Last week, the latest AWS Heroes arrived! AWS Heroes are amazing technical experts who generously share their insights, best practices, and innovative solutions to help others. The AWS GenAI Lofts are in full swing with San Francisco and São Paulo open now, and London, Paris, and Seoul coming in the next couple of months. Here’s an insider view from a workshop in San Francisco last week. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention. Storage Browser for Amazon S3 (alpha release) – An open source Amplify UI React component that you can add to your web applications to provide your end users with a simple interface for data stored in S3. The component uses the new ListCallerAccessGrants…
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Stability AI’s best image generating models now in Amazon Bedrock
Starting today, you can use three new text-to-image models from Stability AI in Amazon Bedrock: Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, and Stable Image Core. These models greatly improve performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and typography and can be used to rapidly generate high-quality visuals for a wide range of use cases across marketing, advertising, media, entertainment, retail, and more. These models excel in producing images with stunning photorealism, boasting exceptional detail, color, and lighting, addressing common challenges like rendering realistic hands and faces. The models’ advanced prompt understanding allows it to interpret complex instructions involving spatial reasoning, composition, and style. The three new Stability AI models available in Amazon Bedrock cover different use cases: Stable Image Ultra – Produces…
The latest AWS Heroes have arrived – September 2024
The AWS Heroes program recognizes outstanding individuals who are making meaningful contributions within the AWS community. These technical experts generously share their insights, best practices, and innovative solutions to help others create efficiencies and build faster on AWS. Heroes are thought leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to empowering the broader AWS community through their significant contributions and leadership. Meet our newest cohort of AWS Heroes! Faye Ellis – London, United Kingdom Community Hero Faye Ellis is a Principal Training Architect at Pluralsight, where she specializes in helping organizations and individuals to develop their AWS skills, and has taught AWS to millions of people worldwide. She is also committed to make a rewarding cloud career achievable for people all around…
AWS named as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants
On August 19th, 2024, Gartner published its first Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants, which includes Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon Q Developer qualified for inclusion, having launched in general availability on April 30, 2024. AWS was ranked as a Leader for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. We believe this Leader placement reflects our rapid pace of innovation, which makes the whole software development lifecycle easier and increases developer productivity with enterprise-grade access controls and security. The Gartner Magic Quadrant evaluates 12 AI code assistants based on their Ability to Execute, which measures a vendor’s capacity to deliver its products or services effectively, and Completeness of Vision, which assesses a vendor’s understanding of the market and its…