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The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet, CSV, and JSON. DuckDB stays open source under its independent foundation […]
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AWS Elastic Beanstalk now automatically joins the Windows Server instances in your environment to an Active Directory domain that you manage with AWS Directory Service. Previously, running domain-joined Windows workloads on Elastic Beanstalk required custom join scripts that you had to maintain. With this launch, you set a few configuration options and every instance in the environment — including instances launched later by auto scaling — joins the domain at boot, before your application deploys, with no custom scripts. Domain-joined instances can use Windows-integrated authentication, apply group policy, and reach domain resources such as …
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. The C8gn instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities of C8gn to scale performance and throughput, while optimizing the cost of running network-intensive workloads s…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) P6-B300 instances are available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) Regions. P6-B300 instances provide 8xNVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs with 2.1 TB high bandwidth GPU memory, 6.4 Tbps EFA networking, 300 Gbps dedicated ENA throughput, and 4 TB of system memory. P6-B300 instances deliver 2x networking bandwidth, 1.5x GPU memory size, and 1.5x GPU TFLOPS (at FP4, without sparsity) compared to P6-B200 instances, making them well suited to train and deploy large trillion-parameter foundation models (FMs) and large language models (LLMs) with sophisticated techniques. Th…
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Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (compatible with MySQL 8.0) supports MySQL 8.0.45, which includes community MySQL fixes and Aurora-specific improvements. For detailed information on this release, refer to Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.45 release notes. You can upgrade your databases during scheduled maintenance windows using automatic minor version upgrades. To simplify operations at scale, enable automatic minor version upgrades and use the AWS Organizations Upgrade Rollout Policy to orchestrate upgrades across your clusters in phases. You can perform minor version upgrades in-place or via snapshot restore. This rele…
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NVIDIA's Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models form the Cosmos 3 family of open, frontier omnimodal world models for physical AI, enabling customers to build robots, autonomous vehicles, and vision AI that perceive, reason, plan, and act in the physical world. These models address different physical AI challenges with specialized capabilities: Cosmos3-Edge is engineered for on-device robot control and real-time visual reasoning on edge hardware. This 4B-parameter omni-model (with a 2B Nem…
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On the 20th Anniversary, we recognize how AWS has continued to push the boundaries of what cloud computing can deliver, building custom silicon for general-purpose and AI workloads and expanding EC2 into new form factors and deployment models that our customers in 2006 could not have imagined.
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Last week, we brought together AWS Heroes from around the world to connect, collaborate, and celebrate the builders who go above and beyond for the AWS community. The AWS Heroes Summit, an invite-only annual gathering, brings global experts specializing in fields like AI, serverless, and containers together for direct collaboration, technical deep-dives, and feedback sessions […]
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Announcing runtime instances in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore—persistent, managed EC2 infrastructure for production AI agents with multi-agent collaboration, GPU support, and sessions lasting up to 14 days.
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On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and […]
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Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5, are now generally available. They deliver up to 25% better compute performance than Graviton4-based instances, 5x larger cache, fastest memory of any processor instances in the cloud, and local NVMe storage options (C9gd).
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Amazon Aurora DSQL now lets you build an index over a specific subset of a table, storing only qualifying rows rather than every row in the entire table, which improves query performance and lowers index storage cost. Many tables hold a small working set alongside a much larger history, such as open orders among years of completed ones. Add a WHERE clause to CREATE INDEX to index just that working set. The index stays small as the table grows, and queries that target those rows read less data. Aurora DSQL uses a partial index for any query whose filter falls within the index's condition. Partial indexes are available in all AWS Regions where…
