AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Amazon Bedrock, CodeCatalyst updates, SageMaker with MLflow, and extra (June 24, 2024)

This week, I had the chance to attempt the brand new Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet mannequin in Amazon Bedrock simply earlier than it launched, and I used to be actually impressed by its pace and accuracy!

It was additionally the week of AWS Summit Japan. JAWS-UG, a Japanese AWS consumer group, held numerous classes with AWS Heroes and Group Builders on the AWS Group Lounge, and plenty of builders participated. Dr. Werner Vogels, a keynote speaker on the Japan Summit, had his first assembly with the Japanese group since 2020. Following the AWS Summit Japan, there was a full of life occasion on Saturday the place AWS group leaders from the Northeast Asia area (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Korea) all gathered collectively in a single place.

Final week’s launches
With many new capabilities, from suggestions on the dimensions of your Amazon Relational Database Providers (Amazon RDS) databases to new built-in transformations in AWS Glue, right here’s what acquired my consideration:

Amazon Bedrock – Now helps Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and compressed embeddings from Cohere Embed.

AWS CodeArtifact – With assist for Rust packages with Cargo, builders can now retailer and entry their Rust libraries (often known as crates).

Amazon CodeCatalyst – Many updates from this unified software program growth service. Now you can assign points in CodeCatalyst to Amazon Q and direct it to work with supply code hosted in GitHub Cloud and Bitbucket Cloud and ask Amazon Q to research points and advocate granular duties. These duties can then be individually assigned to customers or to Amazon Q itself. Now you can additionally use Amazon Q to assist choose the most effective blueprint in your wants. Now you can securely retailer, publish, and share Maven, Python, and NuGet packages. You too can hyperlink a difficulty to different points. This permits clients to hyperlink points in CodeCatalyst as blocked by, duplicate of, associated to, or blocks one other subject. Now you can configure a single CodeBuild webhook at group or enterprise degree to obtain occasions from all repositories in your organizations, as a substitute of making webhooks for every particular person repository. Lastly, now you can add a default IAM function to an surroundings.

Amazon EC2 – C7g and R7g cases (powered by AWS Graviton3 processors) at the moment are obtainable in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and South America (São Paulo) Areas. C7i-flex cases at the moment are obtainable in US East (Ohio) Area.

AWS Compute Optimizer – Now offers rightsizing suggestions for Amazon RDS MySQL, and RDS PostgreSQL. Extra data on this Cloud Monetary Administration weblog publish.

Amazon OpenSearch Service – With JSON Internet Token (JWT) authentication and authorization, it’s now simpler to combine id suppliers and isolate tenants in a multi-tenant software.

Amazon SageMaker – Now helps you handle machine studying (ML) experiments and your entire ML lifecycle with a totally managed MLflow functionality.

AWS Glue – The serverless information integration service now provides 13 new built-in transforms: flag duplicates in column, format Cellphone Quantity, format case, fill with mode, flag duplicate rows, take away duplicates, month title, iIs even, cryptographic hash, decrypt, encrypt, int to IP, and IP to int.

Amazon MWAA – Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now helps customized domains for the Airflow internet server, permitting to make use of personal internet servers with load balancers, customized DNS entries, or proxies to level customers to a user-friendly internet tackle.

For a full listing of AWS bulletins, make sure to keep watch over the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS information
Listed here are some extra tasks, weblog posts, and information objects that you simply may discover fascinating:

AWS re:Inforce 2024 re:Cap – A abstract of our annual, immersive, cloud-security studying occasion by my colleague Wojtek.

3 ways Amazon Q Developer agent for code transformation accelerates Java upgrades – This publish provides fascinating particulars on how Amazon Q Developer handles main model upgrades of standard frameworks, changing deprecated API calls in your behalf, and explainability on code modifications.

5 methods Amazon Q simplifies AWS CloudFormation growth – For template code era, querying CloudFormation useful resource necessities, explaining present template code, understanding deployment choices and points, and querying CloudFormation documentation.

Bettering air high quality with generative AI – A pleasant answer that makes use of synthetic intelligence (AI) to standardize air high quality information, addressing the air high quality information integration drawback of low-cost sensors.

Deploy a Slack gateway for Amazon Bedrock – An answer bringing the ability of generative AI instantly into your Slack workspace.

An agent-based simulation of Amazon’s inbound provide chain – Simulating your entire US inbound provide chain, together with the “first-mile” of distribution and monitoring the motion of tons of of thousands and thousands of particular person merchandise via the community.

AWS CloudFormation Linter (cfn-lint) v1 – This improve is especially vital as a result of it converts from utilizing the CloudFormation spec to utilizing CloudFormation registry useful resource supplier schemas.

A practical approach to using generative AI in the SDLC – Learn the way an AI assistant like Amazon Q Developer helps my colleague Jenna determine what to construct and how you can construct it.

AWS open supply information and updates – My colleague Ricardo writes about open supply tasks, instruments, and occasions from the AWS Group. Take a look at Ricardo’s page for the newest updates.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join upcoming AWS occasions:

AWS Summits – Be part of free on-line and in-person occasions that carry the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. This week, you may be part of the AWS Summit in Washington, DC, June 26–27. Study right here about future AWS Summit occasions occurring in your space.

AWS Group Days – Be part of community-led conferences that characteristic technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and business leaders from all over the world. This week there are AWS Group Days in Switzerland (June 27), Sri Lanka (June 27), and the Gen AI Edition in Ahmedabad, India (June 29).

Browse all upcoming AWS led in-person and digital occasions and developer-focused occasions.

That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

— Danilo

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