The announcement of Nova foundational models kicked things off, but there was much more about AI at the conference you should be aware of.
The years-long problem of misconfigured S3 storage buckets on the AWS cloud has surfaced again, exposing sensitive data from customers despite tons of warnings, guidance, documentation and advice from AWS and other providers.
A new AWS Security Incident Response service heads a bevy of security, identity and compliance announcements at this week's AWS re:Invent conference.
The new family of models follows the trend of moving from huge all-in-one, jack-of-all-trades constructs to more specialized models designed to more nimbly handle specific tasks.
Hybrid multicloud computing specialist Nutanix expanded its partnership with AWS, aiming to accelerate cloud migration and provide customers with options for managing workloads across on-premises and the cloud.
With the increasing dominance of AI are increasing concerns about its ethical use, leading to the rise of "responsible AI." And AWS is certainly not ignoring those concerns, with 36 of the 860 AI/ML sessions falling under that area of interest.
Large organizations are getting hit hard by cybersecurity attacks, with more than half of respondents to a new survey reporting at least one such incident in the past year.
So much for AWS' supposed slow embrace of GenAI purportedly giving fellow cloud giants Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud an edge up in their perennial chase of cloud computing dominance.
Playing catch-up to some other AI coding assistants, Amazon Q Developer now offers inline chat capabilities, powered by its latest/greatest AI tech: the Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet update.
Following yesterday's agentic AI moves from fellow cloud giants Microsoft and Google, AWS upped its own autonomous AI game with new capabilities for its Amazon Bedrock service, which now offers an updated Claude 3.5 Sonnet model from partner Anthropic.
AWS has lately focused on shoring up its data-centric partnerships, including fostering AI functionality as it plays catch-up with GenAI cloud leader Microsoft -- not to mention Google Cloud, working hard to stay relevant.
Meanwhile, Gartner notes turmoil as market shifts from traditional on-premises VDI to DaaS in the cloud.
A novel use case for AWS's AI offerings is helping to grow a newly cloud-hosted Autonomous Virtual Human (AVH) project.
"Project Amelia," a generative AI-based assistant to help third-party sellers navigate the complexities of managing their businesses, is now rolling out as a limited beta from Amazon.
Expanding on its 18-year relationship with Intel, Amazon Web Services this week commissioned the chip giant to help it design and build AI processors.
Amazon Web Services has updated its "Q" AI developer agent to be more accurate and capable of making autonomous coding decisions.
An AWS project based on Elasticsearch has been turned over to a new group under the direction of the Linux Foundation.
A new solution from Oracle and AWS that would let Oracle database customers easily tap AWS services is set for a preview release later in 2024.
Amazon's new Parallel Computing Service (PCS) became generally available recently, promising to alleviate much of the administrative burden associated with running high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Amazon is shoring up its advanced machine learning credentials, acquiring edge inferencing specialist Perceive for $80 million in cash.