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AWS Unveils Multi-Model Endpoints for PyTorch on SageMaker
AWS has introduced Multi-Model Endpoints for PyTorch on Amazon SageMaker. This latest development promises to revolutionize the AI landscape, offering users more flexibility and efficiency when deploying machine learning models.
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AWS Introduces M7a General Purpose AMD Genoa Instances
Amazon recently announced the availability of the M7a instances powered by the 4th generation AMD EPYC (Genoa) processors. The new general-purpose instances are priced higher than the previous generation AMD M6a and the latest Intel M7i instances.
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Amazon Interactive Video Service Announces Real-Time Streaming
Amazon recently announced IVS Real-Time Streaming, a new option of the Interactive Video Service to deliver real-time live streams for latency-sensitive use cases. To address different network conditions for the viewers, IVS supports layered encoding (simulcast).
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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Now GA to Access Bucket Like Local File System
During the latest AWS Storage Day event, Amazon announced the general availability of Mountpoint for Amazon S3. The new open-source file client provides through a file interface the elastic storage and throughput of Amazon S3, supporting data transfer at up to 100 Gb/second between each EC2 instance and the object storage.
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Faster Standard Retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Batch Operations
Recently AWS announced the general availability of faster standard retrievals from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. According to the company, the retrieval can be up to 85% faster and applies to the Standard retrieval tier when using S3 Batch Operations.
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Running Apache Flink Applications on AWS KDA: Lessons Learnt at Deliveroo
Deliveroo introduced Apache Flink into its technology stack for enriching and merging events consumed from Apache Kafka or Kinesis Streams. The company opted to use AWS Kinesis Data Analytics (KDA) service to manage Apache Flink clusters on AWS and shared its experiences from running Flink applications on KDA.
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Inside InfluxDB 3.0: Exploring InfluxDB’s Scalable and Decoupled Architecture
InfluxData recently unveiled the system architecture for InfluxDB 3.0, its newest time-series DB. Its architecture encompasses four major components responsible for data ingestion, querying, compaction, and garbage collection and includes two main storage types. The architecture caters to operating the DB on-premise and natively on major cloud providers.
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Amazon Introduces AWS HealthImaging to Store and Analyze Medical Imaging Data
At the recent AWS Summit in New York, Amazon announced AWS HealthImaging. The new HIPAA-eligible service helps healthcare providers to store, analyze, and share medical imaging data at scale.
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Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex Instances Now Available for General-Purpose Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances, equipped with custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Sapphire Rapids). The Amazon EC2 M7i and M7i-flex instances are instance types intended for general-purpose workloads providing a balance of compute, memory, and networking resources.
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AWS Launches General Availability of Amazon EC2 P5 Instances for AI/ML and HPC Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure.
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AWS to Begin Charging for Public IPv4 Addresses
AWS recently announced that starting from February 2024, they will be charging for public IPv4 addresses. According to the cloud provider, this change aligns AWS with other cloud providers, encourages frugal usage of a scarce resource, and accelerates the adoption of IPv6.
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AWS Introduces a Generative AI-Powered Clinical Documentation Tool with HealthScribe in Preview
AWS recently announced a new HIPAA-eligible service called AWS HealthScribe in a preview that uses speech recognition and generative AI (powered by Amazon Bedrock) to generate clinical documentation.
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Amazon Bedrock Unveils New Agents Feature
Amazon announced the release of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new feature that allows developers to quickly create fully managed agents. By performing API calls to enterprise systems, agents for Amazon Bedrock speed up the release of generative AI applications that can manage and carry out activities.
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds pgvector to Support Embeddings from Generative AI
AWS recently announced that the PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora now supports pgvector for vector storage and similarity search. Aurora is the latest managed PostgreSQL database supporting the open-source extension to store and search embeddings from machine learning models.
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Grab Reduces Traffic Cost for Kafka Consumers on AWS to Zero
Grab took advantage of the ability of Apache Kafka consumers to connect to the broker node in the same availability zone (AZ) introduced in Kafka 2.3 and reduced the traffic cost on AWS to zero for reconfigured consumers. The change has substantially reduced overall infrastructure costs for running Apache Kafka on AWS.