AWS Community Days conferences are in full swing with AWS communities around the globe. The AWS Community Day Poland was hosted last week with more than 600 cloud enthusiasts in attendance. Community speakers Agnieszka Biernacka, Krzysztof Kąkol, and more, presented talks which captivated the audience and resulted in vibrant discussions throughout the day. My teammate, Wojtek Gawroński, was at the event and he’s already looking forward to attending again next year! Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Lambda function URL origins – Now you can protect your AWS Lambda URL origins by using Amazon CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) to only allow…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G6 instances, Mistral Large on Amazon Bedrock, AWS Deadline Cloud, and more (April 8, 2024)
We’re just two days away from AWS Summit Sydney (April 10–11) and a month away from the AWS Summit season in Southeast Asia, starting with the AWS Summit Singapore (May 7) and the AWS Summit Bangkok (May 30). If you happen to be in Sydney, Singapore, or Bangkok around those dates, please join us. Last Week’s Launches If you haven’t read last week’s Weekly Roundup yet, Channy wrote about the AWS Chips Taste Test, a new initiative from Jeff Barr as part of April’ Fools Day. Here are some launches that caught my attention last week: New Amazon EC2 G6 instances — We announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. G6…
6 photography tips to capture the solar eclipse with your Pixel
On April 8, a total solar eclipse will cross parts of North America. Here’s what you need to know to capture it with your Pixel phone. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/photograph-solar-eclipse-google-pixel/
Tackle complex reasoning tasks with Mistral Large, now available on Amazon Bedrock
Last month, we announced the availability of two high-performing Mistral AI models, Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B on Amazon Bedrock. Mistral 7B, as the first foundation model of Mistral, supports English text generation tasks with natural coding capabilities. Mixtral 8x7B is a popular, high-quality, sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, that is ideal for text summarization, question and answering, text classification, text completion, and code generation. Today, we’re announcing the availability of Mistral Large on Amazon Bedrock. Mistral Large is ideal for complex tasks that require substantial reasoning capabilities, or ones that are highly specialized, such as Synthetic Text Generation or Code Generation. What you need to know about Mistral Large: It’s natively fluent in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian, with…