This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! Monday means it’s time for another Week in Review post, so, without further ado, let’s dive right in! Last Week’s Launches Here’s some launch announcements from last week you may have missed. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory is now available on Windows Server 2019, and all new directories will run on this server platform. Those of you with existing directories can choose to update with either a few clicks on the AWS Managed Microsoft AD console, or you can update programmatically using an API. With either approach, you can update at a time…
Month: October 2022
Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High-Performance Model Training are Now Available
Deep learning (DL) models have been increasing in size and complexity over the last few years, pushing the time to train from days to weeks. Training large language models the size of GPT-3 can take months, leading to an exponential growth in training cost. To reduce model training times and enable machine learning (ML) practitioners to iterate fast, AWS has been innovating across chips, servers, and data center connectivity. At AWS re:Invent 2021, we announced the preview of Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances powered by AWS Trainium chips. AWS Trainium is optimized for high-performance deep learning training and is the second-generation ML chip built by AWS, following AWS Inferentia. Today, I’m excited to announce that Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances are now…
AWS Week in Review – October 10, 2022
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! I had an amazing start to the week last week as I was speaking at the AWS Community Day NL. This event had 500 attendees and over 70 speakers, and Dr. Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, delivered the keynote. AWS Community Days are community-led conferences organized by local communities, with a variety of workshops and sessions. I recommend checking your region for any of these events. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon S3 Object Lambda now supports using your own code to change the results of…
Made by Google, a new podcast about designing hardware
Have you ever wondered what goes into the design of your phone camera? How to keep your personal information secure on your mobile device? Or what it means to build a sustainable tech device? Our new Made by Google podcast starts with questions like these to explore the latest thinking and design ideas behind Google devices. Made by Google Podcast Trailer As a former broadcast journalist, I’m excited to pick up my microphone again and talk to my fellow Googlers to explore the how, what and why of topics such as phone cameras, security, sustainability, smart homes and wearable devices. The first episode, out today, asks how the phone camera went from a fairly useless feature to one of the…