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

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetan-hirapara-90344345/

https://www.youtube.com/@upskillwithchetan