Amazon VPC now allows customers to route inbound internet traffic destined for large pools of public IP addresses, to a single elastic network interface (ENI) within a VPC. Prior to this enhancement, internet gateways only accepted traffic destined to public IP addresses that were associated with network interfaces in the VPC. There are limits to […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 11.4.8, 10.11.14 and 10.6.23. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]

WS CloudFormation Hooks now support managed proactive controls, allowing customers to validate resource configurations against AWS best practices without writing custom hook logic. Customers can select controls from the AWS Control Tower Controls Catalog and apply them during CloudFormation operations. This helps reduce setup time, avoid manual errors, and improve the completeness and consistency of […]

SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports fine-grained compute quota allocation of GPU, Trainium accelerator, vCPU, and vCPU memory within an instance. Administrators can allocate fine-grained compute quota across teams, optimizing compute resource distribution and staying within budget. Data scientists often execute LLM tasks, like training or inference, that do not require entire HyperPod instances, leading […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the US East (Ohio) region. U7i-12tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta)region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data […]

Amazon OpenSearch Service expands its modernized operational analytics experience to seven new regions, including Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), and US-West (N. California) enabling users to gain insights across data spanning managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The expansion includes Workspaces to […]

SageMaker HyperPod task governance now supports Topology Aware Scheduling (TAS), enabling data scientists to schedule their large language model (LLM) tasks on an optimal network topology that minimizes network communication and enhances training efficiency. LLM training and fine-tuning tasks that are distributed across multiple accelerated compute instances frequently exchange large volumes of data between them. […]

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 18 Beta 3 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 18 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 18 Beta 3 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database. PostgreSQL […]