Last Friday was International Women’s Day (IWD), and I wish to take a second to understand the wonderful women within the cloud computing house which might be breaking the glass ceiling by reaching technical management positions and provoking others to go and construct, as our CTO Werner Vogels says.
Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that bought my consideration in the course of the earlier week.
Amazon Bedrock – Now helps Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet foundational mannequin. Claude 3 Sonnet is 2 occasions sooner and has the identical degree of intelligence as Anthropic’s highest-performing fashions, Claude 2 and Claude 2.1. My favourite attribute is that Sonnet is healthier at producing JSON outputs, making it easier for builders to construct purposes. It additionally affords imaginative and prescient capabilities. You can study extra about this basis mannequin (FM) in the submit that Channy wrote early final week.
AWS re:Post – Launched final week! AWS re:Post Live is a weekly Twitch livestream present that gives a manner for the neighborhood to succeed in out to specialists, ask questions, and enhance their abilities. The present livestreams each Monday at 11 AM PT.
Amazon CloudWatch – Now streams each day metrics on CloudWatch metric streams. You can use metric streams to ship a stream of close to real-time metrics to a vacation spot of your selection.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) – Announced the final availability of latest metallic cases, C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd. These cases have as much as 3.8 TB of native NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are constructed on prime of the AWS Nitro System.
AWS WAF – Now helps configurable analysis time home windows for request aggregation with rate-based guidelines. Previously, AWS WAF was mounted to a 5-minute window when aggregating and evaluating the foundations. Now you possibly can choose home windows of 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes, relying in your utility use case.
AWS Partners – Last week, we introduced the AWS Generative AI Competency Partners. This new specialization options AWS Partners which have proven technical proficiency and a monitor report of profitable tasks with generative synthetic intelligence (AI) powered by AWS.
For a full listing of AWS bulletins, be sure you control the What’s New at AWS web page.
Other AWS information
Some different updates and information that you could have missed:
One of the articles that caught my consideration not too long ago compares totally different design approaches for constructing serverless microservices. This article, written by Luca Mezzalira and Matt Diamond, compares the three most typical designs for serverless workloads and explains the advantages and challenges of utilizing one over the opposite.
And in case you are within the serverless house, you shouldn’t miss the Serverless Office Hours, which airs stay each Tuesday at 10 AM PT. Join the AWS Serverless Developer Advocates for a weekly chat on the newest from the serverless house.
The Official AWS Podcast – Listen every week for updates on the newest AWS information and deep dives into thrilling use instances. There are additionally official AWS podcasts in a number of languages. Check out those in French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
AWS Open Source News and Updates – This is a e-newsletter curated by my colleague Ricardo to carry you the newest open supply tasks, posts, occasions, and extra.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Check your calendars and join these AWS occasions:
AWS Summit season is about to begin. The first ones are Paris (April 3), Amsterdam (April 9), and London (April 24). AWS Summits are free occasions that you could attend in particular person and study in regards to the newest in AWS expertise.
GOTO x AWS EDA Day London 2024 – On May 14, AWS companions with GOTO carry to you the event-driven structure (EDA) day convention. At this convention, you’ll get to fulfill specialists within the EDA house and hearken to very attention-grabbing talks from clients, specialists, and AWS.
You can browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions right here.
That’s all for this week. Check again subsequent Monday for an additional Week in Review!
— Marcia
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