• Build RAG and agent-based generative AI applications with new Amazon Titan Text Premier model, available in Amazon Bedrock

    Updated: 2024-05-07 19:22:08
    Today, we’re happy to welcome a new member of the Amazon Titan family of models: Amazon Titan Text Premier, now available in Amazon Bedrock. Following Amazon Titan Text Lite and Titan Text Express, Titan Text Premier is the latest large language model (LLM) in the Amazon Titan family of models, further increasing your model choice […]

  • Build generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Studio (preview)

    Updated: 2024-05-07 16:01:26
    Today, we’re introducing mazon Bedrock Studio, a new web-based enerative artificial intelligence (generative AI) development experience, in public preview. Amazon Bedrock Studio accelerates the development of generative AI applications by providing a rapid prototyping environment with key Amazon Bedrock features, including Knowledge Bases, gents, and uardrails. As a developer, you can now use your company’s single sign-on credentials to […]

  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q, Amazon QuickSight, AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Bedrock, and more (May 6, 2024)

    Updated: 2024-05-06 14:36:59
    April has been packed with new releases! Last week continued that trend with many new releases supporting a variety of domains such as security, analytics, devops, and many more, as well as more exciting new capabilities within generative AI. If you missed the AWS Summit London 2024, you can now watch the sessions on demand, […]

  • Build RAG applications with MongoDB Atlas, now available in Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock

    Updated: 2024-05-02 13:57:17
    Foundational models (FMs) are trained on large volumes of data and use billions of parameters. However, in order to answer customers’ questions related to domain-specific private data, they need to reference an authoritative knowledge base outside of the model’s training data sources. This is commonly achieved using a technique known as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). […]

  • Stop the CNAME chain struggle: Simplified management with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

    Updated: 2024-05-01 15:39:55
    Updated 2 May 2024: I removed the reference to Route53 Alias that was incorrectly referred as a chain Starting today, you can configure your DNS Firewall to automatically trust all domains in a resolution chain (such as aCNAMEor DNAMEchain). Let’s walk through this in nontechnical terms for those unfamiliar with DNS. Why use DNS Firewall? […]

  • Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now available in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for improving RAG

    Updated: 2024-04-30 20:06:51
    Amazon Titan foundation models (FMs) offer a comprehensive suite of pre-trained image, multimodal, and text models accessible through a fully managed API. They're designed for a range of applications while adhering to responsible AI practices.

  • 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 previews of new capabilities to reimagine developer experience

    Updated: 2024-04-30 00:05:00
    This generative AI–powered assistant helps developers build applications on AWS, research best practices, perform troubleshooting, and resolve errors.

  • 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
    May 8, 2024: Post updated with a link showing how to handle return of control in code. 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 – […]

  • 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 […]

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