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AWS Weekly Roundup: Llama 3.1, Mistral Large 2, AWS Step Functions, AWS Certifications update, and more (July 29, 2024)

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This article provides a roundup of recent AWS news and announcements from the week of July 29, 2024.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • New model releases: Meta Llama 3.1 models (405B, 70B, and 8B) now available in Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker JumpStart, and the Mistral Large 2 model from Mistral AI now available in Amazon Bedrock
  • Faster auto scaling for generative AI models in Amazon SageMaker Inference to improve responsiveness
  • AWS Step Functions now supports customer managed keys using AWS KMS for encryption
  • Updates to AWS Certification exams with new question types like ordering and matching
  • Amazon's migration from Apache Spark to Ray on EC2 for exabyte-scale data processing
  • Highlights from the community.aws site and upcoming AWS events like Summits and Community Days
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