After 20 years, and 3283 posts adding up to 1,577,106 words I am wrapping up my time as the lead blogger on the AWS News Blog. It has been a privilege to be able to “live in the future” and to get to learn and write about so many of our innovations over the last two decades: message queuing, storage, on-demand computing, serverless, and quantum computing to name just a few and to leave many others out. It has also been a privilege to be able to meet and to hear from so many of you that have faithfully read and (hopefully) learned from my content over the years. I treasure those interactions and your kind words, and I keep…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 F2 instances, Amazon Bedrock Guardrails price reduction, Amazon SES update, and more (December 16, 2024)
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…
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…
How I’m using Pixel to create my holiday card
Use Pixel Camera features like Add Me and Night Sight as well as AI editing tools like Magic Editor and Pixel Studio for holiday cards. source https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-ai-holiday-photos-cards/