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AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm CLI Filter plugins, enabling you to extend and modify how Slurm schedules and processes your high performance computing (HPC) workloads without modifying Slurm directly. Using CLI Filter plugins, you can now define custom policies for job submission to your clusters. For example, you can define policies that verify certain flags or fields of jobs when users submit them, automatically reject jobs submitted without specific attributes, or even modify job parameters. PCS is a managed service that makes it easier for you to run and scale your high performance computing (HPC) workloads and build scientific and engineering models on AWS using Slurm. You can use PCS to build complete environments that integrate compute, storage, networking, and visualization. PCS simplifies cluster operations with managed updates and built-in observability features, helping to remove the burden of maintenance. You can work in a famil

Amazon CloudWatch now enables you to create more flexible alerting policies by triggering notifications when a specific subset of your monitored resources need attention. Using CloudWatch composite alarms, you can create a rule to take action only when a certain combination of alarms is activated. This enhancement lets you choose to receive alerts only when a certain number of resources are impacted, helping you focus on meaningful incidents. The new threshold function in composite alarms allows you to eliminate unnecessary alerts for minor issues while ensuring quick notification of significant problems. IT operations teams can configure alerts to trigger when, for instance, at least two out of four storage volumes are running low on capacity, or when 50% of hosts in a cluster show high CPU utilization. The feature supports both fixed numbers and percentages, making it easy to maintain effective monitoring even as your infrastructure grows or changes. This capabil

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now available in Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), simplifying how you get started and manage updates. Previously, you had to download the Mountpoint package from GitHub, install dependencies, and manually manage updates. Now, when using AL2023, you can install or update to the latest release of Mountpoint with a single command, and mount an Amazon S3 bucket. Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is an open source project backed by AWS support, giving AWS Business and Enterprise Support customers 24/7 access to AWS cloud support engineers. To learn more and get started, visit GitHub, the Mountpoint overview page, the installation guide and

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Europe (Stockholm and Ireland) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-6tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Canada (Central) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access the small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). Addi

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances. M8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to M7a instances, making these instances ideal for even latency sensitive workloads. M8a instances deliver even higher performance gains for specific workloads. M8a instances are up to 60% faster for GroovyJVM benchmark, and up to 39% faster for Cassandra benchmark compared to Amazon EC2 M7a instances. M8a instances are SAP-certified and offer 12 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes. This range of instance sizes allows customers to precisely match their workload requirements. M8a instances are built using the latest sixth generation

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches, enabling you to perform multiple write operations as a single atomic transaction. With Logged Batches, you can ensure that either all operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) within a batch succeed or none of them do, maintaining data consistency across multiple rows and tables within a keyspace. This capability is particularly valuable for applications that require strong data consistency, such as financial systems, inventory management, and user profile updates that span multiple data entities. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. Amazon Keyspaces is serverless, so you pay for only the resources that you use and you can build applications that serve thousands of requests per second with virtually unlimited throughput and storage. Logge

AWS Backup now supports Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), providing a fully-managed, centralized solution for backing up EKS cluster state and persistent application data. You can now use AWS Backup to help protect your entire EKS environments through a centralized, policy-driven backup service. You now get comprehensive data protection capabilities through AWS Backup across your Amazon EKS Clusters, including automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, cross-Region and cross-account copies. AWS Backup delivers a new an agent-free solution that works natively with AWS, replacing custom scripts or third-party tools to perform backups for each cluster. You can restore entire EKS clusters, specific namespaces, or individual persistent volumes. Use AWS Backup to protect your clusters for disaster recovery, to help meet your compliance requirements, or for additional protection before EKS cluster upgrades. AWS Backup for EKS is available in all

Effective today, all new Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers will support Intelligent Rebalancing at no additional cost. This new capability makes it effortless for customers to execute automatic partition balancing operations when scaling their Kafka clusters up or down. Intelligent Rebalancing maximizes the capacity utilization of MSK Express-based clusters by optimally rebalancing Kafka resources on them for better performance, eliminating the need for customers to manage partitions themselves or via third-party tools. Intelligent Rebalancing performs these operations up to 180 times faster compared to Standard brokers. MSK Express brokers are designed to deliver up to three times more throughput per-broker, scale up to 20 times faster, and reduce recovery time by 90 percent as compared to Standard brokers running Apache Kafka. With Intelligent Rebalancing, MSK Express-based clusters are continuously monitored for resource imbalance or overload based on

Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses for gateway Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance storage class designed for latency-sensitive applications. Organizations are adopting IPv6 networks to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to comply with regulatory requirements. You can now access your data in S3 Express One Zone over IPv6 or DualStack VPC endpoints. You don't need additional infrastructure to handle IPv6 to IPv4 address translation. S3 Express One Zone support for IPv6 is available in all AWS Regions where the storage class is available at no additional cost. You can set up IPv6 for new and existing VPC endpoints using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, or AWS CloudFormation. To get started using IPv6 on S3 Express One Zone, vi