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AWS SageMaker Notebooks Expand P4de Instance Support to Tokyo Region
Amazon EC2 P4de instances, featuring 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB HBM2e memory each, are now generally available on SageMaker notebook instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances offer up to 60% better ML training performance and 20% lower cost compared to P4d instances, benefiting workloads with large, high-resolution datasets and accelerating time to market for ML models. This expansion is relevant for ML engineers and data scientists training large models.
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Terraform AWS Provider v6.47.0: New Resources and Attribute Deprecations
This release introduces new resources for AWS Bedrock Agent and S3 Multi-Region Access Points, along with several enhancements and bug fixes. Multiple data sources now deprecate the `id` attribute in favor of more descriptive alternatives, and some `secretsmanager` attributes are updated. These changes affect users managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform, particularly those working with Bedrock, S3, or leveraging the updated data sources.
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Amazon Bedrock adds Service Quotas support for bedrock-mantle endpoint
Amazon Bedrock now supports AWS Service Quotas for its bedrock-mantle endpoint, providing customers with visibility into inference quotas for OpenAI and Anthropic APIs. This allows for consistent tracking of limits across AWS services and helps customers proactively plan for production workloads.
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AWS Elemental Inference adds AI-powered live captioning
AWS Elemental Inference now supports Smart Subtitles, an AI feature for automatic live caption generation. This enables broadcasters to add real-time, low-latency TTML-formatted subtitles in multiple languages, improving accessibility without manual workflows. The feature integrates with AWS Elemental MediaLive and allows for custom dictionary creation to enhance transcription accuracy for specialized content.
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SageMaker Notebook Instances add P5en.48xl instance types with H200 GPUs
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 P5en.48xl instances, which feature H200 GPUs offering increased memory and bandwidth over H100 GPUs. This enhancement significantly boosts AI training and inference performance, especially for distributed workloads, and is available in select AWS regions. The new instances are suitable for developers and architects working with deep learning, generative AI, and HPC applications.
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Amazon EMR Adds General Availability Support for Apache Spark 4.0.2
Amazon EMR now offers general availability support for Apache Spark 4.0.2, enhancing data pipeline development. This update introduces ANSI SQL, VARIANT data types for flexible data handling, row/column-level access control via AWS Lake Formation, and improved streaming for real-time applications. These features benefit data engineers, analysts, and developers working with complex data and compliance requirements on EMR.
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AWS Glue adds large and memory-optimized workers in Spain
AWS Glue has introduced large and memory-optimized worker types in the Europe (Spain) region. These new options, including G.12X, G.16X, R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X, provide enhanced compute and memory capabilities to handle more complex and data-intensive processing workloads. Customers can select these workers via AWS Glue Studio, notebooks, Visual ETL, or the Glue Job APIs.
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Amazon Connect uses generative AI for automated interaction evaluation
Amazon Connect now offers generative AI capabilities allowing managers to automatically evaluate self-service interactions based on custom natural language criteria. This feature provides aggregated insights and detailed reasoning to help improve AI agent performance and customer experience. Managers can use these evaluations alongside recordings and transcripts to identify areas for improvement.
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SageMaker HyperPod Slurm clusters now support minimum capacity
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod for Slurm clusters now supports specifying minimum instance requirements (MinCount) with continuous provisioning. This allows users to guarantee a baseline number of nodes before training jobs start, improving reliability for distributed workloads and meeting SLA targets. Engineers and architects running large-scale AI/ML training jobs on SageMaker HyperPod will benefit from this enhanced control over cluster availability.
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Amazon Aurora MySQL integrates with Kiro Powers for AI development assistance
Amazon Aurora MySQL now integrates with Kiro Powers, a repository of AI agent tools, enabling developers to build applications faster using natural language commands for both data and control plane operations. This integration provides instant expertise for Aurora MySQL operations and schema design, abstracting complex syntax and offering dynamic, task-specific guidance. The feature is available via one-click installation and affects developers building or managing Aurora MySQL-backed applications.
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AWS Backup adds OTP verification for logically air-gapped vaults
AWS Backup now requires one-time password (OTP) verification for Multi-party approval actions on logically air-gapped vaults, adding an extra security layer. Approvers must enter a code sent to their IAM Identity Center registered email to authorize protected vault operations. This feature is automatically applied to all existing and new Multi-party approval sessions for these vaults at no extra charge.
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Amazon EC2 X8i instances expand to more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These SAP-certified instances offer significantly higher performance, memory capacity, and bandwidth compared to X2i instances, benefiting memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, and AI inference. The expanded availability allows more customers to leverage these powerful compute options.
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Amazon Connect adds tag-based access control to agent login/logout report
Amazon Connect now supports tag-based access controls for the agent login/logout report. This allows administrators to grant granular access to agent login and logout information based on resource tags, aiding compliance and regulatory requirements. This feature is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions.
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AWS Neuron 2.30.0 Enhances Trainium3 Capabilities and Developer Tools
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 is now generally available, featuring NKI 0.4.0 with new AWS Trainium3 hardware support and 22 new NKI Library kernels. This release benefits ML developers by improving model porting and validation with expanded Neuron Agentic Development skills and introduces the Neuron DRA Driver for Kubernetes. Key updates include hardware-specific instructions, FP8 support, and performance enhancements for custom kernel development and deployment on Trainium and Inferentia instances.
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Amazon RDS Multi-AZ now uses ENA Express for replication
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now leverage ENA Express, utilizing AWS's SRD protocol for cross-AZ replication traffic. This enhancement boosts network performance by delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth and reducing latency variability, benefiting write-intensive database workloads. Existing instances can enable this by performing a start-stop or compute scale action.
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Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances launch in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances offer improved performance and memory bandwidth compared to previous generations, providing better price-performance for general-purpose workloads, databases, web applications, and AI models. This expansion benefits users requiring enhanced compute capabilities within the secure AWS GovCloud environment.
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Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances launch in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances offer improved price-performance and memory bandwidth, benefiting workloads such as PostgreSQL databases, NGINX applications, and AI recommendation models. They are suitable for memory-intensive applications, including SAP, providing enhanced performance for government sector workloads.
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VPC IPAM adds support for tags on IP address allocations
Amazon VPC IPAM now supports tagging individual IP address allocations, allowing for better organization and governance similar to other AWS resources. This feature enables centralized control through IAM and SCP policies and simplifies searching for specific IP ranges. The update is available in all AWS Regions where IPAM is supported at no additional cost.
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GuardDuty Malware Protection now scans S3 continuous backups
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup now supports S3 continuous backups, allowing users to scan backups for malware and identify clean recovery points. This feature enables full or incremental scans within backup plans and on-demand scans, with a new API to query scan status at any point in time, providing enhanced safety for S3 data restoration.
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SageMaker Studio adds interactive interface for Feature Store management
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers an interactive interface for managing SageMaker Feature Store, reducing the need for coding common tasks. This feature benefits data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts by simplifying feature discovery, creation, modification, and monitoring within a unified environment.
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