AWS EC2 instance types: Challenges and best practices for hosting your applications in AWS

When it comes to hosting applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of the most important decisions you will need to make is which Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance type to choose. EC2 instances are virtual machines that allow you to run your applications on AWS. They come in various sizes and configurations—known as …

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Persistent Systems shapes the future of software engineering with Amazon CodeWhisperer

Amazon CodeWhisperer, the AWS AI coding companion, is a step change in developer productivity tools. Based on generative AI technology, Amazon CodeWhisperer offers contextualized code snippets or recommendations based on natural language prompts to build software quickly, responsibly, and securely. It enables productivity gains and increases accuracy for accelerated digital transformations. Amazon CodeWhisperer ensures enterprises …

Three lessons from weather forecasting that will improve disease forecasting and outbreak prediction

The popularity and wide use of weather forecasts has been largely attributable to the dramatic improvement in forecast accuracy. Such improvements have been quantified in recent research showing that modern 5-day weather forecasts are as accurate as 1-day forecasts in 1980. Disease forecasts are not nearly as accurate as modern weather forecasts, as documented in ongoing evaluations …

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Language to rewards for robotic skill synthesis

Posted by Wenhao Yu and Fei Xia, Research Scientists, Google Empowering end-users to interactively teach robots to perform novel tasks is a crucial capability for their successful integration into real-world applications. For example, a user may want to teach a robot dog to perform a new trick, or teach a manipulator robot how to organize …