AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling customers to run large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters. You can reserve UltraServers through EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, associate…

Today, Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces support for multilocation canaries, allowing developers and site reliability engineers to run the same canary across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single point of management. Previously, monitoring application availability from multiple geographic locations required…

AWS announces availability of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. With this bundle, customers in China can launch Ubuntu WorkSpaces and take advantage of updated Linux packages, toolchains, and…

Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on all existing clusters, at no additional cost. Previously available only on newly created clusters, Intelligent Rebalancing is now available on all MSK Provisioned clusters running Express brokers, making…

Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This new Local Zone is one of the first AWS Local Zones in the Asia Pacific with support for…

AWS Compute Optimizer now includes improved visibility into IOPS and throughput spikes when deliverings Amazon EBS volume rightsizing recommendations. Compute Optimizer analyzes two additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics, VolumeIOPSExceededCheck and VolumeThroughputExceededCheck, which report whether your workload consistently attempted to drive IOPS…