AWS News Blog Announcements, Updates, and Launches
- Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrockby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on December 19, 2024 at 7:22 pm
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.
- New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databasesby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on December 16, 2024 at 8:30 pm
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.
- And that’s a wrap!by Jeff Barr on December 16, 2024 at 5:16 pm
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
- AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)by Danilo Poccia on December 16, 2024 at 2:47 pm
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
- Now Available – Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2)by Jeff Barr on December 11, 2024 at 11:09 pm
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.
- Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplaceby Prasad Rao on December 4, 2024 at 11:30 pm
Buy with AWS enables you to seamlessly discover and purchase products available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner websites using your AWS account.
- Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipesby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on December 4, 2024 at 6:21 pm
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.
- AWS Education Equity Initiative: Applying generative AI to educate the next wave of innovatorsby Jeff Barr on December 4, 2024 at 6:13 pm
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.
- Solve complex problems with new scenario analysis capability in Amazon Q in QuickSightby Veliswa Boya on December 4, 2024 at 5:57 pm
Find solutions to your most critical business challenges with ease. Amazon Q in QuickSight enables business users to perform complex scenario analysis up to 10x faster than spreadsheets.
- Use Amazon Q Developer to build ML models in Amazon SageMaker Canvasby Elizabeth Fuentes on December 4, 2024 at 5:56 pm
Q Developer empowers non-ML experts to build ML models using natural language, enabling organizations to innovate faster with reduced time to market.
- Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports multimodal toxicity detection with image support (preview)by Antje Barth on December 4, 2024 at 5:38 pm
Build responsible AI applications – Safeguard them against harmful text and image content with configurable filters and thresholds.
- New Amazon Bedrock capabilities enhance data processing and retrievalby Danilo Poccia on December 4, 2024 at 5:35 pm
Amazon Bedrock enhances generative AI data analysis with multimodal processing, graph modeling, and structured querying, accelerating AI application development.
- Reduce costs and latency with Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing and prompt caching (preview)by Danilo Poccia on December 4, 2024 at 5:22 pm
Route requests and cache frequently used context in prompts to reduce latency and balance performance with cost efficiency.
- Amazon Bedrock Marketplace: Access over 100 foundation models in one placeby Danilo Poccia on December 4, 2024 at 5:16 pm
Discover, test, and use over 100 emerging, and specialized foundation models with the tooling, security, and governance provided by Amazon Bedrock.
- Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plansby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on December 4, 2024 at 4:57 pm
Unlock efficient large model training with SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans – find optimal compute resources and complete training within timelines and budgets.
- Maximize accelerator utilization for model development with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod task governanceby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on December 4, 2024 at 4:57 pm
Enable priority-based resource allocation, fair-share utilization, and automated task preemption for optimal compute utilization across teams.
- Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse integrated access controls now available in Amazon Athena federated queriesby Esra Kayabali on December 3, 2024 at 7:19 pm
Connect, discover, and govern data across silos with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse’s new data catalog and permissions capabilities, enabling centralized access and fine-grained controls.
- Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift supports zero-ETL integrations from applicationsby Veliswa Boya on December 3, 2024 at 7:14 pm
Simplify data replication and ingestion from applications such as Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Zendesk, to Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse and Amazon Redshift.
- Simplify analytics and AI/ML with new Amazon SageMaker Lakehouseby Esra Kayabali on December 3, 2024 at 7:05 pm
Unifying data silos, Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse seamlessly integrates S3 data lakes and Redshift warehouses, enabling unified analytics and AI/ML on a single data copy through open Apache Iceberg APIs and fine-grained access controls.
- New Amazon DynamoDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon SageMaker Lakehouseby Donnie Prakoso on December 3, 2024 at 6:59 pm
Effortlessly analyze operational data in Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, freeing developers from building custom pipelines and enabling seamless insights extraction.