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How AWS powered Prime Day 2024 for record-breaking sales

Dive into the numbers from Amazon’s record-breaking Prime Day 2024, from AI chip deployment to the staggering transaction volumes across AWS services like Amazon DynamoDB, Aurora, CloudFront, and more.

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Mithra, Amazon Titan Image Generator v2, AWS GenAI Lofts, and more (August 12, 2024)

When Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of AI and Data, was an intern at Amazon in 2005, Dr. Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon, was his first manager. Nineteen years later, the two shared a stage at the VivaTech Conference to reflect on Amazon’s history of innovation—from pioneering the pay-as-you-go model with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q Business, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon WorkSpaces update, and more (Aug 5, 2024)

Summer is reaching its peak for some of us around the globe, and many are heading out to their favorite holiday destinations to enjoy some time off. I just came back from holidays myself and I couldn’t help thinking about the key role that artificial intelligence (AI) plays in our modern world to help us […]

Plan your advertising campaigns with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, now generally available

Advertisers can now leverage first-party data with Amazon Marketing Cloud on AWS Clean Rooms, enabling differentiated insights, audience discovery, and effective campaign planning and measurement while maintaining data privacy.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Llama 3.1, Mistral Large 2, AWS Step Functions, AWS Certifications update, and more (July 29, 2024)

I’m always amazed by the talent and passion of our Amazon Web Services (AWS) community members, especially in their efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech community. Last week, I had the honor of speaking at the AWS User Group Women Bay Area meetup, led by Natalie. This group is dedicated to […]

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Announcing Llama 3.1 405B, 70B, and 8B models from Meta in Amazon Bedrock

The Llama 3.1 models are a collection of 8B, 70B, and 405B parameter size multilingual models that demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of industry benchmarks, offering new capabilities for your generative AI applications.