Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) introduced support for on-demand refresh of cluster insights, enabling customers to more efficiently test and validate if applied recommendations have successfully taken effect. Every Amazon EKS cluster undergoes automatic, periodic checks against a curated list of insights, which provide detection of issues, such as warnings about changes required before […]

AWS Client VPN now supports Windows Arm64 client with version 5.3.0. You can now run the AWS supplied VPN client on the latest Windows Arm64 OS versions. AWS Client VPN desktop clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded here. AWS Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects your remote workforce […]

AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports deployment of SFTP connectors to transfer files between Amazon S3 and remote SFTP servers. This adds to the existing support for deploying SFTP server endpoints using Terraform, enabling you to automate and streamline centralized provisioning of file transfer resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). SFTP connectors provide a […]

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports customer managed AWS KMS keys (CMK) for encrypting EBS volumes, enabling enterprise customers to deploy machine learning clusters that meet their specific organizational security and compliance requirements. Customers training foundation models need full control over their encryption keys while maintaining high-performance computing capabilities, but previously could only rely on SageMaker […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. C7i instances are supported by custom Intel processors, available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized […]

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver, enabling customers to dynamically provision and manage persistent storage for machine learning workloads on SageMaker HyperPod EKS clusters. This capability allows customers to create, attach, and manage EBS volumes through Kubernetes persistent volume claims, providing storage that persists across […]

Today, SageMaker Training and Processing Jobs announces the new Amazon EC2 P5 instance size with one NVIDIA H100 GPU. It allows businesses to right-size their machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) resources with cost-effectiveness. The new P5 instance type gives customers the flexibility to begin with smaller configurations and expand incrementally with fine-grained control, delivering enhanced […]

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Custom Metrics, empowering developers and operators to pinpoint the root cause of application issues faster and with greater precision. CloudWatch Application Signals already helps you monitor the health of your applications through standard metrics like fault rates, errors, and latency. Now, you can add your own custom metrics that provide […]