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AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DaaS (Desktop as a Service) positions AWS as a Leader for the first time. Last year we were recognized as a Challenger. We believe this is a result of our commitment to meet a wide range of customer needs by delivering a diverse portfolio of virtual desktop services with …

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Now available: Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances

Graviton-4-powered, memory-optimized X8g instances are now available in ten virtual sizes and two bare metal sizes, with up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and up to 192 vCPUs. The X8g instances are our most energy efficient to date, with the best price performance and scale-up capability of any comparable EC2 Graviton instance to date. …

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Data engineering professional certificate: New hands-on specialization by DeepLearning.AI and AWS

Data engineers play a crucial role in the modern data-driven landscape, managing essential tasks from data ingestion and processing to transformation and serving. Their expertise is particularly valuable in the era of generative AI, where harnessing the value of vast datasets is paramount. To empower aspiring and experienced data professionals, DeepLearning.AI and Amazon Web Services …

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Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS KMS with customer managed keys

Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) S3 storage class, now supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys (SSE-KMS). S3 Express One Zone already encrypts all objects stored in S3 directory buckets with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) by default. Starting today, you can use AWS KMS customer managed keys …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more

Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news of the week Amazon …

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Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, now generally available, enables near real-time analytics

Zero-ETL integrations help unify your data across applications and data sources for holistic insights and breaking data silos. They provide a fully managed, no-code, near real-time solution for making petabytes of transactional data available in Amazon Redshift within seconds of data being written into Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL. This eliminates the …

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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces Amazon EKS support

Today, we are pleased to announce Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod — purpose-built infrastructure engineered with resilience at its core for foundation model (FM) development. This new capability enables customers to orchestrate HyperPod clusters using EKS, combining the power of Kubernetes with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod‘s resilient environment designed for training …

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon DynamoDB, AWS AppSync, Storage Browser for Amazon S3, and more (September 9, 2024)

Last week, the latest AWS Heroes arrived! AWS Heroes are amazing technical experts who generously share their insights, best practices, and innovative solutions to help others. The AWS GenAI Lofts are in full swing with San Francisco and São Paulo open now, and London, Paris, and Seoul coming in the next couple of months. Here’s …

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Stability AI’s best image generating models now in Amazon Bedrock

Starting today, you can use three new text-to-image models from Stability AI in Amazon Bedrock: Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, and Stable Image Core. These models greatly improve performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and typography and can be used to rapidly generate high-quality visuals for a wide range of use cases across marketing, …

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The latest AWS Heroes have arrived – September 2024

The AWS Heroes program recognizes outstanding individuals who are making meaningful contributions within the AWS community. These technical experts generously share their insights, best practices, and innovative solutions to help others create efficiencies and build faster on AWS. Heroes are thought leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to empowering the broader AWS community through their …

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