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Azure – Azure Data Box Disk is now available with hardware encryption
Azure Data Box Disk is now Generally Available with hardware encryption. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Neuron introduces speculative decoding and vLLM support
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1, adding continuous batching with vLLM support, and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces helps simplify Bring Your Own License (BYOL) account management
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers APIs to link your AWS accounts, within the same region, so that these accounts can use the same underlying dedicated infrastructure. AWS enables you to run your Bring Your Own License (BYOL) WorkSpaces on infrastructure that is dedicated to you in the AWS Cloud, and these new APIs make it easier […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center adds independent 90-days session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer
AWS IAM Identity Center administrators now have an option to extend the session duration for Amazon CodeWhisperer separately from the session durations of other IAM Identity Center integrated applications and the AWS access portal. Users of Amazon CodeWhisperer can work in the integrated development environment (IDE) for 90 days without being asked to re-authenticate by […]
Azure – General availability: HBv4-series & HX-series VMs are now available in Sweden Central.
HBv4 virtual machines (VMs) are optimized for various HPC workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, frontend and backend EDA, rendering, molecular dynamics, computational geoscience, weather simulation, and financial risk analysis. HX-series Virtual Machines (VMs) are optimized for large memory HPC workloads such as backend EDA, finite element analysis, computational geoscience, and big […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Machine Learning data collector is now generally available
Azure Machine Learning data collector provides real-time logging of input and output data from models that are deployed to managed online endpoints or Kubernetes online endpoints. This data can be seamlessly used for model monitoring, debugging, or auditing, thereby providing observability into the performance of your deployed models. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports client authentication hook for Trusted Language Extensions
Trusted Language Extensions for PostgreSQL (pg_tle) now supports client authentication hook that lets you run additional checks over the existing authentication process, allowing you to enhance the security posture of your databases. A hook is an internal callback mechanism available to developers for extending PostgreSQL’s core functionality. By using hooks, developers can implement their own […]
AWS – Meta Llama 3 foundation models now available on AWS
Starting today, the next generation of the Meta Llama models, Llama 3, is now available via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a machine learning (ML) hub that offers pretrained models, built-in algorithms, and pre-built solutions to help you quickly get started with ML. You can deploy and use Llama 3 foundation models with a few clicks in SageMaker […]
AWS – AWS Partner Central launches enhanced user management capabilities
AWS Partner Central has enhanced the user management experience in AWS Partner Central with a modernized look and feel and more customized capabilities. Now, alliance leads and alliance team users can assign specific user roles with distinctive permission sets and seamlessly invite new users to register via email, specifying a role assignment upon registration. These […]