Today, we’re making available a new capability of AWS Glue Data Catalog to allow automatic compaction of transactional tables in the Apache Iceberg format. This allows you to keep your transactional data lake tables always performant. Data lakes were initially designed primarily for storing vast amounts of raw, unstructured, or semi structured data at a low cost, and they were commonly associated with big data and analytics use cases. Over time, the number of possible use cases for data lakes has evolved as organizations have recognized the potential to use data lakes for more than just reporting, requiring the inclusion of transactional capabilities to ensure data consistency. Data lakes also play a pivotal role in data quality, governance, and compliance,…
Meet the final cohort of AWS Heroes this year – November 2023
As 2023 comes to an end, we’re celebrating our final Heroes cohort launch of the year! These technical experts are passionate about helping their local communities build faster on AWS—they’re focused on sharing best practices, solving problems, and even more. We’re thrilled to have them join the AWS Heroes program, and recognizing them for their contributions to the greater AWS community. Please meet our newest Heroes! Emin Alemdar – Izmir, Turkey Container Hero Emin Alemdar is a Solutions Architect at Spacelift where he produces solutions related to Kubernetes, Cloud technologies, and Cloud Native Transformation. In general, his work focuses on these services and technologies, and he shares best practices with the AWS community. Additionally, Emin is a CNCF Ambassador and…
Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model
Today, we’re announcing the availability of Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B large language model (LLM) on Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock becomes the first public cloud service to offer a fully managed API for Llama 2, Meta’s next-generation LLM. Now, organizations of all sizes can access Llama 2 Chat models on Amazon Bedrock without having to manage the underlying infrastructure. This is a step change in accessibility. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies, including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Stability AI, Amazon, and now Meta, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications, simplifying the development while maintaining privacy and security.…
Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models
Cohere provides text generation and representation models powering business applications to generate text, summarize, search, cluster, classify, and utilize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Today, we’re announcing the availability of Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models on Amazon Bedrock. They’re joining the already available Cohere Command model. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies, including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications, simplifying the development while maintaining privacy and security. With this launch, Amazon Bedrock further expands the breadth of model choices to help you build and scale enterprise-ready generative…