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AWS – AWS Clean Rooms supports error message configurations for PySpark analyses
AWS Clean Rooms now supports error message configurations for PySpark, enabling companies and their partners to develop and test sophisticated analytics faster in a Clean Rooms collaboration. With this launch, you and your partners can specify how much information appears in error messages for analyses that use PySpark, the Python API for Apache Spark. Code […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now provides simplified access to OpenAI open weight models
On August 5, 2025, AWS announced the availability of two new OpenAI models with open weights in Amazon Bedrock. Today, we’re simplifying access to these foundation models by making them automatically available to all Amazon Bedrock users, eliminating the need to explicitly enable model access. Customers can immediately start using these models through the Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon MSK expands support for Graviton3 based M7g instances for Standard brokers in 8 more AWS Regions
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Graviton3-based M7g instances for Standard brokers for MSK Provisioned clusters in AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud (US-East), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions. Graviton M7g instances for Standard brokers deliver up […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports AI-powered forecasting
You can now generate AI-powered forecasts and visualizations on time-series data that has been indexed into Amazon OpenSearch 3.1+ domains. Forecasts can be used to enhance various analytics use cases to power insights into trending infrastructure utilization and events, application or business metrics, and more. They can help you anticipate upcoming changes in areas such […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt, London), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Sydney, Tokyo) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports multi-user web, in-app and video calling
Amazon Connect now supports multi-user web, in-app and video calling, allowing multiple users to join the same session with an agent through a web browser or mobile application. Contact center agents can dynamically add participants during a live call or multiple participants can join a scheduled session with the same agent. Participants can engage in […]
GCP – Rightsizing LLM Serving on vLLM for GPUs and TPUs
Additional contributors include Hossein Sarshar and Ashish Narasimham. Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing how we interact with technology, but serving these powerful models efficiently can be a challenge. vLLM has rapidly become the primary choice for serving open source large language models at scale, but using vLLM is not a silver bullet. Teams that […]
GCP – An efficient path to production AI: Kakao’s journey with JAX and Cloud TPUs
When your messaging platform serves 49 million people – 93% of South Korea’s population – every technical decision carries enormous weight. The engineering team at Kakao faced exactly this challenge when their existing infrastructure hit critical limitations. Their solution? A strategic shift to Google Cloud TPUs using the JAX framework that not only solved their […]
GCP – ChromeOS desk sync keeps your momentum going, across devices
For many workers, the frequent need to switch between devices can become cumbersome and disruptive. Otherwise simple tasks like logging in, reopening applications, and re-establishing your workspace end up consuming valuable time when done many times throughout the day. To address this challenge, we’re happy to introduce ChromeOS desk sync. This feature allows users to […]
AWS – New Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex Instances
AWS is announcing the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, […]