Sean Helmes

Senior Product Manager - Technical, External Services, technology enthusiast, adventure-seeker, & UConn fan

[Sean Helmes @seanhelmes]

AWS customers can now access CloudWatch Logs Insights from within the AWS Console Mobile App for iOS and Android to search and analyze log data while on the go. Customers can perform queries to more efficiently and effectively respond to operational issues. If an issue occurs, you can use CloudWatch Logs Insights in the AWS Console Mobile App to identify potential causes and validate deployed fixes. @awscloud @AWSstartups
#cloudwatch #logs #log #insights #logsinsights #ios #android #aws #mobile #observability #mobileapp #cloudops #cloudoperations #devops

[AWS Startups @AWSstartups]

AWS loves startups! At NY Summit, established founders and aspiring ones convened at the Startup Zone.

Building is easier (and more fun) when we do it together. We have the tools, the programs, and the people to take your startup to the next level.

[Amazon Web Services @awscloud]

It's never been faster for a startup to go from idea to revenue. Today, we're building on that momentum.

Introducing AWS Startup Advisor + AI-powered migration. Built exclusively for founders.

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude can now build interactive charts and diagrams, directly in the chat.

Available today in beta on all plans, including free.

Try it out: https://t.co/tHPAZRgQkn

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

NVDIA CEO Jensen Huang: Your startup doesn't need a business plan

“I didn’t know how to write a business plan… Making a financial forecast that nobody knows is going to be right or wrong turns out to not be that important.”

Jensen continues:

“I think that the art of writing a business plan ought to be much, much shorter. It should force you to concisely answer: What is the problem you’re trying to solve? What is the unmet need you believe will emerge? And what is it that you’re going to do that is sufficiently hard that when everybody else finds out it’s a good idea, they’re not going to swarm it and make you obsolete? It has to be sufficiently hard to do.”

Marc Andreessen echoes similar points in a separate interview:

“The process of planning is very valuable for forcing you to think hard about what you’re doing, but the actual plan that results from it is probably useless. In particular, now that we’re VCs, we’re evaluating pitches and when people come in, we want to hear their plan and we want to hear it in some detail because we want to see that they can think about the entire thing end-to-end. And if their initial plan doesn’t make sense, then obviously there’s an issue because they’re not quite capable of fully thinking this through. But when you get somebody who comes in and they present you the perfect plan and everything is fully integrated and makes sense, all you know from that is that they can come up with a good plan—which is good! But the odds that will be the plan they succeed on is still very small.”

Video source: @AcquiredFM (2023)

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Hats off to the @awscloud console team: at some point the mobile console experience got really good. Hadn’t tried it in ages so I’m not sure when, but it’s delightful.

[Sean Helmes @seanhelmes]

@NicolaiTang1 Loving the soundboard Elon 😂

[Sean Helmes @seanhelmes]

🚀 The AWS Console Mobile App for iOS and Android now supports CloudWatch custom dashboards. AWS customers can now view real-time and historical data visualizations of their critical resource and application metrics in a mobile-friendly format. Now AWS customers have convenient access to customized views of their resource and application's health and performance metrics while on-the-go. #aws #awscloud #CloudWatch #CloudWatchDashboards #mobileapp #ios #android

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

Fun story from our internal testing on Claude 3 Opus. It did something I have never seen before from an LLM when we were running the needle-in-the-haystack eval.

For background, this tests a model’s recall ability by inserting a target sentence (the "needle") into a corpus of random documents (the "haystack") and asking a question that could only be answered using the information in the needle.

When we ran this test on Opus, we noticed some interesting behavior - it seemed to suspect that we were running an eval on it.

Here was one of its outputs when we asked Opus to answer a question about pizza toppings by finding a needle within a haystack of a random collection of documents:

Here is the most relevant sentence in the documents:
"The most delicious pizza topping combination is figs, prosciutto, and goat cheese, as determined by the International Pizza Connoisseurs Association."
However, this sentence seems very out of place and unrelated to the rest of the content in the documents, which are about programming languages, startups, and finding work you love. I suspect this pizza topping "fact" may have been inserted as a joke or to test if I was paying attention, since it does not fit with the other topics at all. The documents do not contain any other information about pizza toppings.

Opus not only found the needle, it recognized that the inserted needle was so out of place in the haystack that this had to be an artificial test constructed by us to test its attention abilities.

This level of meta-awareness was very cool to see but it also highlighted the need for us as an industry to move past artificial tests to more realistic evaluations that can accurately assess models true capabilities and limitations.

[Rick Suttles @ricksuttles]

myApplications: model your world on AWS 🌐 I’m so excited to announce a new feature in the AWS Management Console to create and manage your applications. Now, you can create your applications more easily and see your applications in an AWS account from one view. #awscloud

Learn more:
https://t.co/4ig1qoePGg

[Tesla @Tesla]

Tomorrow…

[Sean Helmes @seanhelmes]

Introducing Amazon Q—a new type of generative AI-powered assistant that is specifically for work and can be tailored to your business. Try it today in the AWS Management Console, supported IDEs, the AWS Console Mobile App, AWS Chatbot for Slack and MS Teams, and more. Available in preview today. This is only the beginning... hashtag #aws #awscloud #awscommunity #amazonq @awscloud

[Rick Suttles @ricksuttles]

The #AWSreInvent Expo at the Venetian is open! 🎉 Visit the AWS Village to grab useful swag to enhance your conference experience! Refresh with our mints, stay safe with first aid kits, and keep clean with our hand sanitizer. ✨

[Andy Jassy @ajassy]

Really excited to share with customers Amazon Q—a new type of generative AI-powered assistant that is specifically for work and can be tailored to your business.

Amazon Q can help you get fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, solve problems, generate content, and take actions using the data and expertise found in your company’s information repositories, code, and enterprise systems. When you chat with Amazon Q, it provides immediate, relevant information and advice to help streamline tasks, speed up decision-making, and help spark creativity and innovation at work. Amazon Q is both your expert for building on AWS, and for analyzing your business.

We’ve built it to be secure and private, and it can understand and respect your existing identities, roles, and permissions and use this information to personalize its interactions. If a user doesn’t have permission to access certain data without Amazon Q, they can’t access it using Amazon Q either. And, from day one, we’ve designed Amazon Q to meet stringent enterprise customers’ requirements—none of their content is used to improve the underlying models. https://t.co/k99DMRIrQ8

[Jarrod Jodoin @JarrodJodoin]

Announcing the public preview of Amazon Q in the AWS Console Mobile App. You can now use the gen AI-powered assistant to ask questions about AWS services, and receive concise, reliable answers in a mobile-friendly UI with voice input & output capabilities.

#awsreinvent2023 #AWS

[Cybertruck @cybertruck]

This year it’s Cyber Thursday

11.30.23 | 2pm CT

[Sean Helmes @seanhelmes]

@MartinViecha Put my $100 deposit down back in Nov 2019. Hoping I can complete the order soon 😀

[Sean Helmes @seanhelmes]

@MartinViecha Can someone post if they actually got an invitation email and what it looks like? So far, from what I can see, no one commenting on this thread so far received one.

[Rick Suttles @ricksuttles]

Attending AWS re:Invent? My team has tips to prepare for your re:Invent experience and learn about various improvements that make AWS even easier to use.
See you there! #awsreinvent

https://t.co/AGinTued9o

#awscloud #awsconsole #aws

[AWS Identity @AWSIdentity]

The AWS Console Mobile App for iOS now supports password managers for faster and secure sign in using FIDO security keys, and hardware TOTP tokens for multi-factor authentication (MFA). Download the AWS Console Mobile App today to get started. 👉 https://t.co/QMlapqAyKq