Storage, storage, storage! Final week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of enjoyable! The 4-hour stay stream was full of puns, pie recipes powered by PartyRock, demos, code, and discussions about generative AI and Amazon S3.

AWS Pi Day 2024 — Twitch stay stream on March 14, 2024

In case you missed the stay stream, you possibly can watch the recording. We’ll additionally replace the AWS Pi Day 2024 put up on neighborhood.aws this week with present notes and session clips.

Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that acquired my consideration:

Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku mannequin is now accessible in Amazon Bedrock — Anthropic lately launched the Claude 3 household of basis fashions (FMs), comprising Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus. Claude 3 Haiku, the quickest and most compact mannequin within the household, is now accessible in Amazon Bedrock. Take a look at Channy’s put up for extra particulars. As well as, my colleague Mike reveals the best way to get began with Haiku in Amazon Bedrock in his video on neighborhood.aws.

As much as 40 p.c sooner stack creation with AWS CloudFormation — AWS CloudFormation now creates stacks as much as 40 p.c sooner and has a brand new occasion referred to as CONFIGURATION_COMPLETE. With this occasion, CloudFormation begins parallel creation of dependent sources inside a stack, rushing up the entire course of. The brand new occasion additionally offers customers extra management to shortcut their stack creation course of in situations the place a useful resource consistency examine is pointless. To study extra, learn this AWS DevOps Weblog put up.

Amazon SageMaker Canvas extends its mannequin registry integration — SageMaker Canvas has prolonged its mannequin registry integration to incorporate time collection forecasting fashions and fashions fine-tuned by means of SageMaker JumpStart. Customers can now register these fashions to the SageMaker Mannequin Registry with only a click on. This enhancement expands the mannequin registry integration to all downside varieties supported in Canvas, comparable to regression/classification tabular fashions and CV/NLP fashions. It streamlines the deployment of machine studying (ML) fashions to manufacturing environments. Verify the Developer Information for extra data.

For a full listing of AWS bulletins, make sure you regulate the What’s New at AWS web page.

Different AWS information
Listed below are some extra information objects, open supply initiatives, and Twitch reveals that you just would possibly discover attention-grabbing:

Construct On Generative AI — Season 3 of your favourite weekly Twitch present about all issues generative AI is in full swing! Streaming each Monday, 9:00 US PT, my colleagues Tiffany and Darko focus on completely different features of generative AI and invite visitor audio system to demo their work. In at present’s episode, visitor Martyn Kilbryde confirmed the best way to construct a JIRA Agent powered by Amazon Bedrock. Take a look at present notes and the complete listing of episodes on neighborhood.aws.

Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch — The Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch now lets PyTorch Lightning customers save mannequin checkpoints on to Amazon S3. Saving PyTorch Lightning mannequin checkpoints is as much as 40 p.c sooner with the Amazon S3 Connector for PyTorch than writing to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) occasion storage. Now you can additionally save, load, and delete checkpoints straight from PyTorch Lightning coaching jobs to Amazon S3. Take a look at the open supply mission on GitHub.

AWS open supply information and updates — My colleague Ricardo writes this weekly open supply e-newsletter through which he highlights new open supply initiatives, instruments, and demos from the AWS Neighborhood.

Upcoming AWS occasions
Verify your calendars and join these AWS occasions:

AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2024 — The NVIDIA GTC 2024 developer convention is going down this week (March 18–21) in San Jose, CA. In the event you’re round, go to AWS at sales space #708 to discover generative AI demos and get impressed by AWS, AWS Companions, and buyer consultants on the newest choices in generative AI, robotics, and superior computing on the in-booth theatre. Take a look at the AWS classes and request 1:1 conferences.

AWS Summits — It’s AWS Summit season once more! The primary one is Paris (April 3), adopted by Amsterdam (April 9), Sydney (April 10–11), London (April 24), Berlin (Could 15–16), and Seoul (Could 16–17). AWS Summits are a collection of free on-line and in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS.

AWS re:Inforce — Be a part of us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, PA. AWS re:Inforce is a studying convention centered on AWS safety options, cloud safety, compliance, and identification. Join with the AWS groups that construct the safety instruments and meet AWS clients to study their safety journeys.

You’ll be able to browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions.

That’s all for this week. Verify again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!

— Antje

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