AWS, once a nice little side hustle for Amazon’s eCommerce business, has grown over the years into a behemoth that’s on a $27 billion run rate, one that’s still growing at around 45 percent a year. That’s a highly successful business by any measure, but as I listened to AWS executives last week at their […]
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New AWS tool helps customers understand best cloud practices
Since 2015, AWS has had a team of solution architects working with customers to make sure they are using AWS services in a way that meets best practices around a set of defined criteria. Today, the company announced a new Well Architected tool that helps customers do this themselves in an automated way without the […]
View More New AWS tool helps customers understand best cloud practicesAWS announces a slew of new Lambda features
AWS launched Lambda in 2015 and with it helped popularize serverless computing. You simply write code (event triggers) and AWS deals with whatever compute, memory and storage you need to make that work. Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced several new features to make it more developer friendly, while acknowledging that […]
View More AWS announces a slew of new Lambda featuresAWS launches a managed Kafka service
Kafka is an open source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit easier for its users with the launch of Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka. That’s a mouthful, but it’s essentially Kafka as […]
View More AWS launches a managed Kafka serviceAWS is bringing the cloud on prem with Outposts
AWS has always been the pure cloud vendor, and even though it has given a nod to hybrid, it is now fully embracing it. Today in conjunction with VMware, it announced a pair of options to bring AWS into the data center. Yes, you read it correctly. You can now put AWS into your data […]
View More AWS is bringing the cloud on prem with OutpostsAWS launches Amazon Forecast to make time series predictions easier
Amazon’s AWS launched Amazon Forecast, a new pre-built machine learning tool today that will make it easier for developer to generate predictions based on time-series data. While predictions are pretty much the most standard use case for machine learning, building them still takes some skill. Amazon, of course, has already built plenty of these models […]
View More AWS launches Amazon Forecast to make time series predictions easierAmazon debuts a scale model autonomous car to teach developers machine learning
Amazon today announced AWS DeepRacer, a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car that aims to help developers learn machine learning. Priced at $399 but currently offered for $249, the race car lets developers to get hands-on – literally – with a machine learning technique called reinforcement learning (RL). RL takes a different approach to training […]
View More Amazon debuts a scale model autonomous car to teach developers machine learningAWS Textract brings intelligence to OCR
One of the challenges just about every business faces is converting forms to a useful digital format. This has typically involved using human data entry clerks to enter the data into the computer. State of the art involved using OCR to read forms automatically, but AWS CEO Andy Jassy explained that OCR is basically just a […]
View More AWS Textract brings intelligence to OCRAmazon Elastic Inference will reduce deep learning costs by ~75%
AWS today announced Amazon Elastic Inference, a new service that lets customers attach GPU-powered inference acceleration to any Amazon EC2 instance.
View More Amazon Elastic Inference will reduce deep learning costs by ~75%Amazon launches an automated labeling service for its SageMaker machine learning tool
You can’t build a good machine learning model without good training data. But building those training sets is hard, often manual work, that involves labeling thousand and thousands of images, for example. With SageMaker, AWS has been working on a service that makes building machine learning models a lot easier. But until today, that labeling […]
View More Amazon launches an automated labeling service for its SageMaker machine learning toolAWS announces new Inferentia machine learning chip
AWS is not content to cede any part of any market to any company. When it comes to machine learning chips, names like Nvidia or Google come to mind, but today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced a new dedicated machine learning chip of its own called Inferentia. “Inferentia will be a very […]
View More AWS announces new Inferentia machine learning chipAWS launches a managed blockchain service
It was only a year ago that AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that he wasn’t all that interested in blockchain services. Clearly something has changed over the course of the last year because today, the company is launching two new blockchain services: Quantum Ledger Database and Amazon Managed Blockchain. As the name implies, AWS Managed […]
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