AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Parallel Computing Service, Amazon EC2 status checks, and more (September 2, 2024)

With the arrival of September, AWS re:Invent 2024 is now 3 months away and I am very excited for the new upcoming services and announcements at the conference. I remember attending re:Invent 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the biggest in-person re:Invent with 60,000+ attendees and it was my second one. It was amazing to be in that atmosphere! Registration is now open for AWS re:Invent 2024. Come join us in Las Vegas for five exciting days of keynotes, breakout sessions, chalk talks, interactive learning opportunities, and career-changing connections! Now let’s look at the last week’s new announcements. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention. Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service – AWS Parallel Computing…

Announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service to run HPC workloads at virtually any scale

Today we are announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS), a new managed service that helps customers set up and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters so they seamlessly run their simulations at virtually any scale on AWS. Using the Slurm scheduler, they can work in a familiar HPC environment, accelerating their time to results instead of worrying about infrastructure. In November 2018, we introduced AWS ParallelCluster, an AWS supported open-source cluster management tool that helps you to deploy and manage HPC clusters in the AWS Cloud. With AWS ParallelCluster, customers can also quickly build and deploy proof of concept and production HPC compute environments. They can use AWS ParallelCluster Command-Line interface, API, Python library, and the user interface installed…

AWS Weekly Roundup: S3 Conditional writes, AWS Lambda, JAWS Pankration, and more (August 26, 2024)

The AWS User Group Japan (JAWS-UG) hosted JAWS PANKRATION 2024 themed ‘No Border’. This is a 24-hour online event where AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders, and others from around the world discuss topics ranging from cultural discussions to technical talks. One of the speakers at this event, Kevin Tuei, an AWS Community Builder based in Kenya, highlighted the importance of building in public and sharing your knowledge with others, a very fitting talk for this kind of event. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes – We’ve added support for conditional writes in Amazon S3 which check for existence of an object before…

Now open — AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region

In March of last year, Jeff Barr announced the plan for an AWS Region in Malaysia. Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-5. The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region is the first infrastructure Region in Malaysia and the thirteenth Region in Asia Pacific, joining the existing Asia Pacific Regions in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo and the Mainland China Beijing and Ningxia Regions. The Petronas Twin Towers in the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s central business district. The new AWS Region in Malaysia will play a pivotal role in supporting the Malaysian government’s strategic Madani Economy Framework. This initiative aims to improve the…