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Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex Instances Now Available for General-Purpose Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances, equipped with custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Sapphire Rapids). The Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are instance types intended for general-purpose workloads providing a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources.
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AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.
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AWS Introduces Amazon Route 53 Resolver on AWS Outposts Rack
AWS recently announced that Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now available on AWS Outposts rack providing on-premises services and applications with local Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution directly from Outposts. In addition, local Route 53 Resolver endpoints also enable DNS resolution between Outposts and on-premises DNS servers.
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AWS Introduces New Clickstream Analytics on AWS Solution for Mobile and Web Applications
AWS recently announced a new service called Clickstream Analytics on AWS, an end-to-end solution to collect, ingest, analyze, and visualize clickstream data inside organizations’ web and mobile applications.
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Prime Video Switched from Serverless to EC2 and ECS to Save Costs
Prime Video, Amazon’s video streaming service, has explained how it re-architected the audio/video quality inspection solution to reduce operational costs and address scalability problems. It moved the workload to EC2 and ECS compute services, and achieved a 90% reduction in operational costs as a result.
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Amazon CodeCatalyst Moves to GA with Amazon CodeWhisperer Support
Amazon moved CodeCatalyst into full general availability with a number of new features. CodeCatalyst provides templates to streamline creating the project's infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, development environments, and issue management system. New features with the GA release include better support for GitHub repos, integration with Amazon CodeWhisperer, and support for AWS Graviton processors.
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AWS Releases New Cloud-Optimized Linux Distribution with Amazon Linux 2023
Recently, AWS announced the general availability of Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a third-generation distribution with a high-security standard, predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates.
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AWS Application Composer to Visualize and Create Serverless Workloads Now Generally Available
AWS Application Composer, a visual builder that enables users to compose and configure serverless applications from AWS services backed by deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC), is now generally available (GA).
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Amazon Releases Elastic Kubernetes Service for Snowball Edge
Amazon has released Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Anywhere on Snow. This release automates the creation and management of EKS clusters on AWS Snowball Edge devices. These devices are able to run with or without an internet connection.
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Amazon Athena Now Supports Apache Spark Engine
Amazon Athena now supports the open-source distributed processing system Apache Spark to run fast analytics workloads. Data analysts and engineers can use Jupyter Notebook in Athena to perform data processing and programmatically interact with Spark applications.
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Amazon ECS Adds Automated Rollbacks
Amazon has released native support for automated rollbacks within their Amazon ECS service. This feature leverages Amazon CloudWatch metric alarms to monitor and, if necessary, reverts the in-progress deployment. This feature supports using any system metrics that CloudWatch Container Insights collects for Amazon ECS as well as custom metrics.
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AWS Opens New Region in Switzerland
AWS recently announced the availability of the 28th region in Zurich, Switzerland, also known by its API name eu-central-2.
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Interactive Query Service Amazon Athena Introduces New Engine
AWS recently announced version 3 of the engine for Amazon Athena, the serverless interactive service to query S3 data using standard SQL. The cloud provider claims that the new engine improves performance and supports new use cases thanks to over 50 new SQL functions and 30 new analytics features.
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Amazon Is Adding Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex
Amazon is introducing the Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a no-code environment. The Visual Conversation Builder greatly simplifies bot design.
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Amazon Announces New Capabilities on Local Environments for SageMaker Canvas and Pipelines
Amazon is announcing multiple capabilities for SageMaker, including expanded capabilities to better prepare and analyze data for machine learning, faster onboarding with automatic data import from local disk in SageMaker Canvas, and the testing of machine learning workflows in local environments for SageMaker Pipelines.