AWS News Blog
Author: Danilo Poccia
Danilo works with startups and companies of any size to support their innovation. In his role as Chief Evangelist (EMEA) at Amazon Web Services, he leverages his experience to help people bring their ideas to life, focusing on serverless architectures and event-driven programming, and on the technical and business impact of machine learning and edge computing. He is the author of AWS Lambda in Action from Manning.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Strands Agents, AWS Transform, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, AWS CodeBuild, and more (May 19, 2025)
Many events are taking place in this period! Last week I was at the AI Week in Italy. This week I’ll be in Zurich for the AWS Community Day – Switzerland. On May 22, you can join us remotely for AWS Cloud Infrastructure Day to learn about cutting-edge advances across compute, AI/ML, storage, networking, serverless […]
Amazon Nova Premier: Our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation
Nova Premier is designed to excel at complex tasks requiring deep context understanding, multistep planning, and coordination across tools and data sources. It has capabilities for processing text, images, and videos while also serving as a teacher model for distilling smaller, more efficient models for production use.
Llama 4 models from Meta now available in Amazon Bedrock serverless
Meta’s newest AI models, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock, offering natively multimodal capabilities with enhanced reasoning, image understanding, and extended context processing for enterprise applications across multiple industries.
Writer Palmyra X5 and X4 foundation models are now available in Amazon Bedrock
Writer’s Palmyra X5 and X4 models in Amazon Bedrock features extensive context windows and enterprise-grade security for building sophisticated AI applications across multiple industries.
Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like voice conversations for generative AI applications
Amazon Nova Sonic is a new foundation model on Amazon Bedrock that streamlines speech-enabled applications by offering unified speech recognition and generation capabilities, enabling natural conversations with contextual understanding while eliminating the need for multiple fragmented models.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q CLI agent, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and more (March 10, 2025)
As the weather improves in the Northern hemisphere, there are more opportunities to learn and connect. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and we can meet at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft where we’ll dive into the world of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demos and real-world implementations. […]
Get insights from multimodal content with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, now generally available
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation streamlines the extraction of valuable insights from unstructured multimodal content (documents, images, audio, and videos) by providing a simplified way to build intelligent document processing and media analysis solutions, while offering both standard and custom output configurations through blueprints.
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 […]