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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…

Pinecone Expands Serverless Vector DBs In the Cloud

Running a vector database in the cloud will be easier now that Pinecone is offering its vector database as a serverless offerings in Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, to go along with an existing serverless product for A 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

Amazon Q Developer Reimagines How Developers Build and Operate Software with GenAI

Dec 4, 2024 |

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…

New Amazon Q Developer Capabilities Accelerate Large-Scale Transformations of Legacy Workloads

Dec 4, 2024 |

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…

AWS Advances Amazon Bedrock with AI Safeguards and Workflow Tools

Dec 4, 2024 |

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…

AWS Highlights Amazon SageMaker Updates to Bridge Analytics and AI

Dec 4, 2024 |

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…

Teradata Introduces ‘Rapid-Start’ Generative AI Use Cases with Amazon Bedrock Integration

Dec 4, 2024 |

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…

Immuta Announces Support for AWS Lake Formation

Dec 3, 2024 |

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…

AWS Announces New Database Capabilities Including Amazon Aurora DSQL

Dec 3, 2024 |

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…

AWS Trainium2 Instances Now Generally Available

Dec 3, 2024 |

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…

Amazon S3 Adds Managed Apache Iceberg for Faster Data Lake Analytics

Dec 3, 2024 |

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…

Oracle Unveils Limited Preview for Cloud Database Integration on AWS

Dec 2, 2024 |

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…

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