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
At AWS re:Invent, Amazon announced a number of new capabilities for generative AI and machine learning. New evaluations for Amazon Bedrock Two new evaluation capabilities have been added to Amazon Bedrock, which is the company’s platform for building generative AI applications using foundation models. Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now offer support for RAG evaluation (still … 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
AWS has created two new certifications in AI to help job seekers who are trying to secure jobs that require those in-demand skills. According to a study from AWS, jobs that require AI skills offer a 47% higher salary in IT, 43% higher in sales and marketing, and 42% higher in finance. The first certification … 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
The online learning platform Udemy has announced that in collaboration with AWS, it is launching a new course for generative AI that is targeted towards business leaders. The six-week cohort learning program, Unlocking GenAI Opportunities with AWS, will teach leaders strategies on how to make the most of generative AI in their organizations. It is … continue reading
A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the moves across the industry this past month. Baskar Sridharan joins AWS as VP of AI/ML Services and Infrastructure He will be leading the team responsible for AI products such as Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock. … 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
Wind River has announced that its development platform Wind River Studio Developer is now available on AWS. According to Wind River, this new partnership is of particular interest to those developing software-defined vehicles. This is because it gives customers the “benefits of cloud-scale automated build and test for safety-critical embedded edge platforms,” the company wrote … continue reading
