Cloud Mentoring
The cloud can be fast paced at times with new information being released daily and it can be hard to keep up if you are just getting started. I am offering time to speak with…
$15 Microsoft Certifications
Has the COVID-19 pandemic left you unemployed or furloughed? If so Microsoft is here to help get you back into the workforce by offering discounted certifications and free training. People who have completed training for…
HOW TO TAKE AN AWS CERTIFICATION EXAM ONLINE
As we are currently in quarantine for the foreseeable future, you are most likely taking certification exams at home. In this blog post, I will give you a few tips and tricks on how to…
Amazon Q Developer elevates the IDE experience with new agentic coding experience
Today, Amazon Q Developer introduces a new, interactive, agentic coding experience that is now available in the integrated development environments (IDE) for Visual Studio Code. This experience brings interactive coding capabilities, building upon existing prompt-based…
One year of Phi: Small language models making big leaps in AI
A new era of AI One year ago, Microsoft introduced small language models (SLMs) to customers with the release of Phi-3 on Azure AI Foundry, leveraging research on SLMs to expand the range of efficient…
Microsoft Cost Management updates—April 2025
Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future.…
Amazon Nova Premier: Our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation
Today we’re expanding the Amazon Nova family of foundation models announced at AWS re:Invent with the general availability of Amazon Nova Premier, our most capable model for complex tasks and teacher for model distillation. Nova…
Announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks with breakthrough performance and scalability on-premises
Today we’re announcing the general availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks, which marks the latest innovation from AWS for edge computing. This new generation includes support for the latest x86-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon…
Llama 4 models from Meta now available in Amazon Bedrock serverless
The newest AI models from Meta, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as a fully managed, serverless option in Amazon Bedrock. These new foundation models (FMs) deliver natively multimodal…