Tag: ai/ml

Since its general availability in 2024, Amazon Q Business (Amazon Q) has enabled independent software vendors (ISVs) to enhance their Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions through secure access to customers’ enterprise data by becoming Amazon Q Business data accessor. To find out more on data accessor, see this page. The data accessor now supports …

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Editor’s note: Target set out to modernize its digital search experience to better match guest expectations and support more intuitive discovery across millions of products. To meet that challenge, they rebuilt their platform with hybrid search powered by filtered vector queries and AlloyDB AI. The result: a faster, smarter, more resilient search experience that’s already …

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Training and deploying large AI models requires advanced distributed computing capabilities, but managing these distributed systems shouldn’t be complex for data scientists and machine learning (ML) practitioners. The newly released command line interface (CLI) and software development kit (SDK) for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod simplify how you can use the service’s distributed training and inference capabilities. …

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The Agent Development Kit (ADK) Hackathon is officially wrapped. The hackathon wrapped up with over 10,400 participants from 62 countries, resulting in 477 submitted projects and over 1,500 agents built! Building on the excitement from our initial announcement, the hackathon proved to be an invaluable opportunity for developers to experiment with cutting-edge technologies and build …

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This post was co-written with Nick Frichette and Vijay George from Datadog.  As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Bedrock for generative AI applications, protecting against misconfigurations that could lead to data leaks or unauthorized model access becomes critical. The AWS Generative AI Adoption Index, which surveyed 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries, revealed that 45% …

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This post is co-written with Julieta Rappan, Macarena Blasi, and María Candela Blanco from the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. The Government of the City of Buenos Aires continuously works to improve citizen services. In February 2019, it introduced an AI assistant named Boti available through WhatsApp, the most widely used messaging service …

Read more “Meet Boti: The AI assistant transforming how the citizens of Buenos Aires access government information with Amazon Bedrock”

Today, we are excited to announce that Mercury and Mercury Coder foundation models (FMs) from Inception Labs are available through Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, you can deploy the Mercury FMs to build, experiment, and responsibly scale your generative AI applications on AWS. In this post, we demonstrate how to …

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Healthcare discovery on ecommerce domains presents unique challenges that traditional product search wasn’t designed to handle. Unlike searching for books or electronics, healthcare queries involve complex relationships between symptoms, conditions, treatments, and services, requiring sophisticated understanding of medical terminology and customer intent. This challenge became particularly relevant for Amazon as we expanded beyond traditional ecommerce …

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Today, we announced native image generation and editing in Gemini 2.5 Flash to deliver higher-quality images and more powerful creative control. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is State of the Art (SOTA) for both generation and image editing. For creative use cases, this means you can create richer, more dynamic visuals and edit images until they’re …

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