AWS Goodies - July 12, 2024

I'm getting ready for today's AWS OnAir stream and looking forward to the weekend! Before I wrap up, I have another big collection of AWS goodies to share with you:

GenAI Loft Tour - The AWS GenAI Lofts are a global tour of pop-up collaborative spaces and immersive experiences for startups and developers that will take residence in innovation and AI hubs around the globe (Bengaluru, San Francisco, S?o Paulo, London, and Paris) for up to 12 weeks. Each session will feature programs, workshops, and tools desighed to help developers, startups, and AI enthusiasts to go hands-on experience with AI services and products from AWS and AWS partners. Read the new blog post, AWS launches GenAI Loft Tour to accelerate AI innovation in startup and developer communities worldwide, to learn more.

Bedrock Prompt Management & Flows - This post (Streamline generative AI development in Amazon Bedrock) introduces some attractive prompt management tools for Amazon Bedrock:

Today, we’re excited to introduce two powerful new features for Amazon Bedrock: Prompt Management and Prompt Flows, in public preview. These features are designed to accelerate the development, testing, and deployment of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications, enabling developers and business users to create more efficient and effective solutions that are easier to maintain. You can use the Prompt Management and Flows features graphically on the Amazon Bedrock console or Amazon Bedrock Studio, or programmatically through the Amazon Bedrock SDK APIs.

AWS Developer Advocate, Video Content - We are hiring for this very cool role in Seattle and San Francisco: Developer Advocate, Video Content, AWS Developer Experience. Here's what you will do:

As a practitioner, a customer zero, and a hands-on user of some of the most exciting AWS services, you will experiment with technology on AWS to solving top developer use cases, while showing the world what is possible through creative and approachable videos. You will engage AWS and non-AWS communities, drive our efforts in this fast-evolving field, and dive deeper in AI-assisted development, developer productivity, practical application of LLMs, building agentic systems, and more.

AI and GenAI in Manufacturing - A new blog post, Empowering Manufacturing Innovation: How AI & GenAI Centers of Excellence can drive Modernization, dives deeps into the intersection of AI and manufacturing:

Technologies such as machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and Generative AI (GenAI) unlock a new era of efficient and sustainable manufacturing while empowering the workforce. Areas where AI can be applied in manufacturing include predictive maintenance, defect detection, supply chain visibility, demand forecasting, product design, and many more.

Prompt Engineering for Financial Statement Analysis - This new blog post, Empowering analysts to perform financial statement analysis, hypothesis testing, and cause-effect analysis with Amazon Bedrock and prompt engineering, dives very deep into the use of prompt engineering for financial statement analysis:

Using Anthropic’s Claude 3 Sonnet model on Amazon Bedrock with financial data can enable financial analysts to provide contextual insights from various data modalities (image, text) combining with advanced prompting. It can help enhance analysts’ productivity through the ability to perform financial analysis and calculations using natural language (English) prompts, reducing time.

AWS Simulearn - We added a new learning experience to AWS SkillBuilder. AWS SimulLearn (game-based learning) puts you in realistic customer scenarios (powered by GenAI) where you can ask about customer needs and receive an AI-agent-powered grade on your interviewing skills! Watch this video to learn more:

IAM Policy Visualization/Scanning - awsViz visualizes one more more IAM policies and performs a security scan. You can upload a ZIP file with all of your policies (read the Help to see how to create the file) or simply paste a single JSON-format policy. This tool will help you to understand and ultimately improve your security profile, be sure to check it out:

And that should do it for today. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!