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AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) for generative AI tasks
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) technology, enabling administrators to partition a single GPU into multiple isolated GPUs. This capability allows administrators to maximize resource utilization by running diverse, small generative AI (GenAI) tasks simultaneously on GPU partitions while maintaining performance and task isolation. Administrators can choose either the easy-to-use configuration setup […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.3
You can now run OpenSearch version 3.3 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch 3.3 introduces several improvements in areas like search performance, observability and new functionality to make agentic AI integrations simpler and more powerful. This launch includes several improvements in vector search capabilities. First, with agentic search, you can now achieve precise search results using […]
GCP – Introducing the TalayLink subsea cable and new connectivity hubs
Today we’re announcing TalayLink, a new subsea cable connecting Australia and Thailand to significantly increase the reach, reliability, and resilience of digital connectivity across Asia Pacific and around the world. Named after the Thai word for sea or ocean, “talay,” TalayLink will extend the interlink cable that we announced as part of the Australia Connect […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview)
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview). With Spark 4.0.1, you can build and maintain data pipelines more easily with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types, strengthen compliance and governance frameworks with Apache Iceberg v3 table format, and deploy new real-time applications faster with enhanced streaming capabilities. This enables your teams to reduce […]
AWS – Amazon Athena for Apache Spark is now available in Amazon SageMaker notebooks
Amazon SageMaker now supports Amazon Athena for Apache Spark, bringing a new notebook experience and fast serverless Spark experience together within a unified workspace. Now, data engineers, analysts, and data scientists can easily query data, run Python code, develop jobs, train models, visualize data, and work with AI from one place, with no infrastructure to […]
AWS – AWS Payments Cryptography announces support for post-quantum cryptography to secure data in transit
Today, AWS Payments Cryptography announces support for hybrid post-quantum (PQ) TLS to secure API calls. With this launch, customers can future-proof transmissions of sensitive data and commands using ML-KEM post-quantum cryptography. Enterprises operating highly regulated workloads wish to reduce post-quantum risks from “harvest now, decrypt later”. Long-lived data-in-transit can be recorded today, then decrypted in […]
AWS – Announcing a Fully Managed Appium Endpoint for AWS Device Farm
AWS Device Farm enables mobile and web developers to test their apps using real mobile devices and desktop browsers. Starting today, you can connect to a fully managed Appium endpoint using only a few lines of code and run interactive tests on multiple physical devices directly from your IDE or local machine. This feature also […]
AWS – EC2 Image Builder now supports auto-versioning and enhances Infrastructure as Code experience
Amazon EC2 Image Builder now supports automatic versioning for recipes and automatic build version incrementing for components, reducing the overhead of managing versions manually. This enables you to increment versions automatically and dynamically reference the latest compatible versions in your pipelines without manual updates. With automatic versioning, you no longer need to manually track and […]
AWS – Automated Reasoning checks now include natural language test Q&A generation
AWS announces the launch of natural language test Q&A generation for Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. Automated Reasoning checks uses formal verification techniques to validate the accuracy and policy compliance of outputs from generative AI models. Automated Reasoning checks deliver up to 99% accuracy at detecting correct responses from LLMs, giving you provable […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core enhances IoT rules-SQL with variable setting and error handling capabilities
AWS IoT Core now supports a SET clause in IoT rules-SQL, which lets you set and reuse variables across SQL statements. This new feature provides a simpler SQL experience and ensures consistent content when variables are used multiple times. Additionally, a new get_or_default() function provides improved failure handling by returning default values while encountering data […]
