Piling on to the list of announcements from Amazon at AWS re:Invent, the company announced Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models that promise “frontier intelligence and industry leading price performance.” They can handle typical generative AI tasks, such as analyzing documents and videos, understanding charts, generating video content, or building advanced AI agents. “Whether … continue reading
At AWS re:Invent today, Amazon announced updates to its generative AI assistant for software developers, Amazon Q Developer. There are three new agents that automate unit testing, documentation, and code reviews. Developers can make it generate a test by typing “/test” in the chat window or highlighting a specific block of code to test. It … continue reading
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new capabilities related to observability to help developers gain more visibility into their applications. The company is introducing enhanced observability capabilities for container workloads running on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). According to AWS, this announcement ties in with Container Insights, which was a capability introduced … continue reading
Amazon hosted its annual AWS Summit today in NYC where it announced several updates related to its generative AI offerings. Here are the highlights from today’s event: AWS App Studio now in preview AWS App Studio is a no-code platform for building applications using generative AI, without having to have any software development knowledge. For … continue reading
Sonar has announced a new integration of its code review tool, SonarCloud, with Amazon CodeCatalyst to help improve the development process for cloud-based applications. Amazon CodeCatalyst is a platform that provides blueprints for setting up software development projects in AWS, including setting up project tools, managing CI/CD pipelines, provisioning and configuring development environments, and more. … continue reading
AWS has just announced that Amazon Q is now generally available. Amazon Q is a generative AI assistant designed for business use and it comes in two flavors: Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business. The developer version can assist with tasks such as code generation, testing, debugging, while the business version can be used … continue reading
Amazon has announced several major updates to Amazon Bedrock, its platform that provides developers with access to foundation models (FMs) from AI companies such as AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon. Amazon Bedrock is a managed service, handling the underlying infrastructure for these models so that developers can build generative … continue reading
AWS announced updates to Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock, which is a new capability announced at AWS re:Invent 2023 that allows organizations to provide information from their own private data sources to improve relevancy of responses. According to AWS, there have been significant improvements since the launch, such as the introduction of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible … continue reading
Amazon re:Invent continues today, and so does Amazon’s list of announcements. Here are some of the announcements the company made today at the event: Amazon Q AI assistant announced Amazon Q is a new generative AI-based assistant that is designed to help employees complete tasks related to their jobs. For example, it can help a … continue reading
AWS re:Invent kicked off today, and Amazon has already made a number of announcements, including product updates, performance improvements, and better integrations among services. Here are some highlights from the event so far: Cost Optimization Hub provides recommendations for cost saving This is a new section in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. It … continue reading
AWS re:Invent kicked off today, and along with a number of announcements from Amazon itself, a number of third-party software providers also announced new integrations with AWS, partnerships, or other features that AWS customers can utilize. Here are a few highlights from the event: Salesforce and AWS expand partnership The two companies have been working … continue reading
Amazon is releasing a new data management service to enable collaboration on data between different areas of an organization. Amazon DataZone enables cataloging, discovery, analysis, sharing, and governance of data between its producers and consumers. The data producers provide the data catalog with structured data assets, and then consumers can subscribe to those assets and … continue reading
