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July 16, 2024: Updated link to “IDE Workspace Context Awareness” in Amazon Q Developer Chat
As expected, there were a lot of exciting launches and updates announced at AWS Summit New York. Here’s a quick recap of the key announcements from AWS Summit New York 2024.
My colleagues and AWS News blog writers Veliswa Boya and Sébastien Stormacq attended AWS Community Day Cameroon last week. They were energized by meeting amazing experts, mentors, and students, all eager to learn and exchange ideas about cloud technologies. You can get a feel for the atmosphere through the video replay or watch some of the talks!
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In addition to the launches at the New York Summit, here are a few others that caught my attention:
Advanced RAG Features Knowledge Base Amazon Bedrock – This includes custom chunking options that allow customers to write their own chunking code as Lambda functions, smart parsing that extracts information from complex data like tables, and query reformulation that splits queries into simpler subqueries, retrieves relevant information for each, and combines the results into a final, comprehensive answer.
Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management and Prompt Flow – This is a preview release of Prompt Management, which helps developers and prompt engineers get the best response from a baseline model for their use cases, while Prompt Flows accelerates the creation, testing, and deployment of workflows through an intuitive visual builder.
Fine-tuning Anthropic’s Claude 3 Haiku on Amazon Bedrock (Preview) – By providing your own task-specific training dataset, you can fine-tune and customize Claude 3 Haiku to increase model accuracy, quality, and consistency, further tailoring generative AI to your business.
IDE workspace context awareness in Amazon Q Developer chat – Users can now ask questions about the code of the project currently open in the IDE by adding @workspace to chat messages in Q Developer. Q Developer automatically collects and indexes all code files, configurations, and project structures, providing chats with comprehensive context for the entire application within the IDE.
What’s New in Amazon Q Business – New personalization features in Amazon Q Business are automatically enabled and use your company’s employee profile data to improve user experiences. Now you can get answers from text content in scanned PDFs and images embedded in PDF documents without having to use OCR for preprocessing and text extraction.
Amazon EC2 R8g instances powered by AWS Graviton4 are now generally available. – Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance over AWS Graviton3-based instances.
Vector Search for Amazon MemoryDB is now generally available. – Vector search in MemoryDB enables real-time machine learning (ML) and generative AI applications. It can store millions of vectors with single-digit millisecond query and update latency, while maintaining top-tier throughput with >99% recall.
Introducing Valkey GLIDE, an open source client library for Valkey and Redis open source – Valkey is an open source key-value data store that supports various workloads such as caching and message queuing. Valkey GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and supports all Valkey commands. GLIDE supports Valkey 7.2 and later and Redis open source 6.2, 7.0, 7.2.
Amazon OpenSearch Service Improvements – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports data workloads of up to 30 TB for time series collections, enabling more data-intensive use cases, and an innovative caching mechanism that automatically fetches and intelligently manages data for faster data retrieval, efficient storage utilization, and cost savings. Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AI-driven natural language query generation in OpenSearch Dashboards Log Explorer, allowing you to quickly get started analyzing your logs without having to be proficient in PPL.
Open Source Release of Secrets Manager Agent for AWS Secrets Manager – Secrets Manager Agent is a language-independent local HTTP service that can be installed and used in your computing environment to read secrets from Secrets Manager over network calls and cache them in memory.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports full event logging in AWS CloudTrail. – This feature provides details about who made API calls to S3 Express One Zone and when they were made, improving data visibility for governance, compliance, and operational auditing.
Amazon CloudFront Announces Managed Cache Policies for Web Applications – Previously, Amazon CloudFront customers had two options for managed cache policies and had to create custom cache policies for all other cases. With the new managed cache policies, CloudFront caches content based on: Cache-Control The header returned from the origin, if no header is returned we do not cache by default.
To see everything announced by AWS, check out the What’s New page at AWS.
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Other AWS News
Additional projects, blog posts, and news items that you might find interesting include:
Context Window Overflow: Breaking the Barrier – In this blog post, we dive deeper into the intricacies of how generative AI models work and why it’s important to understand and mitigate the limitations of context window overflow (CWO).
Interactively create infrastructure using agents for Amazon Bedrock.e – In this blog post, we will explore how to use the agent for Amazon Bedrock to generate customized, organizationally compliant IaC scripts directly from uploaded architecture diagrams.
Automate model customization in Amazon Bedrock using AWS Step Functions workflows – In this blog post, we cover how to orchestrate a repeatable, automated workflow for customizing Amazon Bedrock models and how AWS Step Functions can help you overcome key challenges in model customization.
AWS Open Source News and Updates – My colleague Ricardo Sueiras writes about open source projects, tools, and events in the AWS community. Check out Ricardo’s page for the latest updates.
Upcoming AWS Events
Check out the schedule and register for upcoming AWS events.
AWS Summit – Join the cloud computing community at free online and in-person events to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Visit the AWS Summit page to learn more about upcoming AWS Summit events. Register for the city nearest you: Bogotá (July 18), Taipei (July 23-24), AWS Summit Mexico City (August 7), and AWS Summit Sao Paulo (August 15).
AWS Community Day – Join us at community-driven conferences featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world. Upcoming AWS Community Days are in Aotearoa (August 15), Nigeria (August 24), New York (August 28), and Belfast (September 6).
Explore all of AWS’s in-person and virtual events, as well as developer-focused events.
That’s it for this week. Check back next Monday for a weekly recap!
— Abishek
This post is part of a weekly recap series. Check out our quick recap of exciting news and announcements from AWS each week!
