Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared their technical expertise and experiences. The highlight was definitely Jeff Barr, AWS Vice President & Chief Evangelist, delivering an inspiring keynote titled “Next-Generation Software Development”, which set the perfect tone for the day. The day kicked off with welcoming remarks from Vatsun Thirapatarapong, AWS Country Manager for Thailand, and was made even more special thanks to the tremendous support from both the AWS User Group…
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DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS
During this past AWS re:Invent, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy shared valuable lessons learned from Amazon’s own experience developing nearly 1,000 generative AI applications across the company. Drawing from this extensive scale of AI deployment, Jassy offered three key observations that have shaped Amazon’s approach to enterprise AI implementation. First is that as you get to scale in generative AI applications, the cost of compute really matters. People are very hungry for better price performance. The second is actually quite difficult to build a really good generative AI application. The third is the diversity of the models being used when we gave our builders freedom to pick what they want to do. It doesn’t surprise us, because we keep learning the…
AWS Weekly roundup: EventBridge, SNS FIFO, Amazon Corretto, Amazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, and more
I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite one so far in 2025. But our teams didn’t stop there, let’s look at the last week’s new announcements. Last week’s launches Beside the usual Regional expansion (new capabilities that are now available in a new Region), here are the launches that got my attention. Amazon EventBridge announces direct delivery to cross-account targets – Amazon EventBridge is now able to deliver events to targets in…
Luma AI’s Ray2 video model is now available in Amazon Bedrock
As we preannounced at AWS re:Invent 2024, you can now use Luma AI Ray2 video model in Amazon Bedrock to generate high-quality video clips from text, creating captivating motion graphics from static concepts. AWS is the first and only cloud provider to offer fully managed models from Luma AI. On January 16, 2025, Luma AI introduced Luma Ray2, the large–scale video generative model capable of creating realistic visuals with natural, coherent motion with strong understanding of text instructions. Luma Ray2 exhibits advanced capabilities as a result of being trained on Luma’s new multi-modal architecture. It scales to ten times compute of Ray1, enabling it to produce 5 second or 9 second video clips that show fast coherent motion, ultra-realistic details,…