AWS Week in Review – August 8, 2022

As an ex-.NET developer, and now Developer Advocate for .NET at AWS, I’m excited to bring you this week’s Week in Review post, for reasons that will quickly become apparent! There are several updates, customer stories, and events I want to bring to your attention, so let’s dive straight in! Last Week’s launches.NET developers, here Read more about AWS Week in Review – August 8, 2022[…]

Majority of Alexa Now Running on Faster, More Cost-Effective Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances

Today, we are announcing that the Amazon Alexa team has migrated the vast majority of their GPU-based machine learning inference workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia. This resulted in 25% lower end-to-end latency, and 30% lower cost compared to GPU-based instances for Alexa’s text-to-speech workloads. The lower latency Read more about Majority of Alexa Now Running on Faster, More Cost-Effective Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances[…]

Registration for Amazon re:MARS 2020 is OPEN 🎉

Can you believe it? It’s almost time for re:MARS 2020 ! It’ll be from June 16-19 in Las Vegas, NV, with standard pricing at $1999. This year we have an all-new Amazon re:MARS Developer Day for engineers and developers to engage with Amazon product teams. We’ll also have breakout sessions just like last year where leaders, thinkers, Read more about Registration for Amazon re:MARS 2020 is OPEN 🎉[…]

Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – April AWS Online Tech Talks

Join us this April to learn about AWS services and solutions. The AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks, led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, feature technical deep dives, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts. Register Read more about Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – April AWS Online Tech Talks[…]

Jenkins + Alexa: Say Hello to Voice Controlled CI/CD

This is a guest post by Kesha Williams. Integrating Jenkins with Alexa to launch your pipelines and obtain results about your deployments through voice is easier than you think. Learn how Alexa Champion, Kesha Williams’, latest side project teaches Alexa to deploy code to the cloud. Alexa (named after the ancient library of Alexandria) is Read more about Jenkins + Alexa: Say Hello to Voice Controlled CI/CD[…]