Best Practices to help secure your container image build pipeline by using AWS Signer

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In June 2023, AWS announced Container Image Signing with AWS Signer and Amazon EKS, a new capability that gives you native AWS support for signing and verifying container images stored in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)... For more information on the value provided by container image signing, see Cryptographic Signing for Containers... Figure 1: Security IN the pipeline In ...

Mixtral-8x7B is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

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Today, we are excited to announce that the Mixtral-8x7B large language model (LLM), developed by Mistral AI, is available for customers through Amazon SageMaker JumpStart to deploy with one click for running inference... The Mixtral-8x7B LLM is a pre-trained sparse mixture of expert model, based on a 7-billion parameter backbone with eight experts per feed-forward layer... You can try out this mod...

Deploy foundation models with Amazon SageMaker, iterate and monitor with TruEra

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This blog is co-written with Josh Reini, Shayak Sen and Anupam Datta from TruEra Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides a variety of pretrained foundation models such as Llama-2 and Mistal 7B that can be quickly deployed to an endpoint... These foundation models perform well with generative tasks, from crafting text and summaries, answering questions, to producing images and videos... Despite the gr...

Build generative AI agents with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Kendra, Amazon Lex, and LangChain

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Generative AI agents are capable of producing human-like responses and engaging in natural language conversations by orchestrating a chain of calls to foundation models (FMs) and other augmenting tools based on user input... Instead of only fulfilling predefined intents through a static decision tree, agents are autonomous within the context of their suite of available tools... In this post, we d...

Access AWS using a Google Cloud Platform native workload identity

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In this post, we show you how to assume an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role in your AWS accounts to securely issue temporary credentials for applications that run on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)... Create a service account in GCP... Resources in GCP use service accounts to make API calls... When you create a GCP resource, such as a compute engine instance in GCP, a default se...

Your MySQL 5.7 and PostgreSQL 11 databases will be automatically enrolled into Amazon RDS Extended Support

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7 and PostgreSQL 11 database instances running on Amazon Aurora and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) will be automatically enrolled into Amazon RDS Extended Support starting on February 29, 2024... What is Amazon RDS Extended Support? In September 2023, we announced Amazon RDS Extended Support, which allows you to continue running your database on a major engine version past its RD...

Overcoming common contact center challenges with generative AI and Amazon SageMaker Canvas

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Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides business analysts with a visual point-and-click interface that allows you to build models and generate accurate machine learning (ML) predictions without requiring any ML experience or coding... In October 2023, SageMaker Canvas announced support for foundation models among its ready-to-use models, powered by Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart... In t...