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Storage, storage, storage! Final week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of enjoyable! The 4-hour stay stream was filled with puns, pie recipes powered by PartyRock, demos, code, and discussions about generative AI and Amazon S3.
AWS Pi Day 2024 — Twitch stay stream on March 14, 2024
In case you missed the stay stream, you’ll be able to watch the recording. We’ll additionally replace the AWS Pi Day 2024 submit on group.aws this week with present notes and session clips.
Final week’s launches
Listed here are some launches that bought my consideration:
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku mannequin is now out there in Amazon Bedrock — Anthropic just lately launched the Claude 3 household of basis fashions (FMs), comprising Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Haiku, the quickest and most compact mannequin within the household, is now out there in Amazon Bedrock. Take a look at Channy’s submit for extra particulars. As well as, my colleague Mike exhibits easy methods to get began with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on group.aws.
As much as 40 p.c sooner stack creation with AWS CloudFormation — AWS CloudFormation now creates stacks as much as 40 p.c sooner and has a brand new occasion referred to as CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE. With this occasion, CloudFormation begins parallel creation of dependent sources inside a stack, rushing up the entire course of. The brand new occasion additionally offers customers extra management to shortcut their stack creation course of in eventualities the place a useful resource consistency test is pointless. To study extra, learn this AWS DevOps Weblog submit.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas extends its mannequin registry integration — SageMaker Canvas has prolonged its mannequin registry integration to incorporate time sequence forecasting fashions and fashions fine-tuned by SageMaker JumpStart. Customers can now register these fashions to the SageMaker Mannequin Registry with only a click on. This enhancement expands the mannequin registry integration to all drawback varieties supported in Canvas, akin to regression/classification tabular fashions and CV/NLP fashions. It streamlines the deployment of machine studying (ML) fashions to manufacturing environments. Verify the Developer Information for extra data.
Different AWS information
Listed here are some extra information gadgets, open supply tasks, and Twitch exhibits that you simply may discover fascinating:
Construct On Generative AI — Season 3 of your favourite weekly Twitch present about all issues generative AI is in full swing! Streaming each Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Tiffany and Darko focus on completely different features of generative AI and invite visitor audio system to demo their work. In at the moment’s episode, visitor Martyn Kilbryde confirmed easy methods to construct a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Take a look at present notes and the complete record of episodes on group.aws.
Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch — The Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now lets PyTorch Lightning customers save mannequin checkpoints on to Amazon S3. Saving PyTorch Lightning mannequin checkpoints is as much as 40 p.c sooner with the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch than writing to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) occasion storage. Now you can additionally save, load, and delete checkpoints immediately from PyTorch Lightning coaching jobs to Amazon S3. Take a look at the open supply challenge on GitHub.
AWS open supply information and updates — My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply e-newsletter wherein he highlights new open supply tasks, instruments, and demos from the AWS Group.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024 — The NVIDIA GTC 2024 developer convention is going down this week (March 18–21) in San Jose, CA. For those who’re round, go to AWS at sales space #708 to discover generative AI demos and get impressed by AWS, AWS Companions, and buyer specialists on the newest choices in generative AI, robotics, and superior computing on the in-booth theatre. Take a look at the AWS periods and request 1:1 conferences.
AWS Summits — It’s AWS Summit season once more! The primary one is Paris (April 3), adopted by Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 10–11), London (April 24), Berlin (Could 15–16), and Seoul (Could 16–17). AWS Summits are a sequence of free on-line and in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS.
AWS re:Inforce — Be part of us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, PA. AWS re:Inforce is a studying convention centered on AWS safety options, cloud safety, compliance, and id. Join with the AWS groups that construct the safety instruments and meet AWS clients to find out about their safety journeys.
You may browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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