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AWS – Amazon Bedrock offers select FMs for batch inference at 50% of on-demand inference price
Last year, we introduced support for batch inference in preview, allowing you to process prompts in batch to get responses for model evaluation, experimentation, and offline processing. Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock supports batch inference in general availability in all supported AWS regions for supported models. Use batch inference to run multiple inference requests asynchronously, and […]
AWS – Amazon S3 adds additional context to HTTP 403 Access Denied error messages
Amazon S3 now includes additional context in HTTP 403 Access Denied errors for requests made to resources within the same AWS account. This new context includes the type of policy that denied access, the reason for denial, and information on the AWS IAM user or role that requested access to the resource. This context helps […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now provides higher default service quotas
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, a serverless scheduler that allows you to create, trigger, and manage millions of scheduled events and tasks, now has higher default service quotas. The default service quota for number of schedules is now 10 million schedules instead of 1 million in all regions, and the invocation throughput quota is now 1000 invocations […]
GCP – Introducing delayed destruction for Secret Manager, a new way to protect your secrets
Secret Manager is a fully-managed, scalable service for storing, operating, auditing and accessing secrets used across Google Cloud services including GKE and Compute Engine. A critical part of any secrets management strategy is managing deletion and destruction of secrets. To provide customers with advanced capabilities in this area, we are pleased to announce the general […]
GCP – Run your AI inference applications on Cloud Run with NVIDIA GPUs
Developers love Cloud Run for its simplicity, fast autoscaling, scale-to-zero capabilities, and pay-per-use pricing. Those same benefits come into play for real-time inference apps serving open gen AI models. That’s why today, we’re adding support for NVIDIA L4 GPUs to Cloud Run, in preview. This opens the door to many new use cases to Cloud […]
GCP – Cloud Functions is now Cloud Run functions — event-driven programming in one unified serverless platform
Cloud Functions and its familiar event-driven programming model is now Cloud Run functions, complete with the fine-grained control and scalability that developers love about the serverless platform. With Cloud Run functions, we’ve created a unified serverless platform for all your workloads, so you don’t have to choose between the two. This goes beyond a simple […]
AWS – AWS CloudHSM launches new hsm2m.medium instance type
AWS CloudHSM launched hsm2m.medium with support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Level 3 and non-FIPS CloudHSM clusters. The new instance type provides customers with new features, increased performance, and flexibility. hsm2m.medium offers increased key capacity and higher elliptic curve performance compared with the existing hsm1.medium instance type. Backups from CloudHSM clusters based on […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports data flows import, and faster data prep for ML
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler in Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports importing data flows from Amazon SageMaker Studio Classic, as well as faster and more flexible data preparation for machine learning (ML). With the latest version of SageMaker Data Wrangler in SageMaker Canvas, you can now import data from S3 more easily with custom delimiters and […]
AWS – Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes
Amazon S3 adds support for conditional writes that can check for the existence of an object before creating it. This capability can help you more easily prevent applications from overwriting any existing objects when uploading data. You can perform conditional writes using PutObject or CompleteMultipartUpload API requests in both general purpose and directory buckets. Using […]
AWS – Amazon Connect in-app, web, and video calling is now available in Africa (Cape Town) region
Amazon Connect now provides in-app and web voice and video calling capabilities in Africa (Cape Town) region, making it easier to deliver more personalized voice and video experiences in your websites and mobile applications. These voice and video capabilities allow customers to contact you without having to leave your website or mobile application. You can […]