The AWS Free Tier has been around since 2010 and allows you to use generous amounts of over 100 different AWS services. Some services offer free trials, others are free for the first 12 months after you sign up, and still others are always free, up to a per-service maximum. Our intent is to make it easy and cost-effective for you to gain experience with a wide variety of powerful services without having to pay any usage charges. Free Tier Data Transfer Expansion Today, as part of our long tradition of AWS price reductions, I am happy to share that we are expanding the Free Tier with additional data transfer out, as follows: Data Transfer from AWS Regions to the…
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AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) 3.0 is Now Available
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) is designed to help you to build and then execute a comprehensive plan for your digital transformation. Taking advantage of AWS best practices and lessons learned from thousands of customer engagements, the AWS CAF will help you to identify and prioritize transformation opportunities, evaluate and improve your cloud readiness, and iteratively evolve the roadmaps that you follow to guide your transformation. Version 3.0 Now Available I am happy to announce the version 3.0 of the AWS CAF is now available. This version represents what we have learned since we released version 2.0, with a focus on digital transformation and an emphasis on the use of data & analytics. The framework starts by identifying…
New – EC2 Instances (G5) with NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs
Two years ago I told you about the then-new G4 instances, which featured up to eight NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances were designed to give you cost-effective GPU power for machine learning inference and graphics-intensive applications. Today I am happy to tell you about the new G5 instances, which feature up to eight NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. Powered by second generation AMD EPYC processors, these instances deliver up to 40% better price-performance for inferencing and graphics-intensive operations in comparison to their predecessors. On the GPU side, the A10G GPUs deliver to to 3.3x better ML training performance, up to 3x better ML inferencing performance, and up to 3x better graphics performance, in comparison to the T4 GPUs…
In The Works – AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
We launched the Canada (Central) Region in 2016 and added a third Availability Zone in 2020. Since that launch, tens of thousands of AWS customers have used AWS services in Canada to accelerate innovation, increase agility, and to drive cost savings. This includes enterprises such as Air Canada, BMO Financial Group, NHL, Porter Airlines, and Lululemon, as well as startups with global reach such as Benevity, D2L, and Hootsuite. AWS is also used by Athabasca University, Humber College, the Vancouver General Hospital, and the Canada Border Services Agency, to name a few. Hello, Calgary I am happy to announce that we will be opening an AWS region in Calgary, Canada in late 2023 or early 2024. This three-AZ region will…