Amazon SageMaker Studio launched support for the ml.G5 GPU instance family in the South America region (São Paulo). Customers using ml.G5 instances in Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks can leverage up to 3.3x faster performance for machine learning training compared to ml.G4dn instances. This makes them a high performance and cost-efficient solution for interactive model training for use cases such as generative AI foundation model tuning, natural language processing, computer vision, and recommender engines.

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gd instances, Amazon EC2 M7gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. They have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, delivering up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. These Graviton3-based instances feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth than DDR4. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches. C7gd instances are ideal for high performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. M7gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, and gaming servers. R7gd instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, and real-time big data analytics.

AWS Wickr now offers Data Retention that extends to both internal and external communications in a Wickr network. A Wickr network administrator can configure and apply Data Retention to all in-network conversations. This includes shared media and files, as well as conversations with guest users, external teams, and other partner networks to help meet internal, legal, and regulatory requirements.

Today, Amazon Web Services announces support for deploying to Kubernetes clusters running on Elastic Kubernetes Service from an Amazon CodeCatalyst workflow. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, or actions, to take during a workflow run. This launch allows you to add a “Deploy to Kubernetes cluster“ action to a workflow, providing a simple and repeatable process for deploying updates to Kubernetes clusters running on EKS.

Today, we announce the general availability of AWS Database Encryption SDK, an upgrade to the existing Amazon DynamoDB Encryption Client, which enables you to include client-side encryption in your DynamoDB workloads. 

Public IP Insights is an Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) feature that provides a unified view of all public IPv4 addresses, making it easier for you to monitor, analyze and audit public IPv4 addresses used across AWS services, in your AWS account.

Today, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) announces a preview of JSON protocol support, enabling lower latency and improved performance for SQS customers. Based on AWS performance tests for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon Simple Queue Service reduces end-to-end message processing latency by up to 23% and reduces application client side CPU and memory usage. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

A very famous, Nobel Prize-winning Danish physicist was given, in WWII, two Nobel medals for safe-keeping by two German Nobel laureates. Hitler hated the Nobel Prizes and forbade Germans to accept them and, if the Nazis found these medals, the physicists would probably face death. When Germany invaded Denmark the Danish physicist was in a …

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Nothing says it’s summer more, in the newspapers, than a book list of recommended reading. You know the one, where authors plug their mates or fellow writers on the same imprint, and where they never read a classic book for the first time, it’s always re-read the classic book…

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For example, what caught David Manners’ eye this week was Germany taking €20bn from its climate fund to subsidise chips…

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