The spooky season has come and gone now. While there aren’t any Halloween-themed releases, AWS has celebrated it in big style by having a plethora of exciting releases last week! I think it’s safe to say that we have truly entered the ‘pre’ re:Invent stage as more and more interesting things are being released every week on the countdown to AWS re:Invent 2024. There is a lot to cover, so let me put my wizard hat on, open the big bag of treats, and dive into last week’s goodies! Something for developers There was no shortage of treats from AWS for developers this Halloween! AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit — AWS…
Fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model in Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of fine-tuning for Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model in Amazon Bedrock in the US West (Oregon) AWS Region. Amazon Bedrock is the only fully managed service that provides you with the ability to fine-tune Claude models. You can now fine-tune and customize the Claude 3 Haiku model with your own task-specific training dataset to boost model accuracy, quality, and consistency to further tailor generative AI for your business. Fine-tuning is a technique where a pre-trained large language model (LLM) is customized for a specific task by updating the weights and tuning hyperparameters like learning rate and batch size for optimal results. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku model is the fastest and most compact model…
Unlock the potential of your supply chain data and gain actionable insights with AWS Supply Chain Analytics
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS Supply Chain Analytics powered by Amazon QuickSight. This new feature helps you to build custom report dashboards using your data in AWS Supply Chain. With this feature, your business analysts or supply chain managers can perform custom analyses, visualize data, and gain actionable insights for your supply chain management operations. Here’s how it looks: AWS Supply Chain Analytics leverages the AWS Supply Chain data lake and provides Amazon QuickSight embedded authoring tools directly into the AWS Supply Chain user interface. This integration provides you with a unified and configurable experience for creating custom insights, metrics, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for your operational analytics. In addition, AWS Supply Chain Analytics provides prebuilt…
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, a new serverless horizontal scaling (sharding) capability of Amazon Aurora. With Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, you can scale beyond the existing Aurora limits for write throughput and storage by distributing a database workload over multiple Aurora writer instances while maintaining the ability to use it as a single database. When we previewed Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database at AWS re:Invent 2023, I explained that it uses a two-layer architecture consisting of multiple database nodes in a DB shard group – either routers or shards to scale based on the workload. Routers – Nodes that accept SQL connections from clients, send SQL commands to shards, maintain system-wide consistency, and…