Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

And that’s a wrap!

After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You can now watch keynotes and […]

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Now Available – Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2)

Equipped with up to eight AMD Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), AMD EPYC (Milan) processors with up to 192 cores, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), up to 8 TiB of SSD-based instance storage, and up to 2 TiB of memory, the new F2 instances are available in two sizes, and are ready to accelerate your genomics, multimedia […]

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Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace

Today, we are announcing Buy with AWS, a new way to discover and purchase solutions available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner sites. You can use Buy with AWS to accelerate and streamline your product procurement process on websites outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This feature provides you the ability to find, try, and […]

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Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes to help data scientists and developers of all skill sets to get started training and fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) in minutes with state-of-the-art performance. They can now access optimized recipes for training and fine-tuning popular publicly available FMs such as Llama 3.1 405B, Llama […]

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AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators

Building on the work that we and our partners have been doing for many years, Amazon is committing up to $100 million in cloud technology and technical resources to help existing, dedicated learning organizations reach more learners by creating new and innovative digital learning solutions, all as part of the AWS Education Equity Initiative. The […]

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Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight

Today, we announced a new capability of Amazon Q in QuickSight that helps users perform scenario analyses to find answers to complex problems quickly. This AI-assisted data analysis experience helps business users find answers to complex problems by guiding them step-by-step through in-depth data analysis—suggesting analytical approaches, automatically analyzing data, and summarizing findings with suggested […]

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Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas

As a data scientist, I’ve experienced firsthand the challenges of making machine learning (ML) accessible to business analysts, marketing analysts, data analysts, and data engineers who are experts in their domains without ML experience. That’s why I’m particularly excited about today’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) announcement that Amazon Q Developer is now available in Amazon […]

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Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)

Today, we’re announcing the preview of multimodal toxicity detection with image support in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This new capability detects and filters out undesirable image content in addition to text, helping you improve user experiences and manage model outputs in your generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock Guardrails helps you implement safeguards for generative AI applications […]

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Amazon Q Business is adding new workflow automation capability and 50+ action integrations

Amazon Q Business, a generative AI–powered assistant designed to enhance productivity across various business applications, became generally available earlier this year. Since its launch, Amazon Q Business has been helping customers tackle the challenges of improving workforce productivity. In this post, we have two announcements for Amazon Q Business: AI-powered workflow automation in Amazon Q Business (coming […]

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