Tag: Betty Zheng (郑予彬)

As we celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) this March, I had the privilege of attending the ‘Women in Tech’ User Group meetup in Shenzhen last weekend. I was inspired to see over 100 women in tech from different industries come together to discuss AI ethics from a female perspective. Together, we explored strategies such as reducing gender bias in AI systems and promoting diverse representation in model training data. In the AWS Cloud Lab, participants used Amazon Bedrock with large language models (LLMs) to generate rose bloom videos, which was the most popular part of this meetup. These gatherings are crucial to our efforts to engage more women in AI technology exploration and development, and to help make sure that…

As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nuts. This nutritious mixture symbolizes harmony, prosperity, and good fortune — with each ingredient representing the diversity and abundance of life. This traditional practice dates back to when Buddha achieved enlightenment after consuming rice porridge, making it a symbol of both material and spiritual nourishment. The festival, occurring on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, marks the countdown to Spring Festival, China’s most significant traditional holiday celebrating family reunion and renewal. As our global…

Today, we announce AWS Security Incident Response, a new service designed to help organizations manage security events quickly and effectively. The service is purpose-built to help customers prepare for, respond to, and recover from various security events, including account takeovers, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. Security Incident Response automates the triage and investigation of security findings from Amazon GuardDuty and integrated third party threat detection tools through AWS Security Hub. It facilitates communication and coordination and provides 24/7 access to security experts from the AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) who can assist during security events. The service aims to provide customers with more comprehensive support across the phases of incident response lifecycle, from preparation to detection, analysis, and recovery.…

Providing highly available applications while maintaining low latency reads and writes across AWS Regions is a common challenge faced by many customers. Accessing data from different Regions can cause a delay of hundreds of milliseconds compared to microseconds within the same Region. The necessity for developers to create complex custom solutions for data replication and conflict resolution can lead to increased operational workload and potential errors. Beyond multi-Region replication, these customers have to implement manual database failover procedures and provide data consistency and recovery to deliver highly available applications and data durability. Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region, a fully managed, active-active, multi-Region database that you can use to build applications with up…