Every week there is a new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Community event where you can network, learn something new, and immerse yourself in the community. When you are in a community, everyone grows together and no one is left behind. Last week was no exception. I can highlight the AWS Community Day in Dach where Victoria Semaan He closed with a talk titled How to Create Impactful Content and Build a Strong Personal Brandand the Peru User Groupwho organized two days of talks and learning opportunities: UGCONF & SERVERLESSDAY 2024, presenting Jeff Barrwho talked about How to Create Your Own Luck. Community events continue, so check them out at Upcoming AWS Community Days.
Last week’s releases
Here are the releases that caught my attention.
AI21 Labs’ Jamba 1.5 family of models is now available on Amazon Bedrock – The Jamba 1.5 Large and 1.5 Mini models have a 256k context window, one of the longest on the market, which allows for complex tasks such as analysis of large documents. With native support for structured JSON output, function calling, and document processing, they integrate into enterprise workflows for specialized AI solutions. To learn more, read AI21 Labs’ Jamba 1.5 family of models is now available on Amazon Bedrockvisit the AI21 Labs on the Amazon Bedrock pageand read the documentation.
AWS Lambda now supports Amazon Linux 2023 runtimes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions – These runtimes offer the latest language features, including Python 3.12, Node.js 20, Java 21, .NET 8, Ruby 3.3, and Amazon Linux 2023. They have smaller deployment footprints, updated libraries, and a new package manager . Additionally, you can also use container base images to create and deploy features as a container image.
Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports automatic shutdown of inactive applications – You can now enable automatic shutdown of inactive JupyterLab and CodeEditor applications using the Amazon SageMaker v2.0 or later distribution image. Administrators can set idle shutdown times at the domain or user profile level, with optional user customization. This cost control mechanism helps avoid charges for unused instances and is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker Studio is offered.
Amazon S3 is implementing a default minimum object size of 128 KB for S3 lifecycle transition rules to any S3 storage class – Reduce transition costs for data sets with many small objects by reducing transition requests. Users can override the default and customize minimum object sizes. Existing rules remain unchanged, but the new default applies to new or modified configurations.
AWS Lake Formation Centralized Access Control for Amazon Redshift Data Sharing Now Available in 11 Additional Regions – Enable granular permission management, including table, column, and row-level access to shared files. Amazon redshift data. It also supports tag-based access control and trusted identity propagation with AWS IAM Identity Center to improve security and simplify management.
Llama 3.2 Generative AI Models Now Available on Amazon Bedrock – The collection includes 90B and 11B multimodal parameter models for sophisticated reasoning tasks, and 3B and 1B text-only models for edge devices. These models support vision tasks, offer improved performance, and are designed for responsible AI innovation in various applications. These models support a context length of 128 KB and multilingual capabilities in eight languages. Learn more about this at Introducing the Llama 3.2 models from Meta on Amazon Bedrock.
Share AWS End User Messaging SMS resources between multiple AWS accounts – You can use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM)to share phone numbers, sender IDs, phone groups, and opt-out lists. Besides, Amazon SNS now delivers SMS text messages through AWS End User Messagingwhich offers enhanced features like two-way messaging and granular permissions. These updates provide greater flexibility and control for SMS messaging across all AWS services.
AWS Serverless Application Repository now supports AWS PrivateLink – Allow direct connection from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposure to the Internet. This improves security by maintaining communication within the AWS network. Available in all regions where AWS Serverless Application Repository is offered, it can be configured using the AWS Management Console either AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
Amazon SageMaker with MLflow now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure traffic routing – Allow secure transfer of data from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to MLflow tracking servers within the AWS network. This improves the protection of sensitive information by preventing public exposure to the Internet. Available in most AWS Regions, it improves security for machine learning (ML) and generative AI experimentation using MLflow.
Introducing Amazon EC2 C8g and M8g Instances – Improved performance for general-purpose and compute-intensive workloads. With up to three times more vCPU, three times more memory, 75 percent more memory bandwidth, and two times more L2 cache, these instances improve data processing, scalability, and cost-effectiveness for a variety of applications, including high-end computing. performance (HPC), batch computing. processing and microservices. Read more in Run your computer
intensive and general-purpose workloads sustainably with new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances.
Llama 3.2 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – These models offer various sizes from 1B to 90B parameters, support multimodal tasks including image reasoning, and are most efficient for AI workloads. Models 1B and 3B are adjustable, while Llama Guard 3 11B Vision supports responsible innovation and system-level safety. More information at Meta’s Llama 3.2 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.
For a complete list of AWS announcements, be sure to stay tuned to the AWS What’s New page.
Other AWS News
Here are some additional projects, blog posts and news that you may find interesting:
Deploy generative AI agents in your contact center for voice and chat using Amazon Connect, Amazon Lex, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases – This solution enables low-latency customer interactions, answering queries from a knowledge base. Features include conversation analysis, automated testing, and hallucination detection in a serverless architecture.
How AWS WAF Threat Intelligence Features Help Protect the Player Experience for Betting and Gaming Customers – AWS WAF improves bot protection for betting and gaming. New features include browser fingerprinting, automation detection, and machine learning models to identify coordinated bots. These tools combat scraping, fraud, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and cheating, safeguarding the player experience.
How to migrate 3DES keys from a FIPS cluster to a non-FIPS AWS CloudHSM cluster – Learn how to securely transfer hsm1 Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (3DES) keys to non-FIPS hsm2 clusters using RSA-AES packaging, without backups. This allows new hsm2.medium instances to be used with FIPS 140-3 Level 3 support, non-FIPS mode, increased key capacity, and mutual TLS (mTLS).
Upcoming AWS Events
Check your calendars and register for upcoming AWS events:
AWS Summits – Join free online and in-person events that bring together the cloud computing community to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. These events offer technical sessions, demonstrations and workshops taught by experts. There is only one event left that you can still register for: Ottawa (October 9).
AWS Community Days – Join community-led conferences featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs powered by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world. The next AWS Community Days are scheduled for October 3 at the Netherlands and Romaniaand on October 5 in Jaipur, Mexico, bolivia, Ecuadorand Panama. I am happy to share with you that I will be joining the Panama community on October 5th.
AWS GenAI Lofts – Collaborative spaces and immersive experiences that showcase AWS’s expertise in cloud and AI, while providing startups and developers with hands-on access to AI products and services, exclusive sessions with industry leaders, and valuable networking opportunities. networking with investors and peers. Find a GenAI Loft Location Near You and don’t forget to register. I’ll be at the San Francisco show with some demos on October 15th at the Generation AI Developer Day. If you’re attending, don’t hesitate to stop by and say hello!
Explore all upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events and developer-focused events.
That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another weekly recap!
Thanks to Dmytro Hlotenko and Diana Alfaro for photos of their community events.
— eli
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