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Databricks and AWS in AI Chip Hookup
AWS Trainium chips will be the preferred processors for training Mosaic AI models on the Databricks platform, the company announced today. The deal represents a blow to Nvidia’s continued AI dominance with its high-end Read more…
AWS Brings OpenSearch Under the Linux Foundation
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that the OpenSearch project has officially transitioned to the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a neutral, community-driven initiative under the Linux Foundation. OpenSearch is an Read more…
Oracle Bolsters Big Data, Analytics, and AI at CloudWorld
Oracle unleashed a torrent of new analytic and AI capabilities this week at its Oracle CloudWorld conference in Las Vegas. The fun kicked off yesterday with an expansion of capabilities in AWS and Google Cloud, updates t Read more…
Confluent Nabs Competitor WarpStream to Bolster Streaming in the Cloud
Well, that was quick. Barely a year after Kafka-compatible streaming startup WarpStream Labs opened its virtual doors, it’s been acquired by Confluent, the commercial outfit behind Apache Kafka. The big get for Conflue Read more…
Does Open Source Software Still Matter?
One of the hallmarks of the big data era has been widespread use of free and open source software. But in recent months, companies like Cockroach Labs and Anaconda have pulled back on their commitments to free and open s Read more…
The Road from Chatbots and Co-Pilots to LAMs and AI Agents
A recent Goldman Sachs report said the lack of a “killer app” for generative AI beyond chatbots and co-pilots could hinder its adoption. What GenAI needs, the analysts wrote, were AI-infused applications that could t Read more…
The Spark-to-Ray Migration That Will Save Amazon $100M+ Per Year
When Ray first emerged from the UC Berkeley RISELab back in 2017, it was positioned as a possible replacement for Apache Spark. But as Anyscale, the commercial outfit behind Ray, scaled up its own operations, the “Ray Read more…
Amazon Expands Guardrails Feature for Bedrock
Amazon is among several tech companies that implemented the recommendations by the White House to set guardrails for the responsible use of GenAI. This was part of an industry-wide initiative to promote safe and ethical Read more…
Don’t Believe the Big Database Hype, Stonebraker Warns
How we store and serve data are critical factors in what we can do with data, and today we want to do oh-so much. That big data necessity is the mother of all invention, and over the past 20 years, it has spurred an imme Read more…
This Just In
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 4, 2024 — Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) has announced new enhancements to Amazon Q Developer, including agents that automate unit testing, documentation, and code reviews to help developers build faster across the entire software development process, and a capability to help users address operational issues in a fraction of the time. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 4, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced new capabilities for Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI assistant for software development, that take the undifferentiated heavy-lifting out of complex and time-consuming application migration and modernization projects, saving customers and partners time and money. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 4, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service for building and scaling generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications with high-performing foundation models. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 4, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), has announced the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, unifying the capabilities customers need for fast SQL analytics, petabyte-scale big data processing, data exploration and integration, model development and training, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) into one integrated platform. Read more…
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4, 2024 — Teradata has announced it is strengthening its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver ‘rapid-start’ Gen AI use cases when leveraging Teradata VantageCloud on AWS, integrated with Amazon Bedrock. Read more…
BOSTON, Dec. 3, 2024 — Immuta, a data security company, announced today its support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lake Formation, a managed service that makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced new capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB to support customers’ most demanding workloads that need to operate across multiple Regions with strong consistency, low latency, and the highest availability whether they want SQL or NoSQL. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train and deploy today’s latest AI models as well as future large language models (LLM) and foundation models (FM) with exceptional levels of performance and cost efficiency, and unveiled next-generation Trainium3 chips. Read more…
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) today announced new Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) features that make S3 the first cloud object store with fully-managed support for Apache Iceberg for faster analytics and the easiest way to store and manage tabular data at any scale. Read more…
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 2, 2024 — Oracle today announced the limited preview of Oracle Database@AWS. Customers will now be able to run Oracle Exadata Database Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Amazon Web Services (AWS), starting with the AWS US East Region. Read more…