I have fond memories of the time I built an application live at the AWS GenAI Loft London last September. AWS GenAI Lofts are back in locations such as San Francisco, Berlin, and more, to continue providing collaborative spaces and immersive experiences for startups and developers. Find a loft near you for hands-on access to AI products and services, events, workshops, and networking opportunities, that you can’t miss! Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS — For some situations, you might want to enable centralized operations across multiple AWS accounts or share resources across teams, or projects within your teams. In these cases, you…
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Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight
Today, we announced a new capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight that helps users perform scenario analyses to find answers to complex problems quickly. This AI-assisted data analysis experience helps business users find answers to complex problems by guiding them step-by-step through in-depth data analysis—suggesting analytical approaches, automatically analyzing data, and summarizing findings with suggested actions—using natural language prompts. This new capability eliminates hours of tedious and error-prone manual work traditionally required to perform analyses using spreadsheets or other alternatives. In fact, Amazon Q in QuickSight enables business users to perform complex scenario analysis up to 10x faster than spreadsheets. This capability expands upon existing data Q&A capabilities of Amazon QuickSight so business professionals can start their analysis by simply…
Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applications
Today, we announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift support for zero-ETL integrations from applications. Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse unifies all your data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses, helping you build powerful analytics and AI/ML applications on a single copy of data. SageMaker Lakehouse gives you the flexibility to access and query your data in-place with all Apache Iceberg compatible tools and engines. Zero-ETL is a set of fully managed integrations by AWS that minimizes the need to build ETL data pipelines for common ingestion and replication use cases. With zero-ETL integrations from applications such as Salesforce, SAP, and Zendesk, you can reduce time spent building data pipelines and…
New APIs in Amazon Bedrock to enhance RAG applications, now available
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible AI. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is a fully managed service that empowers developers to create highly accurate, low latency, secure, and customizable generative AI applications cost effectively. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases connects foundation models (FMs) to a company’s internal data using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). RAG helps FMs deliver more relevant, accurate, and customized responses. In this post, we detail two announcements related to Amazon…