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Customers across industries are harnessing the power of generative AI on AWS to boost employee productivity, deliver exceptional customer experiences, and streamline business processes. However, the growth in demand for GPU capacity has outpaced industry-wide supply, making GPUs a scarce resource and increasing the cost of securing them. As Amazon Web Services (AWS) grows, we …

Announcing up to 45% price reduction for Amazon EC2 NVIDIA GPU-accelerated instances Read More »

The AWS community is a vibrant network of innovators, problem-solvers, and thought leaders who drive cloud technology forward. Today, we’re excited to shine a spotlight on three exceptional individuals who embody the spirit of innovation, knowledge-sharing, and community building. From architecting scalable solutions for millions of users to fostering inclusive tech groups, these professionals are …

Introducing our newest 2025 AWS Heroes cohort Read More »

It’s AWS Summit Season! AWS Summits are free in-person events that take place across the globe in major cities, bringing cloud expertise to local communities. Each AWS Summit features keynote presentations highlighting the latest innovations, technical sessions, live demos, and interactive workshops led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) experts. Last week, events took place at …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora DSQL, MCP Servers, Amazon FSx, AI on EKS, and more (June 2, 2025) Read More »

Seismic imaging is a geophysical technique used to create detailed pictures of the Earth’s subsurface structure. It works by generating seismic waves that travel into the ground, reflect off various rock layers and structures, and return to the surface where they’re detected by sensitive instruments known as geophones or hydrophones. The huge volumes of acquired …

Amazon FSx for Lustre launches new storage class with the lowest-cost and only fully elastic Lustre file storage Read More »

Today, we’re introducing specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), and AWS Serverless, now available in the AWS Labs GitHub repository. These open source solutions extend AI development assistants capabilities with real-time, contextual responses that go beyond their pre-trained knowledge. While Large Language …

Enhance AI-assisted development with Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Serverless MCP server Read More »

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora DSQL, the fastest serverless distributed SQL database with virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management for always available applications. You can remove the operational burden of patching, upgrades, and maintenance downtime and count on an easy-to-use developer experience to create a new database …

Amazon Aurora DSQL is now generally available Read More »

As the tech community we continue to have many opportunities to learn and network with other like-minded folks. This past week AWS customers attended the AWS Summit Dubai for an action-packed day featuring live demos, hands-on experiences with cutting-edge AI/ML tools, and more. Right here in South Africa I attended the Data & AI Community …

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, EKS Dashboard, community events, and more (May 26, 2025) Read More »

Anthropic launched the next generation of Claude models today—Opus 4 and Sonnet 4—designed for coding, advanced reasoning, and the support of the next generation of capable, autonomous AI agents. Both models are now generally available in Amazon Bedrock, giving developers immediate access to both the model’s advanced reasoning and agentic capabilities. Amazon Bedrock expands your …

Introducing Claude 4 in Amazon Bedrock, the most powerful models for coding from Anthropic Read More »

Today, we are announcing EKS Dashboard, a centralized display that enables cloud architects and cluster administrators to maintain organization-wide visibility across their Kubernetes clusters. With EKS Dashboard, customers can now monitor clusters deployed across different AWS Regions and accounts through a unified view, making it easier to track cluster inventory, assess compliance, and plan operational …

Centralize visibility of Kubernetes clusters across AWS Regions and accounts with EKS Dashboard Read More »

I’m pleased to announce developers can now programmatically disable Apple System Integrity Protection (SIP) on their Amazon EC2 Mac instances. System Integrity Protection (SIP), also known as rootless, is a security feature introduced by Apple in OS X El Capitan (2015, version 10.11). It’s designed to protect the system from potentially harmful software by restricting …

Configure System Integrity Protection (SIP) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances Read More »