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Optimizing ODCR usage through AI-powered capacity insights

Efficient resource management is crucial for organizations seeking to optimize cloud costs while making sure of seamless access to compute capacity. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) provide the flexibility to reserve compute capacity within a specific Availability Zone (AZ) for any duration. In this post, we demonstrate how Amazon Bedrock Agents can help organizations gain actionable insights into ODCR usage across their AWS environment.

Figure 1 – Architectural diagram of the solution to perform low-latency, local inference through generative AI and ML models running on Outposts Servers

Powering generative AI/ML solutions with AWS Outposts Servers at Edge locations

This post is written by Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect, Leonardo Queirolo, Senior Cloud Support Engineer, and Reet Kundu, Senior Cloud Support Engineer Powering generative AI/ML solutions with AWS Outposts Servers at Edge locations Many organizations are vigorously pursuing generative AI initiatives in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud today because generative AI drive advances […]

Anchoring AWS Outposts servers with AWS Direct Connect

This post is written by Perry Wald, Principal GTM SA, Hybrid Edge, Eric Vasquez Senior SA Hybrid Edge, and Fernando Galves Gen AI Solutions Architect, Outposts AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools to customer premises. Outposts servers launched in 2022, a 1U or 2U rack-mountable host, […]

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Migrating your on-premises workloads to AWS Outposts Rack (update)

This post is written by Craig Warburton, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid; Sedji Gaouaou, Senior Solutions Architect, Hybrid; and Brian Daugherty, Principal Solutions Architect, Hybrid. Migrating workloads to AWS Outposts Rack offers you the opportunity to gain the benefits of cloud computing while keeping your data and applications on premises. For organizations with strict data residency […]

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Implementing a serverless architecture to detect absence of Guardrails in Amazon Bedrock inference API calls

This post is written by Sayan Chakraborty, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Implementing a serverless architecture to detect absence of Guardrails in Amazon Bedrock inference API calls In today’s rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, organizations are increasingly harnessing the power of foundation models through Amazon Bedrock to build sophisticated generative AI applications. Although this technology […]

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Efficiently manage Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) with split, move, and modify

This post is written by Ninad Joshi, Senior Solutions Architect, Ballu Singh, Principal Solutions Architect, and Ankush Goyal, Enterprise Support Lead AWS. Introduction In today’s cloud-first world, managing compute capacity efficiently while making sure of application availability is crucial for your business. Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) is a valuable tool for organizations looking […]

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Streamlining AMI creation with EC2 Image Builder components in AWS Marketplace

This post is written by Smriti Ohri, Senior Product Manager, EC2 and Omar Chehab, Senior Product Manager, AWS Marketplace. At re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of third-party EC2 Image Builder components in AWS Marketplace. EC2 Image Builder is a fully managed service that streamlines the customization, testing, distribution, and lifecycle management […]

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Automating Notifications for Future-Dated Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation State Changes

This post is written by Ballu Singh, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, Sandeep Rohilla, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS and Pranjal Gururani, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. AWS customers are able to proactively reserve future-dated Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (known as future-dated CRs) to get capacity assurance for workloads and events. Because reservations can be created weeks […]

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NEW: Simplifying the use of third-party block storage with AWS Outposts

This post is written by Kate Sposato, Senior Solutions Architect, EC2 Edge Compute AWS is excited to announce deeper collaboration with industry-leading storage solutions to streamline the use of third-party storage with AWS Outposts. You can now attach and use external block data volumes from NetApp® on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage® FlashArray™ directly […]