7/24/2024, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/25/2024, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
AWS Signer open sources Notation plugin for container image signing
Today, AWS open-sourced the AWS Signer plugin for Notation, giving customers flexibility and transparency in how they sign and verify container images with AWS Signer, a managed signing service. Notation is an open source tool developed by the Notary Project, an industry standard for securing software supply chains by authenticating container images and other OCI artifacts. The plugin extends Notation with Signer managed secrets and revocation capabilities. Customers can now incorporate the Signer plugin as a library inside their native tools to generate and verify container artifacts signatures.\n Notation can be used as a CLI executable or as a Golang library. With the open sourced Signer Plugin, you can now seamlessly incorporate signing and verification activities into your existing applications and tooling by adding a go-library. This removes the need for installing and invoking the plugin as an executable. Additionally, you get transparency in how AWS Signer APIs are used for signature generation and verification. If you prefer a CLI integration with Signer, you can now also build your own version of the Signer Plugin executable or continue downloading pre-built executables from AWS Signer documentation. AWS Signer Plugin is released as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license. You can access the source code and instructions to build the Signer plugin in the GitHub repository here. To learn more about container image signing refer this blog.
Mistral Large 2 foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock
Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 (24.07) foundation model is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This model is the latest version of Mistral AI’s flagship large language model, Mistral Large (24.02), with significant improvements on multilingual accuracy, conversational behavior, coding capabilities, reasoning and instruction-following behavior.\n With this new release of Mistral Large, you can leverage its multi-lingual proficiency to seamlessly communicate and process information in dozens of languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Arabic, and Hindi. It has an increased context window of 128k (compared to 32k in the original version), making it able to process more information in order to generate accurate responses. Its advanced coding capabilities enable you to develop software across various programming languages, such as Python, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, and Bash, as well as specialized languages like Swift and Fortran. The model also has best-in-class agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON outputting allowing it to interact with external systems, APIs, and tools. Mistral AI’s Mistral Large 2 foundation model is now available on Amazon Bedrock in the US West (Oregon) region. To learn more read the Machine Learning blog, visit the Mistral AI on Amazon Bedrock product page, and read the documentation. To get started with Mistral Large on Amazon Bedrock, visit the Amazon Bedrock console.
AWS DataSync expands support for agentless cross-region data transfers to include opt-in regions
AWS DataSync now supports agentless cross-region data transfers between all regions in the commercial AWS partition, including opt-in regions. With this update, you can now transfer millions of files or objects between AWS Storage services such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and Amazon FSx in different regions without deploying or managing a DataSync agent.\n AWS DataSync is an online data movement service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates the transfer of files and objects. It uses a purpose-built network protocol and scale-out architecture to move data quickly and securely between AWS Storage services, on-premises storage, edge locations, or other clouds. DataSync uses an agent to access storage systems that are located on premises or in other clouds while providing fully-managed access to storage in AWS. With this release, you can now transfer data between AWS Storage services in any region in the commercial partition, including opt-in regions, without deploying a DataSync agent. This enables you to easily replicate data between managed file systems for business continuity, as well as copy portions of your data to different buckets or file systems to meet evolving application requirements. Agentless cross-region transfers are now available in all AWS regions where AWS DataSync is available. To get started, visit the AWS DataSync console. To learn more, view the AWS DataSync documentation.
AWS Blogs
AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)
- Implementing Amazon API Gateway Multi-Region Failover
- Automating Amazon Bedrock Model Customization with AWS Step Functions Workflows
- Monitoring query performance with Performance Insights on Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- Accelerate your AWS migration with the SQL Server Migration Assessment Tool
- Weekly Generative AI with AWS — Week 8/7/2024
- E-commerce Transformation Accelerated by Generative AI Part 2 — Explanation of the Amazon Bedrock Demo Exhibited at AWS Summit Japan 2024
- Accelerating e-commerce transformation with generative AI Part 1 — Introducing the top 4 use cases in the EC industry
- AWS Summit Japan 2024 Healthcare and Life Sciences Exhibition Booth Report
- Monitor Amazon Connect API usage with Amazon CloudWatch alarms
- AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia Offer High Performance and Low Cost to the Llama 3.1 Model on AWS
AWS Japan Startup Blog (Japanese)
AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
- Simplifying remediation using AWS Systems Manager with Amazon Q developer
- Observability Matters at Brightcove with AWS GameDay
AWS Big Data Blog
- Configure SAML federation with Amazon OpenSearch Serverless and Keycloak
- How ActionIQ built a truly composable customer data platform using Amazon Redshift
AWS Database Blog
- Run an Ethereum staking service on Amazon EKS
- Ola Money achieved operational excellence, disaster recovery site in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region, and up to 60% cost savings using Amazon Aurora
AWS DevOps Blog
AWS HPC Blog
The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog
AWS Machine Learning Blog
- Mistral Large 2 is now available in Amazon Bedrock
- LLM experimentation at scale using Amazon SageMaker Pipelines and MLflow
- Discover insights from Amazon S3 with Amazon Q S3 connector
- Boosting Salesforce Einstein’s code generating model performance with Amazon SageMaker