Today, AWS announced the availability of Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These models from Qwen are designed for information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, enabling customers to build comprehensive…

Today, AWS announced the availability of gemma-4-E2B-it in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This model from Google DeepMind is a multimodal, instruction-tuned model optimized for efficient local execution, enabling customers to build…

Today, AWS announced the availability of privacy-filter in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This model from OpenAI is a bidirectional token-classification model for personally identifiable information (PII) detection and masking in text,…

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based configuration for Slurm clusters that use continuous provisioning. Continuous provisioning adds nodes to the cluster as capacity becomes available, and this launch extends AMI-based configuration to clusters using this mode. With this support, clusters…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) regions. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in US East (N. Virginia) Region. G7 instances deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to…