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• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Developer Day, Trust Center, Well-Architected for Enterprises, and more (Feb 17, 2025) 17/02/2025
  Join us for the AWS Developer Day on February 20! This virtual event is designed to help developers and teams incorporate cutting-edge yet responsible generative AI across their development lifecycle to accelerate innovation. In his keynote, Jeff Barr, Vice President of AWS Evangelism, shares his thoughts on the next generation of software development based on […]
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC endpoints now generally available 13/02/2025
  AWS CloudTrail now offers network activity events for VPC endpoint logging, enabling comprehensive monitoring and recording of AWS API activity through VPC endpoints to enhance security visibility, detect unauthorized access, and prevent data exfiltration without requiring custom TLS traffic inspection solutions.
  Esra Kayabali
• AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Q Developer, and more (February 10, 2024) 10/02/2025
  We are well settled into 2025 by now, but many people are still catching up with all the exciting new releases and announcements that came out of re:Invent last year. There have been hundreds of re:Invent recap events around the world since the beginning of the year, including in-person all-day official AWS events with multiple […]
  Matheus Guimaraes
• AWS CodeBuild for macOS adds support for Fastlane 05/02/2025
  AWS CodeBuild now includes pre-installed Fastlane in macOS environments, streamlining mobile app development by providing built-in access to automated tools for code signing, testing, and app distribution, without manual setup requirements.
  Sébastien Stormacq
• AWS Weekly Roundup: DeepSeek-R1, S3 Metadata, Elastic Beanstalk updates, and more (February 3, 2024) 03/02/2025
  Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared […]
  Donnie Prakoso
• DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS 31/01/2025
  DeepSeek-R1, a powerful large language model featuring reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought capabilities, is now available for deployment via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI, enabling users to build and scale their generative AI applications with minimal infrastructure investment to meet diverse business needs.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• AWS Weekly roundup: EventBridge, SNS FIFO, Amazon Corretto, Amazon Connect, Amazon Bedrock, and more 27/01/2025
  I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite […]
  Sébastien Stormacq
• Luma AI’s Ray2 video model is now available in Amazon Bedrock 23/01/2025
  Amazon Bedrock now offers Luma AI's Ray2 video model, enabling users to generate high-quality, 5 or 9 second video clips with 540p and 720p resolution from text prompts, marking AWS as the exclusive cloud provider offering fully managed Luma AI models.
  Channy Yun (윤석찬)
• 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)