Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction […]

You can now use Amazon MSK Replicator to replicate streaming data across Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain). MSK Replicator is a feature of Amazon MSK that enables you to reliably replicate data across […]

Amazon Redshift now supports federated permissions across multi-warehouse architectures Amazon Redshift now supports federated permissions, which simplify permissions management across multiple Redshift data warehouses. Customers are adopting multi-warehouse architectures to scale and isolate workloads and are looking for simplified, consistent permissions management across warehouses. With Redshift federated permissions, you define data permissions once from any […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]