Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations […]

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle offers Reserved Instances for R7i and M7i instances with up to 46% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and provide larger sizes up to 48xlarge with 192 vCPUs and 1536 GiB of latest DDR5 memory. […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex and C7i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Europe (Zurich) Regions. These instances are powered by powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) custom processors, available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex and M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. […]

AWS License Manager now supports license type conversions for AWS Marketplace products, initially for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and RHEL for SAP products. Using AWS License Manager, Amazon EC2 customers can now switch Red Hat subscriptions between AWS-provided and Red Hat-provided options from AWS Marketplace without re-deploying instances. License conversion empowers customers to optimize […]

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 […]