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In this post, we highlight the advanced data augmentation techniques and performance improvements in Amazon Bedrock Model Distillation with Meta’s Llama model family. This technique transfers knowledge from larger, more capable foundation models (FMs) that act as teachers to smaller, more efficient models (students), creating specialized models that excel at specific tasks.

Modern organizations face challenges managing secrets across multiple environments, leading to security risks and operational complexities due to secrets sprawl across various storage locations and systems. Pulumi ESC provides a comprehensive solution by acting as a secure broker between applications and secrets providers, offering centralized control, robust Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and seamless integration with cloud services like AWS Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store, ultimately helping organizations enhance security while maintaining developer productivity.

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.

In today’s healthcare landscape, protecting electronic health record (EHR) systems from unplanned outages due to ransomware, natural disasters, or even human error is becoming more important than ever, as any downtime can affect care delivery and put patients at risk. And, it’s not just care delivery that is affected. The Ponemon Institute estimates that healthcare [...]

Introduction Data pipelines are essential for modern data-driven companies to gain critical business insights. However, data pipelines commonly fail when new files or datasets from data sources do not conform to the expected schema, leading to downstream job failures, workflow breakdowns, and delayed insights. Additionally, fluctuating data volumes, from a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes, [...]

Today, we’re excited to introduce a new unified scheduling feature that simplifies this process. SageMaker Unified Studio allows you to create ETL flows using a visual interface and write SQL analytics queries using query books. In this post, we walk through how to schedule your visual ETL flows and query books with just a few clicks, explore the underlying architecture, and demonstrate how this feature can streamline your data workflow automation.

Amazon QuickSight powers data-driven organizations with unified business intelligence (BI) at hyperscale. With Amazon Q in QuickSight, business analysts and business users can use natural language to build, discover, and share meaningful insights in seconds, turning insights into impact faster. Join us for online and in-person events in May 2025.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud computing, developers, and architects face unprecedented challenges. These challenges include designing, implementing, and maintaining robust cloud infrastructures. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is the gold standard for building secure, efficient, and optimized cloud solutions. Traditionally, complying with this framework required deep expertise and manual analysis. Now, Amazon Q Developer [...]

Introduction: AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation. As of June 1, 2023, AWS CDK version 1 is no longer supported. To avoid the potential issues that come with using an outdated version and to take advantage of [...]

AWS launched Network Flow Monitor at re:Invent on December 1st, 2024, a new Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring feature that offers network performance monitoring across AWS managed services. With Network Flow Monitor, you can get near real-time visibility into network traffic between compute resources (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon [...]