
Posts tagged “aws”
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AWS Machine Learning – Harness the power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock Agents
I’ve been digging into this new AWS blog post about Model Context Protocol MCP servers and their integration with Amazon Bedrock Agents, and I have to say, I’m...


Extended Thinking with Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon Bedrock is Wow!
I think the title of this blog post kinda sums it up. I've been testing out the new Extended Thinking capability with Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet on Amazon...

Chat-CLI and Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic released a major upgrade to their Claude Sonnet LLM today with version 3.7. Shortly after it was announced, Amazon announced availability via Amazon...
Implementing least privilege access for Amazon Bedrock
This is a really useful and well explained blog post on how to apply the Principal of Least Privilege with Amazon Bedrock. This is a topic I get asked about on...
Lightweight LLM for converting text to structured data
In two recent papers we published at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing EMNLP and on ArXiv, we presented a native approach to...

Chat-CLI v0.4.5 is here, kind of
I was really excited to start writing this blog post after pushing v0.4.5 into existence. I added quite a few new capabilities and refactored a lot of code,...
AWS re:Invent 2024 – Reimagining the developer experience at AWS
I’m up on a Monday morning ready to dive into this session. I watched the first 15 minutes of it live and have been meaning to go through it all. Super...
Processing Amazon Bedrock log data with Go
Yesterday I wrote about an idea to allow users of my Chat-CLI program to save their chats and load them up again. My idea led me to design and build a...

Notes on Building Conversations Support for Chat-CLI
I've spent a bit of time over the past couple of days thinking more critically about how I'd like to evolve my Chat-CLI project. One of the capabilities I've...
AWS re:Invent 2024 – Event-driven architectures at scale: Manage millions of events
There's an incredible number of videos already on YouTube from this year's re:Invent. In fact, most were up within 24 hours following the live session. It sort...

Generating video from still images with Amazon Nova Reel
I suspect I'll be posting a lot of these in the weeks ahead as it's fascinating to me what you can do with the new Nova Reel and Canvas models. In a previous...

Generating videos based on generated images with Amazon Nova Canvas and Reel
I've been experimenting a little with the new Nova models on Amazon Bedrock. I'm currently just doing this all through the AWS Console. Nova Reel has the...

Adding ALL Amazon Bedrock models and more to Chat-CLI
Earlier I wrote about updating my Chat-CLI project to support the latest Amazon Nova models. It occurred to me by the end of writing that post that I needed to...
Experimenting with Arcee Lite on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace
The recent announcement of the Amazon Bedrock Marketplace is really exciting. You can now provision over 150 LLMs from a growing list of providers and access...

Use models from Amazon Bedrock Marketplace in Chat-CLI
In a previous post I talked about getting up and running with LLMs via the new Amazon Bedrock Marketplace. So, naturally I have added functionality to Chat-CLI...

Adding Amazon Nova models to Chat-CLI
I've just updated Chat-CLI to support the new Nova models from Amazon that were announced at yesterday's re:Invent keynote. You will need to update your Model...
Install Chat-CLI with Homebrew
This took me a minute to figure out, but you can now easily install Chat-CLI using the popular "missing package manager for macOS or linux" called Homebrew....

Day 1: re:Invent 2024 from the basement
I'm not at re:Invent this year. It's ok, I was able to go last year, and will attempt to attend next year. But, I am observing from afar, from the comfort of...

The future of Chat-CLI
Lately I have been thinking about what's next for Chat-CLI. It started as a way for me to kick the tires on Amazon Bedrock, back when Bedrock was in public...
AWS: CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service holding hands
New Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service launch an integrated analytics experience...
Pre-Invent Roundup
AWS Weekly Roundup: multiple new launches, AI training partnership with Anthropic, and join AWS re:Invent virtually Nov 25, 2024...
Decision Guide: AWS Fargate or AWS Lambda?
AWS Fargate or AWS Lambda? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/decision-guides/latest/fargate-or-lambda/fargate-or-lambda.html There is a new and very useful decision...
Mark Sailes – Driving Technical Change in Large Organizations: A Guide for working at AWS
The variety and scope of work involved as an SA is also very unusual. One day could be an architecture review, the next a security incident review with a CSO,...
AWS Lambda turns 10
AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it...

Generating AWS Architecture Diagrams with Claude
I've been really enjoying creating code artifacts with Anthropic's Claude. The interface is really simple and easy to use, and in many cases it can generate...
Aurora Serverless Scales to Zero
Introducing scaling to 0 capacity with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2...

Rewriting chat-cli, again
I’m in my third rewrite of chat-cli. The first version was really, really wonky. I was just getting started with writing a CLI in Go, and I took a number of...
Hosting Static Sites with S3 and CloudFront
Build a fast, secure, and cost-effective static website hosting solution using AWS S3 and CloudFront CDN.

6 Weeks of Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement
I've been "going live" every Friday for the past six weeks. It's been pretty fun! Each week I spend an hour and a half talking through how I would build...

Turning my voice into blog posts with Amazon Transcribe and Bedrock
Finding My Creative Voice I've always felt a tension between my technical side and my artistic side. For years, I've compartmentalized these interests, keeping...
S1 E2 – Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement – API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Bedrock
I have to say, I'm impressed with myself. I managed to pull off another livestream this past Friday. Another 90 minutes of me, slowly walking you through...
S1 E1 – Building Stuff on AWS in my Basement
I really enjoyed live streaming for the first time last Friday. It was a h00t! If you weren't able to join live, please check out the recording below. It's...

Serverless Architecture Patterns on AWS
Exploring modern serverless patterns using Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB to build scalable, cost-effective applications.



Dealing with AWS Lambda deployment package size limits
UPDATE: Package Size Limits via the AWS Console have been updated since the writing of this blog post. I've added the new limits in the parenthesis below. I...




Running Go Programs on AWS App Runner
I spent some time this week thinking about deploying Go programs and decided to learn how to containerize Go and in that process also decided to take a look at...






Notes on serving images and a brief Mastodon server outage
📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ I’ve been running my own Mastodon...

Notes on configuring Amazon CloudWatch to monitor my Mastodon server
📖 You can read more of my posts on running your own Mastodon server right here: https://www.micahwalter.com/tag/mastodon/ It’s day 2 of running my own...







The Super Simple Serverless Image Processor and Website
Last week I had an idea for a small project that I needed to get out of my head and into reality. The little idea was bugging me—nagging me, and so rather than...
