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AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances with fractional GPUs
Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 G6f instances, our first GPU instances provisioned with GPU partitioning powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs. G6f instances can be used for a wide range of graphics workloads. G6f instances offer GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of a GPU with 3 GB of […]

AWS – Amazon MSK Connect is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Amazon MSK Connect is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. MSK Connect enables you to run fully managed Kafka Connect clusters with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). With a few clicks, MSK Connect allows you to easily deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data in and out of Apache […]

AWS – AWS announces 100G expansion in Hyderabad, India
Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the AWS Direct Connect location in the STT Hyderabad, DC1 data center near Hyderabad, India. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This is […]

GCP – Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now generally available on Vertex AI
Veo 3 has seen massive global adoption with over 70 million videos created since May, and we’ve seen tremendous momentum with our enterprise customers as well. Since its preview launch on Vertex AI in June, enterprise customers have already generated over 6 million videos, showcasing the incredible demand for professional-grade, scalable AI video creation. Today, […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in the US West (N. California) Region
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the US West (N. California) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing large language models […]

AWS – Amazon Application Recovery Controller now supports Region switch
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) now supports switching AWS Regions for multi-Region application recovery. This automated feature allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to switch operating your multi-Region application out of another AWS Region. It provides dashboards for real-time visibility and logging that you can use throughout the recovery process. This saves hours of […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) region
Customers in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family for file transfers over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over SSL (FTPS) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2). AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System […]

AWS – AWS Marketplace enhances offer and subscription management
Today, AWS Marketplace is introducing new capabilities that simplify both software procurement and ongoing subscription management. Customers can now download private offers and agreements to PDF documents. They can also access historical agreement information, agreement status, and deployed on AWS status directly in the AWS Marketplace console for a more comprehensive view of transactions and […]

AWS – AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 33 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by […]
AWS – Amazon Connect’s UI builder launches an improved UX/UI
The Amazon Connect UI builder, used to create each step in a Step-by-Step Guide, now features an updated user interface to reduce the complexity to build structured workflows in Connect. The new user interface is designed to make the process of passing dynamic data onto guides and storing data entered in a guide by a […]