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AWS – Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available
Today, AWS announces new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instance size with one NVIDIA H100 GPU that allows businesses to right-size their machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) resources with cost-effectiveness. The new instance size enables customers to start small and scale in granular increments, providing more flexible control over infrastructure costs. […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI now supports P6e-GB200 UltraServers
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces support for P6e-GB200 UltraServers in SageMaker HyperPod and Training Jobs. With P6e-GB200 UltraServers, you can leverage up to 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs under one NVLink domain to accelerate training and deployment of foundational models at trillion-parameter scale. P6e-GB200 UltraServers are available in two sizes: ml.u-p6e-gb200x72 (72 GPUs within NVLink) and […]
AWS – Announcing new incentives for ISVs selling in AWS Marketplace
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces the launch of the AWS Marketplace Private Offer Promotion Program (MPOPP) in AWS Partner Central to support independent software vendors (ISVs) with driving new customer acquisition. This program is designed to accelerate sales through AWS Marketplace by offering AWS Promotional Credits to customers as an incentive for purchasing from […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images)
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs, enabling customers to deploy clusters with pre-configured, security-hardened environments that meet their specific organizational requirements. Customers deploying AI/ML workloads on HyperPod need customized environments that meet strict security, compliance, and operational requirements while maintaining fast cluster startup times, but often struggle with complex lifecycle configuration scripts that slow […]
AWS – Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock is launching today with a significantly expanded context window in public preview. The context window has been increased from 200,000 to 1 million tokens, representing a 5x expansion. This enhancement allows Claude to process and reason over much larger amounts of text in a single request, opening up […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud introduces new cost-saving compute option
AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television, broadcasting, web content, and design. Today, we’re excited to announce a new wait and save feature for Deadline Cloud service-managed fleets that can reduce rendering costs with prices starting as low as […]
AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Cape Town, South Africa
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the Teraco CT1 data center near Cape Town, South Africa. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This is the second AWS […]
GCP – Accelerate AI with Cloud Run: Sign up now for a developer workshop near you!
The AI revolution has delivered a magical moment for developers: the ability to generate a working application prototype in minutes. With AI-assisted tools like Gemini CLI and Code Assist, an idea can become a tangible demo with astonishing speed. But that first successful run is just the beginning. The real challenge comes next. How do […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the third year in a row in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Google was positioned highest in Ability to Execute of all vendors evaluated and we believe this validates […]
