to Google Chrome’s JavaScript […]

  • WideLens in Google Chrome

    Updated: 2024-04-22 01:30:19
    Our product manager Dave Brooksby continues to test Google Chrome. Today he sent me a screenshot of our demo application for calendar management, WideLens. Is it just me, or does Google Chrome look like it was designed for Bungee-powered applications? (click image to embiggen) Just to be clear, there are definitely some issues with some […]

  • Bungee Connect in Google Chrome

    Updated: 2024-04-22 01:30:19
    The first question we at Bungee Labs thought when we read the news about Google’s nifty new browser, Google Chrome, was: I wonder how it will do running Bungee Connect? Google chose to use WebKit, the same rendering engine as Safari, which we support for Bungee Connect. So far, so good: (click either image to […]

  • Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map – View and analyze internet health

    Updated: 2024-04-16 23:58:12
    The Internet has a plethora of moving parts: routers, switches, hubs, terrestrial and submarine cables, and connectors on the hardware side, and complex protocol stacks and configurations on the software side. When something goes wrong that slows or disrupts the Internet in a way that affects your customers, you want to be able to localize […]

  • Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus model is now available on Amazon Bedrock

    Updated: 2024-04-16 14:34:45
    We are living in the generative artificial intelligence (AI) era; a time of rapid innovation. When Anthropic announced its Claude 3 foundation models (FMs) on March 4, we made Claude 3 Sonnet, a model balanced between skills and speed, available on Amazon Bedrock the same day. On March 13, we launched the Claude 3 Haiku […]

  • Congratulations to the PartyRock generative AI hackathon winners

    Updated: 2024-04-15 18:22:05
    The PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon wrapped up earlier this month. Entrants were asked to use PartyRock to build a functional app based on one of four challenge categories, with the option to remix an existing app as well. The hackathon attracted 7,650 registrants who submitted over 1,200 projects, and published over 250 project blog posts […]

  • AWS Weekly Roundup: New features on Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, OAC for Lambda function URL origins on Amazon CloudFront, and more (April 15, 2024)

    Updated: 2024-04-15 16:18:11
    AWS Community Days conferences are in full swing with AWS communities around the globe. The AWS Community Day Poland was hosted last week with more than 600 cloud enthusiasts in attendance. Community speakers Agnieszka Biernacka, Krzysztof Kąkol, and more, presented talks which captivated the audience and resulted in vibrant discussions throughout the day. My teammate, […]

  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G6 instances, Mistral Large on Amazon Bedrock, AWS Deadline Cloud, and more (April 8, 2024)

    Updated: 2024-04-08 16:29:58
    We’re just two days away from AWS Summit Sydney (April 10–11) and a month away from the AWS Summit season in Southeast Asia, starting with the AWS Summit Singapore (May 7) and the AWS Summit Bangkok (May 30). If you happen to be in Sydney, Singapore, or Bangkok around those dates, please join us. Last […]

  • Tackle complex reasoning tasks with Mistral Large, now available on Amazon Bedrock

    Updated: 2024-04-03 04:37:49
    Update 4/3/2024: We have updated this post to add information about the new Paris Region availability for Amazon Bedrock, and provided a new resource link for guidance on inference requests. Last month, we announced the availability of two high-performing Mistral AI models, Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B on Amazon Bedrock. Mistral 7B, as the first […]

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