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Amazon Bio Discovery

We live in wild times. AWS now has a service that helps scientists develop antibodies using AI. Allow me to introduce you to Amazon Bio Discovery. It allows scientists to collaborate at scale, and they boast 40+ AI Drug Discovery Models, so they're not just developing antibodies but new designer drugs as well. There is a lot more going on in there, and I am not going to lie, most of it is over my head, but it is fascinating to check out. It makes me wonder what kind of safeguards they have in...

AWS Lambda Managed Instances

Need more memory/CPU for your AWS Lambda Invocations? Then you might want to check out AWS Lambda Managed Instances. If you want to have more customization options for the underlying hardware your lambdas run on, then this is what you are looking for. It also unlocks the ability to use Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, which can lead to long-term savings. As of the time of this writing, I have NOT found any instances that have GPUs. It seems a little odd that they don’t allow that. I...

AWS Elemental Inference - Convert live streaming video from vertical to horizontal in seconds

Are you streaming live video horizontally like a dinosaur while your new Gen Z audience is consuming content vertically through the smart phone? If so you may want to check out AWS Elemental Inference. They boast not only smart clipping, which pretty much every video editing software does(not well), but also converting traditional horizontally formatted video to the vertical format you see in the short form content that exploded over the last decade. Now that is interesting as the vertical...

CTO Coffee Hour: Claude Mythos Preview

On today's episode, Matt & Dom dive into Claude Mythos Preview offered by Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Mythos Preview (Kinda…)

The world's most advanced cybersecurity AI model is now on AWS…if you are a giant tech company. AWS recently announced that AWS Bedrock will offer the now infamous Cloud Mythos model. Of course, as soon as I found out, I wanted to get my hands on it, so I went to Bedrock to spin up the malicious hacking tool only to find it wasn’t there. That is when I read the fine print: “Anthropic and AWS are taking a deliberately cautious approach to release, prioritizing internet-critical companies”....

Beware of AWS Bedrock’s Legacy and End-Of-Life Models

Right now, technology is advancing at an incredible pace, never before seen. Unfortunately, that comes with some drawbacks as well. As quickly as AWS Bedrock is adding new models, they are depreciating models, models you might be depending on. One of the things I love about AWS Bedrock is that they simplify hosting models, but only the models in their catalog. So if you use their incredibly convenient service to spin up a model in their catalog, just be aware that that same model could soon...

There are a lot of weird models out there that are doing increasingly obscure yet interesting tasks

Today, I want to introduce you to Netflix’s Void Model, which removes not only objects from videos but everything that the object has an effect on. Imagine you had a video of dominoes falling down, then you just removed a few of the dominoes in the middle. Once this model runs through the video, the first domino falls flat, and the dominoes after the missing dominoes just stand there. In their examples, they have another example of 2 cards plowing into each other in the source video, then the...

GitHub Copilot is coming for your data

GitHub, which used to be the knight in shining armor leading the open source movement, now wants to use all your code to train their AI agents to someday take your job. It all starts on April 24th, 2026. In their own words: From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out. I feel like I wouldn’t be as disgusted with this if the...

CTO Coffee Hour: AWS Agent Registry is now in preview

If you didn't catch our post yesterday, you're in luck. On today's CTO Coffee Hour episode, Matt & Dom dive into AWS Agent Registry that is now in preview. You can read more about it here: AWS Agent Registry is now in preview.

AWS Agent Registry is now in preview

Is your organization jumping on the Agentic AI bandwagon? If so, chances are your various teams could be creating redundant or overlapping tools. AWS wants to solve that with AWS Agent Registry. Agent Registry stores metadata on every MPC Server, Tool Call, Skills, and even Agents. This way, your various agents can query the registry and see what tools to call via MCP or what agents to collaborate with via A2A. This all sounds like a great way to burn cash on tokens or the start of Skynet....