Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed […]

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports delayed read replicas, allowing you to specify a minimum time period that a replica database lags behind a source database. This feature creates a time buffer that helps protect against data loss from human errors such as accidental table drops or unintended data modifications. In disaster recovery scenarios, you […]

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports Kubernetes namespace configuration for AWS and Community add-ons, providing you greater control over how add-ons are organized within your Kubernetes cluster. With namespace configuration, you can now specify a custom namespace during add-on installation, enabling better organization and isolation of add-on objects within your EKS cluster. This […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for DB2 now supports read replicas. Customers can add up to three read replicas for their database instance, and use the replicas to support read-only applications without overloading the primary database instance. Customers can setup replicas in the same region or in a different region from the primary database instance. […]

Today, AWS announced the release of a model context protocol (MCP) server for Billing and Cost Management, now available in the AWS Labs GitHub repository. The Billing and Cost Management MCP server allows customers to analyze their historical spending, find cost optimization opportunities, and estimate the costs of new workloads using the AI agent or […]

The Count Tokens API is now available in Amazon Bedrock, enabling you to determine the token count for a given prompt or input being sent to a specific model ID prior to performing any inference. By surfacing a prompt’s token count, the Count Tokens API allows you to more accurately project your costs, and provides […]

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers a simplified file storage option in projects, providing data workers with an easier way to collaborate on their analytics and machine learning workflows without depending on Git. You can now choose between Git repositories (GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket Cloud) or Amazon Simple Storage (S3) buckets for sharing code files […]

Amazon Verified Permissions now supports Cedar 4.5. This enables customers to use the latest Cedar features, including the “is” operator, which allows customers to grant access based on resource types. For example, in a petstore application, you can use the “is” operator to write a policy that only grants administrators permission to view a resource […]

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Neuron SDK 2.25.0, delivering improvements for inference workloads and performance monitoring on AWS Inferentia and Trainium instances. This latest release adds context and data parallelism support as well as chunked attention for long sequence processing in inference, and updates the neuron-ls and neuron-monitor APIs with more information on […]