Amazon Web Services

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports checkpointless training, a new foundational model training capability that mitigates the need for a checkpoint-based job-level restart for fault recovery. Checkpointless training maintains forward training momentum despite failures, reducing recovery time from hours to minutes.…

AWS announces Amazon EC2 X8aedz, next generation memory optimized instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. They deliver up to 2x higher compute…

Amazon CloudWatch now enables automated quality assessment of AI agents through AgentCore Evaluations. This new capability helps developers continuously monitor and improve agent performance based on real-world interactions, allowing teams to identify and address quality issues before they impact customers.…

Amazon Web Services announces preview of Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances, powered by the latest Mac Studio hardware. Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances are the next-generation EC2 Mac instances, that enable Apple developers to migrate their most demanding…

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming, enabling real-time conversations where agents listen and respond simultaneously while handling interruptions and context changes mid-conversation. This feature eliminates conversational friction by enabling continuous, two-way communication where context is preserved throughout the…

AWS announces the Apache Spark upgrade agent, a new capability that accelerates Apache Spark version upgrades for Amazon EMR on EC2 and EMR Serverless. The agent converts complex upgrade processes that typically take months into projects spanning weeks through automated…