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Christos Matskas

@christosmatskas.bsky.social
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Keynote lead @AWS, ex MSFT, speaker, security, cloud, developer, YouTuber, technologist, husband, dad.

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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Microsoft turns to Amazon for help with GitHub's AI-driven capacity issues www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-gi... #AWS #cloud #devOps
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Microsoft is resorting to its biggest cloud rival to deal with GitHub AI capacity issues
Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Interesting blog post on how to optimize your process when working with Claude eugeneyan.com/writing/work...
eugeneyan.com
How to Work and Compound with AI
Context as infra, taste as config, verification for autonomy, scale via delegation, closing the loop.
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Darryl Ruggles @darryl-ruggles.cloud · 18/03/2026
lckhd.eu/vzklJ8 Big congrats to the first set of AWS Heroes announced for 2026.. Maurizio (Pignola, Italy), Ray Goh (Singapore), and Sheyla Leacock (Panama City, Panama)!!!
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Meet the internet pioneer who declared war on spam and is helping AWS prepare for AI cyber threats www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/pau... #aws #security
aboutamazon.com
Meet the internet pioneer who declared war on spam and is helping AWS prepare for AI cyber threats
Distinguished Engineer Paul Vixie went to war with spam and scaled URLs as names, not numbers. Now he's helping AWS advance security in the agentic AI era.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
NVIDIA Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI With Rubin — Six New Chips, One Incredible AI Supercomputer nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-p... #ai #infrastructure #nvidia
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NVIDIA Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI With Rubin — Six New Chips, One Incredible AI Supercomputer
NVIDIA today kickstarted the next generation of AI with the launch of the NVIDIA Rubin platform, comprising six new chips designed to deliver one incredible AI supercomputer.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t... #ai #genAI
nytimes.com
Meta Delays Rollout of New A.I. Model After Performance Concerns
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
OpenAI released GPT‑5.4 yesterday openai.com/index/introd... #openai #genAI
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Introducing GPT-5.4
Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/c... #genAI #agents #AgentEconomy
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Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool | TechCrunch
Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, a Slack message, or a simple timer.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership - openai.com/index/amazon...
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OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership
OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models, and enterprise AI agents.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
What Claude Code Actually Chooses - amplifying.ai/research/cla...
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Amplifying — AI Benchmark Research
Systematic analysis of how AI systems make decisions — from product recommendations to developer tool choices.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development with Kiro and Agentic AI. Listen to @marcbrooker.bsky.social on The Real Python Podcast @realpython.com realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
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Episode #277: Moving Towards Spec-Driven Development – The Real Python Podcast
What are the advantages of spec-driven development compared to vibe coding with an LLM? Are these recent trends a move toward declarative programming? This week on the show, Marc Brooker, VP and Disti...
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Darryl Ruggles @darryl-ruggles.cloud · 31/12/2025
dev.to/aws-builders... Log investigation is a common use case where AI agents can add real value with huge amounts of data to comb. Instead of manually writing SPL queries, an agent can take a transaction ID and search through Splunk logs to build an investigation report automatically. (1️⃣/3️⃣) 🧵
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Building a Splunk Investigator Agent with Strands Agents and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Overview In this post, I share how to build an AI agent that leverages logging tools such...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
On the success of ‘natural language programming’ via @marcbrooker.bsky.social brooker.co.za/blog/2025/12... #programming #genAI #aI
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On the success of 'natural language programming' - Marc's Blog
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Danilo Poccia @danilop.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Amazon Bedrock now has OpenAI-compatible APIs through Project Mantle. I built a CLI to explore them and learned some interesting things about the two different approaches. 🧵 dev.to/aws/explorin... #AWS #AI #OpenAI #Python
dev.to
Exploring the OpenAI-Compatible APIs in Amazon Bedrock: A CLI Journey Through Project Mantle
After Amazon Bedrock introduced OpenAI-compatible application programming interfaces (APIs) through...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It was an amazing privilege to be part of this event. Thank you to #TedAI and @SwamiSivasubram for this unique opportunity. #agenticAI #genAI #aws www.linkedin.com/posts/swamin...
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#aws | Swami Sivasubramanian | 10 comments
It was an incredible week at TEDAI Vienna. I was honored to present a talk in September on the power of AI agents, and how this technology will fundamentally change how we live and work.  When agent...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
New 'Markovian Thinking' technique unlocks a path to million-token AI reasoning venturebeat.com/ai/new-marko... #genAI #AI #LLM
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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
New blog post, reflecting on nearly seven years since the Firecracker launch, and how we're using Firecracker to power serverless databases (in Aurora DSQL) and infrastructure for AI agents (in Bedrock AgentCore). Here's the post: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/09...
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Seven Years of Firecracker - Marc's Blog
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Excellent blog post by Marc Brooker - Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa... @awscloud.bsky.social #data #genAI #agenticAI
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Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application | Amazon Web Services
In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new servi...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
FANTASTIC AWS POLICIES AND WHERE TO FIND THEM iam.cloudcopilot.io/posts/fantas... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #amazon #security
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Fantastic AWS Policies and Where to Find Them - Tools for AWS IAM
There are more than you think, and now it's easy to find them.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi... @awscloud.bsky.social #security #cloud
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Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 | Amazon Web Services
Amazon’s threat intelligence team has identified and disrupted a watering hole campaign conducted by APT29 (also known as Midnight Blizzard), a threat actor associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligen...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Google and Qualcomm execs confirm Android for PC is coming: 'I've seen it, it is incredible' mashable.com/article/goog... #android #genAI #desktop
mashable.com
Qualcomm CEO: Android for PC is coming, and it's 'incredible'
A Google executive reconfirmed that a merging of ChromeOS and Android is coming at some point in the near future.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs #s3 #aws #storage #cloud #scale open.substack.com/pub/bigdatas...
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how AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs
Learn how Amazon built the backbone of the modern web that scales to 1 PB/s and 150M QPS on commodity hard drives
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Some amazing new developer-focused Lamdba innovations: console to IDE and remote debugging aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/si... @awscloud.bsky.social #aws #lambda #serverless #devtools #amazon
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Simplify serverless development with console to IDE and remote debugging for AWS Lambda | Amazon Web Services
Developers can now build serverless applications faster through seamless console-to-IDE transition and debugging of functions running in the cloud from local IDE.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
tsx is a Node.js enhancement to run TypeScript. #node #typescript #javascript tsx.is?utm_source=t...
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tsx (TypeScript Execute) - The easiest way to run TypeScript in Node.js
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Intro to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore youtube.com/watch?v=usFI... #agenticAI #Amazon #aws #genAI #agents @awscloud.bsky.social
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Deploy & Operate AI Agents in Minutes | Amazon Web Services
YouTube video by Amazon Web Services
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale youtu.be/u81NapG8yL0?... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #Nvidia
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Introducing Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers: Powering Frontier AI at Scale | Amazon Web Services
YouTube video by Amazon Web Services
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Using Amazon Q Developer CLI and draw.io to create application architecure diagrams and get advoce how to fix isses based on the AWS Well Architected Framework. www.linkedin.com/posts/eb-khi... @awscloud.bsky.social #amazon #genAI #devTools
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This Amazon Q prompt gives you a 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 for your application architecture drawn in draw.io. | Ebrahim (EB) Khiyami
This Amazon Q prompt gives you a 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 for your application architecture drawn in draw.io. It covers about 60% of what I typically do in person with customers when reviewing the...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Amazon Q CLI blows my mind every time I use it to solve coding problems or add new features. Between Q in VS Code & Q in the CLI, there hasn’t been a challenge I wasn’t able to tackle successfully with very little adjustment. #newworld #programming #GenAI #AgenticAI @amazonwebservices.bsky.social
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Those were the days, indeed. Gen X know the pain…
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services cacm.acm.org/practice/sys... #amazon @amazonwebservices.bsky.social
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Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services – Communications of the ACM
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Why model choice matters: Flexible AI unlocks freedom to innovate aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-in... #aws #genAI #amazon
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Why model choice matters: Flexible AI unlocks freedom to innovate | Amazon Web Services
Organizations achieve more effective and efficient results when they can select and use different AI models that precisely match their specific business needs and use cases.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions @awscloud.bsky.social‬⁩ #data aws.amazon.com/about-aws/wh...
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Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions - AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... #amazonQ #generativeAI #developer @awscloud.bsky.social
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Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, enabling developers to assign tasks to an AI agent that can develop features, conduct code reviews, enhance security, and migrate Java code, a...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/am... @awscloud.bsky.social #DeveloperTools #generativeAI #aws
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Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience | Amazon Web Services
This new interactive, agentic coding experience for Visual Studio Code allows Q Developer to intelligently take actions on behalf of the developer.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Today is World Password Day! Do yourself a favor and either go passwordless (where possible) or grab a solid password manager to generate and manage strong passwords for your online activity. Stay safe, friends #security
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Loving this RAG cheat sheet from Weaviate #rag #genAI #AI
Types of RAG for GenAI workloads
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 28/04/2025
🚨 This Wed (12 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com “Experimenting with Foundation Models” w/ instructor and AWS Hero @faye-ellis.bsky.social! She’s bringing practical, cheap ways you can start exploring FMs, LLMs, and AI! You NEED to dive into AI, don't miss this one! 🎙️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG87...
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Tib3rius @tib3rius.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
BREAKING. From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.
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Clare Liguori @clare.dev · 15/04/2025
The vast majority of MCP servers today aren't actually servers 😱 They run as a child process and communicate over stdio, a bit awkward for distributed systems trying to use MCP. Backend apps can now run existing stdio MCP servers in Lambda functions with this new library: github.com/awslabs/run-...
Flowchart showing a distributed system that uses MCP to communicate with MCP servers running in Lambda functions.
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Learn how to use the newly released Amazon Nova Act SDK to build powerful automations with the power of generative AI #amazon #aws #generativeAI dev.to/aws/amazon-a...
dev.to
Amazon AGI announces research preview of Amazon Nova Act: Build agents that take action in web browsers
During our daily activities, we interact with many websites, from filling out complex forms and...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Jack Reacher season 3 was fantastic. It did feel like the character slightly diverted a bit from the norm, but the show was still incredible. Highly recommended!
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Model Context Protocol on Amazon Bedrock #aws #generativeAI community.aws/content/2uFv...
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Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Amazon Bedrock
Getting started with Anthropic's LLM protocol on AWS
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
@maddymontaquila.net @james.montemagno.com @jfversluis.dev hey team, I’m trying to build a .NET Maui app on macOS (.NET 8.0, C# 9, latest OS & VSCode). After 6hrs going from `dotnet new` to launching inside VS Code, I still haven’t managed to get a single breakpoint to hit. No debugging. Y so hard?
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS #deepseek #aws #bedrock #genAI aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/de...
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DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS | Amazon Web Services
DeepSeek-R1, a powerful large language model featuring reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought capabilities, is now available for deployment via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI, enabling us...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Announcing upcoming changes to the AWS Security Token Service global endpoint #aws #security aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...
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Announcing upcoming changes to the AWS Security Token Service global endpoint | Amazon Web Services
AWS launched AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) in August 2011 with a single global endpoint (https://sts.amazonaws.com), hosted in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. To reduce dependency on a si...
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Instructions on how to import DeepSeek on Amazon Bedrock for inference #aws #llm #bedrock #DeepSeek github.com/aws-samples/...
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amazon-bedrock-samples/custom-models/import_models/llama-3/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-Noteb.ipynb at main · aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-samples
This repository contains examples for customers to get started using the Amazon Bedrock Service. This contains examples for all available foundational models - aws-samples/amazon-bedrock-samples
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 09/01/2025
Now on @vbrownbag.com "GitHub Actions: Tips, Tricks, & More" with @jldeen.dev! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkQe...
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GitHub Actions with Jessica Deen
YouTube video by vBrownBag
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy 2025, everyone!
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Christos Matskas @christosmatskas.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Merry Xmas to everyone!
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