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AWS CloudTrail now offers network activity events for VPC endpoint logging, enabling comprehensive monitoring and recording of AWS API activity through VPC endpoints to enhance security visibility, detect unauthorized access, and prevent data exfiltration without requiring custom TLS traffic inspection solutions.

We are well settled into 2025 by now, but many people are still catching up with all the exciting new releases and announcements that came out of re:Invent last year. There have been hundreds of re:Invent recap events around the world since the beginning of the year, including in-person all-day official AWS events with multiple

AWS CodeBuild now includes pre-installed Fastlane in macOS environments, streamlining mobile app development by providing built-in access to automated tools for code signing, testing, and app distribution, without manual setup requirements.

Last week, I had an amazing time attending AWS Community Day Thailand in Bangkok. This event came at an exciting time, following the recent launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Bangkok) Region. We had over 300 attendees and featured 15 speakers from the community, including an AWS Hero and 4 AWS Community Builders who shared

DeepSeek-R1, a powerful large language model featuring reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought capabilities, is now available for deployment via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI, enabling users to build and scale their generative AI applications with minimal infrastructure investment to meet diverse business needs.

I counted about 40 new launches from AWS since last week – back to our normal rhythm of releases. Services teams are listening to your feedback and developing little (or big) changes that makes your life easier when working with our services. The ability to support multiple sessions in the AWS Console is my favorite

Amazon Bedrock now offers Luma AI’s Ray2 video model, enabling users to generate high-quality, 5 or 9 second video clips with 540p and 720p resolution from text prompts, marking AWS as the exclusive cloud provider offering fully managed Luma AI models.

As winter maintains its hold over where I live in the Netherlands, rare moments of sunlight become precious gifts. This weekend offered one such treasure—while cycling along a quiet canal, golden rays broke through the typically gray Dutch sky, creating a perfect moment of serenity. These glimpses of brightness feel particularly special during January, when

AWS launches its first cloud Region in Mexico, enabling digital transformation with local infrastructure, delivering low latency, and helping customers meet data residency requirements, backed by a planned $5 billion investment over 15 years.

As we move into the second week of 2025, China is celebrating Laba Festival (腊八节), a traditional holiday, which marks the beginning of Chinese New Year preparations. On this day, Chinese people prepare Laba congee, a special porridge combining various grains, dried fruits, and nuts. This nutritious mixture symbolizes harmony, prosperity, and good fortune —

AWS launches Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region with 3 Availability Zones, accelerating cloud adoption. Strategically located to meet data residency needs, it drives innovation across industries. Early AWS adopters in Thailand share transformative success stories. Get started now!

Happy New Year! We are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, offers five forward-looking tech predictions for 2025, and beyond: The workforce of tomorrow is mission-driven A new era of energy

Unleash your creativity: Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock generates stunning high-resolution images with superior detail, style variety, and prompt adherence for accelerated visual content creation.

Leverage 1920 vCPUs and 32TB memory with high-performance U7inh instances from AWS, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors; seamlessly migrate SAP HANA and other mission-critical workloads while benefiting from cloud scalability and cost savings.

After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last

The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You can now watch keynotes and

Accelerate genomics, multimedia, big data, networking, and more with up to 192 vCPUs, 8 FPGAs, 2TiB memory, and 100Gbps network – outpacing CPUs by up to 95x.

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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes help customers get started with training and fine-tuning popular publicly available foundation models, like Llama 3.1 405B, in just minutes with state-of-the-art performance.

Amazon commits $100M to empower education equity initiatives, enabling socially-minded organizations to create AI-powered digital learning solutions. This aims to reach underserved students globally through innovative platforms, apps, and assistants.