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Announcements, Updates, and Launches

  • New – Add Your Swift Packages to AWS CodeArtifact

    New – Add Your Swift Packages to AWS CodeArtifact

    Starting today, Swift developers who write code for Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, or visionOS) or for Swift applications running on the server side can use AWS CodeArtifact...

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

    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...

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  • New – NVMe Reservations for Amazon Elastic Block Store io2 Volumes

    New – NVMe Reservations for Amazon Elastic Block Store io2 Volumes

    Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) io2 and io2 Block Express volumes now support storage fencing using NVMe reservations. As I learned while writing this post, storage fencing is used to...

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  • AWS Weekly Roundup: C7i Instances, Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock, and More (Sept. 18, 2023)

    AWS Weekly Roundup: C7i Instances, Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock, and More (Sept. 18, 2023)

    While daylight is getting shorter in the Northern hemisphere, we’ve got two new EC2 instance types optimized for compute and memory and many new capabilities for other services. Last week there...

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  • Preview – Connect Foundation Models to Your Company Data Sources with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

    Preview – Connect Foundation Models to Your Company Data Sources with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

    In July, we announced the preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new capability for developers to create generative AI applications that complete tasks. Today, I’m happy to introduce a new...

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

    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...

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  • AWS Weekly Roundup: R7iz Instances, Amazon Connect, CloudWatch Logs, and Lots More (Sept. 11, 2023)

    AWS Weekly Roundup: R7iz Instances, Amazon Connect, CloudWatch Logs, and Lots More (Sept. 11, 2023)

    Looks like it is my turn once again to write the AWS Weekly Roundup. I wrote and published the first one on April 16, 2012 — just 4,165 short day ago! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the...

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

    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...

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  • The newest AWS Heroes are here – September 2023

    The newest AWS Heroes are here – September 2023

    Each quarter, the AWS Heroes program recognizes technical enthusiasts who lift up the greater AWS community through various approaches. While these inspirational individuals are driven to...

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  • AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023:  Architecting End User Computing for Change and Agility

    AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023: Architecting End User Computing for Change and Agility

    Join us on Wednesday, September 13, for a free-to-attend online event, AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023. AWS will stream the event simultaneously across multiple platforms, including...

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

    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...

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  • AWS Weekly Roundup: Farewell EC2-Classic, EBS at 15 Years, and More (Sept. 4, 2023)

    AWS Weekly Roundup: Farewell EC2-Classic, EBS at 15 Years, and More (Sept. 4, 2023)

    Last week, there was some great reading about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) written by AWS tech leaders. Dr. Werner Vogels wrote Farewell...

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  • Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Renamed from Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

    Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Renamed from Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

    Today we are announcing the rename of Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, a fully managed and serverless service for you to build and run real-time streaming...

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  • AWS Weekly Roundup – AWS Dedicated Local Zones, Events and More – August 28, 2023

    AWS Weekly Roundup – AWS Dedicated Local Zones, Events and More – August 28, 2023

    This week, I will meet our customers and partners at the AWS Summit Mexico. If you are around, please come say hi at the community lounge and at the F1 Game Day where I will spend most of my time....

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  • AWS Weekly Roundup – AWS AppSync, AWS CodePipeline, Events and More – August 21, 2023

    AWS Weekly Roundup – AWS AppSync, AWS CodePipeline, Events and More – August 21, 2023

    In a few days, I will board a plane towards the south. My tour around Latin America starts. But I won’t be alone in this adventure, you can find some other News Blog authors, like Jeff or Seb,...

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  • New – Amazon EC2 Hpc7a Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors Optimized for High Performance Computing

    New – Amazon EC2 Hpc7a Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors Optimized for High Performance Computing

    In January 2022, we launched Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances for customers to efficiently run their compute-bound high performance computing (HPC) workloads on AWS with up to 65 percent better price...

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  • Join AWS Hybrid Cloud & Edge Day to Learn How to Deploy Your Applications in the Everywhere Cloud

    Join AWS Hybrid Cloud & Edge Day to Learn How to Deploy Your Applications in the Everywhere Cloud

    Editor’s note: The live event has ended, but you may still watch the video on demand on Twitch. In his keynote of AWS re:Invent 2021, Dr. Werner Vogels shared the insight of how “the everywhere...

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  • New – Amazon EC2 M7a General Purpose Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

    New – Amazon EC2 M7a General Purpose Instances Powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors

    In November 2021, we launched Amazon EC2 M6a instances, powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz, which offer you up to 35 percent improvement in price...

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  • AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon MWAA, EMR Studio, Generative AI, and More – August 14, 2023

    AWS Weekly Roundup – Amazon MWAA, EMR Studio, Generative AI, and More – August 14, 2023

    While I enjoyed a few days off in California to get a dose of vitamin sea, a lot has happened in the AWS universe. Let’s take a look together! Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got...

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  • New — File Release for Amazon FSx for Lustre

    New — File Release for Amazon FSx for Lustre

    Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage with the scalability and high performance of the open-source Lustre file systems to support your Linux-based workloads. FSx for Lustre...

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