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Last week, Dr. Matt Wood, VP for AI Products at Amazon Web Services (AWS), delivered the keynote at the AWS Summit Los Angeles. Matt and guest speakers shared the latest advancements in generative artificial intelligence (generative AI), developer tooling, and foundational infrastructure, showcasing how they come together to change what’s possible for builders. You can watch the full keynote on YouTube. Announcements during the LA Summit included two new Amazon Q courses as part of Amazon’s AI Ready initiative to provide free AI skills training to 2 million people globally by 2025. The courses are part of the Amazon Q learning plan. But that’s not all that happened last week. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention: LlamaIndex support for Amazon Neptune — You can now build Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) applications by combining knowledge graphs stored in Amazon Neptune and LlamaIndex, a popular open source framework for building applications with large language models (LLMs) such as those available in Amazon Bedrock. To learn more, check the LlamaIndex documentation for Amazon Neptune Graph Store. AWS CloudFormation launches a new parameter called DeletionMode for the DeleteStack API — You can use the AWS CloudFormation DeleteStack API to delete your stacks and stack resources. However, certain stack resources can prevent the DeleteStack API from successfully completing, for example, when you attempt to delete non-empty Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. The DeleteStack API can enter into the DELETE_FAILED state in such scenarios. With this launch, you can now pass FORCE_DELETE_STACK value to the new DeletionMode parameter and delete such stacks. To learn more, check the DeleteStack API documentation. Mistral Small now available in Amazon Bedrock — The Mistral Small foundation model (FM) from Mistral AI is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. This a fast-follow to our recent announcements of Mistral 7B and Mixtral 8x7B in March, and Mistral Large in April. Mistral Small, developed by Mistral AI, is a highly efficient large language model (LLM) optimized for high-volume, low-latency language-based tasks. To learn more, check Esra’s post. New Amazon CloudFront edge location in Cairo, Egypt — The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a secure, highly distributed, and scalable content delivery network (CDN) that delivers static and dynamic content, APIs, and live and on-demand video with low latency and high performance. Customers in Egypt can expect up to 30 percent improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location. To learn more about AWS edge locations, visit CloudFront edge locations. Amazon OpenSearch Service zero-ETL integration with Amazon S3 — This Amazon OpenSearch Service integration offers a new efficient way to query operational logs in Amazon S3 data lakes, eliminating the need to switch between tools to analyze data. You can get started by installing out-of-the-box dashboards for AWS log types such as Amazon VPC Flow Logs, AWS WAF Logs, and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB). To learn more, check out the Amazon OpenSearch Service Integrations page and the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide. For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What's New at AWS page. Other AWS news Here are some additional news items and a Twitch show that you might find interesting: Build On Generative AI — Now streaming every Thursday, 2:00 PM US PT on twitch.tv/aws, my colleagues Tiffany and Mike discuss different aspects of generative AI and invite guest speakers to demo their work. Check out show notes and the full list of episodes on community.aws. Amazon Bedrock Studio bootstrapper script — We’ve heard your feedback! To everyone who struggled setting up the required AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and permissions to get started with Amazon Bedrock Studio: You can now use the Bedrock Studio bootstrapper script to automate the creation of the permissions boundary, service role, and provisioning role. Upcoming AWS events Check your calendars and sign up for these AWS events: AWS Summits — It’s AWS Summit season! Join free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Register in your nearest city: Dubai (May 29), Bangkok (May 30), Stockholm (June 4), Madrid (June 5), and Washington, DC (June 26–27). AWS re:Inforce — Join us for AWS re:Inforce (June 10–12) in Philadelphia, PA. AWS re:Inforce is a learning conference focused on AWS security solutions, cloud security, compliance, and identity. Connect with the AWS teams that build the security tools and meet AWS customers to learn about their security journeys. AWS Community Days — Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world: Midwest | Columbus (June 13), Sri Lanka (June 27), Cameroon (July 13), New Zealand (August 15), Nigeria (August 24), and New York (August 28). You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events. That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup! — Antje This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! View the full article

Today, we are announcing the availability of the Amazon Neptune connector for Nodestream, the Parquet input file format for Nodestream, and the Nodestream Security Bill Of Material (SBOM) plug-in for CycloneDX and SPDX file formats. View the full article

Welcome to March’s post announcing new training and certification updates — helping equip you and your teams with the skills to work with AWS services and solutions. This month we launched eight new digital training products on AWS Skill Builder, including four new AWS Builder Labs and a free learning plan called, Generative AI Developer Kit. We also have three new, and one updated AWS Classroom Training courses—two of which have AWS Partner versions—including Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS. A reminder: registration is now open for the new AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate exam. You can begin preparing with curated exam prep resources, created by the experts at AWS, on AWS Skill Builder. Missed our February course update? Check it out here. New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally, including Mainland China as of this month, and unlock enhanced AWS Certification exam prep and hands-on AWS Cloud training including 1,000+ interactive learning and lab experiences like AWS Cloud Quest, AWS Industry Quest, AWS Builder Labs, and AWS Jam challenges. Select plans offer access to AWS Digital Classroom courses to dive deep with expert instruction. Try a 7-day free trail of Individual subscription. *terms and conditions apply AWS Builder Labs Migrate On-Premises Servers to AWS Using Application Migration Service (MGN) (60 min.) is an intermediate-level lab providing you an opportunity to learn how to use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate an existing workload to AWS. Migrate On-premises Databases to AWS Using AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) (75 min.) is an intermediate-level lab providing you an opportunity to learn how to use AWS Database Migration Service to migrate an existing database to Amazon Aurora. Data Modeling for Amazon Neptune (60 min.) is an intermediate-level lab providing you an opportunity to explore the process of modeling data with Amazon Neptune to meet prescribed use cases. Analyzing CloudWatch Logs with Kinesis Data Streams and Kinesis Data Analytics(4 hr.) is an advanced-level, challenge-based lab allowing you to learn how to use Amazon CloudWatch to collect Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) system logs and use Amazon Kinesis to analyze the collected data. AWS Certification exam preparation and updates Now available: AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate Registration is now open for the AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate. Showcase your knowledge and skills in core data-related AWS services, implementing data pipelines, and providing high-quality data for business insights. Gain confidence going into exam day with trusted exam prep on AWS Skill Builder, including an Official Pretest, available now in all exam languages. Free digital courses on AWS Skill Builder The following digital courses on AWS Skill Builder are free to all learners, along with 600+ free digital courses and learning plans. Digital learning plan Generative AI Developer Kit (includes labs) (16h 30 min.) is a collection of curated courses, labs, and challenges to develop the skills needed to build generative AI applications. Software developers interested in leveraging large language models without fine-tuning will benefit from this collection. You’ll receive an overview of generative AI, learn to plan a generative AI project, get started with Amazon CodeWhisperer and Amazon Bedrock, learn the foundations of prompt engineering, and discover the architecture patterns to build generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock and Langchain. Digital courses Decarbonization with AWS Introduction (15 min.) is a fundamental-level course that teaches you about AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool and other resources that can be used to advance your sustainability goals. You’ll learn how businesses use the AWS Customer Carbon Footprint Tool, how it helps you reduce your carbon footprint and achieve decarbonization goals with AWS, and considerations for using the tool for a variety of optimal usage and cost savings considerations. Amazon Redshift Introduction (15 min.) is a fundamental-level course that provides an introduction to Amazon Redshift, including its common uses and benefits. AWS Mainframe Modernization – Using Replatform Tools with Amazon AppStream (60 min.) is an intermediate-level course teaching the setup and usage of Micro Focus tools from OpenText, such as Enterprise Analyzer and Enterprise Developer, with Amazon AppStream 2.0. AWS Classroom Training Designing and Implementing Storage on AWS is a three-day, intermediate-level course teaching you to select, design, implement, and optimize secure storage solutions to save on time and cost, improve performance and scale, and accelerate innovation. You’ll explore AWS storage services and solutions for storing, accessing, and protecting your data. An expert AWS instructor will help you understand where, how, and when to take advantage of different storage services. Learn how to best evaluate the appropriate AWS storage service options to meet your use case and business requirements. Build Modern Applications with AWS NoSQL Databases is a one-day, intermediate-level course to help you understand how to build applications that involve complex data characteristics and millisecond performance requirements from your databases. You’ll learn to use purpose-built databases to build typical modern applications with diverse access patterns and real-time scaling needs. AnAWS Partner version is also available. Running Containers on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) is an updated, three-day, intermediate-level course from an expert AWS instructor that teaches container management and orchestration for Kubernetes using Amazon EKS. You’ll build an Amazon EKS cluster, configure the environment, deploy the cluster, and add applications to your cluster. Learn how to also manage container images using Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) and automate application deployment. Developing Generative AI Applications on AWS is a two-day, advanced-level course that teaches you the basics, benefits, and associated terminology of generative AI. An expert AWS instructor will guide you through planning a generative AI project and the foundations of prompt engineering to develop generative AI applications with AWS services. By the end of the course, you’ll have the skills needed to build applications that can generate and summarize text, answer questions, and interact with users using a chatbot interface. An AWS Partner version is also available. View the full article

Amazon Neptune is authorized for Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Levels 4 and 5 (DoD SRG IL4 and IL5) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. View the full article