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…
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Now Available – Second-Generation FPGA-Powered Amazon EC2 instances (F2)
Equipped with up to eight AMD Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), AMD EPYC (Milan) processors with up to 192 cores, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM), up to 8 TiB of SSD-based instance storage, and up to 2 TiB of memory, the new F2 instances are available in two sizes, and are ready to accelerate your genomics, multimedia processing, big data, satellite communication, networking, silicon simulation, and live video workloads. A Quick FPGA Recap Here’s how I explained the FPGA model when we previewed the first generation of FPGA-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances One of the more interesting routes to a custom, hardware-based solution is known as a Field Programmable Gate Array, or FPGA. In contrast to a purpose-built chip…
Introducing Buy with AWS: an accelerated procurement experience on AWS Partner sites, powered by AWS Marketplace
Today, we are announcing Buy with AWS, a new way to discover and purchase solutions available in AWS Marketplace from AWS Partner sites. You can use Buy with AWS to accelerate and streamline your product procurement process on websites outside of Amazon Web Services (AWS). This feature provides you the ability to find, try, and buy solutions from Partner websites using your AWS account AWS Marketplace is a curated digital store for you to find, buy, deploy, and manage cloud solutions from Partners. Buy with AWS is another step towards AWS Marketplace making it easy for you to find and procure the right Partner solutions, when and where you need them. You can conveniently find and procure solutions in AWS…
Accelerate foundation model training and fine-tuning with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod recipes to help data scientists and developers of all skill sets to get started training and fine-tuning foundation models (FMs) in minutes with state-of-the-art performance. They can now access optimized recipes for training and fine-tuning popular publicly available FMs such as Llama 3.1 405B, Llama 3.2 90B, or Mixtral 8x22B. At AWS re:Invent 2023, we introduced SageMaker HyperPod to reduce time to train FMs by up to 40 percent and scale across more than a thousand compute resources in parallel with preconfigured distributed training libraries. With SageMaker HyperPod, you can find the required accelerated compute resources for training, create the most optimal training plans, and run training workloads across different…