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AWS – AWS Backup is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker AI Training Jobs announces general availability of P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances in Training Jobs, powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in […]
AWS – Ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence into Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence and seamlessly index it in Amazon OpenSearch managed clusters and serverless collections. With this integration, you can now create a unified searchable knowledge base of all your data in Atlassian Jira and Confluence to power your RAG applications. This integration allows data […]
AWS – AWS KMS launches on-demand key rotation for imported keys
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is announcing support for on-demand rotation of symmetric encryption KMS keys with imported key material. This new capability enables you to rotate the cryptographic key material of Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK) keys without changing the key identifier (key ARN). Rotating keys helps you meet compliance requirements and security best […]
AWS – Amazon Connect enhances hold duration tracking for multiparty calls
Amazon Connect now allows you to track durations of holds initiated by individual agents in multiparty calling scenarios through the new Agent Initiated Hold Duration field on the contact record. This new field allows contact center managers to gain insights into hold patterns at the individual agent level during customer interactions. This also provides other […]
AWS – Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. Amazon EFS is designed to provide serverless, fully elastic file storage that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage capacity and performance. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without […]
AWS – Upgrade Experience from Amazon SageMaker Studio to SageMaker Unified Studio
Amazon SageMaker now offers an upgrade experience that enables customers to transition from SageMaker Studio to SageMaker Unified Studio while preserving their existing resources and maintaining consistent access controls. This new capability allows customers to import their SageMaker AI domains, user profiles, and spaces into SageMaker Unified Studio without redeploying infrastructure. The upgrade tool ensures […]
GCP – Accelerate your gen AI: Deploy Llama4 & DeepSeek on AI Hypercomputer with new recipes
The pace of innovation in open-source AI is breathtaking, with models like Meta’s Llama4 and DeepSeek AI’s DeepSeek. However, deploying and optimizing large, powerful models can be complex and resource-intensive. Developers and machine learning (ML) engineers need reproducible, verified recipes that articulate the steps for trying out the models on available accelerators. Today, we’re excited […]
GCP – Building a Production Multimodal Fine-Tuning Pipeline
Looking to fine-tune multimodal AI models for your specific domain but facing infrastructure and implementation challenges? This guide demonstrates how to overcome the multimodal implementation gap using Google Cloud and Axolotl, with a complete hands-on example fine-tuning Gemma 3 on the SIIM-ISIC Melanoma dataset. Learn how to scale from concept to production while addressing the […]
AWS – Announcing ASN match support for AWS WAF
AWS WAF now supports matching incoming request against Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). By monitoring and restricting traffic from specific ASNs, you can mitigate risks associated with malicious actors, comply with regulatory requirements, and optimize the performance and availability of your web applications. This new ASN Match Statement integrates seamlessly with existing WAF rules, making it […]