Today we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance runs on the 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by the fourth generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance supports 32 TB of memory and 1920 vCPUs. This instance offers the highest compute performance, largest compute and memory size in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud for running large, mission-critical database workloads, like SAP HANA. In May 2024, we launched U7i…
8 ways I use Google Home for cozy, festive holiday vibes
Here are eight tips for using Google Home products to celebrate the holidays. source https://blog.google/products/google-nest/google-home-holiday-tips-2024/
And that’s a wrap!
After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last two decades: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to name just a few and to leave many others out. It has also been a privilege to be able to meet and to hear from so many of you that have faithfully read and (hopefully) learned from my content over the years. I treasure those interactions and your kind words, and I keep…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)
The week after AWS re:Invent builds on the excitement and energy of the event and is a good time to learn more and understand how the recent announcements can help you solve your challenges. As usual, we have you covered with our top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024 post. You can now watch keynotes and sessions on the AWS Event YouTube channel. This year Andy Jassy, now President and CEO at Amazon, returned to re:Invent and shared some thoughts in these videos. Drawing on experiences Amazon has had building distributed systems at massive scale, Werner Vogels, VP and CTO at Amazon, shared critical lessons and strategies he has learned for managing complex systems in his keynote. Last week’s launches Here…