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All the AI at AWS re:Invent 2024

• By David Ramel
• 12/11/2024

The big AI news from last week's AWS re:Invent conference was a new family of foundation models that deliver state-of-the-art performance and are optimized for various AI tasks, called Nova, reportedly offering superior accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness to help organizations to build innovative AI applications.

However, that was just a small part of the company's embrace of AI at the event, which also included the following AI highlights:

• Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse: AWS introduced a unified platform for data lakes and data warehouses. This innovation eliminates data silos, enabling seamless data access and analysis across diverse data sources. By unifying analytics and AI/ML on a single data copy, SageMaker Lakehouse simplifies data management and accelerates time-to-insight.
• Amazon Q in QuickSight: AWS enhanced its business intelligence tool, QuickSight, with advanced AI capabilities. This integration empowers business users to perform complex scenario analysis significantly faster than traditional methods. With Amazon Q, users can uncover deeper insights, make data-driven decisions, and improve overall business performance.
• Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers: AWS launched new, powerful computing instances specifically designed to accelerate machine learning and generative AI workloads. These instances deliver exceptional compute power and memory bandwidth, enabling organizations to train and deploy large-scale AI models more efficiently.
• Amazon EC2 P5en Instances: AWS introduced new instances optimized for high-performance computing and deep learning. P5en instances offer significant performance gains for AI applications, including natural language processing, computer vision, and recommendation systems.
• Amazon SageMaker HyperPod: AWS enhanced its machine learning platform with a new service for scaling and accelerating the training of large language models. SageMaker HyperPod simplifies the process of training foundation models, enabling organizations to develop more sophisticated AI applications faster.
• Amazon Bedrock: AWS launched a new service that provides access to a wide range of foundation models from various providers. This unified platform simplifies the integration of foundation models into applications, making it easier for developers to leverage the power of AI.
• Amazon Q Business: AWS expanded the capabilities of its AI-powered business assistant, Q, with new workflow automation features and integrations. Q Business enables users to automate routine tasks, improve productivity, and make better decisions, ultimately driving business growth.

All of the above and much more is explained in detail here.