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Storage, storage, storage! Final week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of enjoyable! The 4-hour dwell stream was filled with puns, pie recipes powered by PartyRock, demos, code, and discussions about generative AI and Amazon S3.
AWS Pi Day 2024 — Twitch dwell stream on March 14, 2024
In case you missed the dwell stream, you may watch the recording. We’ll additionally replace the AWS Pi Day 2024 put up on group.aws this week with present notes and session clips.
Final week’s launches
Listed here are some launches that received my consideration:
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku mannequin is now obtainable in Amazon Bedrock — Anthropic just lately launched the Claude 3 household of basis fashions (FMs), comprising Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Haiku, the quickest and most compact mannequin within the household, is now obtainable in Amazon Bedrock. Try Channy’s put up for extra particulars. As well as, my colleague Mike exhibits tips on how to get began with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on group.aws.
As much as 40 p.c quicker stack creation with AWS CloudFormation — AWS CloudFormation now creates stacks as much as 40 p.c quicker and has a brand new occasion known as CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE. With this occasion, CloudFormation begins parallel creation of dependent sources inside a stack, dashing up the entire course of. The brand new occasion additionally offers customers extra management to shortcut their stack creation course of in eventualities the place a useful resource consistency test is pointless. To be taught extra, learn this AWS DevOps Weblog put up.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas extends its mannequin registry integration — SageMaker Canvas has prolonged its mannequin registry integration to incorporate time collection forecasting fashions and fashions fine-tuned by means of SageMaker JumpStart. Customers can now register these fashions to the SageMaker Mannequin Registry with only a click on. This enhancement expands the mannequin registry integration to all drawback sorts supported in Canvas, reminiscent of regression/classification tabular fashions and CV/NLP fashions. It streamlines the deployment of machine studying (ML) fashions to manufacturing environments. Test the Developer Information for extra info.
For a full record of AWS bulletins, make sure to keep watch over the What’s New at AWS web page.
Different AWS information
Listed here are some extra information objects, open supply initiatives, and Twitch exhibits that you simply would possibly discover attention-grabbing:
Construct On Generative AI — Season 3 of your favourite weekly Twitch present about all issues generative AI is in full swing! Streaming each Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Tiffany and Darko focus on totally different features of generative AI and invite visitor audio system to demo their work. In in the present day’s episode, visitor Martyn Kilbryde confirmed tips on how to construct a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Try present notes and the total record of episodes on group.aws.
Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch — The Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now lets PyTorch Lightning customers save mannequin checkpoints on to Amazon S3. Saving PyTorch Lightning mannequin checkpoints is as much as 40 p.c quicker with the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch than writing to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) occasion storage. Now you can additionally save, load, and delete checkpoints instantly from PyTorch Lightning coaching jobs to Amazon S3. Try the open supply challenge on GitHub.
AWS open supply information and updates — My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply e-newsletter during which he highlights new open supply initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Neighborhood.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024 — The NVIDIA GTC 2024 developer convention is happening this week (March 18–21) in San Jose, CA. If you happen to’re round, go to AWS at sales space #708 to discover generative AI demos and get impressed by AWS, AWS Companions, and buyer specialists on the newest choices in generative AI, robotics, and superior computing on the in-booth theatre. Try the AWS classes and request 1:1 conferences.
AWS Summits — It’s AWS Summit season once more! The primary one is Paris (April 3), adopted by Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 10–11), London (April 24), Berlin (Could 15–16), and Seoul (Could 16–17). AWS Summits are a collection of free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS.
AWS re:Inforce — Be part of us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, PA. AWS re:Inforce is a studying convention centered on AWS safety options, cloud safety, compliance, and id. Join with the AWS groups that construct the safety instruments and meet AWS prospects to find out about their safety journeys.
You possibly can browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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