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Season 3 Episode 40 - Lambda's Birthday, CloudFormation Timeline & Bedrock Agents
Manage episode 450862197 series 3426452
In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour....
06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
- Overview of the original PR FAQ document for Lambda
- Lambda was the first functions-as-a-service offering
- Lambda originally only supported Node.js, now supports many more languages and frameworks
- Billing granularity has improved from 250ms increments originally to 1ms now
- Cold start times for Java apps reduced by 90% with SnapStart
15:49 - Peek inside your AWS CloudFormation Deployments with timeline view
- It provides a waterfall view of CloudFormation deployments
- Helps identify bottlenecks and long-running operations
- Can help optimize deployments by splitting stacks, parallelizing, etc.
21:11 - Amazon considering further investment in Anthropic
- Amazon invested $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in March 2022
- Reportedly wants Anthropic to use AWS Inferentia chips instead of Nvidia
- Anthropic was co-founded by former OpenAI executives
- Alphabet has also invested significantly in Anthropic
28:08 - Amazon Q Developer plugins now generally available for the AWS Management Console
- Plugins allow Q Developer to interface with third-party services like Datadog and Whiz
- Provides easy access to information without leaving the AWS console
- Limited to fairly simple questions currently
33:50 - How Amazon Bedrock Agents work
- Agents are like small orchestration software tools
- Have capabilities like memory, prompting users, invoking APIs
- Built using LLMs like Titan - Continuously run to provide answers to users
Guest was Chetan Hirapara
100 episodes
Manage episode 450862197 series 3426452
In Season 3, Episode 40 Karl & Jon are joined by AWS Community Builder, Chetan Hirapara. They discuss Lambda, CloudFormation Deployments, Anthropic, Amazon Q Developer plugins, Amazon Bedrock Agents and Karl suggests that you should choose a cloud provider based on your favourite colour....
06:53 - AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it
- Overview of the original PR FAQ document for Lambda
- Lambda was the first functions-as-a-service offering
- Lambda originally only supported Node.js, now supports many more languages and frameworks
- Billing granularity has improved from 250ms increments originally to 1ms now
- Cold start times for Java apps reduced by 90% with SnapStart
15:49 - Peek inside your AWS CloudFormation Deployments with timeline view
- It provides a waterfall view of CloudFormation deployments
- Helps identify bottlenecks and long-running operations
- Can help optimize deployments by splitting stacks, parallelizing, etc.
21:11 - Amazon considering further investment in Anthropic
- Amazon invested $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic in March 2022
- Reportedly wants Anthropic to use AWS Inferentia chips instead of Nvidia
- Anthropic was co-founded by former OpenAI executives
- Alphabet has also invested significantly in Anthropic
28:08 - Amazon Q Developer plugins now generally available for the AWS Management Console
- Plugins allow Q Developer to interface with third-party services like Datadog and Whiz
- Provides easy access to information without leaving the AWS console
- Limited to fairly simple questions currently
33:50 - How Amazon Bedrock Agents work
- Agents are like small orchestration software tools
- Have capabilities like memory, prompting users, invoking APIs
- Built using LLMs like Titan - Continuously run to provide answers to users
Guest was Chetan Hirapara
100 episodes
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