Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment where you can find and access all of the data in your organization and act on it using the best tool for the job across virtually any use case. Introduced as preview during AWS re:Invent 2024, my colleague, Antje, summarized it as: SageMaker Unified Studio (preview) is a single data and AI development environment. It brings together functionality and tools from the range of standalone “studios,” query editors, and visual tools that we have today in Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (Amazon MWAA), and the existing SageMaker Studio. Here’s a video to see Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio in…
Month: March 2025
Amazon S3 Tables integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse is now generally available
At re:Invent 2024, we launched Amazon S3 Tables, the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support to streamline storing tabular data at scale, and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse to simplify analytics and AI with a unified, open, and secure data lakehouse. We also previewed S3 Tables integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) analytics services for you to stream, query, and visualize S3 Tables data using Amazon Athena, Amazon Data Firehose, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon QuickSight. Our customers wanted to simplify the management and optimization of their Apache Iceberg storage, which led to the development of S3 Tables. They were simultaneously working to break down data silos that impede analytics collaboration and insight generation using the…
DeepSeek-R1 now available as a fully managed serverless model in Amazon Bedrock
As of January 30, DeepSeek-R1 models became available in Amazon Bedrock through the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. Since then, thousands of customers have deployed these models in Amazon Bedrock. Customers value the robust guardrails and comprehensive tooling for safe AI deployment. Today, we’re making it even easier to use DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock through an expanded range of options, including a new serverless solution. The fully managed DeepSeek-R1 model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the first cloud service provider (CSP) to deliver DeepSeek-R1 as a fully managed, generally available model. You can accelerate innovation and deliver tangible business value with DeepSeek on AWS without having to manage infrastructure…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q CLI agent, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and more (March 10, 2025)
As the weather improves in the Northern hemisphere, there are more opportunities to learn and connect. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and we can meet at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft where we’ll dive into the world of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demos and real-world implementations. AWS Pi Day is now a yearly tradition. It started in 2021 as a celebration of the 15th anniversary of Amazon S3. This year, there will be in-depth discussions with AWS product teams on how to build a data foundation for a unified seamless experience, managing and using data for analytics and AI workloads. Join us online to learn about the latest innovations through hands-on…