Announcement — Amazon Bedrock Anthropic Claude 2.1 Claude 2.1 delivers key capabilities for enterprises, such as an industry-leading 200,000 token context window (2x the context of Claude 2.0), reduced rates of hallucination, improved accuracy over long documents, system prompts, and a beta tool use feature for function calling and workflow orchestration. References: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/claude-2-1-foundation-model-anthropic-amazon-bedrock/

Announcement — Amazon S3 Express One Zone Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. References: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-s3-express-one-zone-storage-class/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/mountpoint-amazon-s3-express-one-zone-storage-class/

Announcement — Amazon Aurora Limitless Database (currently in preview) Aurora Limitless Database scales write throughput and storage capacity of your database beyond the limits of a single Aurora writer instance. References: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-aurora-limitless-database/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-preview-amazon-aurora-limitless-database/

When developing modern applications, we almost immediately think about wrapping our application components inside Containers — it may not be the only architectural alternative, but a very common one. Assuming our developers and DevOps teams have the required expertise to work with Containers, we still need to think about maintaining…

Using modern cloud environments, specifically production environments, decreases the need for human access. It makes sense for developers to have access to Dev or Test environments, but in a properly designed production environment, everything should be automated — from deployment, and observability to self-healing. In most cases, no human access…

This post was originally published by the Cloud Security Alliance. The use of the public cloud has become the new norm for any size organization. Organizations are adopting cloud services, migrating systems to the cloud, consuming SaaS applications, and beginning to see the true benefits of the public cloud. In…

The past couple of years brought us tons of examples of using generative AI to improve many aspects of our lives. We can see vendors, with strong community and developers’ support, introducing more and more services for almost any aspect of our lives. The two most famous examples are ChatGPT…

This post was originally published by the Cloud Security Alliance. SaaS (Software as a Service) is the most common cloud service model. According to the Shared Responsibility Model, “The consumer does not manage or control the underlying cloud infrastructure”. As customers, this leaves us with very little control over services…

In 2020, the world has suddenly stopped due to the pandemic. A couple of years later, we began to see changes in the way both home consumers and organizations are using technology. Common areas that have changed in the post-covid era Here are a couple of areas that adapted in the post-covid era: Customer support Traditional engagement methods (such as phone…