Amazon Web Services

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location at Equinix SY5 in Sydney, Australia. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS…

Amazon EC2 Fleet now supports interruptible Capacity Reservations. EC2 Fleet allows you to launch instances across multiple instance types and Availability Zones. Starting today, you can specify interruptible Capacity Reservation IDs across your Launch Templates to provision instances in a…

AWS announces support for NVIDIA Inference Xfer Library (NIXL) with Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) to accelerate disaggregated large language model (LLM) inference on Amazon EC2. This integration enhances disaggregated inference serving through three key improvements: increased KV-cache throughput, reduced inter-token…

AWS Lambda now provides Availability Zone (AZ) metadata through a new metadata endpoint in the Lambda execution environment. With this capability, developers can determine the AZ ID (e.g., use1-az1) of the AZ their Lambda function is running in, enabling them to build functions that…

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now provides customers with ability to view and schedule new operating system (OS) updates for RDS provided engine versions (RPEV). With RPEV, RDS Custom provides a SQL Server version pre-installed on an Amazon Machine…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Region Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Hyderabad, Tokyo), South America (Sao Paulo), and Europe (Zurich). The new instances provide up to 30% better…