AWS Lambda now provides native support for Avro and Protobuf formatted Kafka events with Apache Kafka’s event-source-mapping (ESM), and integrates with AWS Glue Schema registry (GSR), Confluent Cloud Schema registry (CCSR), and self-managed Confluent Schema registry (SCSR) for schema management. This enables you to validate your schema, filter events, and process events using open-source Kafka […]

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Europe (London). Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers advanced AI capabilities with both quick responses and extended, step-by-step thinking made visible to the user. This model has strong capabilities in coding and brings enhanced performance across various tasks, like instruction following, math, and physics. Claude 3.7 […]

Starting today, you can use E-RTMP (Enhanced Real-Time Messaging Protocol) multitrack video to send multiple video qualities to your Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) stages. This feature enables adaptive bitrate streaming, allowing viewers to watch in the best quality for their network connection. Multitrack video is supported in OBS Studio and complements the existing […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 8TB of memory (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in the US West (Oregon) region. U7i-8tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction […]

Today, AWS announced major enhancements to its AWS Government Competency, introducing three categories to help public sector customers effectively identify and engage with validated AWS Partners. This update consolidates and streamlines AWS’s public sector partner offerings by merging the AWS Public Safety Competency and AWS Smart City Competency under the Government Competency. This update features […]

Today, AWS announced support for job metadata logs for AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS). With this launch, PCS can be configured to emit job completion logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, and Amazon Data Firehose. Each job log will contain detailed metadata including information such as job submission time, start time, completed time, user […]

AWS is expanding resource control policies (RCPs) support to include two additional services: Amazon Elastic Container Registry and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless. This expansion enhances your ability to centrally establish a data perimeter across a wider range of AWS resources in your organization. RCPs are available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Europe (Spain) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, these new instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better […]

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now offers the ability to filter out instance details from the DescribeAutoScalingGroups API with a new parameter. With IncludeInstances set to false, you can quickly access metadata and configurations about your Auto Scaling Groups without the overhead of instance details, reducing the size of the API response and improving API response […]

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions Today, AWS launches AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions, enabling you to easily build and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters using the Slurm workload manager. AWS PCS is a managed service that makes […]