Add your Ruby gems to AWS CodeArtifact

Ruby developers can now use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their gems. CodeArtifact integrates with standard developer tools like gem and bundler. Applications often use numerous packages to speed up development by providing reusable code for common tasks like network access, cryptography, or data manipulation. Developers also embed SDKs–such as the AWS SDKs–to access remote services. These packages may come from within your organization or from third parties like open source projects. Managing packages and dependencies is integral to software development. Languages like Java, C#, JavaScript, Swift, and Python have tools for downloading and resolving dependencies, and Ruby developers typically use gem and bundler. However, using third-party packages presents legal and security challenges. Organizations must ensure package licenses…

Amazon Titan Text V2 now available in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for improving RAG

The Amazon Titan family of models, available exclusively in Amazon Bedrock, is built on top of 25 years of Amazon expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) advancements. Amazon Titan foundation models (FMs) offer a comprehensive suite of pre-trained image, multimodal, and text models accessible through a fully managed API. Trained on extensive datasets, Amazon Titan models are powerful and versatile, designed for a range of applications while adhering to responsible AI practices. The latest addition to the Amazon Titan family is Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2, the second-generation text embeddings model from Amazon now available within Amazon Bedrock. This new text embeddings model is optimized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It is pre-trained on 100+ languages and on…

AWS Weekly Roundup — Savings Plans, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS CodeArtifact, and more — March 25, 2024

AWS Summit season is starting! I’m happy I will meet our customers, partners, and the press next week at the AWS Summit Paris and the week after at the AWS Summit Amsterdam. I’ll show you how mobile application developers can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to boost their productivity. Be sure to stop by and say hi if you’re around. Now that my talks for the Summit are ready, I took the time to look back at the AWS launches from last week and write this summary for you. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: AWS License Manager allows you to track IBM Db2 licenses on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) – I wrote…

Improve the security of your software supply chain with Amazon CodeArtifact package group configuration

Starting today, administrators of package repositories can manage the configuration of multiple packages in one single place with the new AWS CodeArtifact package group configuration capability. A package group allows you to define how packages are updated by internal developers or from upstream repositories. You can now allow or block internal developers to publish packages or allow or block upstream updates for a group of packages. CodeArtifact is a fully managed package repository service that makes it easy for organizations to securely store and share software packages used for application development. You can use CodeArtifact with popular build tools and package managers such as NuGet, Maven, Gradle, npm, yarn, pip, twine, and the Swift Package Manager. CodeArtifact supports on-demand importing…