What a great evening yesterday at the AWS User Group Munich. The quote of the evening for me, yeah I

What a great evening yesterday at the AWS User Group Munich. The quote of the evening for me, yeah I might be a little biased 😉 , was :

“There are multiple model launches in Amazon Bedrock. Launching new models in Bedrock became like new minor versions numbers for databases or other services. Hard to keep up with the pace”.

Reflecting on this, I think that is a very true statement. To me it underlines the pace of innovation in this space and the value of having model choice at your hands if you want to build #GenAI based application for your customers—that’s why I appreciate a service like #AmazonBedrock for this, though you can of course also get model choice by going to providers directly or self-hosting. Also featured the Bedrock Converse API, which gives you one consistent request/response interface across the Bedrock models that support messages (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/conversation-inference.html)—switching models still calls for re-checking prompts and outputs, but the plumbing stays the same.

You can read more about model selection in my blog post: https://medium.com/@stefanchristoph/how-do-you-chose-the-foundation-model-for-your-generative-ai-app-like-your-car-18f8a299678c

Was great to listen to the insightful talks of Alexander Ignatenko & Yuriy Prykhodko (glad to bump into you again after a long time) on “Managing Cloud cost with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards” and Leon G. & Kasper Van Damme on “Temporary Access to RDS - Sensitive data and the ‘you build it you run it’ principle”. I loved all the vivid discussions.

Thanks to Markus Ostertag for running this (and the nicely composed #AWS updates). Was great to meet some colleagues like Robert Hanuschke and Markus Kaiser.

Big kudos to Scalable Capital for hosting the event. Loved your offices, the fine catering and welcoming atmosphere!

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