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Scaling machine learning (ML) workflows from initial prototypes to large-scale production deployment can be daunting task, but the integration of Amazon SageMaker Studio and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod offers a streamlined solution to this challenge. As teams progress from proof of concept to production-ready models, they often struggle with efficiently managing growing infrastructure and storage needs. … Read more

Amazon Kendra is an intelligent enterprise search service that helps you search across different content repositories with built-in connectors. AWS customers use Amazon Kendra with large language models (LLMs) to quickly create secure, generative AI–powered conversational experiences on top of your enterprise content. As enterprises adopt generative AI, many are developing intelligent assistants powered by … Read more

Organizations of every size and across every industry are looking to use generative AI to fundamentally transform the business landscape with reimagined customer experiences, increased employee productivity, new levels of creativity, and optimized business processes. A recent study by Telecom Advisory Services, a globally recognized research and consulting firm that specializes in economic impact studies, shows that … Read more

Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Although generative AI is fueling transformative innovations, enterprises may still experience sharply divided data silos when it comes to enterprise knowledge, in particular between unstructured content … Read more

Digital experience interruptions can harm customer satisfaction and business performance across industries. Application failures, slow load times, and service unavailability can lead to user frustration, decreased engagement, and revenue loss. The risk and impact of outages increase during peak usage periods, which vary by industry—from ecommerce sales events to financial quarter-ends or major product launches. … Read more

Today, Amazon SageMaker is excited to announce updates to the inference optimization toolkit, providing new functionality and enhancements to help you optimize generative AI models even faster. These updates build on the capabilities introduced in the original launch of the inference optimization toolkit (to learn more, see Achieve up to ~2x higher throughput while reducing … Read more

This post was written with Zach Marston and Serg Masis from Syngenta. Syngenta and AWS collaborated to develop Cropwise AI, an innovative solution powered by Amazon Bedrock Agents, to accelerate their sales reps’ ability to place Syngenta seed products with growers across North America. Cropwise AI harnesses the power of generative AI using AWS to … Read more

This post is co-written with Abhishek Sawarkar, Eliuth Triana, Jiahong Liu and Kshitiz Gupta from NVIDIA.  At re:Invent 2024, we are excited to announce new capabilities to speed up your AI inference workloads with NVIDIA accelerated computing and software offerings on Amazon SageMaker. These advancements build upon our collaboration with NVIDIA, which includes adding support … Read more

Today at AWS re:Invent 2024, we are excited to announce a new feature for Amazon SageMaker inference endpoints: the ability to scale SageMaker inference endpoints to zero instances. This long-awaited capability is a game changer for our customers using the power of AI and machine learning (ML) inference in the cloud. Previously, SageMaker inference endpoints … Read more

Today at AWS re:Invent 2024, we are excited to announce the new Container Caching capability in Amazon SageMaker, which significantly reduces the time required to scale generative AI  models for inference. This innovation allows you to scale your models faster, observing up to 56% reduction in latency when scaling a new model copy and up … Read more

The generative AI landscape has been rapidly evolving, with large language models (LLMs) at the forefront of this transformation. These models have grown exponentially in size and complexity, with some now containing hundreds of billions of parameters and requiring hundreds of gigabytes of memory. As LLMs continue to expand, AI engineers face increasing challenges in … Read more

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced Amazon SageMaker Fast Model Loader, a new capability in Amazon SageMaker that significantly reduces the time required to deploy and scale large language models (LLMs) for inference. We discussed how this innovation addresses one of the major bottlenecks in LLM deployment: the time required to load massive models … Read more

Chronos-Bolt is the newest addition to AutoGluon-TimeSeries, delivering accurate zero-shot forecasting up to 250 times faster than the original Chronos models [1]. Time series forecasting plays a vital role in guiding key business decisions across industries such as retail, energy, finance, and healthcare. Traditionally, forecasting has relied on statistical models [2] like ETS and ARIMA, … Read more

Today, the Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) analysts in Amazon Finance operations receive queries from customers through email, cases, internal tools, or phone. When a query arises, analysts must engage in a time-consuming process of reaching out to subject matter experts (SMEs) and go through multiple policy documents containing standard operating procedures (SOPs) … Read more

We are excited to announce the availability of Cohere’s advanced reranking model Rerank 3.5 through our new Rerank API in Amazon Bedrock. This powerful reranking model enables AWS customers to significantly improve their search relevance and content ranking capabilities. This model is also available for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base users. By incorporating Cohere’s Rerank 3.5 … Read more

As developers gear up for re:Invent 2024, they again face the unique challenges of physical racing. What are the obstacles? Let’s have a look. In this blog post, I will look at what makes physical AWS DeepRacer racing—a real car on a real track—different to racing in the virtual world—a model in a simulated 3D … Read more

The new efficient multi-adapter inference feature of Amazon SageMaker unlocks exciting possibilities for customers using fine-tuned models. This capability integrates with SageMaker inference components to allow you to deploy and manage hundreds of fine-tuned Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) adapters through SageMaker APIs. Multi-adapter inference handles the registration of fine-tuned adapters with a base model and dynamically … Read more

Prompt engineering refers to the practice of writing instructions to get the desired responses from foundation models (FMs). You might have to spend months experimenting and iterating on your prompts, following the best practices for each model, to achieve your desired output. Furthermore, these prompts are specific to a model and task, and performance isn’t … Read more

Enterprises are facing challenges in accessing their data assets scattered across various sources because of increasing complexities in managing vast amount of data. Traditional search methods often fail to provide comprehensive and contextual results, particularly for unstructured data or complex queries. Search solutions in modern big data management must facilitate efficient and accurate search of … Read more

Generative AI continues to transform numerous industries and activities, with one such application being the enhancement of chess, a traditional human game, with sophisticated AI and large language models (LLMs). Using the Custom Model Import feature in Amazon Bedrock, you can now create engaging matches between foundation models (FMs) fine-tuned for chess gameplay, combining classical … Read more

Large language models (LLMs) have witnessed an unprecedented surge in popularity, with customers increasingly using publicly available models such as Llama, Stable Diffusion, and Mistral. Across diverse industries—including healthcare, finance, and marketing—organizations are now engaged in pre-training and fine-tuning these increasingly larger LLMs, which often boast billions of parameters and larger input sequence length. Although … Read more

Generative AI agents are designed to interact with their environment to achieve specific objectives, such as automating repetitive tasks and augmenting human capabilities. By orchestrating multistep workflows that adapt to evolving goals in real time, these agents increase productivity, reduce errors, and deliver more personalized experiences. To manage these complex workflows effectively, agents rely on … Read more

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) from leading AI startups and Amazon available through an API, so you can choose from a wide range of FMs to find the model that best suits your use case. With the Amazon Bedrock serverless experience, you can get started quickly, privately customize … Read more

Seamless integration of customer experience, collaboration tools, and relevant data is the foundation for delivering knowledge-based productivity gains. In this post, we show you how to integrate the popular Slack messaging service with AWS generative AI services to build a natural language assistant where business users can ask questions of an unstructured dataset. To demonstrate, … Read more

Thousands of companies worldwide use Salesforce to manage their sales, marketing, customer service, and other business operations. The Salesforce cloud-based platform centralizes customer information and interactions across the organization, providing sales reps, marketers, and support agents with a unified 360-degree view of each customer. With Salesforce at the heart of their business, companies accumulate vast … Read more

Hallucinations in large language models (LLMs) refer to the phenomenon where the LLM generates an output that is plausible but factually incorrect or made-up. This can occur when the model’s training data lacks the necessary information or when the model attempts to generate coherent responses by making logical inferences beyond its actual knowledge. Hallucinations arise … Read more

With the rise of large language models (LLMs) like Meta Llama 3.1, there is an increasing need for scalable, reliable, and cost-effective solutions to deploy and serve these models. AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia based instances, combined with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), provide a performant and low cost framework to run LLMs efficiently … Read more

The use of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI has exploded over the last year. With the release of powerful publicly available foundation models, tools for training, fine tuning and hosting your own LLM have also become democratized. Using vLLM on AWS Trainium and Inferentia makes it possible to host LLMs for high performance … Read more

This post is co-written with Adarsh Kyadige and Salma Taoufiq from Sophos.  As a leader in cutting-edge cybersecurity, Sophos is dedicated to safeguarding over 500,000 organizations and millions of customers across more than 150 countries. By harnessing the power of threat intelligence, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), Sophos delivers a comprehensive range of … Read more

This post is co-written with Curtis Maher and Anjali Thatte from Datadog.  This post walks you through Datadog’s new integration with AWS Neuron, which helps you monitor your AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances by providing deep observability into resource utilization, model execution performance, latency, and real-time infrastructure health, enabling you to optimize machine learning … Read more