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GCP – The University of Hawaii is helping the state retain top talent with Google AI
As the Hawaiian Islands’ primary higher education resource, the University of Hawaii (UH) System faces a unique challenge among U.S. universities: many graduates–including those with deep family roots in Hawaii – are soon confronted with a competitive job market, and struggle to land a fulfilling entry-level role and starting salary commensurate with Hawaii’s higher-than-average cost […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for access to Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems. More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 […]

AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio
AWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions, a new feature which allows Amazon SageMaker Studio users to initiate long-running jobs that continue to run in the background even after a user logs off from their computer. User background sessions leverage permissions tied to a user’s identity and their corporate directory group associations while […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available
Today, AWS announces new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instance size with one NVIDIA H100 GPU that allows businesses to right-size their machine learning (ML) and high-performance computing (HPC) resources with cost-effectiveness. The new instance size enables customers to start small and scale in granular increments, providing more flexible control over infrastructure costs. […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI now supports P6e-GB200 UltraServers
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces support for P6e-GB200 UltraServers in SageMaker HyperPod and Training Jobs. With P6e-GB200 UltraServers, you can leverage up to 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs under one NVLink domain to accelerate training and deployment of foundational models at trillion-parameter scale. P6e-GB200 UltraServers are available in two sizes: ml.u-p6e-gb200x72 (72 GPUs within NVLink) and […]

AWS – Announcing new incentives for ISVs selling in AWS Marketplace
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces the launch of the AWS Marketplace Private Offer Promotion Program (MPOPP) in AWS Partner Central to support independent software vendors (ISVs) with driving new customer acquisition. This program is designed to accelerate sales through AWS Marketplace by offering AWS Promotional Credits to customers as an incentive for purchasing from […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images)
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs, enabling customers to deploy clusters with pre-configured, security-hardened environments that meet their specific organizational requirements. Customers deploying AI/ML workloads on HyperPod need customized environments that meet strict security, compliance, and operational requirements while maintaining fast cluster startup times, but often struggle with complex lifecycle configuration scripts that slow […]

AWS – Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock is launching today with a significantly expanded context window in public preview. The context window has been increased from 200,000 to 1 million tokens, representing a 5x expansion. This enhancement allows Claude to process and reason over much larger amounts of text in a single request, opening up […]
AWS – AWS Deadline Cloud introduces new cost-saving compute option
AWS 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. Today, we’re excited to announce a new wait and save feature for Deadline Cloud service-managed fleets that can reduce rendering costs with prices starting as low as […]