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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS BuilderCards at re:Invent 2024, AWS Community Day, HAQM Bedrock, vector databases, and more (Nov 18, 2024)

This week, we wrapped up the final 2024 Latin America HAQM Web Services (AWS) Community Days of the year in Brazil, with multiple parallel events taking place. In Goiânia, we had Marcelo Palladino, senior developer advocate, and Marcelo Paiva, AWS Community Builder, as keynote speakers. Florianópolis feature Ana Cunha, senior developer advocate, and in Santiago […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: 20 years of AWS News Blog, Express brokers for HAQM MSK, Windows Server 2025 images on EC2, and more (Nov 11, 2024)

Happy 20th Anniversary of the AWS News Blog! 🎉🥳🎊 On November 9, 2004, Jeff Barr published his first blog post. At the time, he started a personal blog site using TypePad. He wanted to speak to his readers with his personal voice, not the company or team. On April 29, 2014, we created a new […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Lambda, HAQM Bedrock, HAQM Redshift, HAQM CloudWatch, and more (Nov 4, 2024)

The spooky season has come and gone now. While there aren’t any Halloween-themed releases, AWS has celebrated it in big style by having a plethora of exciting releases last week! I think it’s safe to say that we have truly entered the ‘pre’ re:Invent stage as more and more interesting things are being released every […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: New code editor in AWS Lambda console, HAQM Q Business analytics, Claude 3.5 upgrades, and more (October 28, 2024)

Two weeks ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to host subject matter experts from across Asia Pacific in the global 24 Hours of HAQM Q live stream event. This continuous 24-hour stream offered insights from AWS experts on HAQM Q Developer and HAQM Q Business, featuring use cases, product demos, and Q&A sessions. The highlight for […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic workflows, HAQM Transcribe, AWS Lambda insights, and more (October 21, 2024)

Agentic workflows are quickly becoming a cornerstone of AI innovation, enabling intelligent systems to autonomously handle and refine complex tasks in a way that mirrors human problem-solving. Last week, we launched Serverless Agentic Workflows with HAQM Bedrock, a new short course developed in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI. This hands-on course, taught by […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s App, AWS Lambda, Load Balancers, AWS Console, and more (Oct 14, 2024)

Last week, AWS hosted free half-day conferences in London and Paris. My colleagues and I demonstrated how developers can use generative AI tools to speed up their design, analysis, code writing, debugging, and deployment workflows. These events were held at the GenAI Lofts. These lofts are open until October 25 (London) and November 5 (Paris). […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: HIPAA eligible with HAQM Q Business, HAQM DCV, AWS re:Post Agent, and more (Oct 07, 2024)

Last Friday, I had the privilege of attending China Engineer’s Day 2024(CED 2024) in Hangzhou as the HAQM Web Services (AWS) speaker. The event was organized by the China Computer Federation (CCF), one of the most influential professional developer communities in China. At CED 2024, I spoke about how AI development tools can improve developer […]

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Jamba 1.5 family, Llama 3.2, HAQM EC2 C8g and M8g instances and more (Sep 30, 2024)

Every week, there’s a new HAQM Web Services (AWS) community event where you can network, learn something new, and immerse yourself in the community. When you’re in a community, everyone grows together, and no one is left behind. Last week was no exception. I can highlight the Dach AWS Community Day where Viktoria Semaan closed […]