Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock now available with new safety filters and privacy controls

Today, I am happy to announce the general availability of Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock, first released in preview at re:Invent 2023. With Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock, you can implement safeguards in your generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) applications that are customized to your use cases and responsible AI policies. You can create multiple guardrails tailored to different use cases and apply them across multiple foundation models (FMs), improving end-user experiences and standardizing safety controls across generative AI applications. You can use Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock with all large language models (LLMs) in Amazon Bedrock, including fine-tuned models. Guardrails for Bedrock offers industry-leading safety protection on top of the native capabilities of FMs, helping customers block as much as 85% more harmful…

Unify DNS management using Amazon Route 53 Profiles with multiple VPCs and AWS accounts

If you are managing lots of accounts and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources, sharing and then associating many DNS resources to each VPC can present a significant burden. You often hit limits around sharing and association, and you may have gone as far as building your own orchestration layers to propagate DNS configuration across your accounts and VPCs. Today, I’m happy to announce Amazon Route 53 Profiles, which provide the ability to unify management of DNS across all of your organization’s accounts and VPCs. Route 53 Profiles let you define a standard DNS configuration, including Route 53 private hosted zone (PHZ) associations, Resolver forwarding rules, and Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall rule groups, and apply that configuration to…

AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus in Amazon Bedrock, Meta Llama 3 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and more (April 22, 2024)

AWS Summits continue to rock the world, with events taking place in various locations around the globe. AWS Summit London (April 24) is the last one in April, and there are nine more in May, including AWS Summit Berlin (May 15–16), AWS Summit Los Angeles (May 22), and AWS Summit Dubai (May 29). Join us to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS! While you decide which summit to attend, let’s look at the last week’s new announcements. Last week’s launches Last week was another busy one in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). Here are some launches that got my attention. Anthropic’s Claude 3 Opus now available in Amazon Bedrock – After Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku, two…