AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You can now watch keynotes and sessions on the AWS Event YouTube channel. This year Andy Jassy, now President and CEO at Amazon, returned to re:Invent and shared some thoughts in these videos. Drawing on experiences Amazon has had building distributed systems at massive scale, Werner Vogels, VP and CTO at Amazon, shared critical lessons and strategies he has learned for managing complex systems in his keynote. Last week’s launches Here…

New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval

Today, Amazon Bedrock introduces four enhancements that streamline how you can analyze data with generative AI: Amazon Bedrock Data Automation (preview) – A fully managed capability of Amazon Bedrock that streamlines the generation of valuable insights from unstructured, multimodal content such as documents, images, audio, and videos. With Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, you can build automated intelligent document processing (IDP), media analysis, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows quickly and cost-effectively. Insights include video summaries of key moments, detection of inappropriate image content, automated analysis of complex documents, and much more. You can customize outputs to tailor insights into your specific business needs. Amazon Bedrock Data Automation can be used as a standalone feature or as a parser when setting up…

Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)

Today, Amazon Bedrock has introduced in preview two capabilities that help reduce costs and latency for generative AI applications: Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing – When invoking a model, you can now use a combination of foundation models (FMs) from the same model family to help optimize for quality and cost. For example, with the Anthropic’s Claude model family, Amazon Bedrock can intelligently route requests between Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku depending on the complexity of the prompt. Similarly, Amazon Bedrock can route requests between Meta Llama 3.1 70B and 8B. The prompt router predicts which model will provide the best performance for each request while optimizing the quality of response and cost. This is particularly useful for…

Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one place

Today, we’re introducing Amazon Bedrock Marketplace, a new capability that gives you access to over 100 popular, emerging, and specialized foundation models (FMs) through Amazon Bedrock. With this launch, you can now discover, test, and deploy new models from enterprise providers such as IBM and Nvidia, specialized models such as Upstages’ Solar Pro for Korean language processing, and Evolutionary Scale’s ESM3 for protein research, alongside Amazon Bedrock general-purpose FMs from providers such as Anthropic and Meta. Models deployed with Amazon Bedrock Marketplace can be accessed through the same standard APIs as the serverless models and, for models which are compatible with Converse API, be used with tools such as Amazon Bedrock Agents and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. As generative AI continues…