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AWS DeepRacer is a 1/18th scale four-wheel drive car with a considerable amount of onboard hardware and software. Starting at re:Invent 2018 and continuing with the AWS Global Summits, you have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with a DeepRacer. At these events, you can train a model using reinforcement learning, and then race it […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, 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 […]

Guest post by AWS Community Hero Larry Ogrodnek. Larry is an independent consultant focused on cloud architecture, DevOps, serverless, and general software development on AWS. He’s always ready to talk about AWS over coffee, and enjoys development and helping other developers. How are users identified in your system? Username? Email? Is it important that they’re […]