AWS Community Days have been in full swing around the world. I am going to put the spotlight on AWS Community Day Argentina where Jeff Barr delivered the keynote, talks and shared his nuggets of wisdom with the community, including a fun story of how he once followed Bill Gates to a McDonald’s! I encourage you to read about his experience. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention, starting off with the GA releases. Amazon EC2 X8g Instances are now generally available – X8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. These instances offer larger sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up…
Month: September 2024
6 Pixel 9 Pro photo features I’ve used on hiking trips
Learn how to use Pixel 9 Pro and Google Photos features for outdoor photography. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-9-pro-outdoor-nature-photography-tips/
AWS named as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
The 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for DaaS (Desktop as a Service) positions AWS as a Leader for the first time. Last year we were recognized as a Challenger. We believe this is a result of our commitment to meet a wide range of customer needs by delivering a diverse portfolio of virtual desktop services with license portability (including Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise), our geographic strategy, and operational capabilities focused on cost optimization and automation. Also, our focus on easy-to-use interfaces for managing each aspect of our virtual desktop services means that our customers rarely need to make use of third-party tools. You can access the complete 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) to learn more.…
Now available: Graviton4-powered memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8g instances
Graviton-4-powered, memory-optimized X8g instances are now available in ten virtual sizes and two bare metal sizes, with up to 3 TiB of DDR5 memory and up to 192 vCPUs. The X8g instances are our most energy efficient to date, with the best price performance and scale-up capability of any comparable EC2 Graviton instance to date. With a 16 to 1 ratio of memory to vCPU, these instances are designed for Electronic Design Automation, in-memory databases & caches, relational databases, real-time analytics, and memory-constrained microservices. The instances fully encrypt all high-speed physical hardware interfaces and also include additional AWS Nitro System and Graviton4 security features. Over 50K AWS customers already make use of the existing roster of over 150 Graviton-powered instances.…