Elevating cluster software development with QNX Hypervisor on AWS

Digital cockpit systems are the primary “vehicle to user” interface of a Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) which include digital instrument clusters that have sophisticated graphics needs as well as safety-critical requirements. For instance, vehicle state information, such as vehicle malfunction warnings, Continue reading Elevating cluster software development with QNX Hypervisor on AWS

AWS Weekly Roundup — Claude 3 Sonnet support in Bedrock, new instances, and more — March 11, 2024

Last Friday was International Women’s Day (IWD), and I want to take a moment to appreciate the amazing ladies in the cloud computing space that are breaking the glass ceiling by reaching technical leadership positions and inspiring others to go Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup — Claude 3 Sonnet support in Bedrock, new instances, and more — March 11, 2024

Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads

Today we are announcing that Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) supports an integration with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), making it easier to run a wider range of data processing workloads. You can provision Amazon EBS storage for Continue reading Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads

Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers (preview)

Today, we are announcing the preview of Amazon Q, a new type of generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered assistant that is specifically for work and can be tailored to a customer’s business. Amazon Q brings a set of capabilities to Continue reading Amazon Q brings generative AI-powered assistance to IT pros and developers (preview)

AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests

Now AWS Lambda scales up to 12 times faster. Each synchronously invoked Lambda function now scales by 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds until the aggregate concurrency across all functions reaches the account’s concurrency limit. In addition, each function within Continue reading AWS Lambda functions now scale 12 times faster when handling high-volume requests

Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters

Starting today, you can use Amazon EKS Pod Identity to simplify your applications that access AWS services. This enhancement provides you with a seamless and easy to configure experience that lets you define required IAM permissions for your applications in Continue reading Amazon EKS Pod Identity simplifies IAM permissions for applications on Amazon EKS clusters

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS

Today, I’m happy to announce a new capability, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, to automatically and agentlessly discover and collect Prometheus metrics from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector consists of a scraper Continue reading Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector provides agentless metric collection for Amazon EKS

AWS Weekly Roundup—Reserve GPU capacity for short ML workloads, Finch is GA, and more—November 6, 2023

The year is coming to an end, and there are only 50 days until Christmas and 21 days to AWS re:Invent! If you are in Las Vegas, come and say hi to me. I will be around the Serverlesspresso booth most Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup—Reserve GPU capacity for short ML workloads, Finch is GA, and more—November 6, 2023

Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads

Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) have unlocked opportunities for customers across organizations of all sizes and industries to reinvent new products and transform their businesses. However, the growth in demand for GPU capacity to train, fine-tune, experiment, and inference Continue reading Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML to reserve GPU capacity for your machine learning workloads

New – Seventh Generation Memory-optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (R7i)

Earlier, we introduced a duo of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to our lineup: the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M7i instances and the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7i instances. Today, I’m happy to share that we’re expanding these seventh-generation x86-based Continue reading New – Seventh Generation Memory-optimized Amazon EC2 Instances (R7i)

New – Amazon EC2 C7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Compute Optimized Workloads

We launched the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances in February 2022 powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of new, compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a Continue reading New – Amazon EC2 C7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Compute Optimized Workloads

New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances. These instances deliver up to 35 percent faster performance over the existing M1 Mac instances when building and testing applications for Apple platforms. New EC2 M2 Continue reading New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers

New – Amazon EC2 R7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory Optimized Workloads

We launched the memory optimized Amazon EC2 R6a instances in July 2022 powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz. Many customers who run workloads that are dependent on x86 instructions, such as Continue reading New – Amazon EC2 R7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory Optimized Workloads

Makino improves performance of Autonomous Mobile Robots with AWS Wavelength and 5G network

Introduction Makino Milling Machine Co. (Makino), a Japanese milling machine manufacturer, has successfully launched a robot control system over a 5G network in less than 5 months. Makino has improved the stability of wireless communication between its moving Autonomous Mobile Continue reading Makino improves performance of Autonomous Mobile Robots with AWS Wavelength and 5G network

New Amazon EC2 R7iz Instances are Optimized for High CPU Performance, Memory-Intensive Workloads

Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon EC2 R7iz instances. R7iz instances are the fastest 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud with 3.9 GHz sustained all-core turbo frequency. R7iz instances are suitable for workloads Continue reading New Amazon EC2 R7iz Instances are Optimized for High CPU Performance, Memory-Intensive Workloads

How Vercel Shipped Cron Jobs in 2 Months Using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler

Vercel implemented Cron Jobs using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, enabling their customers to create, manage, and run scheduled tasks at scale. The adoption of this feature was rapid, reaching over 7 million weekly cron invocations within a few months of release. Continue reading How Vercel Shipped Cron Jobs in 2 Months Using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler