Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 instances deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to 2.1x graphics performance…

Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. In AWS benchmarking tests, time to trigger scale-out improved from 363 seconds to 86 seconds (76%…

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) introduces customer-routed control plane egress, a capability that lets you route outbound Kubernetes API server traffic through your own Amazon VPC. This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate…

Starting today, Nested virtualization is now available on additional Intel platforms and additional Regions. Nested virtualization is now available on C7i,R7i, M7i, C7id,R7id, M7id, C7i-flex,R7i-flex, M7i-flex, I7i, C8i-flex,R8i-flex, M8i-flex,and X8i, in addition to already available support on C8i, M8i and…

Today, AWS announced the availability of Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This model from Mistral AI delivers frontier-class multimodal capabilities in a compact 14B-parameter architecture optimized for edge deployment, enabling…

Amazon SageMaker AI's new observability capability allows customers to operate production generative AI inference workloads with confidence by providing comprehensive visibility into token performance, GPU health, inference component placement, and autoscaling behavior. It takes away the manual work of searching…