In this post, we showed how to use the Amazon Q Business browser extension to give your team seamless access to AI-driven insights and assistance. The browser extension is now available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions for Mozilla, Google Chrome, and Microsoft Edge as part of the Lite Subscription.  ( 41 min )

In this post, we show how to deploy gpt-oss-20b model to SageMaker managed endpoints and demonstrate a practical stock analyzer agent assistant example with LangGraph, a powerful graph-based framework that handles state management, coordinated workflows, and persistent memory systems.  ( 41 min )

In this post, we dive into how Verisk Rating Insights, powered by Amazon Bedrock, large language models (LLM), and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), is transforming the way customers interact with and access ISO ERC changes.  ( 41 min )

In this post, we explore how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and Quora collaborated to build a unified wrapper API framework that dramatically accelerates the deployment of Amazon Bedrock FMs on Quora’s Poe system. We detail the technical architecture that bridges Poe’s event-driven ServerSentEvents protocol with Amazon Bedrock REST-based APIs, demonstrate how a template-based configuration system reduced deployment time from days to 15 minutes, and share implementation patterns for protocol translation, error handling, and multi-modal capabilities.  ( 47 min )

In this post, we introduce topology-aware scheduling with SageMaker HyperPod task governance by submitting jobs that represent hierarchical network information. We provide details about how to use SageMaker HyperPod task governance to optimize your job efficiency.  ( 37 min )

In this post, we share how msg automated data harmonization for msg.ProfileMap, using Amazon Bedrock to power its large language model (LLM)-driven data enrichment workflows, resulting in higher accuracy in HR concept matching, reduced manual workload, and improved alignment with compliance requirements under the EU AI Act and GDPR.  ( 36 min )

View on sreweekly.com SRE Weekly will be on hiatus for the next 6 weeks while I’m on medical leave. If all goes to plan, I’ll be donating a kidney for a loved one later this week, reducing my internal redundancy to help them respond to their own internal renal incident. If you’re interested, I invite […]  ( 4 min )

In this post, we walk through how to streamline your RAG development lifecycle from experimentation to automation, helping you operationalize your RAG solution for production deployments with Amazon SageMaker AI, helping your team experiment efficiently, collaborate effectively, and drive continuous improvement.  ( 45 min )

In this post, we explore how log probabilities work with imported models in Amazon Bedrock. You will learn what log probabilities are, how to enable them in your API calls, and how to interpret the returned data. We also highlight practical applications—from detecting potential hallucinations to optimizing RAG systems and evaluating fine-tuned models—that demonstrate how these insights can improve your AI applications, helping you build more trustworthy solutions with your custom models.  ( 45 min )

This post provides a systematic approach to migrating from Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Claude 4 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock. We examine the key model differences, highlight essential migration considerations, and deliver proven best practices to transform this necessary transition into a strategic advantage that drives measurable value for your organization.  ( 42 min )

In real-world video and image analysis, businesses often face the challenge of detecting objects that weren’t part of a model’s original training set. This becomes especially difficult in dynamic environments where new, unknown, or user-defined objects frequently appear. In this post, we explore how Amazon Bedrock Data Automation uses OSOD to enhance video understanding.  ( 17 min )

Skello is a leading human resources (HR) software as a service (SaaS) solution focusing on employee scheduling and workforce management. Catering to diverse sectors such as hospitality, retail, healthcare, construction, and industry, Skello offers features including schedule creation, time tracking, and payroll preparation. We dive deep into the challenges of implementing large language models (LLMs) for data querying, particularly in the context of a French company operating under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  ( 20 min )

In this post, we present a complete solution for programmatically creating private workforces on Amazon SageMaker AI using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), including the setup of a dedicated, fully configured Amazon Cognito user pool.  ( 20 min )

We are excited to announce the availability of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII)’s Falcon-H1 models on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, developers and data scientists can now use six instruction-tuned Falcon-H1 models (0.5B, 1.5B, 1.5B-Deep, 3B, 7B, and 34B) on AWS, and have access to a comprehensive suite of hybrid architecture models that combine traditional attention mechanisms with State Space Models (SSMs) to deliver exceptional performance with unprecedented efficiency.  ( 21 min )

This post explores how Oldcastle partnered with AWS to transform their document processing workflow using Amazon Bedrock with Amazon Textract. We discuss how Oldcastle overcame the limitations of their previous OCR solution to automate the processing of hundreds of thousands of POD documents each month, dramatically improving accuracy while reducing manual effort.  ( 16 min )

In this post, we explore how London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) used Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic's Claude foundation models to build an automated system that significantly improves the efficiency and accuracy of market surveillance operations.  ( 21 min )

In this post, we walk you through implementation options for both agents hosted on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime and agents hosted on other services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Lambda, or alternative cloud providers. We also share best practices for incorporating observability throughout the development lifecycle.  ( 21 min )

As generative AI continues to transform how enterprises operate—and develop net new innovations—the infrastructure demands for training and deploying AI models have grown exponentially. Traditional infrastructure approaches are struggling to keep pace with today’s computational requirements, network demands, and resilience needs of modern AI workloads. At AWS, we’re also seeing a transformation across the technology […]  ( 16 min )

AWS announced managed tiered checkpointing in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, a purpose-built infrastructure to scale and accelerate generative AI model development across thousands of AI accelerators. Managed tiered checkpointing uses CPU memory for high-performance checkpoint storage with automatic data replication across adjacent compute nodes for enhanced reliability. In this post, we dive deep into those concepts and understand how to use the managed tiered checkpointing feature.  ( 23 min )

We are excited to announce the general availability of fine-grained compute and memory quota allocation with HyperPod task governance. With this capability, customers can optimize Amazon SageMaker HyperPod cluster utilization on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), distribute fair usage, and support efficient resource allocation across different teams or projects. For more information, see HyperPod task governance best […]  ( 23 min )

This post demonstrates how to quickly build sophisticated AI agents using Strands Agents, scale them reliably with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and make them accessible through LibreChat’s familiar interface to drive immediate user adoption across your institution.  ( 22 min )

Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is an AI-driven omnichannel advertising and analytics platform designed for brands and agencies to plan, launch, optimize, and measure paid media across search, social, retail media marketplaces and other “walled-garden” channels from a single interface. In this post, we share how Skai used Amazon Bedrock Agents to improve data access and analysis and improve customer insights.  ( 22 min )

In this post, we share how Snoonu, a leading ecommerce platform in the Middle East, transformed their product discovery experience using AI-powered personalization. In this post, we share how Snoonu, a leading ecommerce platform in the Middle East, transformed their product discovery experience using AI-powered personalization.  ( 20 min )

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In this post, we demonstrate how a research university implemented SageMaker HyperPod to accelerate AI research by using dynamic SLURM partitions, fine-grained GPU resource management, budget-aware compute cost tracking, and multi-login node load balancing—all integrated seamlessly into the SageMaker HyperPod environment.  ( 18 min )

This post explores the Real-Time Race Track (RTRT), an interactive experience built using Amazon Nova in Amazon Bedrock, that lets fans design, customize, and share their own racing circuits. We highlight how generative AI capabilities come together to deliver strategic racing insights such as pit timing and tire choices, and interactive features like an AI voice assistant and a retro-style racing poster.  ( 17 min )

TL;DR RISE did it’s job, and in the past couple of years RISC-V support has found its way into stable releases of key infrastructure software like Debian. So from a software perspective, it’s arguable that RISC-V is now ready for production. Progress has been a little slower on the hardware front, but hardware is… hard; […]  ( 14 min )

In this post, we take an animated short film, Picchu, produced by FuzzyPixel from Amazon Web Services (AWS), prepare training data by extracting key character frames, and fine-tune a character-consistent model for the main character Mayu and her mother, so we can quickly generate storyboard concepts for new sequels like the following images.  ( 21 min )

The art of storyboarding stands as the cornerstone of modern content creation, weaving its essential role through filmmaking, animation, advertising, and UX design. Though traditionally, creators have relied on hand-drawn sequential illustrations to map their narratives, today’s AI foundation models (FMs) are transforming this landscape. FMs like Amazon Nova Canvas and Amazon Nova Reel offer […]  ( 20 min )

In this post, we showed how to implement TTI authentication for Amazon Q data accessors. We covered the setup process for both ISVs and enterprises and demonstrated how TTI authentication simplifies the user experience while maintaining security standards.  ( 20 min )

Proofpoint has redefined its professional services by integrating Amazon Q Business, a fully managed, generative AI powered assistant that you can configure to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on your enterprise data. In this post, we explore how Amazon Q Business transformed Proofpoint’s professional services, detailing its deployment, functionality, and future roadmap.  ( 20 min )

In this post, we show how to deploy Coveo’s Passage Retrieval API as an Amazon Bedrock Agents action group to enhance response accuracy, so Coveo users can use their current index to rapidly deploy new generative experiences across their organization.  ( 19 min )

In this post, we demonstrate how to use the new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod CLI and SDK to streamline the process of training and deploying large AI models through practical examples of distributed training using Fully Sharded Data Parallel (FSDP) and model deployment for inference. The tools provide simplified workflows through straightforward commands for common tasks, while offering flexible development options through the SDK for more complex requirements, along with comprehensive observability features and production-ready deployment capabilities.  ( 27 min )

In this post, we introduce a flexible and scalable solution that simplifies the batch inference workflow. This solution provides a highly scalable approach to managing your FM batch inference needs, such as generating embeddings for millions of documents or running custom evaluation or completion tasks with large datasets.  ( 20 min )

In this post, we explore how natural language database analytics can revolutionize the way organizations interact with their structured data through the power of large language model (LLM) agents. Natural language interfaces to databases have long been a goal in data management. Agents enhance database analytics by breaking down complex queries into explicit, verifiable reasoning steps and enabling self-correction through validation loops that can catch errors, analyze failures, and refine queries until they accurately match user intent and schema requirements.  ( 20 min )

In this post, we demonstrated how to automate the deployment of Amazon Knowledge Bases for RAG applications using Terraform.  ( 20 min )

In this blog post, we demonstrate an end-to-end approach for building and evaluating a KIE solution using Amazon Nova models available through Amazon Bedrock. This end-to-end approach encompasses three critical phases: data readiness (understanding and preparing your documents), solution development (implementing extraction logic with appropriate models), and performance measurement (evaluating accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness). We illustrate this comprehensive approach using the FATURA dataset—a collection of diverse invoice documents that serves as a representative proxy for real-world enterprise data.  ( 23 min )

With the new cluster creation experience, you can create your SageMaker HyperPod clusters, including the required prerequisite AWS resources, in one click, with prescriptive default values automatically applied. In this post, we explore the new cluster creation experience for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod.  ( 18 min )

Pupdate It’s been warm and dry[1], so the boys have enjoyed some nice long walks. Fringe Edinburgh Fringe was a regular feature of the twenty-teens for us, but then Covid happened. This year was our first time back, and it was great. We saw: They were all fantastic, and I’m not going to pick favourites. […]  ( 13 min )

Pupdate It’s been warm and dry[1], so the boys have enjoyed some nice long walks. Fringe Edinburgh Fringe was a regular feature of the twenty-teens for us, but then Covid happened. This year was our first time back, and it was great. We saw: They were all fantastic, and I’m not going to pick favourites. […]  ( 13 min )

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We’re excited to announce new security capabilities in Datadog Cloud Security that can help you detect and remediate Amazon Bedrock misconfigurations before they become security incidents. This integration helps organizations embed robust security controls and secure their use of the powerful capabilities of Amazon Bedrock by offering three critical advantages: holistic AI security by integrating AI security into your broader cloud security strategy, real-time risk detection through identifying potential AI-related security issues as they emerge, and simplified compliance to help meet evolving AI regulations with pre-built detections.  ( 19 min )

In this post, we show you how to create custom domain names for your Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime agent endpoints using CloudFront as a reverse proxy. This solution provides several key benefits: simplified integration for development teams, custom domains that align with your organization, cleaner infrastructure abstraction, and straightforward maintenance when endpoints need updates.  ( 21 min )

In this post, we announce that Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports managed node automatic scaling with Karpenter, enabling efficient scaling of SageMaker HyperPod clusters to meet inference and training demands. We dive into the benefits of Karpenter and provide details on enabling and configuring Karpenter in SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters.  ( 21 min )

This post describes the agentic AI assistant built by the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and the GenAIIC to respond to citizens’ questions about government procedures. The solution consists of two primary components: an input guardrail system that helps prevent the system from responding to harmful user queries and a government procedures agent that retrieves relevant information and generates responses.  ( 22 min )

In this post, we provide a data imputation solution using Amazon SageMaker AI, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions. This solution is designed for environmental analysts, public health officials, and business intelligence professionals who need reliable PM2.5 data for trend analysis, reporting, and decision-making. We sourced our sample training dataset from openAFRICA. Our solution predicts PM2.5 values using time-series forecasting.  ( 23 min )

The Amazon Finance technical team develops and manages comprehensive technology solutions that power financial decision-making and operational efficiency while standardizing across Amazon’s global operations. In this post, we explain how the team conceptualized and implemented a solution to these business challenges by harnessing the power of generative AI using Amazon Bedrock and intelligent search with Amazon Kendra.  ( 22 min )

In this post, we announce that Mercury and Mercury Coder foundation models from Inception Labs are now available through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. We demonstrate how to deploy these ultra-fast diffusion-based language models that can generate up to 1,100 tokens per second on NVIDIA H100 GPUs, and showcase their capabilities in code generation and tool use scenarios.  ( 24 min )

In this post, we show you how Amazon Health Services (AHS) solved discoverability challenges on Amazon.com search using AWS services such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon EMR. By combining machine learning (ML), natural language processing, and vector search capabilities, we improved our ability to connect customers with relevant healthcare offerings.  ( 22 min )

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Applying emerging technologies to the geospatial domain offers a unique opportunity to create transformative user experiences and intuitive workstreams for users and organizations to deliver on their missions and responsibilities. In this post, we explore how you can integrate existing systems with Amazon Bedrock to create new workflows to unlock efficiencies insights. This integration can benefit technical, nontechnical, and leadership roles alike.  ( 23 min )

As the model landscape expands, organizations face complex scenarios when selecting the right foundation model for their applications. In this blog post we present a systematic evaluation methodology for Amazon Bedrock users, combining theoretical frameworks with practical implementation strategies that empower data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to make optimal model selections.  ( 20 min )

In this post, we introduce our open source GenAI IDP Accelerator—a tested solution that we use to help customers across industries address their document processing challenges. Automated document processing workflows accurately extract structured information from documents, reducing manual effort. We will show you how this ready-to-deploy solution can help you build those workflows with generative AI on AWS in days instead of months.  ( 20 min )

In this post, we introduced three features in SageMaker HyperPod that enhance scalability and customizability for ML infrastructure. Continuous provisioning offers flexible resource provisioning to help you start training and deploying your models faster and manage your cluster more efficiently. With custom AMIs, you can align your ML environments with organizational security standards and software requirements.  ( 20 min )

This post is the second part of the GPT-OSS series focusing on model customization with Amazon SageMaker AI. In Part 1, we demonstrated fine-tuning GPT-OSS models using open source Hugging Face libraries with SageMaker training jobs, which supports distributed multi-GPU and multi-node configurations, so you can spin up high-performance clusters on demand. In this post, […]  ( 24 min )

We are excited to announce the public preview of support for inline code nodes in Amazon Bedrock Flows. With this powerful new capability, you can write Python scripts directly within your workflow, alleviating the need for separate AWS Lambda functions for simple logic. This feature streamlines preprocessing and postprocessing tasks (like data normalization and response formatting), simplifying generative AI application development and making it more accessible across organizations.  ( 18 min )

Amazon Q Business offers AWS customers a scalable and comprehensive solution for enhancing business processes across their organization. By carefully evaluating your use cases, following implementation best practices, and using the architectural guidance provided in this post, you can deploy Amazon Q Business to transform your enterprise productivity. The key to success lies in starting small, proving value quickly, and scaling systematically across your organization.  ( 20 min )

In this post, we walk through how you can use the new Code Editor and multiple spaces support in SageMaker Unified Studio. The sample solution shows how to develop an ML pipeline that automates the typical end-to-end ML activities to build, train, evaluate, and (optionally) deploy an ML model.  ( 21 min )

In this blog, we examine the use case of a large energy supplier whose technical help desk agents answer customer calls and support field agents. We use Amazon Bedrock along with capabilities from Infosys Topaz™ to build a generative AI application that can reduce call handling times, automate tasks, and improve the overall quality of technical support.  ( 23 min )

Built using Amazon Nova in Amazon Bedrock, The Fragrance Lab represents a comprehensive end-to-end application that illustrates the transformative power of generative AI in retail, consumer goods, advertising, and marketing. In this post, we explore the development of The Fragrance Lab. Our vision was to craft a unique blend of physical and digital experiences that would celebrate creativity, advertising, and consumer goods while capturing the spirit of the French Riviera.  ( 19 min )

In this post, we explore how Tyson Foods collaborated with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to revolutionize their customer interaction through an intuitive AI assistant integrated into their website. The AI assistant was built using Amazon Bedrock,  ( 26 min )

In this post, we demonstrate how to enhance AI agents’ capabilities by integrating predictive ML models using Amazon SageMaker AI and the MCP. By using the open source Strands Agents SDK and the flexible deployment options of SageMaker AI, developers can create sophisticated AI applications that combine conversational AI with powerful predictive analytics capabilities.  ( 22 min )

In this post, we explore how to enable and use trusted identity propagation in Amazon SageMaker Studio, which allows organizations to simplify access management by granting permissions to existing AWS IAM Identity Center identities. The solution demonstrates how to implement fine-grained access controls based on a physical user's identity, maintain detailed audit logs across supported AWS services, and support long-running user background sessions for training jobs.  ( 24 min )

This post demonstrates how to use foundation models (FMs) in Amazon Bedrock, specifically Amazon Nova Pro, to achieve high-accuracy document field localization while dramatically simplifying implementation. We show how these models can precisely locate and interpret document fields with minimal frontend effort, reducing processing errors and manual intervention.  ( 21 min )

We built an advanced RAG solution using Amazon Bedrock leveraging Infosys Topaz™ AI capabilities, tailored for the oil and gas sector. This solution excels in handling multimodal data sources, seamlessly processing text, diagrams, and numerical data while maintaining context and relationships between different data elements. In this post, we provide insights on the solution and walk you through different approaches and architecture patterns explored, like different chunking, multi-vector retrieval, and hybrid search during the development.  ( 23 min )

In this post, we explore how to design and implement custom plugins for Amazon Q Business to create an intelligent chatbot that streamlines employee training by retrieving answers from training materials. The solution implements secure API access using Amazon Cognito for user authentication and authorization, processes multiple document formats, and includes features like RAG-enhanced responses and email escalation capabilities through custom plugins.  ( 24 min )