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Category: Compute
New Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs for the highest AI performance
Amazon announces the general availability of EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers, powered by NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 superchips that enable up to 72 GPUs with 360 petaflops of computing power for AI training and inference at the trillion-parameter scale.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock API keys, EC2 C8gn instances, Amazon Nova Canvas virtual try-on, and more (July 7, 2025)
Every Monday we tell you about the best releases and blogs that caught our attention last week. This week I’m making an exception to include a release from today: Amazon Bedrock API keys. This new feature simplifies generative AI development by providing direct API authentication without needing to manually configure IAM principals and policies. Amazon […]
New Amazon EC2 C8gn instances powered by AWS Graviton4 offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth
Amazon EC2 announces general availability of C8gn network optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, offering up to 600Gbps network bandwidth for demanding network-intensive workloads with 30% higher compute performance over previous Graviton3-based instances.
AWS Weekly Roundup: re:Inforce re:Cap, Valkey GLIDE 2.0, Avro and Protobuf or MCP Servers on Lambda, and more (June 23, 2025)
Last week’s hallmark event was the security-focused AWS re:Inforce conference. Now a tradition, the blog team wrote a re:Cap post to summarize the announcements and link to some of the top blog posts. To further summarize, several new security innovations were announced, including enhanced IAM Access Analyzer capabilities, MFA enforcement for root users, and threat […]
Amazon GuardDuty expands Extended Threat Detection coverage to Amazon EKS clusters
Expanded Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection for EKS clusters uses proprietary correlation algorithms to identify sophisticated multi-stage attack sequences across Kubernetes audit logs, container runtime behaviors, and AWS API activities through a new critical severity finding type: AttackSequence:EKS/CompromisedCluster.
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS re:Inforce 2025, AWS WAF, AWS Control Tower, and more (June 16, 2025)
Today marks the start of AWS re:Inforce 2025, where security professionals are gathering for three days of technical learning sessions, workshops, and demonstrations. This security-focused conference brings together AWS security specialists who build and maintain the services that organizations rely on for their cloud security needs. AWS Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Amy Herzog will […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: New AWS Heroes, Amazon Q Developer, EC2 GPU price reduction, and more (June 9, 2025)
The AWS Heroes program recognizes a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community. Heroes go above and beyond to share knowledge in a variety of ways in developer community. We introduce our newest AWS Heroes in the second quarter of 2025. To find and connect […]
Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances
AWS announces significant price reductions of up to 45 percent for NVIDIA GPU-accelerated EC2 instances, increasing accessibility to these high-demand resources for generative AI workloads amid industry-wide GPU shortages.