This week, I had the opportunity to try the new Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet model in Amazon Bedrock just before it launched, and I was really impressed by its speed and accuracy! It was also the week of AWS Summit Japan; here’s a nice picture of the busy AWS Community stage. Last week’s launches With many new capabilities, from recommendations on the size of your Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) databases to new built-in transformations in AWS Glue, here’s what got my attention: Amazon Bedrock – Now supports Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and compressed embeddings from Cohere Embed. AWS CodeArtifact – With support for Rust packages with Cargo, developers can now store and access their Rust libraries (known as crates).…
Month: June 2024
AWS CodeArtifact adds support for Rust packages with Cargo
Starting today, Rust developers can store and access their libraries (known as crates in Rust’s world) on AWS CodeArtifact. Modern software development relies heavily on pre-written code packages to accelerate development. These packages, which can number in the hundreds for a single application, tackle common programming tasks and can be created internally or obtained from external sources. While these packages significantly help to speed up development, their use introduces two main challenges for organizations: legal and security concerns. On the legal side, organizations need to ensure they have compatible licenses for these third-party packages and that they don’t infringe on intellectual property rights. Security is another risk, as vulnerabilities in these packages could be exploited to compromise an application. A…
Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet model now available in Amazon Bedrock: Even more intelligence than Claude 3 Opus at one-fifth the cost
It’s been just 3 months since Anthropic launched Claude 3, a family of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) models that allows you to choose the right combination of intelligence, speed, and cost that suits your needs. Today, Anthropic introduced Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its first release in the forthcoming Claude 3.5 model family. We are happy to announce that Claude 3.5 Sonnet is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.5 Sonnet raises the industry bar for intelligence, outperforming other generative AI models on a wide range of evaluations, including Anthropic’s previously most intelligent model, Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available with the speed and cost of the original Claude 3 Sonnet model. In fact, you can now get intelligence and speed…
Announcing the general availability of fully managed MLflow on Amazon SageMaker
Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of a fully managed MLflow capability on Amazon SageMaker. MLflow, a widely-used open-source tool, plays a crucial role in helping machine learning (ML) teams manage the entire ML lifecycle. With this new launch, customers can now effortlessly set up and manage MLflow Tracking Servers with just a few steps, streamlining the process and boosting productivity. Data Scientists and ML developers can leverage MLflow to track multiple attempts at training models as runs within experiments, compare these runs with visualizations, evaluate models, and register the best models to a Model Registry. Amazon SageMaker eliminates the undifferentiated heavy lifting required to set up and manage MLflow, providing ML administrators with a quick and…