AWS News Blog

Category: Amazon Machine Learning

Build generative AI apps using AWS Step Functions and Amazon Bedrock

Today we are announcing two new optimized integrations for AWS Step Functions with Amazon Bedrock. Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps developers build distributed applications, automate processes, orchestrate microservices, and create data and machine learning (ML) pipelines. In September, we made available Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build and scale generative […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup – EC2 DL2q instances, PartyRock, Amplify’s 6th birthday, and more – November 20, 2023

Last week I saw astonishing number of new feature and service launches. There were so many updates that we decided to publish a weekly roundup again. This continues the same innovative pace of the previous week as we are getting closer to AWS re:Invent 2023. Our News Blog team is also finalizing new blog posts […]

Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Meta’s Llama 2 Chat 13B model

Update: November 29, 2023 — Today, we’re adding the Llama 2 70B model in Amazon Bedrock, in addition to the already available Llama 2 13B model. As its name implies, the Llama 2 70B model has been trained on larger datasets than the Llama 2 13B model. If you’re wondering when to use which model, […]

Bedrock Cohere Embed model

Amazon Bedrock now provides access to Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models

Cohere provides text generation and representation models powering business applications to generate text, summarize, search, cluster, classify, and utilize Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Today, we’re announcing the availability of Cohere Command Light and Cohere Embed English and multilingual models on Amazon Bedrock. They’re joining the already available Cohere Command model. Amazon Bedrock is a fully […]

Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads

Update on Nov 25, 2024 – Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML can now be provisioned in a matter of minutes, can be extended, and support durations of up to six months. Capacity Blocks can also be used to provision P4d, P5e, and Trn1 instances in addition to P5 instances. To learn more, visit Amazon […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup – CodeWhisperer, CodeCatalyst, RDS, Route53, and more – October 24, 2023

The entire AWS News Blog team is fully focused on writing posts to announce the new services and features during our annual customer conference in Las Vegas, AWS re:Invent! And while we prepare content for you to read, our services teams continue to innovate. Here is my summary of last week’s launches. Last week’s launches […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Control Tower, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Service, and More (October 9, 2023)

As the Northern Hemisphere enjoys early fall and pumpkins take over the local farmers markets and coffee flavors here in the United States, we’re also just 50 days away from re:Invent 2023! But before we officially enter pre:Invent sea­­son, let’s have a look at some of last week’s exciting news and announcements. Last Week’s Launches […]

AWS Weekly Roundup

AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon Bedrock Is Now Generally Available, Attend AWS Innovate Online, and More – Oct 2, 2023

Last week I attended the AWS Summit Johannesburg. This was the first summit to be hosted in my own country and my own city since 2019 so it was very special to have the opportunity to attend. It was great to get to meet with so many of our customers and hear how they are […]