Today, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of AWS Console-to-Code that makes it easy to convert AWS console actions to reusable code. You can use AWS Console-to-Code to record your actions and workflows in the console, such as launching an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance, and review the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) commands for your console actions. With just a few clicks, Amazon Q can generate code for you using the infrastructure-as-code (IaC) format of your choice, including AWS CloudFormation template (YAML or JSON), and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) (TypeScript, Python or Java). This can be used as a starting point for infrastructure automation and further customized for your production workloads, included in…
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)
AWS Community Days have been in full swing around the world. I am going to put the spotlight on AWS Community Day Argentina where Jeff Barr delivered the keynote, talks and shared his nuggets of wisdom with the community, including a fun story of how he once followed Bill Gates to a McDonald’s! I encourage you to read about his experience. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention, starting off with the GA releases. Amazon EC2 X8g Instances are now generally available – X8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. These instances offer larger sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Advanced capabilities in Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, and more (July 15, 2024).
As expected, there were lots of exciting launches and updates announced during the AWS Summit New York. You can quickly scan the highlights in Top Announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2024. My colleagues and fellow AWS News Blog writers Veliswa Boya and Sébastien Stormacq were at the AWS Community Day Cameroon last week. They were energized to meet amazing professionals, mentors, and students – all willing to learn and exchange thoughts about cloud technologies. You can access the video replay to feel the vibes or just watch some of the talks! Last week’s launches In addition to the launches at the New York Summit, here are a few others that got my attention. Advanced RAG capabilities Knowledge…
Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock can now detect hallucinations and safeguard apps built using custom or third-party FMs
Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock enables customers to implement safeguards based on application requirements and and your company’s responsible artificial intelligence (AI) policies. It can help prevent undesirable content, block prompt attacks (prompt injection and jailbreaks), and remove sensitive information for privacy. You can combine multiple policy types to configure these safeguards for different scenarios and apply them across foundation models (FMs) on Amazon Bedrock, as well as custom and third-party FMs outside of Amazon Bedrock. Guardrails can also be integrated with Agents for Amazon Bedrock and Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock provides additional customizable safeguards on top of native protections offered by FMs, delivering safety features that are among the best in the industry: Blocks as…