Artificial Intelligence

Dan Ferguson

Author: Dan Ferguson

Dan Ferguson is a Solutions Architect at AWS, based in New York, USA. As a machine learning services expert, Dan works to support customers on their journey to integrating ML workflows efficiently, effectively, and sustainably.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Today, we are excited to announce the day zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. In this post, we walk through the model architecture and key capabilities of Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, explore the enterprise use cases it unlocks, and show you how to deploy and run inference using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart.

Use-case based deployments on SageMaker JumpStart

We’re excited to announce the launch of Amazon SageMaker JumpStart optimized deployments. SageMaker JumpStart improved deployments address the need for rich and straightforward deployment customization on SageMaker JumpStart by offering pre-defined deployment configurations, designed for specific use cases. Customers maintain the same level of visibility into the details of their proposed deployments, but now deployments are optimized for their specific use case and performance constraint.

Building custom model provider for Strands Agents with LLMs hosted on SageMaker AI endpoints

This post demonstrates how to build custom model parsers for Strands agents when working with LLMs hosted on SageMaker that don’t natively support the Bedrock Messages API format. We’ll walk through deploying Llama 3.1 with SGLang on SageMaker using awslabs/ml-container-creator, then implementing a custom parser to integrate it with Strands agents.

Amazon SageMaker AI in 2025, a year in review part 1: Flexible Training Plans and improvements to price performance for inference workloads

In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI saw dramatic improvements to core infrastructure offerings along four dimensions: capacity, price performance, observability, and usability. In this series of posts, we discuss these various improvements and their benefits. In Part 1, we discuss capacity improvements with the launch of Flexible Training Plans. We also describe improvements to price performance for inference workloads. In Part 2, we discuss enhancements made to observability, model customization, and model hosting.

Amazon SageMaker AI in 2025, a year in review part 2: Improved observability and enhanced features for SageMaker AI model customization and hosting

In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI made several improvements designed to help you train, tune, and host generative AI workloads. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed Flexible Training Plans and price performance improvements made to inference components. In this post, we discuss enhancements made to observability, model customization, and model hosting. These improvements facilitate a whole new class of customer use cases to be hosted on SageMaker AI.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B MoE model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Today we’re excited to announce that the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B model with  3B active parameters is now generally available in the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart model catalog. You can accelerate innovation and deliver tangible business value with Nemotron 3 Nano on Amazon Web Services (AWS) without having to manage model deployment complexities. You can power your generative AI applications with Nemotron capabilities using the managed deployment capabilities offered by SageMaker JumpStart.

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Streamline AI operations with the Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway reference architecture

In this post, we introduce the Multi-Provider Generative AI Gateway reference architecture, which provides guidance for deploying LiteLLM into an AWS environment to streamline the management and governance of production generative AI workloads across multiple model providers. This centralized gateway solution addresses common enterprise challenges including provider fragmentation, decentralized governance, operational complexity, and cost management by offering a unified interface that supports Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker AI, and external providers while maintaining comprehensive security, monitoring, and control capabilities.

SambaSafety automates custom R workload, improving driver safety with Amazon SageMaker and AWS Step Functions

At SambaSafety, their mission is to promote safer communities by reducing risk through data insights. Since 1998, SambaSafety has been the leading North American provider of cloud–based mobility risk management software for organizations with commercial and non–commercial drivers. SambaSafety serves more than 15,000 global employers and insurance carriers with driver risk and compliance monitoring, online […]

Boomi uses BYOC on Amazon SageMaker Studio to scale custom Markov chain implementation

This post is co-written with Swagata Ashwani, Senior Data Scientist at Boomi. Boomi is an enterprise-level software as a service (SaaS) independent software vendor (ISV) that creates developer enablement tooling for software engineers. These tools integrate via API into Boomi’s core service offering. In this post, we discuss how Boomi used the bring-your-own-container (BYOC) approach […]