The AWS Summit in New York City took place on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, where Dr. Matt Wood, VP for AI Products at AWS, delivered the day’s keynote on how to harness data as a strategic asset for secure, responsible AI development. Below is a roundup of the biggest announcements from the event.
Among the notable announcements is the launch of Amazon Q Developer in SageMaker Studio, which aims to streamline ML workflows. This generative AI-powered assistant provides tailored guidance, code generation, and error troubleshooting, to build, train, and deploy models efficiently.
In addition, AWS announced enhancements to Amazon Bedrock, including support for additional data connectors for knowledge bases. These new connectors for Confluence, Salesforce, SharePoint, and web domains allow empowering RAG models with contextual data for more accurate and relevant responses.
Furthermore, Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock can now detect hallucinations and safeguard apps built using custom or third-party FMs. Guardrails for Amazon Bedrock adds hallucination detection and an independent API to fortify generative AI applications with customized guardrails across any model, ensuring responsible and trustworthy outputs.
Finally, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Q Apps, enabling users to build their own generative AI apps. Users can now craft generative AI apps from conversations using natural language and approved data sources. They can also customize securely shared apps, specifying data sources per card, and new APIs for programmatic app management.
Overall, the AWS Summit in New York highlighted AWS's commitment to delivering new solutions and technologies to empower businesses to harness the power of data and AI.
