As we dive into 2025, we’re thrilled to announce our latest group of AWS Heroes! These exceptional individuals have demonstrated outstanding expertise and innovation, and are committed to sharing knowledge. Their contributions to the AWS community are greatly appreciated, and today we’re excited to celebrate them. Ahmed Bebars – New Jersey, USA Container Hero Ahmed Bebars is a Principal Engineer at The New York Times, where he leads the design and delivery of scalable developer platforms that enhance productivity and empower engineering teams. With deep expertise in containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies, Ahmed builds robust infrastructure solutions that streamline development workflows and support innovation. As an active member of the AWS and Cloud Native communities, he frequently shares his expertise…
Month: March 2025
4 creative ways I’m using Pixel Studio
Learn more about Pixel Studio, including the just-launched human image generation feature. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-studio-human-image-generation/
March Pixel Drop: Updates for Gemini Live, Scam Detection and more
Learn more about the latest Pixel Feature Drop, including new features for Pixel phones and Pixel Watch. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-drop-march-2025/
Get insights from multimodal content with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, now generally available
Many applications need to interact with content available through different modalities. Some of these applications process complex documents, such as insurance claims and medical bills. Mobile apps need to analyze user-generated media. Organizations need to build a semantic index on top of their digital assets that include documents, images, audio, and video files. However, getting insights from unstructured multimodal content is not easy to set up: you have to implement processing pipelines for the different data formats and go through multiple steps to get the information you need. That usually means having multiple models in production for which you have to handle cost optimizations (through fine-tuning and prompt engineering), safeguards (for example, against hallucinations), integrations with the target applications (including…