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AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports Video Aligned Locking, a new feature to synchronize video pipelines without requiring timecode from the source. Previously, achieving frame-accurate locking across video outputs required investing in specialized hardware or managing complex, external synchronization workflows. While timecode is generally standard for highly produced, traditional broadcast content, it is often unavailable and difficult to manage in typical digital streaming workflows. The new capability uses visual signatures to automatically identify and align specific frames across multiple video streams, enabling customers to achieve fr…
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AWS DevOps Agent now enables engineers to manage production operations across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments with the complete investigation lifecycle directly within Slack. Previously, on-call engineers and DevOps teams faced fragmented workflows during high-severity incidents, having to context-switch between communication and investigation platforms. This update consolidates both surfaces into a single, unified location where incident response already happens. Engineering teams can now initiate and steer investigations by simply @mentioning AWS DevOps Agent in any connected Slack private channel. All investigation activity,…
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AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, giving you visibility into workflow resource utilization as runs execute. The 14 new run metrics span CPU and GPU usage, memory usage, file system usage and I/O metrics, network throughput, and ephemeral storage usage. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs at scale with fully managed bioinformatics workflows. Real-time run metrics can help you identify CPU or GPU bottlenecks, detect memory or storage exhaustion before a task fails, and track file system throughput, all without o…
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AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports custom Generic Resource (GRES) settings and hardware topology, and adds support for Slurm version 26.05. These capabilities give you finer control over how Slurm sees and schedules your cluster hardware, improving task placement for HPC and machine learning workloads. They also enable NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG), which partitions a single GPU into isolated instances that Slurm schedules independently. With Slurm 26.05, AWS PCS configures hardware topology by default, treating each node's NUMA domains as Slurm sockets. It also autodetects and configures GPU core affinity and GPU-to-GPU…
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Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections, so data users can connect Microsoft Power BI and other ODBC-compatible tools directly to governed data in SageMaker Unified Studio projects using the Amazon Athena ODBC driver. This adds a native connection path for analysts who have standardized on Power BI to work with governed data using their existing tools and workflows. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds an ODBC connection details view to the project overview page, alongside the existing JDBC view. From the project's JDBC and ODBC connections tab, data users can copy the connection string and its parameters for a DSN-less…
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Today, AWS Lambda durable functions announces an integration with Pydantic AI, an open source framework for building AI agents in Python. AWS Lambda durable functions saves your Pydantic AI agent's progress as it runs, so after an interruption like a timeout, your agent resumes from the last completed step instead of starting over. Your agent gains fault tolerance without you having to write the checkpoint and retry logic yourself. With this integration, each model and tool call your agent makes is a durable execution step, so an interrupted run does not repeat calls that already completed. This matters when the work is expensive to repeat, …
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Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.3 which adds quorum queue feature enhancements such as compaction, increased priority levels, native delayed retries, and graceful consumer timeouts. RabbitMQ 4.3 also includes various bug fixes and performance improvements for memory management. Quorum queues on RabbitMQ 4.3 performs compaction to reduce disk usage for queues and native support for 32 strict priority levels, compared to the relative 2 levels supported in previous RabbitMQ versions. Quorum queues can now automatically set failed messages aside and retry delivery after a set cooldown delay. Consumer timeouts have moved from global pro…
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Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. RG instances deliver better performance, running data warehouse and data lake workloads up to 2.4x as fast as previous generation RA3 instances, at 30% lower price per vCPU. RG instances include Redshift's custom-built vectorized data lake query engine that processes Apache Iceberg and Parquet data on your cluster nodes, enabling you to run SQL analytics across your data warehouse and data lake using a single engine. RG instances are available in four instance sizes, rg.large, rg.xlarge, rg.4xlarge and rg.12xlarge. Customers…
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AWS Elemental MediaPackage now offers Dynamic Multiview, a server-side capability that composes multiple live video sources into viewer-selected tiled layouts on demand. Content providers can deliver multi-angle, multi-game, and personalized viewing experiences as standard HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) streams playable on most modern consumer devices, televisions, and set top boxes without custom player development. Dynamic Multiview operates entirely in the compressed domain, combining individually encoded sources without re-encoding or compositing. Customers encode each source once through AWS El…
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AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports A/B forensic watermarking, enabling content owners to trace the source of unauthorized redistribution of live video content. A single MediaLive channel produces two synchronized output variants, each carrying a distinct visually transparent watermark that persists through re-encoding and screen capture. Downstream packaging and CDN infrastructure assembles these variants into unique per-session sequences that identify the origin of leaked content. Forensic watermarking follows the DASH Industry Forum (DASH-IF) specification for A/B watermarking (European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) TS 10…
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers Yield Optimization, a new capability that automatically monetizes unused ad inventory with Amazon Ads demand during server-side ad insertion (SSAI) for livestreams. Available exclusively to publishers in the Amazon Publisher Services (APS) Streaming TV program, yield optimization turns unfilled ad breaks into monetized impressions at zero cost to enable and with no additional infrastructure required. Because ads are stitched directly into the stream before reaching the viewer, they play seamlessly on every device. Key highlights: - Built for scale: yield optimization is designed for large-scale live event…
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AWS Elemental Inference now generates contextual metadata from live video streams in real time, using AI to produce scene-level intelligence without custom machine learning infrastructure. The new capability analyzes live video in parallel with encoding to extract Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) content taxonomy categories, Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) brand suitability signals, detected objects and actions, and shot and scene-level descriptions. Broadcasters and content platforms can now power contextual ad decisioning, media asset enrichment, and content discovery workflows using serverless, fully managed AI. For conte…
