Today, we’re pleased to announce that the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region is now generally available with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-7. The AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region is the first infrastructure Region in Thailand and the fourteenth Region in Asia Pacific, joining existing Regions in Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, as well as the Beijing and Ningxia China Regions. Lumphini Park, one of the largest green spaces in central Bangkok spanning 142 acres. The adoption of cloud computing has gained significant momentum in Thailand, driven by evolving business needs and government initiatives such as Thailand 4.0. These initiatives aim to transform Thailand into an innovation-driven economy by using emerging…
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Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 2025 Tech Predictions, Llama 3.3 70B, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, custom billing view, and more (January 6, 2025)
Happy New Year! We are witnessing technology augment human ingenuity in inspiring ways. In the coming years, using technology for positive impact will redefine the way we think about success. Amazon CTO, Dr. Werner Vogels, offers five forward-looking tech predictions for 2025, and beyond: The workforce of tomorrow is mission-driven A new era of energy efficiency drives innovation Technology tips the scales in the discovery of truth Open data drives decentralized disaster preparedness Intention-driven consumer technology takes hold Download the Werner Vogels’ Tech Predictions for 2025 and Beyond ebook, or read Werner’s All Things Distributed blog to learn more about how these technological trends are shaping our world and paving the way for a more innovative, efficient, and purposeful future.…
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large is now available in Amazon Bedrock
As we preannounced at AWS re:Invent 2024, you can now use Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large in Amazon Bedrock to generate high-quality images from text descriptions in a wide range of styles to accelerate the creation of concept art, visual effects, and detailed product imagery for customers in media, gaming, advertising, and retail. In October 2024, Stability AI introduced Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, the most powerful model in the Stable Diffusion family at 8.1 billion parameters trained on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod, with superior quality and prompt adherence. Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large can accelerate storyboarding, concept art creation, and rapid prototyping of visual effects. You can quickly generate high-quality 1-megapixel images for campaigns, social media posts, and advertisements, saving time and resources…
New Amazon EC2 High Memory U7inh instance on HPE Server for large in-memory databases
Today we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) U7inh instance, a new addition to EC2 High Memory family, built in collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Amazon EC2 U7inh instance runs on the 16-socket HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200, and are built on the AWS Nitro System to deliver a fully integrated and managed experience consistent with other EC2 instances. Powered by the fourth generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids), U7inh instance supports 32 TB of memory and 1920 vCPUs. This instance offers the highest compute performance, largest compute and memory size in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud for running large, mission-critical database workloads, like SAP HANA. In May 2024, we launched U7i…