Optimized for low-latency workloads, Mistral Small now available in Amazon Bedrock

by Azalio tdshpsk | May 24, 2024 | AWS

Today, I am happy to announce that the Mistral Small foundation model (FM) from Mistral AI is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This a fast-follow to our recent announcements of Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B in March, and Mistral Large in April. You can now...

AWS Weekly Roundup – Application Load Balancer IPv6, Amazon S3 pricing update, Amazon EC2 Flex instances, and more (May 20, 2024)

by Azalio tdshpsk | May 20, 2024 | AWS

AWS Summit season is in full swing around the world, with last week’s events in Bengaluru, Berlin, and  Seoul, where my blog colleague Channy delivered one of the keynotes. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Amazon S3 will no longer...

New compute-optimized (C7i-flex) Amazon EC2 Flex instances

by Azalio tdshpsk | May 14, 2024 | AWS

The vast majority of applications don’t run run the CPU flat-out at 100% utilization continuously. Take a web application, for instance. It typically fluctuates between periods of high and low demand, but hardly ever uses a server’s compute at full capacity. CPU...

AWS Weekly Roundup: New capabilities in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Amplify Gen 2, Amazon RDS and more (May 13, 2024)

by Azalio tdshpsk | May 13, 2024 | AWS

AWS Summit is in full swing around the world, with the most recent one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here is a sneak peek of the AWS staff and ASEAN community members at the Developer Lounge booth. It featured AWS Community speakers giving lightning talks on serverless,...

A new generative engine and three voices are now generally available on Amazon Polly

by Azalio tdshpsk | May 9, 2024 | AWS

Today, we are announcing the general availability of the generative engine of Amazon Polly with three voices: Ruth and Matthew in American English and Amy in British English. The new generative engine was trained with publicly available and proprietary data, a variety...

Build RAG and agent-based generative AI applications with new Amazon Titan Text Premier model, available in Amazon Bedrock

by Azalio tdshpsk | May 7, 2024 | AWS

Today, we’re happy to welcome a new member of the Amazon Titan family of models: Amazon Titan Text Premier, now available in Amazon Bedrock. Following Amazon Titan Text Lite and Titan Text Express, Titan Text Premier is the latest large language model (LLM) in the...