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AWS – Amazon SageMaker simplifies data management with automated lakehouse onboarding and metadata ingestion
Today, Amazon SageMaker launches two new capabilities designed to simplify data management and governance. The first capability, automated lakehouse onboarding, allows customers to automatically ingest metadata for datasets, such as Glue Data Catalog tables, into SageMaker Catalog. This occurs when creating a new SageMaker Unified Studio domain or by updating existing domains. It removes the […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Catalog adds support for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets
You can now add Amazon S3 general purpose buckets to the Amazon SageMaker Catalog. This helps data scientists, engineers, and business analysts to easily discover and access datasets in Amazon S3, while giving data producers the ability to maintain granular security controls. As a result, teams get efficient access to the right datasets in S3, […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker introduces a visual workflows builder
Amazon SageMaker now offers a visual builder experience for creating and managing workflows. This feature is part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker – the center for all your data, analytics, and AI, and is available within SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment. Visual workflows in Amazon SageMaker provides a […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon S3 Vectors (Preview)—First cloud object storage with native support for storing and querying vectors
Amazon S3 Vectors delivers purpose-built, cost-optimized vector storage for AI agents, AI inference, and semantic search of your content stored in Amazon S3. By reducing the cost of uploading, storing, and querying vectors by up to 90%, S3 Vectors makes it cost-effective to create and use large vector datasets to improve the memory and context […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for automatic refresh of materialized views on Apache Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift now supports automatic refresh of materialized views that are defined on external Apache Iceberg tables in the Amazon S3 data lake. With this update, Amazon Redshift will automatically refresh a materialized view defined on Apache Iceberg tables, that reside in the Amazon S3 bucket of the Amazon data lake, when there is new […]

AWS – TwelveLabs models now available fully managed in Amazon Bedrock
TwelveLabs’ Marengo 2.7 and Pegasus 1.2 multimodal foundation models are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Marengo 2.7 is a video embedding model proficient at performing tasks such as search and classification, enabling enhanced video understanding, while Pegasus 1.2 is a video language model that can generate text based on your video data. By integrating these […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared […]

AWS – Amazon EKS now supports up to 100,000 worker nodes per cluster
Today, Amazon EKS announces support for up to 100,000 worker nodes in a cluster, enabling you to run ultra scale AI/ML training and inference workloads in a single cluster. With Amazon EC2’s new generation accelerated computing instance types, 100,000 worker nodes support up to 1.6 million Trainium chips with Trn2 instances and 800,000 NVIDIA GPUs […]

AWS – Announcing support for Chaos V-Ray in AWS Deadline Cloud
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports usage-based licensing (UBL) for Chaos V-Ray so you can seamlessly leverage the cloud to render and access flexible V-Ray licensing. 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. With AWS Deadline […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Inventory ACL support is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon S3 Inventory’s capability to include access control lists (ACLs) as object metadata in inventory reports is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This allows you to easily review ACLs on all of your objects to simplify review of access permissions. ACLs were the original way to manage object access when S3 launched in […]