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AWS doubles investment in AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, marking two years of customer success | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, AWS announces a $100 million additional investment in its AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, marking two years of successful customer collaborations across industries from financial services to healthcare. The investment comes as AI evolves toward more autonomous, agentic systems, with the center already helping thousands of customers drive millions in productivity gains and transform customer experiences.
How PayU built a secure enterprise AI assistant using Amazon Bedrock | Artificial Intelligence
PayU offers a full-stack digital financial services system that serves the financial needs of merchants, banks, and consumers through technology. In this post, we explain how we equipped the PayU team with an enterprise AI solution and democratized AI access using Amazon Bedrock, without compromising on data residency requirements.
Monitor agents built on Amazon Bedrock with Datadog LLM Observability | Artificial Intelligence
We’re excited to announce a new integration between Datadog LLM Observability and Amazon Bedrock Agents that helps monitor agentic applications built on Amazon Bedrock. In this post, we'll explore how Datadog's LLM Observability provides the visibility and control needed to successfully monitor, operate, and debug production-grade agentic applications built on Amazon Bedrock Agents.
Revenue NSW modernises analytics with AWS, enabling unified and scalable data management, processing, and access | AWS Big Data Blog
Revenue NSW, Australia's principal revenue management agency, successfully modernized its analytics infrastructure using AWS services. In this blog post, we show how the organization transformed its on-premises data environment into a unified, scalable cloud-based solution using Amazon Redshift, AWS Database Migration Service, Amazon AppFlow, and AWS Glue.
Compaction support for Avro and ORC file formats in Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 | AWS Big Data Blog
In this post, we explore how Amazon S3 Tables has expanded its automatic compaction capabilities to include Avro and ORC file formats for Apache Iceberg tables, alongside the previously supported Parquet format. Through performance testing with over 20 billion events, the capability demonstrates significant query performance improvements ranging from 12% to 40% when using compacted tables compared to non-compacted tables across different file formats.
Orchestrate data processing jobs, querybooks, and notebooks using visual workflow experience in Amazon SageMaker | AWS Big Data Blog
Today, we are excited to launch a new visual workflows builder in SageMaker Unified Studio. With the new visual workflow experience, you don’t need to code the Python DAGs manually. Instead, you can visually define the orchestration workflow in SageMaker Unified Studio, and the visual definition is automatically converted to a Python DAG definition that is supported in Airflow.This post demonstrates the new visual workflow experience in SageMaker Unified Studio.
Accelerate generative AI inference with NVIDIA Dynamo and Amazon EKS | Artificial Intelligence
This post introduces NVIDIA Dynamo and explains how to set it up on Amazon EKS for automated scaling and streamlined Kubernetes operations. We provide a hands-on walkthrough, which uses the NVIDIA Dynamo blueprint on the AI on EKS GitHub repo by AWS Labs to provision the infrastructure, configure monitoring, and install the NVIDIA Dynamo operator.
Supercharge generative AI workflows with NVIDIA DGX Cloud on AWS and Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import | Artificial Intelligence
This post is co-written with Andrew Liu, Chelsea Isaac, Zoey Zhang, and Charlie Huang from NVIDIA. DGX Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS) represents a significant leap forward in democratizing access to high-performance AI infrastructure. By combining NVIDIA GPU expertise with AWS scalable cloud services, organizations can accelerate their time-to-train, reduce operational complexity, and unlock […]
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service Managed Cluster as vector store | Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases has extended its vector store options by enabling support for Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters, further strengthening its capabilities as a fully managed Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution. This enhancement builds on the core functionality of Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases , which is designed to seamlessly connect foundation models (FMs) with internal data sources. This post provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on integrating an Amazon Bedrock knowledge base with an OpenSearch Service managed cluster as its vector store.
How Rapid7 automates vulnerability risk scores with ML pipelines using Amazon SageMaker AI | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we share how Rapid7 implemented end-to-end automation for the training, validation, and deployment of ML models that predict CVSS vectors. Rapid7 customers have the information they need to accurately understand their risk and prioritize remediation measures.
Build AI-driven policy creation for vehicle data collection and automation using Amazon Bedrock | Artificial Intelligence
Sonatus partnered with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to develop a natural language interface to generate data collection and automation policies using generative AI. This innovation aims to reduce the policy generation process from days to minutes while making it accessible to both engineers and non-experts alike. In this post, we explore how we built this system using Sonatus’s Collector AI and Amazon Bedrock. We discuss the background, challenges, and high-level solution architecture.
Configure Amazon RDS for Db2 standby replicas for high availability and faster disaster recovery | AWS Database Blog
In this post, we demonstrate how to configure a standby replica for your RDS for Db2 instance. We also discuss best practices for setting up, monitoring, and managing standby replicas.
Amazon Aurora DSQL for gaming use cases | AWS Database Blog
In this post, we show you how Amazon Aurora DSQL powers modern gaming use cases from real-time multiplayer interactions to globally consistent leaderboards by delivering seamless scalability, strong consistency and built-in multi-region availability.
Build secure RAG applications with AWS serverless data lakes | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we explore how to build a secure RAG application using serverless data lake architecture, an important data strategy to support generative AI development. We use Amazon Web Services (AWS) services including Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases to create a comprehensive solution supporting unstructured data assets which can be extended to structured data. The post covers how to implement fine-grained access controls for your enterprise data and design metadata-driven retrieval systems that respect security boundaries. These approaches will help you maximize the value of your organization's data while maintaining robust security and compliance.
Intelligent document processing at scale with generative AI and Amazon Bedrock Data Automation | Artificial Intelligence
This post presents an end-to-end IDP application powered by Amazon Bedrock Data Automation and other AWS services. It provides a reusable AWS infrastructure as code (IaC) that deploys an IDP pipeline and provides an intuitive UI for transforming documents into structured tables at scale. The application only requires the user to provide the input documents (such as contracts or emails) and a list of attributes to be extracted. It then performs IDP with generative AI.
Advanced fine-tuning methods on Amazon SageMaker AI | Artificial Intelligence
When fine-tuning ML models on AWS, you can choose the right tool for your specific needs. AWS provides a comprehensive suite of tools for data scientists, ML engineers, and business users to achieve their ML goals. AWS has built solutions to support various levels of ML sophistication, from simple SageMaker training jobs for FM fine-tuning to the power of SageMaker HyperPod for cutting-edge research. We invite you to explore these options, starting with what suits your current needs, and evolve your approach as those needs change.
Streamline machine learning workflows with SkyPilot on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod | Artificial Intelligence
This post is co-written with Zhanghao Wu, co-creator of SkyPilot. The rapid advancement of generative AI and foundation models (FMs) has significantly increased computational resource requirements for machine learning (ML) workloads. Modern ML pipelines require efficient systems for distributing workloads across accelerated compute resources, while making sure developer productivity remains high. Organizations need infrastructure solutions […]
Build a conversational data assistant, Part 1: Text-to-SQL with Amazon Bedrock Agents | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we focus on building a Text-to-SQL solution with Amazon Bedrock, a managed service for building generative AI applications. Specifically, we demonstrate the capabilities of Amazon Bedrock Agents. Part 2 explains how we extended the solution to provide business insights using Amazon Q in QuickSight, a business intelligence assistant that answers questions with auto-generated visualizations.
Implement user-level access control for multi-tenant ML platforms on Amazon SageMaker AI | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we discuss permission management strategies, focusing on attribute-based access control (ABAC) patterns that enable granular user access control while minimizing the proliferation of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles. We also share proven best practices that help organizations maintain security and compliance without sacrificing operational efficiency in their ML workflows.
Build a conversational data assistant, Part 2 – Embedding generative business intelligence with Amazon Q in QuickSight | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we dive into how we integrated Amazon Q in QuickSight to transform natural language requests like “Show me how many items were returned in the US over the past 6 months” into meaningful data visualizations. We demonstrate how combining Amazon Bedrock Agents with Amazon Q in QuickSight creates a comprehensive data assistant that delivers both SQL code and visual insights through a single, intuitive conversational interface—democratizing data access across the enterprise.
Long-running execution flows now supported in Amazon Bedrock Flows in public preview | Artificial Intelligence
We announce the public preview of long-running execution (asynchronous) flow support within Amazon Bedrock Flows. With Amazon Bedrock Flows, you can link foundation models (FMs), Amazon Bedrock Prompt Management, Amazon Bedrock Agents, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, and other AWS services together to build and scale predefined generative AI workflows.
Harnessing the Power of Nested Materialized Views and exploring Cascading Refresh | AWS Big Data Blog
In this post, we explore how to maximize Amazon Redshift query performance through nested materialized views and implementing cascading refresh strategies. We demonstrate how to create materialized views based on other materialized views, enabling a hierarchical structure of precomputed results that significantly enhances query performance and data processing efficiency, particularly useful for reusing precomputed joins with different aggregate options.
Building intelligent AI voice agents with Pipecat and Amazon Bedrock – Part 2 | Artificial Intelligence
In Part 1 of this series, you learned how you can use the combination of Amazon Bedrock and Pipecat, an open source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI agents to build applications with human-like conversational AI. You learned about common use cases of voice agents and the cascaded models approach, where you orchestrate several components to build your voice AI agent. In this post (Part 2), you explore how to use speech-to-speech foundation model, Amazon Nova Sonic, and the benefits of using a unified model.
Uphold ethical standards in fashion using multimodal toxicity detection with Amazon Bedrock Guardrails | Artificial Intelligence
In the fashion industry, teams are frequently innovating quickly, often utilizing AI. Sharing content, whether it be through videos, designs, or otherwise, can lead to content moderation challenges. There remains a risk (through intentional or unintentional actions) of inappropriate, offensive, or toxic content being produced and shared. In this post, we cover the use of the multimodal toxicity detection feature of Amazon Bedrock Guardrails to guard against toxic content. Whether you’re an enterprise giant in the fashion industry or an up-and-coming brand, you can use this solution to screen potentially harmful content before it impacts your brand’s reputation and ethical standards. For the purposes of this post, ethical standards refer to toxic, disrespectful, or harmful content and images that could be created by fashion designers.
How Rocket streamlines the home buying experience with Amazon Bedrock Agents | Artificial Intelligence
Rocket AI Agent is more than a digital assistant. It’s a reimagined approach to client engagement, powered by agentic AI. By combining Amazon Bedrock Agents with Rocket’s proprietary data and backend systems, Rocket has created a smarter, more scalable, and more human experience available 24/7, without the wait. This post explores how Rocket brought that vision to life using Amazon Bedrock Agents, powering a new era of AI-driven support that is consistently available, deeply personalized, and built to take action.
Supercharge your AI workflows by connecting to SageMaker Studio from Visual Studio Code | Artificial Intelligence
AI developers and machine learning (ML) engineers can now use the capabilities of Amazon SageMaker Studio directly from their local Visual Studio Code (VS Code). With this capability, you can use your customized local VS Code setup, including AI-assisted development tools, custom extensions, and debugging tools while accessing compute resources and your data in SageMaker Studio. In this post, we show you how to remotely connect your local VS Code to SageMaker Studio development environments to use your customized development environment while accessing Amazon SageMaker AI compute resources.
Geospatial data lakes with Amazon Redshift | AWS Big Data Blog
In this post, we review how to set up Redshift Serverless to use geospatial data contained within a data lake to enhance maps in ArcGIS Pro. This technique helps builders and GIS analysts use available datasets in data lakes and transform it in Amazon Redshift to further enrich the data before presenting it on a map.
Realizing ocean data democratization: Furuno Electric’s initiatives using Amazon DataZone | AWS Big Data Blog
In this post, we explore how Furuno Electric built a comprehensive data management foundation using Amazon DataZone and other AWS services to transform from a traditional manufacturing company to a data-driven business.
Accelerating generative AI development with fully managed MLflow 3.0 on Amazon SageMaker AI | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we explore how Amazon SageMaker now offers fully managed support for MLflow 3.0, streamlining AI experimentation and accelerating your generative AI journey from idea to production. This release transforms managed MLflow from experiment tracking to providing end-to-end observability, reducing time-to-market for generative AI development.
New capabilities in Amazon SageMaker AI continue to transform how organizations develop AI models | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we share some of the new innovations in SageMaker AI that can accelerate how you build and train AI models. These innovations include new observability capabilities in SageMaker HyperPod, the ability to deploy JumpStart models on HyperPod, remote connections to SageMaker AI from local development environments, and fully managed MLflow 3.0.
Build real-time conversational AI experiences using Amazon Nova Sonic and LiveKit | Artificial Intelligence
mazon Nova Sonic is now integrated with LiveKit’s WebRTC framework, a widely used platform that enables developers to build real-time audio, video, and data communication applications. This integration makes it possible for developers to build conversational voice interfaces without needing to manage complex audio pipelines or signaling protocols. In this post, we explain how this integration works, how it addresses the historical challenges of voice-first applications, and some initial steps to start using this solution.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod launches model deployments to accelerate the generative AI model development lifecycle | Artificial Intelligence
In this post, we announce Amazon SageMaker HyperPod support for deploying foundation models from SageMaker JumpStart, as well as custom or fine-tuned models from Amazon S3 or Amazon FSx. This new capability allows customers to train, fine-tune, and deploy models on the same HyperPod compute resources, maximizing resource utilization across the entire model lifecycle.
Transform uncompressed Amazon DocumentDB data into compressed collections using AWS DMS | AWS Database Blog
In this post, we discuss handling large collections that are approaching 32 TiB for Amazon DocumentDB. We demonstrate solutions for transitioning from uncompressed to compressed collections using AWS DMS. This migration not only accommodates larger uncompressed data volumes, but also significantly reduces storage, compute costs associated with Amazon DocumentDB and improves performance.
Evolve your Amazon DynamoDB table’s data model | AWS Database Blog
In this post, we show you how to evolve your DynamoDB table’s data model to meet changing application requirements while maintaining zero downtime in production systems. We explore two main techniques with examples that you can apply to your own applications: Adding new attributes and Creating new entities.
Use K8sGPT and Amazon Bedrock for simplified Kubernetes cluster maintenance | Artificial Intelligence
This post demonstrates the best practices to run K8sGPT in AWS with Amazon Bedrock in two modes: K8sGPT CLI and K8sGPT Operator. It showcases how the solution can help SREs simplify Kubernetes cluster management through continuous monitoring and operational intelligence.
Build an MCP application with Mistral models on AWS | Artificial Intelligence
This post demonstrates building an intelligent AI assistant using Mistral AI models on AWS and MCP, integrating real-time location services, time data, and contextual memory to handle complex multimodal queries. This use case, restaurant recommendations, serves as an example, but this extensible framework can be adapted for enterprise use cases by modifying MCP server configurations to connect with your specific data sources and business systems.
Accelerate foundation model development with one-click observability in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod | Artificial Intelligence
With a one-click installation of the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) add-on for SageMaker HyperPod observability, you can consolidate health and performance data from NVIDIA DCGM, instance-level Kubernetes node exporters, Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), integrated file systems, Kubernetes APIs, Kueue, and SageMaker HyperPod task operators. In this post, we walk you through installing and using the unified dashboards of the out-of-the-box observability feature in SageMaker HyperPod. We cover the one-click installation from the Amazon SageMaker AI console, navigating the dashboard and metrics it consolidates, and advanced topics such as setting up custom alerts.