The vast majority of applications don’t run run the CPU flat-out at 100% utilization continuously. Take a web application, for instance. It typically fluctuates between periods of high and low demand, but hardly ever uses a server’s compute at full capacity. CPU utilization for many common workloads that customers run in the AWS Cloud today. (source: AWS Documentation) One easy and cost-effective way to run such workloads is to use the Amazon EC2 M7i-flex instances which we introduced last August. These are lower-priced variants of the Amazon EC2 M7i instances offering the same next-generation specs for general purpose compute for the most popular sizes with the added benefit of giving you better price/performance if you don’t need full compute power…
8 things I loved in my first week with the Pixel 8a
Hands on with the Pixel 8a, Google’s newest addition to the Pixel lineup. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-8a-hands-on-test/
AWS Weekly Roundup: New capabilities in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Amplify Gen 2, Amazon RDS and more (May 13, 2024)
AWS Summit is in full swing around the world, with the most recent one being AWS Summit Singapore! Here is a sneak peek of the AWS staff and ASEAN community members at the Developer Lounge booth. It featured AWS Community speakers giving lightning talks on serverless, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), security, generative AI, and more. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that caught my attention. Not surprisingly, a lot of interesting generative AI features! Amazon Titan Text Premier is now available in Amazon Bedrock – This is the latest addition to the Amazon Titan family of large language models (LLMs) and offers optimized performance for key features like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) on Knowledge Bases for Amazon…
A new generative engine and three voices are now generally available on Amazon Polly
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the generative engine of Amazon Polly with three voices: Ruth and Matthew in American English and Amy in British English. The new generative engine was trained with publicly available and proprietary data, a variety of voices, languages, and styles. It performs with the highest precision to render context-dependent prosody, pausing, spelling, dialectal properties, foreign word pronunciation, and more. Amazon Polly is a machine learning (ML) service that converts text to lifelike speech, called text-to-speech (TTS) technology. Now, Amazon Polly includes high-quality, natural-sounding human-like voices in dozens of languages, so you can select the ideal voice and distribute your speech-enabled applications in many locales or countries. With Amazon Polly, you can select various…