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Storage, storage, storage! Last week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Simple 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 stay 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 stay stream on March 14, 2024
In case you missed the stay stream, you’ll be able to watch the recording. We’ll additionally replace the AWS Pi Day 2024 submit on neighborhood.aws this week with present notes and session clips.
Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that received my consideration:
Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku mannequin is now out there 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 out there in Amazon Bedrock. Check out Channy’s submit for extra particulars. In addition, my colleague Mike exhibits tips on how to get began with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on neighborhood.aws.
Up to 40 % sooner stack creation with AWS CloudFormation — AWS CloudFormation now creates stacks as much as 40 % 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, dashing up the entire course of. The new occasion additionally provides customers extra management to shortcut their stack creation course of in situations the place a useful resource consistency test is pointless. To study extra, learn this AWS DevOps Blog submit.
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 SageMaker JumpStart. Users can now register these fashions to the SageMaker Model 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. Check the Developer Guide for extra data.
For a full checklist of AWS bulletins, you’ll want to regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.
Other AWS information
Here are some extra information gadgets, open supply tasks, and Twitch exhibits that you simply would possibly discover fascinating:
Build 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 facets of generative AI and invite visitor audio system to demo their work. In right this moment’s episode, visitor Martyn Kilbryde confirmed tips on how to construct a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Check out present notes and the complete 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 % sooner with the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch than writing to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) occasion storage. You can now additionally save, load, and delete checkpoints straight from PyTorch Lightning coaching jobs to Amazon S3. Check out the open supply mission on GitHub.
AWS open supply information and updates — My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply e-newsletter through which he highlights new open supply tasks, instruments, and demos from the AWS Community.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Check 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’re round, go to AWS at sales space #708 to discover generative AI demos and get impressed by AWS, AWS Partners, and buyer specialists on the most recent choices in generative AI, robotics, and superior computing on the in-booth theatre. Check out the AWS classes and request 1:1 conferences.
AWS Summits — It’s AWS Summit season once more! The first one is Paris (April 3), adopted by Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 10–11), London (April 24), Berlin (May 15–16), and Seoul (May 16–17). AWS Summits are a collection of free on-line and in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS.
AWS re:Inforce — Join 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 identification. Connect with the AWS groups that construct the safety instruments and meet AWS prospects to find out about their safety journeys.
You can browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.
That’s all for this week. Check again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
— Antje
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