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AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 4 foundation models now in Amazon Bedrock
The next generation of Anthropic’s Claude models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, are now available in Amazon Bedrock, representing significant advancements in AI capabilities. These models excel at coding, enable AI agents to analyze thousands of data sources, execute long-running tasks, write high-quality content, and perform complex actions. Both Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R7i and M7i instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports R7i and M7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors, available only on AWS. R7i and M7i instances are available in sizes up to 48xlarge, or 50% larger than the previous generation R6i and M6i instances. M7i […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility
Today, AWS Control Tower introduces a new ‘Enabled controls’ page, helping customers track, filter, and manage their enabled controls across their AWS Control Tower organization. This enhancement significantly improves visibility and streamlines the management of your AWS Control Tower controls, saving valuable time and reducing the complexity of managing enabled controls. For organizations managing hundreds […]
AWS – AWS HealthImaging now supports DICOMweb series level metadata retrievals
Today, AWS HealthImaging announces support for retrieving the metadata for all DICOM instances in a series via a single API action. This new feature extends HealthImaging’s support for the DICOMweb standard, simplifying integrations and improving interoperability with existing applications. This launch significantly reduces the cost and complexity of retrieving series level metadata, especially when DICOM […]
AWS – AWS HealthImaging launches DICOMweb QIDO-RS search and enhanced data management
AWS HealthImaging announces rich hierarchical search per the DICOMweb QIDO-RS standard as well as an improved data management experience. With this launch, HealthImaging automatically organizes image sets into DICOM Study and Series resources. Incoming DICOM SOP instances are automatically merged to the same DICOM Series. Rich DICOMweb QIDO-RS search capabilities make it easier to find […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora reduces cross-Region Global Database Switchover time to typically under 30 seconds
Amazon Aurora for MySQL and Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL now offer faster Global Database cross-Region switchover, reducing recovery time for read/write operations to typically under 30 seconds and enhancing availability for applications operating at a global scale. With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages […]
AWS – AWS announces IPv6 support for EC2 Public DNS names
EC2 Public DNS names can now resolve to IPv6 Global Unicast Address (AAAA record) associated with your EC2 instances and Elastic Network Interfaces (ENI). This allows customers to publicly access their IPv6-enabled Amazon EC2 instances over IPv6, using EC2 Public DNS names. Prior to this, EC2 Public DNS name resolved to the Public IPv4 address […]
GCP – Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI
Today, we’re expanding the choice of third-party models available in Vertex AI Model Garden with the addition of Anthropic’s newest generation of the Claude model family: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are hybrid reasoning models, meaning they offer modes for near-instant responses and extended thinking […]
GCP – How Confidential Computing lays the foundation for trusted AI
Confidential Computing has redefined how organizations can securely process their sensitive workloads in the cloud. The growth in our hardware ecosystem is fueling a new wave of adoption, enabling customers to use Confidential Computing to support cutting-edge uses such as building privacy-preserving AI and securing multi-party data analytics. We are thrilled to share our latest […]
GCP – Train AI for less: Improve ML Goodput with elastic training and optimized checkpointing
Want to save some money on large AI training? For a typical PyTorch LLM training workload that spans thousands of accelerators for several weeks, a 1% improvement in ML Goodput can translate to more than a million dollars in cost savings1. Therefore, improving ML Goodput is an important goal for model training — both from […]