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New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in January 2025
In January 2025, we launched 17 new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder including two new AWS Jam Journeys, additional language availability for Exam Prep materials in support of AWS Certified AI Practitioner and AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer certification exams, as well as a new AWS Builder Lab, Sustainability Strategies with AWS Compute Workload, designed to help identify sustainability strategies using AWS services and tools to optimize usage and costs in an AWS environment.
Top Architecture Blog Posts of 2024
Well, it’s been another historic year! We’ve watched in awe as the use of real-world generative AI has changed the tech landscape, and while we at the Architecture Blog happily participated, we also made every effort to stay true to our channel’s original scope, and your readership this last year has proven that decision was [...]
Deploy DeepSeek-R1 distilled Llama models with Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import
In this post, we demonstrate how to deploy distilled versions of DeepSeek-R1 models using Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. We focus on importing the variants currently supported DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B, which offer an optimal balance between performance and resource efficiency.
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Michael Shao, 02/03/20252024 marked a significant year for Amazon DynamoDB, with advancements in security, performance, cost-effectiveness, and integration capabilities. This year-in-review post highlights key developments that have enhanced the DynamoDB experience for our customers. Whether you’re a long-time DynamoDB user or just getting started, this post will guide you through the most impactful changes of 2024 and how they can help you build reliable, faster, and more secure applications. We’ve sorted the post by alphabetical feature areas, listing releases in reverse chronological order.
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Sushovan Basak, 02/03/2025In this post, we walk you through a solution to aggregate RDS orphan snapshots across accounts and AWS Regions, enabling automation and organization-wide visibility to optimize cloud spend based on data-driven insights. Cross-region copied snapshots, Aurora cluster copied snapshots and shared snapshots are out of scope for this solution. The solution uses AWS Step Functions orchestration together with AWS Lambda functions to generate orphan snapshot metadata across your organization. Generated metadata information is stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and transformed into an Amazon Athena table by AWS Glue. Amazon QuickSight uses the Athena table to generate orphan snapshot insights.
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Julia Bernstein, 02/03/2025We are excited to present the Top 10 QuickSight Experts on the QuickSight Community for 2024! This diverse, global ensemble of business intelligence (BI) professionals has been instrumental in elevating the data visualization landscape, guiding countless others on their BI and generative BI journeys.
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AWS Public Sector Blog Team, 02/03/2025PointHealth AI, a healthcare technology (HealthTech) startup, and Protege, a data innovator specializing in artificial intelligence (AI)-ready datasets, are working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to combine de-identified demographic and clinical information from millions of patient records, in order to deliver more precise and informed treatment recommendations. This data-informed strategy aims to give doctors the information they need to prescribe the right care for a patient’s unique needs—on the first try.
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AWS Public Sector Blog Team, 02/03/2025Learn more about the announcements, innovations, and customer success stories from AWS re:Invent to inspire EdTech innovation in 2025.
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AWS Public Sector Blog Team, 02/03/2025Learn how HubbleIQ uses generative AI on AWS to enhance its autonomous IT support services and democratize connectivity in a digital world.
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Maria Fassinger, 02/03/2025EDUCAUSE and the Shared Assessments working group collaborated with Internet2 and REN-ISAC, to create the Higher Education Community Vendor Assessment Toolkit (HECVAT). EDUCAUSE is a non-profit association committed to advancing the use of technology and data in higher education. The HECVAT is a third-party, vendor questionnaire framework designed for higher education institutions to evaluate the security and privacy posture of cloud and technology providers. It is intended to centralize vendor security and compliance information for ease of use. Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers both the HECVAT Lite version and Full version to customers on-demand.
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Angel Pizarro, 02/03/2025Exciting updates to AWS Batch on Amazon EKS! Configurable namespaces, persistent volume claims, and more. Check out our blog post to see how these features can help manage your complex containerized workloads.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024)Donnie Prakoso, 02/03/2025Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared [...]
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aostan, 02/03/2025This post is written by Ballu Singh, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, Sandeep Rohilla, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS and Pranjal Gururani, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. AWS customers are able to proactively reserve future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (known as future-dated CRs) to get capacity assurance for workloads and events. Because reservations can be created weeks [...]