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Now Available – Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for Tightly-Coupled HPC Workloads
We announced Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) at re:Invent 2018 and made it available in preview form at the time. During the preview, AWS customers put EFA through its paces on a variety of tightly-coupled HPC workloads, providing us with valuable feedback and helping us to fine-tune the final product. Now Available Today I am happy […]
Now Open – AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Hong Kong SAR is now open and you can start using it today. The official name is Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and the API name is ap-east-1. The AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region is the […]
Now Available – AMD EPYC-Powered Amazon EC2 T3a Instances
The AMD EPYC-powered T3a instances that I promised you last year are available now and you can start using them today! Like the recently announced M5ad and R5ad instances, the T3a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and give you an opportunity to balance your instance mix based on cost and performance. T3a […]
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Keeps Simplifying Labeling Workflows
Launched at AWS re:Invent 2018, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth is a capability of Amazon SageMaker that makes it easy for customers to efficiently and accurately label the datasets required for training machine learning systems. A quick recap on Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth helps you build highly accurate training datasets for machine […]
New – Query for AWS Regions, Endpoints, and More Using AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Update (August 8, 2021) – Added single quotes around the parameters passed to jq so that they are not processed by the shell. In response to requests from AWS customers, I have been asking our service teams to find ways to make information about our regions and services available programmatically. Today I am happy to […]
AWS re:Inforce 2019 – Security, Identity, and Compliance
AWS re:Inforce, our new conference dedicated to cloud security, opens in Boston on June 25th. We’re expecting about 8,000 attendees, making this bigger than the first re:Invent! Just like re:Invent, re:Inforce is a learning conference for builders. With over 300 breakout sessions (intermediate, advanced, and expert) spanning four tracks and a virtual Capture The Flag […]
The Wide World of Microsoft Windows on AWS
You have been able to run Microsoft Windows on AWS since 2008 (my ancient post, Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities, shows you just how far AWS come in a little over a decade). According to IDC, AWS has nearly twice as many Windows Server instances in the cloud […]
In the Works – AWS Region in Indonesia
Last year we launched two new AWS Regions—a second GovCloud Region in the United States, and our first Nordic Region in Sweden—and we announced that we are working on regions in Cape Town, South Africa the Middle East (Bahrain), and Milan, Italy. Jakarta in the Future Today, I am happy to announce that we are […]