Category: Amazon EC2

My most exciting news of last week: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore previewed the first managed payment capabilities enabling AI agents to autonomously access and pay for APIs, MCP servers, web content, and other agents. Built in partnership with Coinbase and Stripe, it removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of building customized systems for billing, credential management, and […]

Last week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Kiro. Other colleagues, Du’An Lightfoot, Elizabeth Fuentes, Laura Salinas, and Sandhya Subramani spoke about building and […]

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking, helping customers accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering workloads, and tightly coupled HPC applications.

Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week. Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure: Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances: These new Amazon EC2 […]

AWS launches Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offer 3 times more vCPUs, memory, and local storage with up to 22.8TB of local NVMe-backed SSD block-level storage.

Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still flowing! This week brings exciting news for customers running GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our newest graphics and AI inference […]

AWS introduces Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 2.3 times inference performance. G7e instances deliver cost-effective performance for generative AI inference workloads and the highest performance for graphics workloads.