Category: Compute

I’ve been inspired by all the activities that tech communities around the world have been hosting and participating in throughout the year. Here in the southern hemisphere we’re starting to dream about our upcoming summer breaks and closing out on some of the activities we’ve initiated this year. The tech community in South Africa is […]

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized solution that consolidates capacity monitoring and management across all AWS accounts and regions, eliminating operational overhead and providing optimization opportunities for EC2 infrastructure at scale.

AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity, allowing secure file transfers between Amazon S3 and remote SFTP servers through your existing VPC infrastructure without exposing endpoints to the internet.

Amazon EC2 has launched new M8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors, offering up to 30% better performance and 19% better price performance compared to M7a instances, along with improved memory bandwidth, networking, and storage capabilities for various general-purpose workloads.

AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.

Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand […]

Amazon ECS Managed Instances is a new compute option that eliminates infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the broad suite of EC2 capabilities including the flexibility to select instance types, access reserved capacity, and advanced security and observability configurations.

AWS Outposts is now integrated with Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra MP B10000 systems, enabling customers to seamlessly use their on-premises external storage infrastructure with AWS services while maintaining data residency requirements.