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AWS – Amazon S3 Batch Operations now supports managing buckets or prefixes in a single step in AWS Management Console
Amazon S3 Batch Operations now supports managing objects within an S3 bucket, prefix, suffix, or more, in a single step in AWS Management Console. When creating an S3 Batch Operation, customers can specify the objects on which to perform the operation. With this feature you have the option to instead specify an entire bucket, prefix, […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod announces health monitoring agent support for Slurm clusters
Today, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod announces the general availability of the health monitoring agent for Slurm clusters. SageMaker HyperPod helps you provision resilient clusters for running machine learning (ML) workloads and developing state-of-the-art models such as large language models (LLMs), diffusion models, and foundation models (FMs). The health monitoring agent performs passive, background health checks of […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: APAC security leaders speak out on AI and key topics
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2025. Today, Daryl Pereira and Hui Meng Foo, from our Office of the CISO’s Asia-Pacific office, share insights on AI from security leaders who attended our recent Google Cloud CISO Community event in Singapore. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Cases now supports date range filters in the case list view
Amazon Connect Cases now supports filtering by date ranges in the case list view, enabling contact center managers and agents to efficiently manage their case workloads. For example, users can filter cases created in the last 30 days for monthly reporting, view cases modified in the last 24 hours to monitor recent activity, or surface […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.1
You can now run OpenSearch version 3.1 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. OpenSearch 3.1 introduces several improvements in areas like search relevance and performance, and introduces features that simplify development of vector-driven applications for generative AI workloads. This launch incorporates Lucene 10 that enables optimized vector field indexing resulting in faster indexing times and reduced index […]
AWS – Now generally available: Amazon EC2 R8gn instances
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gn instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. R8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, […]
AWS – Announcing on-demand deployment for custom Meta Llama models in Amazon Bedrock
Starting today, customers can use the on-demand deployment option in Amazon Bedrock for their Meta Llama 3.3 models that have been fine-tuned or distilled in Bedrock. Models customized on or after September 15, 2025 will be eligible. This enables Bedrock customers to reduce costs by processing requests in real time without requiring pre-provisioned compute resources. […]
AWS – AWS Organizations now provides account state information for member accounts
AWS Organizations provides a new State field in the AWS Organizations Console and APIs (DescribeAccount, ListAccounts, and ListAccountsForParent) to enhance AWS account lifecycle visibility. With this launch, the account state, a new State field replaced the existing account status, Status field in the AWS Organizations Console, however both Status and State fields will remain available […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), Middle East (Bahrain), and US West (N. California). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that […]
GCP – Supercharge ML performance on xPUs with the new XProf profiler and Cloud Diagnostics XProf library
Are you spending more time debugging ML model performance than you are building? You’re not alone. In today’s fast-paced AI landscape, optimizing models is a complex challenge, from navigating new model architectures to dealing with the ever-changing hardware and software stacks. Even at Google, where we optimize models for products like Gemini, Search, and YouTube, […]