Tag: Jeff Barr

Announced in preview form at re:Invent 2023, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) U7i instances with up to 32 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs are now available. Powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids), these high memory instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases including SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. Here are the specs: Instance Name vCPUs Memory (DDR5) EBS Bandwidth Network Bandwidth u7i-12tb.224xlarge 896 12,288 GiB 60 Gbps 100 Gbps u7in-16tb.224xlarge 896 16,384 GiB 100 Gbps 200 Gbps u7in-24tb.224xlarge 896 24,576 GiB 100 Gbps 200 Gbps u7in-32tb.224xlarge 896 32,768 GiB 100 Gbps 200 Gbps The new instances deliver the best compute price performance for large in-memory workloads, and offer the highest…

The Amazon Bedrock model evaluation capability that we previewed at AWS re:Invent 2023 is now generally available. This new capability helps you to incorporate Generative AI into your application by giving you the power to select the foundation model that gives you the best results for your particular use case. As my colleague Antje explained in her post (Evaluate, compare, and select the best foundation models for your use case in Amazon Bedrock): Model evaluations are critical at all stages of development. As a developer, you now have evaluation tools available for building generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. You can start by experimenting with different models in the playground environment. To iterate faster, add automatic evaluations of the models. Then,…

The Internet has a plethora of moving parts: routers, switches, hubs, terrestrial and submarine cables, and connectors on the hardware side, and complex protocol stacks and configurations on the software side. When something goes wrong that slows or disrupts the Internet in a way that affects your customers, you want to be able to localize and understand the issue as quickly as possible. New Map The new Amazon CloudWatch Internet Weather Map is here to help! Built atop of collection of global monitors operated by AWS, you get a broad, global view of Internet weather, with the ability to zoom in and understand performance and availability issues that affect a particular city. To access the map, open the CloudWatch Console,…

The PartyRock Generative AI Hackathon wrapped up earlier this month. Entrants were asked to use PartyRock to build a functional app based on one of four challenge categories, with the option to remix an existing app as well. The hackathon attracted 7,650 registrants who submitted over 1,200 projects, and published over 250 project blog posts on community.aws . As a member of the judging panel, I was blown away by the creativity and sophistication of the entries that I was asked to review. The participants had the opportunity to go hands-on with prompt engineering and to learn about Foundation Models, and pushed the bounds of what was possible. Let’s take a quick look at the winners of the top 3…