AWS Week in Review – Agents for Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker Canvas New Capabilities, and More – July 31, 2023
Updated: 2023-07-31 22:17:07
This July, AWS communities in ASEAN wrote a new history. First, the AWS User Group Malaysia recently held the first AWS Community Day in Malaysia. Another significant milestone has been achieved by the AWS User Group Philippines. They just celebrated their tenth anniversary by running 2 days of AWS Community Day Philippines. Here are a […]
FinOps is incredibly complex in multi-cloud environments. Increasingly, enterprises are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for help.
We are introducing a new charge for public IPv4 addresses. Effective February 1, 2024 there will be a charge of $0.005 per IP per hour for all public IPv4 addresses, whether attached to a service or not (there is already a charge for public IPv4 addresses you allocate in your account but don’t attach to […]
Looking for a career in software development? Check out our guide on what a DevOps engineer does and what it takes to become one.
I am happy to announce that a new AWS Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona is now open and ready for you to use, with more instance types, storage classes, and services than ever before. We launched the first AWS Local Zone in 2019 (AWS Now Available from a Local Zone in Los Angeles) with the […]
The European Union's competition enforcement body is investigating whether bundling the two products together presents an antitrust concern.
Here's why organizations need to get on board with an event-native approach to software and data management if they want to keep innovating at a rapid pace.
In March 2023, AWS and NVIDIA announced a multipart collaboration focused on building the most scalable, on-demand artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure optimized for training increasingly complex large language models (LLMs) and developing generative AI applications. We preannounced Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances powered by NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs and AWS’s latest […]
As organizations grow, the records that contain information about customers, businesses, or products tend to be increasingly fragmented and siloed across applications, channels, and data stores. Because information can be gathered in different ways, there is also the issue of different but equivalent data, such as for street addresses (“5th Avenue” and “5th Ave”). As […]
This April, Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS, announced Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Titan models as part of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Amazon Bedrock, currently available in preview, is a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from Amazon and leading AI startups—such as […]
Device management as a service, or DMaaS, helps businesses effectively manage their devices by leveraging the power of the cloud and leaving the complexities of device management to experts.
AI and GPT technologies can empower enterprise IT to improve customer and user experiences, reduce wasted IT efforts, and eliminate disruptive errors in fast-moving, digital environments.
This midyear roundup of our most-read PowerShell articles contains tutorials and best practices.
ChatGPT can be a useful customer service agent. Unfortunately, customers aren’t the only ones it helps, especially now that ChatGPT sits on many IoT and edge devices.
Our survey of IT professionals’ compensation, training, and job satisfaction reveals some surprising results about how IT pros see their jobs today – and what they need to do their job better.
Hackers might have had access to Microsoft applications such as Teams, OneDrive, and Sharepoint, according to a cloud security firm.
Fundamental engineering skills are crucial for IT engineers to succeed in modern IT jobs, regardless of the specific technologies they work with.
ITPro Today's most-read programming language stories include lists of the top languages, a look at the most in-demand IT skills, and a Python cheat sheet.
The Salesforce survey finds IT teams are embracing AI and automation to meet rising business demands, with most planning more investment.
Understanding the Linux File System Hierarchy is important for Linux users, particularly system administrators and developers.
Starting today, Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now available on AWS Outposts rack, providing your on-premises services and applications with local DNS resolution directly from Outposts. Local Route 53 Resolver endpoints also enable DNS resolution between Outposts and your on-premises DNS server. Route 53 Resolver on Outposts helps to improve your on-premises applications availability and […]
The level of complexity and the number of person-hours required to go the FinOps DIY route isn't worth it for most organizations, but here's why it works for some.
Postman buys Akita to integrate its API discovery technology, helping customers map 1,000s of APIs within minutes.
ITPro Today’s most-read articles about compute engines includes video tutorials, how-to guides, and product comparisons.
The Cyber Trust Mark program is expected to be up and running by 2024.
July 19, 2023: Post updated with an animated image to show Amazon CodeWhisperer in action. In the few months since Amazon CodeWhisperer ecame generally available, many customers have used it to simplify and streamline the way they develop software. CodeWhisperer uses generative AI powered by a foundational model to understand the semantics and context of your […]
Flexible companies are adding headcount at double the rate of fully in-office peers, but landing a flexible job can still be a challenge.
Microsoft 365 Copilot, the company's new AI tool that works with Office software, will cost $30 a person each month on top of what most enterprise customers already pay.
Using these tips can go a long way to securing wireless networks. But keep in mind wireless network security is an evolving endeavor.
By using SMRs, data centers can achieve energy independence. This energy source holds the key to unlocking the full potential of AI.
Splunk adds an AI assistant to its platform as well as new observability and security capabilities for IT and OT operations.
Here are five ways that financial services organizations can begin implementing machine learning into their business practices to give them an edge.
The Data Centered: Eastern Oregon, a five-part mini-documentary series looking at the real-life impact of the more than $15 billion investment AWS has made in the local community, and how the company supports jobs, generates economic growth, provides skills training and education, and unlocks opportunities for local businesses suppliers. Last week, I watched a new […]
AI chatbot now available across Europe, Brazil and supports more than 40 languages.
While developing with containers is becoming an increasingly popular way for deploying and scaling applications, there are still areas where improvements can be made. One of the main issues with scaling containerized applications is the long startup time, especially during scale up when newer instances need to be added. This issue can have a negative […]
In the first half of 2023, cybersecurity practices faced new challenges amid the meteoric rise of AI. Here’s a midyear roundup of our most-read articles about cybersecurity.
Technical architects must repair their reputation to ensure that business and technology leaders see their value.
The C-suite must evolve to better capture the opportunities that AI offers. Here's how a chief automation officer can ensure AI and automation initiatives receive the attention they deserve.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP was launched in late 2021. With FSx for ONTAP you get the popular features, performance, and APIs of ONTAP file systems, with the agility, scalability, security, and resilience of AWS, all as a fully managed service. Today we are adding support for SnapLock, an ONTAP feature that gives you the […]
The US celebrated Independence Day last week on July 4 with fireworks and barbecues across the country. But fireworks weren’t the only thing that launched last week. Let’s have a look! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS Glue – AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Iceberg tables. Apache Iceberg […]
Starting today, you can deploy on your AWS account an end-to-end solution to capture, ingest, store, analyze, and visualize your customers’ clickstreams inside your web and mobile applications (both for Android and iOS). The solution is built on top of standard AWS services. This new solution Clickstream Analytics on AWS allows you to keep your […]
AWS Application Migration Service simplifies, expedites, and reduces the cost of migrating your applications to AWS. It allows you to lift and shift many physical, virtual, or cloud servers without compatibility issues, performance disruption, or long cutover windows. ou can minimize time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating replication and conversion of your source servers from physical, […]