Tag: Veliswa Boya

Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances. C8g instances are AWS Graviton4 based and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. Also Graviton4 based, M8g instances provide the best price performance for general purpose workloads. M8g instances are ideal for applications such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, mid-size data stores, and caching fleets. Now looking at some of the improvements that we have made available in both these instances. C8g and M8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to three times more vCPUs (up to 48xl), three…

The AWS User Group Japan (JAWS-UG) hosted JAWS PANKRATION 2024 themed ‘No Border’. This is a 24-hour online event where AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders, and others from around the world discuss topics ranging from cultural discussions to technical talks. One of the speakers at this event, Kevin Tuei, an AWS Community Builder based in Kenya, highlighted the importance of building in public and sharing your knowledge with others, a very fitting talk for this kind of event. Last week’s launches Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week. Amazon S3 now supports conditional writes – We’ve added support for conditional writes in Amazon S3 which check for existence of an object before…

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) on AWS Clean Rooms to help advertisers use their first-party signals to collaborate with Amazon Ads unique signals. With this collaboration, advertisers can generate differentiated insights, discover new audiences, and enable advertising campaign planning, activation, and measurement use cases, all without having to move their underlying signals outside of their AWS account. With AMC on AWS Clean Rooms, customers can easily prepare their data, match and create audiences, use custom insights to activate more relevant advertising campaigns with Amazon Ads, and measure return on ad spend. All of this can be accomplished from the most secure cloud computing environment available today. Advertisers continually strive to reach new audiences…

Today, we announce the general availability of data preparation authoring in AWS Glue Studio Visual ETL. This is a new no-code data preparation user experience for business users and data analysts with a spreadsheet-style UI that runs data integration jobs at scale on AWS Glue for Spark. The new visual data preparation experience makes it easier for data analysts and data scientists to clean and transform data to prepare it for analytics and machine learning (ML). Within this new experience, you can choose from hundreds of pre-built transformations to automate data preparation tasks, all without the need to write any code. Business analysts can now collaborate with data engineers to build data integration jobs. Data engineers can use the Glue…