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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 publish on neighborhood.aws this week with present notes and session clips.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that acquired my consideration:
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku mannequin is now accessible 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 accessible in Amazon Bedrock. Try Channy’s publish for extra particulars. As well as, my colleague Mike reveals the best way to get began with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on neighborhood.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 referred to 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 provides customers extra management to shortcut their stack creation course of in eventualities the place a useful resource consistency verify is pointless. To be taught extra, learn this AWS DevOps Weblog publish.
Amazon SageMaker Canvas extends its mannequin registry integration — SageMaker Canvas has prolonged its mannequin registry integration to incorporate time sequence forecasting fashions and fashions fine-tuned via 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 downside sorts supported in Canvas, akin to 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 data.
For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, remember to control the What’s New at AWS web page.
Different AWS information
Listed below are some extra information objects, open supply initiatives, and Twitch reveals that you just would possibly discover fascinating:
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 talk about completely different elements of generative AI and invite visitor audio system to demo their work. In right this moment’s episode, visitor Martyn Kilbryde confirmed the best way to construct a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Try present notes and the total checklist of episodes on neighborhood.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 straight from PyTorch Lightning coaching jobs to Amazon S3. Try the open supply venture on GitHub.
AWS open supply information and updates — My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply publication 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. When you’re round, go to AWS at sales space #708 to discover generative AI demos and get impressed by AWS, AWS Companions, and buyer consultants on the most recent choices in generative AI, robotics, and superior computing on the in-booth theatre. Try the AWS periods 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 (Might 15–16), and Seoul (Might 16–17). AWS Summits are a sequence of free on-line and in-person occasions that carry the cloud computing neighborhood 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 targeted on AWS safety options, cloud safety, compliance, and identification. Join with the AWS groups that construct the safety instruments and meet AWS clients to find out about their safety journeys.
You’ll be able to browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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