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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 full of 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 group.aws this week with present notes and session clips.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that obtained my consideration:
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku mannequin is now obtainable in Amazon Bedrock — Anthropic 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 publish for extra particulars. As well as, my colleague Mike reveals how one can get began with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on group.aws.
As much as 40 p.c sooner stack creation with AWS CloudFormation — AWS CloudFormation now creates stacks as much as 40 p.c sooner and has a brand new occasion referred to as CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE. With this occasion, CloudFormation begins parallel creation of dependent assets inside a stack, rushing 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 verify is pointless. To study 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 drawback 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. Examine the Developer Information for extra data.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, make sure you regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.
Different AWS information
Listed below are some extra information gadgets, open supply initiatives, and Twitch reveals that you simply may 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 talk about totally different features of generative AI and invite visitor audio system to demo their work. In at present’s episode, visitor Martyn Kilbryde confirmed how one can construct a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Try present notes and the complete listing 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 sooner 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 immediately 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 publication during which he highlights new open supply initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Neighborhood.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Examine your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024 — The NVIDIA GTC 2024 developer convention is going down 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 specialists 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 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 may browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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