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Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces integration with Foundry Nuke CopyCat, allowing you to run machine learning training jobs for visual effects in the cloud. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, commercials, games, and industrial design.

CopyCat learns visual effects, such as color corrections, beauty finishes, or deblurring, from a set of adjusted frames and automatically applies these adjustments across entire sequences. Instead of cleaning up frames one by one, you can fix a handful of representative frames and CopyCat will automatically apply these changes to the rest of your footage, saving you significant amounts of valuable time. With this integration, you can now train models by submitting CopyCat training jobs directly to your Deadline Cloud render farm. This gives you the ability to scale and run multiple training workloads in parallel while freeing up your artist workstations for creative work. You can monitor and track training jobs alongside other render jobs through the Deadline Cloud interface for one simple view across an entire project.

AWS Deadline Cloud with Nuke CopyCat integration is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Deadline Cloud is supported. To get started, visit our CopyCat integration user guide.

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are available in new regions. U7i-6tb.112xlarge instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand, Sydney, Singapore), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-East), u7i-8tb.112xlarge instances are now available in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), and u7in-16tb.224xlarge instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TiB of DDR5 memory, U7in-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7in-16tb instances offer 16TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment.

U7i-6tb and U7i-8tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7in-16tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. 

To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports differential and transaction log restores for instances configured with Multi-AZ and instances with read replicas in the same region. The native SQL Server backup and restore feature provides essential protection for critical data in your SQL Server databases, and it allows you to migrate your databases between different environments, such as from on-premises to Amazon RDS for SQL Server. Differential backups capture all data changes since the most recent full backup, while transaction log backups record every transaction in the database. When combined with full backups, these restore options help you create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that minimizes data loss.

Previously, to use native SQL Server differential and transaction log restores, you had to remove Multi-AZ and read replicas to convert your instance to Single-AZ mode, restore the databases, and then reconfigure Multi-AZ and read replicas. Now you can reduce restore time by performing differential and transaction log restores directly on Multi-AZ instances and instances with read replicas, without converting them to Single-AZ first. This enhancement maintains high availability through Multi-AZ and allows read replicas to continue serving read workloads in the same Region during the restore process.

For more information about using differential and transaction log restores, see the Amazon RDS for SQL Server User Guide . This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server is available.