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More than 700 million people around the world don’t have their basic needs met when it comes to healthcare and social services. We are working hard to change that. Amazon Web Services is committing an additional $20 million in funding to solve for gaps in health equity. This is on top of

This morning, I held a roundtable with some of the leading AI CEOs and stakeholders as part of the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium. By working together, we can develop the measurements and standards needed to maintain America’s competitive edge and develop AI responsibly.

We’re celebrating AWS #PiDay AND the 18th birthday of our first generally available service, Amazon S3! Since it launched, S3 has grown to become the world’s most popular cloud data store with more than 350 trillion objects and now 1 million+ data lakes running on Amazon Web Services. S3

Exciting news for builders from Amazon Web Services! ⬇️

🚀 Today, we are thrilled to share that Amazon Q is now generally available. ◼Amazon Q is the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging companies’ internal data. It eliminates tedious work for developers and employees

.Alla Seiffert @ [email protected] of AWS for Government was joined by Homeland Security's Chris Kraft and Dept. of Agriculture's Rebecca Piazza at #AWSInnovate. They discussed how their agencies and stakeholder communities are leveraging GenAI and traditional AI, and addressed the AI risk framework established by OMB 24-10.

Today, George Mason University's George Mason Costello released a white paper on the potential effects of raising the micro-purchase threshold for federal #procurement. More info here: business.gmu.edu/news/2024-06/b…

I throw my arms up in the air sometimes…Saying ayeoh, I’m a saguaro. 🌵 📸SaguaroNationalPark

.Anthropic's latest model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, just released on Amazon Bedrock today. This model combines the speed and affordability customers have really liked thus far from the original Sonnet model, but with much better performance. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the best performing

Thank you to all of our speakers, Kathy Boockvar, Alla Seiffert @ [email protected], Margaret Palmieri, and Tammy Haddad, for joining the “AI: Navigating Promises and Protections” panel at #FutureSummit!

Let's Encrypt is now used by more than 500,000,000 websites!!! I could not be more happy and proud of everyone who has played a part in this colossal contribution to online safety, integrity, and confidentiality: letsencrypt.org/stats Let's Encrypt

It’s been three years since I was last at #AWSreInvent and excited to be back. Am going to try doing a few low-key videos this week on recapping what I’m excited about and what we’re hearing from customers. Will start this series with a little reminiscing about the origin of AWS

We’re on the second day of #AWSreInvent. It was an amazing experience to see Andy Jassy being back on the stage and Matt Garman acing it :) Personally, I’m proud of what my team and I worked on that was launched today. It’s hard for me to pick favorites—from Aurora DSQL to DynamoDB

An underrated feeling is when you meet someone, and you realize you have a mutual friend, so you take a picture together and send it to that friend with no context. What a rush!

🛡️ Cybersecurity starts with readiness, and your input matters! Developers, tech leaders, and manufacturers: help shape the future of digital security by taking the Cybersecurity Readiness & Best Practices Survey. 🌐 👉 Share your insights: hubs.la/Q032Zz9M0

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How does the U.S. government buy and use AI tools, and how can it improve? February 24 at 3pm ET, join Alla Seiffert @ [email protected] of @aws_gov & CSET’s Matthias Oschinski, moderated by Elizabeth Laird of Center for Democracy & Technology. Hosted by Beeck Center, and GU's Tech Institute. (RSVP in comments)

🏦 AWS is accelerating GSA's OneGov strategy with up to $1B in cloud savings to modernize systems & lead in AI innovation. Learn more about how your agency can benefit. 🔗 ️go.aws/4mxB7JN

Build multi-modal AI agents that scale 🤖 New 3-part series: ✅ Process images, docs & videos ✅ Persistent memory (FAISS → S3 Vectors) ✅ Prototype to production ✅ Few lines of code dev.to/aws/building-s… #AWS #AI