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Whether you’re a small or medium-sized business (SMB) or a managed service provider at the beginning of your cloud journey, you might be wondering how to get started. Questions like “Am I following best practices?”, “Am I optimizing my cloud costs?”, and “How difficult is the learning curve?” are quite common. AWS is here to … Read more

This is a guest post co-written with Tim Krause, Lead MLOps Architect at CONXAI. CONXAI Technology GmbH is pioneering the development of an advanced AI platform for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry. Our platform uses advanced AI to empower construction domain experts to create complex use cases efficiently. Construction sites typically employ multiple … Read more

Untold Studios is a tech-driven, leading creative studio specializing in high-end visual effects and animation. Our commitment to innovation led us to a pivotal challenge: how to harness the power of machine learning (ML) to further enhance our competitive edge while balancing this technological advancement with strict data security requirements and the need to streamline … Read more

The rapid advancement of generative AI has brought powerful publicly available large language models (LLMs), such as DeepSeek-R1, to the forefront of innovation. The DeepSeek-R1 models are now accessible through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, and distilled variants are available through Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import. According to DeepSeek AI, these models offer … Read more

Building upon a previous Machine Learning Blog post to create personalized avatars by fine-tuning and hosting the Stable Diffusion 2.1 model at scale using Amazon SageMaker, this post takes the journey a step further. As technology continues to evolve, newer models are emerging, offering higher quality, increased flexibility, and faster image generation capabilities. One such … Read more

This post is co-written with Javier Beltrán, Ornela Xhelili, and Prasidh Chhabri from Aetion.  For decision-makers in healthcare, it is critical to gain a comprehensive understanding of patient journeys and health outcomes over time. Scientists, epidemiologists, and biostatisticians implement a vast range of queries to capture complex, clinically relevant patient variables from real-world data. These … Read more

This post is co-written with Martin Holste from Trellix.  Security teams are dealing with an evolving universe of cybersecurity threats. These threats are expanding in form factor, sophistication, and the attack surface they target. Constrained by talent and budget limitations, teams are often forced to prioritize the events pursued for investigation, limiting the ability to … Read more

This post is co-written with Andrés Vélez Echeveri and Sean Azlin from OfferUp. OfferUp is an online, mobile-first marketplace designed to facilitate local transactions and discovery. Known for its user-friendly app and trust-building features, including user ratings and in-app chat, OfferUp enables users to buy and sell items and explore a broad range of jobs … Read more

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into customer-facing applications, organizations are exploring ways to leverage their natural language processing capabilities. Many businesses are investigating how AI can enhance customer engagement and service delivery, and facing challenges in making sure LLMs driven engagements are on topic and follow the desired instructions. In this blog … Read more

There is consistent customer feedback that AI assistants are the most useful when users can interface with them within the productivity tools they already use on a daily basis, to avoid switching applications and context. Web applications like Amazon Q Business and Slack have become essential environments for modern AI assistant deployment. This post explores … Read more

Generative AI has revolutionized technology through generating content and solving complex problems. To fully take advantage of this potential, seamless integration with existing business systems and efficient access to data are crucial. Amazon Bedrock Agents provides the integration capabilities to connect generative AI models with the wealth of information and workflows already in place within … Read more

Organizations are often inundated with video and audio content that contains valuable insights. However, extracting those insights efficiently and with high accuracy remains a challenge. This post explores an innovative solution to accelerate video and audio review workflows through a thoughtfully designed user experience that enables human and AI collaboration. By approaching the problem from … Read more

As enterprises rapidly expand their applications, platforms, and infrastructure, it becomes increasingly challenging to keep up with technology trends, best practices, and programming standards. Enterprises typically provide their developers, engineers, and architects with a variety of knowledge resources such as user guides, technical wikis, code repositories, and specialized tools. However, over time these resources often … Read more

From pandemic shutdowns to geopolitical tensions, recent years have thrown our global supply chains into unexpected chaos. This turbulent period has taught both governments and organizations a crucial lesson: supply chain excellence depends not just on efficiency but on the ability to navigate disruptions through strategic risk management. By leveraging the generative AI capabilities and … Read more

This is a guest blog post co-written with Jordan Knight, Sara Reynolds, George Lee from Travelers. Foundation models (FMs) are used in many ways and perform well on tasks including text generation, text summarization, and question answering. Increasingly, FMs are completing tasks that were previously solved by supervised learning, which is a subset of machine … Read more

Digital pathology is essential for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, playing a critical role in healthcare delivery and pharmaceutical research and development. Pathology traditionally relies heavily on pathologist expertise and experience to conduct meticulous examination of tissue samples to identify abnormalities. However, the increasing complexity and volume of cases necessitate advanced tools to assist … Read more

Today, we are announcing that DeepSeek AI’s first-generation frontier model, DeepSeek-R1, is available through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon Bedrock Marketplace to deploy for inference. You can now use DeepSeek-R1 to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative AI ideas on AWS. In this post, we demonstrate how to get started with DeepSeek-R1 on Amazon … Read more

Government and non-profit organizations evaluating grant proposals face a significant challenge: sifting through hundreds of detailed submissions, each with unique merits, to identify the most promising initiatives. This arduous, time-consuming process is typically the first step in the grant management process, which is critical to driving meaningful social impact. The AWS Social Responsibility & Impact … Read more

The real-world data collected and derived from patient journeys offers a wealth of insights into patient characteristics and outcomes and the effectiveness and safety of medical innovations. Researchers ask questions about patient populations in the form of structured queries; however, without the right choice of structured query and deep familiarity with complex real-world patient datasets, … Read more

Open foundation models (FMs) have become a cornerstone of generative AI innovation, enabling organizations to build and customize AI applications while maintaining control over their costs and deployment strategies. By providing high-quality, openly available models, the AI community fosters rapid iteration, knowledge sharing, and cost-effective solutions that benefit both developers and end-users. DeepSeek AI, a … Read more

Generative AI can revolutionize organizations by enabling the creation of innovative applications that offer enhanced customer and employee experiences. Intelligent document processing, translation and summarization, flexible and insightful responses for customer support agents, personalized marketing content, and image and code generation are a few use cases using generative AI that organizations are rolling out in … Read more

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing organizations across diverse sectors to enhance customer experience, which traditionally would take years to make progress. Every organization has data stored in data stores, either on premises or in cloud providers. You can embrace generative AI and enhance customer experience by converting your existing data into … Read more

In production generative AI applications, responsiveness is just as important as the intelligence behind the model. Whether it’s customer service teams handling time-sensitive inquiries or developers needing instant code suggestions, every second of delay, known as latency, can have a significant impact. As businesses increasingly use large language models (LLMs) for these critical tasks and … Read more

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) is crucial as LLM-based systems become increasingly powerful and relevant in our society. Rigorous testing allows us to understand an LLM’s capabilities, limitations, and potential biases, and provide actionable feedback to identify and mitigate risk. Furthermore, evaluation processes are important not only for LLMs, but are becoming essential for assessing … Read more

Amazon SageMaker provides a seamless experience for building, training, and deploying machine learning (ML) models at scale. Although SageMaker offers a wide range of built-in algorithms and pre-trained models through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, there are scenarios where you might need to bring your own custom model or use specific software dependencies not available in SageMaker … Read more

Amazon has introduced two new creative content generation models on Amazon Bedrock: Amazon Nova Canvas for image generation and Amazon Nova Reel for video creation. These models transform text and image inputs into custom visuals, opening up creative opportunities for both professional and personal projects. Nova Canvas, a state-of-the-art image generation model, creates professional-grade images … Read more

Amazon Bedrock has emerged as the preferred choice for tens of thousands of customers seeking to build their generative AI strategy. It offers a straightforward, fast, and secure way to develop advanced generative AI applications and experiences to drive innovation. With the comprehensive capabilities of Amazon Bedrock, you have access to a diverse range of … Read more

A common use case with generative AI that we usually see customers evaluate for a production use case is a generative AI-powered assistant. However, before it can be deployed, there is the typical production readiness assessment that includes concerns such as understanding the security posture, monitoring and logging, cost tracking, resilience, and more. The highest … Read more

Attaching a custom Docker image to an Amazon SageMaker Studio domain involves several steps. First, you need to build and push the image to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). You also need to make sure that the Amazon SageMaker domain execution role has the necessary permissions to pull the image from Amazon ECR. After … Read more

The rise of AI has opened new avenues for enhancing customer experiences across multiple channels. Technologies like natural language understanding (NLU) are employed to discern customer intents, facilitating efficient self-service actions. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) translates spoken words into text, enabling seamless voice interactions. With Amazon Lex bots, businesses can use conversational AI to integrate … Read more