New Amazon S3 Tables: Storage optimized for analytics workloads

Amazon S3 Tables give you storage that is optimized for tabular data such as daily purchase transactions, streaming sensor data, and ad impressions in Apache Iceberg format, for easy queries using popular query engines like Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and Apache Spark. When compared to self-managed table storage, you can expect up to 3x faster query performance and up to 10x more transactions per second, along with the operational efficiency that is part-and-parcel when you use a fully managed service. Iceberg has become the most popular way to manage Parquet files, with thousands of AWS customers using Iceberg to query across often billions of files containing petabytes or even exabytes of data. Table Buckets, Tables, and Namespaces Table buckets are…

Amazon EC2 Trn2 Instances and Trn2 UltraServers for AI/ML training and inference are now available

The new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Trn2 instances and Trn2 UltraServers are the most powerful EC2 compute options for ML training and inference. Powered by the second generation of AWS Trainium chips (AWS Trainium2), the Trn2 instances are 4x faster, offer 4x more memory bandwidth, and 3x more memory capacity than the first-generation Trn1 instances. Trn2 instances offer 30-40% better price performance than the current generation of GPU-based EC2 P5e and P5en instances. In addition to the 16 Trainium2 chips, each Trn2 instance features 192 vCPUs, 2 TiB of memory, and 3.2 Tbps of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) v3 network bandwidth, which offers up to 50% lower latency than the previous generation. The Trn2 UltraServers, which are a…

New Amazon EC2 P5en instances with NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs and EFAv3 networking

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5en instances, powered by NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPUs and custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz (max core turbo frequency of 3.8 GHz) available only on AWS. These processors offer 50 percent higher memory bandwidth and up to four times throughput between CPU and GPU with PCIe Gen5, which help boost performance for machine learning (ML) training and inference workloads. P5en, with up to 3200 Gbps of third generation of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv3) using Nitro v5, shows up to 35% improvement in latency compared to P5 that uses the previous generation of EFA and Nitro. This helps improve…

Top announcements of AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS re:Invent 2024, our flagship annual conference, is taking place Dec. 2-6, 2024, in Las Vegas. This premier cloud computing event brings together the global cloud computing community for a week of keynotes, technical sessions, product launches, and networking opportunities. As AWS continues to unveil its latest innovations and services throughout the conference, we’ll keep you updated here with all the major product announcements. Additional re:Invent resources: AWS News Blog: Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr and colleagues keep you posted on the biggest and best new AWS offerings. What’s New with AWS: A comprehensive list of all AWS launches. The Official AWS Podcast: A podcast for developers and IT professionals looking for the latest news and trends from AWS. AWS On…