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• AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Mexico (Central) Region, simultaneous sign-in for multiple AWS accounts, and more (January 20, 2025) 20/01/2025
  As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of serenity. These glimpses of brightness feel particularly special during January, when […]
  Esra Kayabali
• Now open — AWS Mexico (Central) Region 14/01/2025
  AWS launches its first cloud Region in Mexico, enabling digital transformation with local infrastructure, delivering low latency, and helping customers meet data residency requirements, backed by a planned $5 billion investment over 15 years.
  Elizabeth Fuentes
• AWS Weekly Roundup: New Asia Pacific Region, DynamoDB updates, Amazon Q developer, and more (January 13, 2025) 13/01/2025
  As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nuts. This nutritious mixture symbolizes harmony, prosperity, and good fortune — […]
  Betty Zheng (郑予彬)
• Announcing the new AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region 08/01/2025
  AWS launches Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region with 3 Availability Zones, accelerating cloud adoption. Strategically located to meet data residency needs, it drives innovation across industries. Early AWS adopters in Thailand share transformative success stories. Get started now!
  Donnie Prakoso
• Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 2025 Tech Predictions, Llama 3.3 70B, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, custom billing view, and more (January 6, 2025) 06/01/2025
  Happy New Year! We are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, offers five forward-looking tech predictions for 2025, and beyond: The workforce of tomorrow is mission-driven A new era of energy […]
  Prasad Rao
• Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock 19/12/2024
  Unleash your creativity: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock generates stunning high-resolution images with superior detail, style variety, and prompt adherence for accelerated visual content creation.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases 16/12/2024
  Leverage 1920 vCPUs and 32TB memory with high-performance U7inh instances from AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors; seamlessly migrate SAP HANA and other mission-critical workloads while benefiting from cloud scalability and cost savings.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• And that’s a wrap! 16/12/2024
  After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last […]
  Jeff Barr
• AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024) 16/12/2024
  The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You can now watch keynotes and […]
  Danilo Poccia
• Now Available – Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2) 11/12/2024
  Accelerate genomics, multimedia, big data, networking, and more with up to 192 vCPUs, 8 FPGAs, 2TiB memory, and 100Gbps network – outpacing CPUs by up to 95x.
  Jeff Barr
• Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace 04/12/2024
  Buy with AWS enables you to seamlessly discover and purchase products available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner websites using your AWS account.
  Prasad Rao
• Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes 04/12/2024
  Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes help customers get started with training and fine-tuning popular publicly available foundation models, like Llama 3.1 405B, in just minutes with state-of-the-art performance.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovators 04/12/2024
  Amazon commits $100M to empower education equity initiatives, enabling socially-minded organizations to create AI-powered digital learning solutions. This aims to reach underserved students globally through innovative platforms, apps, and assistants.
  Jeff Barr
• Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSight 04/12/2024
  Find solutions to your most critical business challenges with ease. Amazon Q in QuickSight enables business users to perform complex scenario analysis up to 10x faster than spreadsheets.
  Veliswa Boya
• Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvas 04/12/2024
  Q Developer empowers non-ML experts to build ML models using natural language, enabling organizations to innovate faster with reduced time to market.
  Elizabeth Fuentes
• Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview) 04/12/2024
  Build responsible AI applications - Safeguard them against harmful text and image content with configurable filters and thresholds.
  Antje Barth
• New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrieval 04/12/2024
  Amazon Bedrock enhances generative AI data analysis with multimodal processing, graph modeling, and structured querying, accelerating AI application development.
  Danilo Poccia
• Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview) 04/12/2024
  Route requests and cache frequently used context in prompts to reduce latency and balance performance with cost efficiency.
  Danilo Poccia
• Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one place 04/12/2024
  Discover, test, and use over 100 emerging, and specialized foundation models with the tooling, security, and governance provided by Amazon Bedrock.
  Danilo Poccia
• Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans 04/12/2024
  Unlock efficient large model training with SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans - find optimal compute resources and complete training within timelines and budgets.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)