Last week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own city since 2019 so it was very special to have the opportunity to attend. It was great to get to meet with so many of our customers and hear how they are building on AWS. Now on to the AWS updates. I’ve compiled a few announcements and upcoming events you need to know about. Let’s get started! Last Week’s Launches Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Amazon Bedrock was announced in preview in April of this year as part of a set of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. Last week’s announcement of…
Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available – Build and Scale Generative AI Applications with Foundation Models
This April, we announced Amazon Bedrock as part of a set of new tools for building with generative AI on AWS. 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, and Amazon, along with a broad set of capabilities to build generative AI applications, simplifying the development while maintaining privacy and security. Today, I’m happy to announce that Amazon Bedrock is now generally available! I’m also excited to share that Meta’s Llama 2 13B and 70B parameter models will soon be available on Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock’s comprehensive capabilities help you experiment with a variety of top FMs, customize them privately with…
Amazon MSK Introduces Managed Data Delivery from Apache Kafka to Your Data Lake
I’m excited to announce today a new capability of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) that allows you to continuously load data from an Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). We use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose—an extract, transform, and load (ETL) service—to read data from a Kafka topic, transform the records, and write them to an Amazon S3 destination. Kinesis Data Firehose is entirely managed and you can configure it with just a few clicks in the console. No code or infrastructure is needed. Kafka is commonly used for building real-time data pipelines that reliably move massive amounts of data between systems or applications. It provides a highly scalable and fault-tolerant publish-subscribe messaging system.…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac, Amazon Coretto 21, Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, and more (Sept. 25, 2023)
This week, I’m in Jakarta to support AWS User Group Indonesia and AWS Cloud Day Indonesia. Yesterday, I attended a community event – a collaboration between AWS User Group Indonesia and Hacktiv8 with “Innovating Yourself as Early-Stage Developers” as the main theme. We had a blast and I had a wonderful time connecting with speakers and developers. Next up, AWS Cloud Day Indonesia. I’ll be at the Developer Lounge, come and say hi! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: Add Your Swift Packages to AWS CodeArtifact – In this article, Seb describes how Swift developers who write code for Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS or Swift) applications running on the…