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In today’s tech-driven world, integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a game-changer for businesses aiming to boost efficiency, streamline operations, and uncover new opportunities. But for those just dipping their toes into the AI waters – whether they’re newbie engineers, CEOs, or startup founders – there’s a common dilemma: “What kind of AI fits my needs?” By the end of this I hope to unravel the AI maze, with a special focus on AWS services, offering insights to help you pick the perfect tools tailored to your goals.

Learn how to build serverless applications with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Step-by-step examples demonstrate creating serverless functions with Lambda and connecting them to APIs using SAM, the AWS Serverless Application Model CLI. Serverless concepts like triggers and events are also explained.

Create a simple website, build a Docker container, deploy to ECS Fargate as a serverless container architecture. Learn container basics, ECS clusters, task definitions and services.

If you’re like me you like to be across all the news, all the time.

There are a few key sources that I use to keep myself updated including:

• What’s New at AWS – Cloud Innovation & News
• Community.aws
• AWS News Blog

Each one of these sources has a slightly differing type of content but each is just as important as the other.

If you’re into your Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence/Generative AI and have been living under a rock, it may be news to you that Anthropic have now released their latest version of the Claude Large Language Model (LLM), which they have predictively named, Claude 3. But what’s not so predictable is that not only is this the third generation of Claude, but there are also three different variations of Claude.

In this post, we’re going to explore the creation of a basic, serverless, image cataloguing application using Claude 3 and explore how it enhances the functionality of our AI photo album application. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, this application leverages the poetic prowess of Claude 3 Haiku to provide insightful summaries of uploaded images.

Today, I want to dive into a topic that’s been buzzing around lately: security in AWS environments. As we kick off the year with new intentions and goals, it’s crucial to ensure that our AWS setups are fortified against potential threats. So, let’s delve into some fundamental steps you can take to bolster security within your AWS infrastructure.

A lot of customers have been talking about security recently. It’s the start of the year, new intentions means they want to get involved with different standards, etc. But the first place to start is with some basic foundations in security or as I call it, Well-Architected Security.

Start with the basic foundations of security before you go big. Otherwise, you’re going to find there’s a lot of work to do later.

Let’s go through my top 10 steps for securing your AWS Environment

Learn the top 10 security best practices for AWS accounts including multi-account strategy, network design, patch management, identity access management, permissions, and more.

Learn how to generate images from the Amazon Bedrock API using Python code tested in a Jupiter notebook within Amazon SageMaker Studio. The code makes API calls to Bedrock to generate images based on text prompts and saves the resulting images to an S3 bucket, demonstrating using SageMaker notebooks for iterative development and testing of code that interacts with AWS services.

Many individuals, builders or backend developers, often grapple with the challenge of balancing function and form. Ultimately, the success of our application hinges on ensuring that the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Proof of Concept (PoC), or prototype functions smoothly before investing substantial resources into a flashy frontend.

However, there lies a conundrum – how do we control access to our application without prematurely exposing it to the entire internet?

Over the last 2 weeks, we’ve seen a lot of AWS announcements. Yes, that’s right, it’s AWS pre:invent season ahead of AWS re:invent in Las Vegas.

I’ve reviewed 228 different announcements and come up with, in my opinion, the Top 5 announcements, some honourable mentions and some observations.

(Before we dive into this, I’ll also make it known that I’d never give an opinion of a service I was not experienced with, so some announcements may not have been included in my list)