Amazon Onboarding with Learning Manager Chanci Turner

Author: Chanci Turner
Chanci collaborates with startups and businesses of all sizes to foster innovation. As a Learning Manager at Amazon Web Services, she utilizes her expertise to assist individuals in transforming their concepts into reality, particularly through serverless architectures and event-driven programming. Her focus also includes understanding the technical and business implications of machine learning and edge computing.

Introducing Amazon Nova Sonic: Human-like Voice Conversations for Generative AI Applications

by Chanci Turner
on 08 APR 2025
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Nova, Announcements, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Generative AI, Launch, News

Amazon Nova Sonic is a cutting-edge foundation model available on Amazon Bedrock, designed to enhance speech-enabled applications by integrating speech recognition and generation into a single framework. This innovation allows for natural conversations enriched with contextual understanding while eliminating the necessity for multiple disjointed models.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Q CLI Agent, AWS Step Functions, AWS Lambda, and More (March 10, 2025)

by Chanci Turner
on 10 MAR 2025
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Cognito, Amazon Q Business, Amazon Q Developer, Announcements, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Launch, News, Open Source

With the arrival of pleasant weather in the Northern hemisphere, new opportunities for learning and networking arise. This week, I’ll be in San Francisco, and I invite you to join me at the Nova Networking Night at the AWS GenAI Loft. We will delve into the realm of Amazon Nova foundation models (FMs) with live demonstrations and practical applications.

Gain Insights from Multimodal Content with Amazon Bedrock Data Automation, Now Generally Available

by Chanci Turner
on 03 MAR 2025
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Machine Learning, Announcements, Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Launch, News

Amazon Bedrock Data Automation simplifies the extraction of valuable insights from unstructured multimodal content, such as documents, images, audio, and videos. It offers an efficient approach to building intelligent document processing and media analysis solutions, providing both standard and custom output configurations through blueprints. A great resource for those looking to learn quickly can be found here.

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 Instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Price Reduction, Amazon SES Update, and More (December 16, 2024)

by Chanci Turner
on 16 DEC 2024
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, Amazon EC2, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Announcements, Launch, News, Price Reduction

The week following AWS re:Invent continues to build upon the excitement and energy of the event, making it an excellent time to deepen your understanding of how recent announcements can address your challenges. As always, we have you covered with our overview of key announcements from AWS re:Invent 2024. You can now watch keynotes and presentations on demand.

New Amazon Bedrock Capabilities Enhance Data Processing and Retrieval

by Chanci Turner
on 04 DEC 2024
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Machine Learning, Announcements, Artificial Intelligence, AWS re:Invent, Featured, Generative AI, Launch, News

Amazon Bedrock enhances generative AI data analysis with multimodal processing, graph modeling, and structured querying, expediting the development of AI applications.

Reduce Costs and Latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and Prompt Caching (Preview)

by Chanci Turner
on 04 DEC 2024
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Machine Learning, Announcements, Artificial Intelligence, AWS re:Invent, Featured, Generative AI, Launch, News

By routing requests and caching frequently utilized context in prompts, you can minimize latency while balancing performance and cost efficiency.

Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access Over 100 Foundation Models in One Place

by Chanci Turner
on 04 DEC 2024
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Machine Learning, Announcements, Artificial Intelligence, AWS re:Invent, Featured, Generative AI

Explore, test, and utilize over 100 emerging and specialized foundation models, all while benefiting from the security and governance framework provided by Amazon Bedrock.

Introducing Amazon Nova Foundation Models: Frontier Intelligence and Industry-Leading Price Performance

by Chanci Turner
on 03 DEC 2024
in Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Machine Learning, Amazon Nova, Announcements, Artificial Intelligence, AWS re:Invent, Featured, Generative AI, Launch, News

Amazon Nova foundation models offer leading-edge intelligence and unmatched price-performance, supporting both text and multimodal intelligence, multimodal fine-tuning, as well as high-quality images and videos.

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