Every week, there’s a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) community event where you can network, learn something new, and immerse yourself in the community. When you’re in a community, everyone grows together, and no one is left behind. Last week was no exception. I can highlight the Dutch AWS Community Day where Viktoria Semaan closed with a talk titled How to Create Impactful Content and Build a Strong Personal Brand, and the Peru User Group, who organized two days of talks and learning opportunities: UGCONF & SERVERLESSDAY 2024, featuring Jeff Barr, who spoke about how to Create Your Own Luck. The community events continue, so check them out at Upcoming AWS Community Days. Last week’s launches Here are the launches…
Month: September 2024
Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances
Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances. C8g instances are AWS Graviton4 based and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. Also Graviton4 based, M8g instances provide the best price performance for general purpose workloads. M8g instances are ideal for applications such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, mid-size data stores, and caching fleets. Now looking at some of the improvements that we have made available in both these instances. C8g and M8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to three times more vCPUs (up to 48xl), three…
Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models
In July, we announced the availability of Llama 3.1 models in Amazon Bedrock. Generative AI technology is improving at incredible speed and today, we are excited to introduce the new Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 3.2 offers multimodal vision and lightweight models representing Meta’s latest advancement in large language models (LLMs) and providing enhanced capabilities and broader applicability across various use cases. With a focus on responsible innovation and system-level safety, these new models demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks and introduce features that help you build a new generation of AI experiences. These models are designed to inspire builders with image reasoning and are more accessible for edge applications, unlocking more…
Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock
Today, we are announcing the availability of AI21 Labs’ powerful new Jamba 1.5 family of large language models (LLMs) in Amazon Bedrock. These models represent a significant advancement in long-context language capabilities, delivering speed, efficiency, and performance across a wide range of applications. The Jamba 1.5 family of models includes Jamba 1.5 Mini and Jamba 1.5 Large. Both models support a 256K token context window, structured JSON output, function calling, and are capable of digesting document objects. AI21 Labs is a leader in building foundation models and artificial intelligence (AI) systems for the enterprise. Together, AI21 Labs and AWS are empowering customers across industries to build, deploy, and scale generative AI applications that solve real-world challenges and spark innovation through…