The AWS Person Group Japan (JAWS-UG) hosted JAWS PANKRATION 2024 themed ‘No Border’. It is a 24-hour on-line occasion the place AWS Heroes, AWS Group Builders, AWS Person Group leaders, and others from all over the world focus on matters starting from cultural discussions to technical talks. One of many audio system at this occasion, Kevin Tuei, an AWS Group Builder based mostly in Kenya, highlighted the significance of constructing in public and sharing your data with others, a really becoming speak for this type of occasion.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches that bought my consideration through the earlier week.
Amazon S3 now helps conditional writes – We’ve added help for conditional writes in Amazon S3 which test for existence of an object earlier than creating it. With this characteristic, now you can simplify how distributed functions with a number of purchasers concurrently replace information in parallel throughout shared datasets. Every shopper can conditionally write objects, ensuring that it doesn’t overwrite any objects already written by one other shopper.
AWS Lambda introduces recursive loop detection APIs – With the recursive loop detection APIs now you can set recursive loop detection configuration on particular person AWS Lambda features. This lets you flip off recursive loop detection on features that deliberately use recursive patterns, avoiding disruption of those workloads. Utilizing these APIs, you’ll be able to keep away from disruption to any deliberately recursive workflows as Lambda expands help of recursive loop detection to different AWS providers. Configure recursive loop detection for Lambda features by means of the Lambda Console, the AWS command line interface (CLI), or Infrastructure as Code instruments like AWS CloudFormation, AWS Serverless Software Mannequin (AWS SAM), or AWS Cloud Growth Package (CDK). This new configuration choice is supported in AWS SAM CLI model 1.123.0 and CDK v2.153.0.
Common availability of Amazon Bedrock batch inference API – Now you can use Amazon Bedrock to course of prompts in batch to get responses for mannequin analysis, experimentation, and offline processing. Utilizing the batch API makes it extra environment friendly to run inference with basis fashions (FMs). It additionally means that you can mixture responses and analyze them in batches. To get began, go to Run batch inference.
Different AWS information
Launched in July 2024, AWS GenAI Lofts is a worldwide tour designed to foster innovation and neighborhood within the evolving panorama of generative synthetic intelligence (AI) expertise. The lofts convey collaborative pop-up areas to key AI hotspots all over the world, providing builders, startups, and AI fanatics a platform to study, construct, and join. The occasions are ongoing. Discover a location close to you and you’ll want to attend quickly.
Upcoming AWS occasions
AWS Summits – These are free on-line and in-person occasions that convey the cloud computing neighborhood collectively to attach, collaborate, and study AWS. Whether or not you’re within the Americas, Asia Pacific & Japan, or EMEA area, study extra about future AWS Summit occasions occurring in your space. On a private word, I look ahead to being one of many keynote audio system on the AWS Summit Johannesburg occurring this Thursday. Registrations are nonetheless open and I look ahead to seeing you there should you’ll be attending.
AWS Group Days – Be part of an AWS Group Day occasion similar to the one I discussed initially of this put up to take part in technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and trade leaders out of your space. In the event you’re in New York, there’s an occasion occurring in your space this week.
You’ll be able to browse all upcoming in-person and digital occasions right here.
That’s all for this week. Examine again subsequent Monday for an additional Weekly Roundup!
– Veliswa