Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances

Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances. C8g instances are AWS Graviton4 based and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. Also Graviton4 based, […]

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Introducing Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock: A new generation of multimodal vision and lightweight models

In July, we announced the availability of Llama 3.1 models in Amazon Bedrock. Generative AI technology is improving at incredible speed and today, we are excited to introduce the new Llama 3.2 models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 3.2 offers multimodal vision and lightweight models representing Meta’s latest advancement in large language models (LLMs) […]

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AWS AI Agent for Software Development Takes on More Complex Tasks

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released an update to its Amazon Q Developer agent for software development that benchmark tests show can resolve 51% more tasks. Source: DevOps.com

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System Initiative Makes SaaS Platform for Modeling DevOps Workflows Generally Available

System Initiative today made generally available an automation platform that creates a programmable model of an IT environment to provide an abstraction layer that enables software engineering to employ reactive code to manage IT infrastructure. Source: DevOps.com

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Harness Embeds AI Agents Into Core DevOps Platform

Harness today unfurled a bevy of additions to its portfolio that include artificial intelligence (AI) agents that are deeply embedded into DevOps workflows. Source: DevOps.com

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Grafana Labs Looks to Make Composing Observability Platforms Simpler

Grafana Labs, today at its ObservabilityCon event, unfurled a raft of additional offerings, including public previews of Explore Traces and Explore Profiles tools that make it simple to drill down into data without having to master a specific query language. In addition, the company revealed it has acquired TailCtrl to drive the development of Adaptive […]

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OpenTelemetry Isn’t the Hero We Need: Here’s Why it’s Failing our Stack

OpenTelemetry promised to be a unified standard that would make it easier for everyone to collect and correlate traces, logs and metrics from distributed systems. Sounds like a dream, right? Well, here is the hard truth: OpenTelemetry is only satisfactory. When I compare it to deeper tracing technologies such as eBPF, OpenTelemetry feels bloated, inefficient, […]

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SBOM as a Cornerstone of Secure Software Development

By providing transparency into the software supply chain, an SBOM helps organizations identify and manage vulnerabilities in third-party and open-source components. Source: DevOps.com

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Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock

Today, we are announcing the availability of AI21 Labs’ powerful new Jamba 1.5 family of large language models (LLMs) in Amazon Bedrock. These models represent a significant advancement in long-context language capabilities, delivering speed, efficiency, and performance across a wide range of applications. The Jamba 1.5 family of models includes Jamba 1.5 Mini and Jamba […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 X8g Instances, Amazon Q generative SQL for Amazon Redshift, AWS SDK for Swift, and more (Sep 23, 2024)

AWS Community Days have been in full swing around the world. I am going to put the spotlight on AWS Community Day Argentina where Jeff Barr delivered the keynote, talks and shared his nuggets of wisdom with the community, including a fun story of how he once followed Bill Gates to a McDonald’s! I encourage […]

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