Tag: SysAdmin

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) and U7i-12TB instances (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-8tb instances offer 8TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7i-12tb instances offer 12TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-8tb instances deliver 448 vCPUs; U7i-12tb instances deliver 896 vCPUs. Both instances support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and 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.

Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces an AI-powered troubleshooting assistant that helps you quickly diagnose and resolve render job failures. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for computer-generated 2D/3D graphics and visual effects for films, TV shows, commercials, games, and industrial design. Render job failures from missing assets, software errors, configuration mismatches, and resource constraints can stall production pipelines and waste compute resources. Previously, diagnosing these issues required specialized technical staff to manually parse logs and identify root causes — a process that is time-consuming, difficult to scale, and often unavailable to smaller studios. The new Deadline Cloud assistant investigates failed jobs you identify, analyzes logs and metrics, detects common issues, and provides troubleshooting recommendations based on industry best practices and a pre-trained knowledge base covering Deadline Cloud

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating new workspaces with Grafana version 12.4.  This release includes features that were launched as a part of open source Grafana versions 11.0 to 12.4, including Drilldown apps, scenes powered dashboards, variables in transformations, visualization enhancements, and new features with the Amazon CloudWatch plugin. Queryless Drilldown apps enable customers to perform point-and-click exploration of Prometheus metrics, Loki logs, Tempo traces, and Pyroscope profiles. The Scenes-powered rendering engine boosts dashboard performance. Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds support for PPL and SQL queries, cross-account Metrics Insights, and log anomaly detection. The rebuilt table visualization improves performance with CSS cell styling and interactive Actions buttons, while trendline transformations and navigation bookmarks enhance data exploration. Grafana 12.4

SageMaker JumpStart now offers optimized deployments, enabling customers to deploy foundation models with pre-configured settings tailored to specific use cases and performance constraints. SageMaker JumpStart optimized deployments simplify model deployment by offering task-aware configurations that optimize for cost, throughput, or latency based on your workload requirements - whether content generation, summarization, or Q&A. This launch includes support for 30+ popular models from Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Qwen, Google, and TII, with visibility into key performance metrics like P50 latency, time-to-first token (TTFT), and throughput before deployment. With SageMaker JumpStart optimized deployments, customers can select from use case-specific configurations (such as generative writing or chat-style interactions) and choose optimization targets including cost-optimized, throughput-optimized, latency-optimized, or balanced performance. Models deploy to SageMaker AI Ma

Amazon CloudWatch RUM (Real User Monitoring) is a feature of Amazon CloudWatch that enables developers and operations teams to collect, view, and analyze client-side performance data from real end-user sessions in web and mobile applications. With its expansion to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, customers operating under strict European data residency and sovereignty requirements can now monitor their web application performance without data leaving the sovereign boundary. This capability is designed for enterprises, public sector organizations, and regulated industries in Europe that require full control over where their data is stored and processed. CloudWatch RUM helps teams proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across both web and mobile applications by surfacing real-time metrics such as page load times, JavaScript errors, HTTP failures, and mobile-specific signals like crash rates and network latency — enabling faster root cause analysis and impr

Amazon CloudWatch now supports auditing telemetry configuration and enabling telemetry from AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon VPC, and AWS CloudTrail across multiple AWS Regions from a single region. Customers can enable the telemetry auditing feature for their account or organization across all supported regions at once and create enablement rules that automatically apply to selected regions or all available regions. With today's launch, customers can scope enablement rules to specific regions or all supported regions. For example, a central security team can create a single organization-wide enablement rule for VPC Flow Logs that applies across all regions, ensuring consistent telemetry collection for every VPC across every account. Rules configured for all regions automatically expand to include new regions as they become available. CloudWatch's cross-region telemetry configuration and enablement rule is available in all AWS commercial regions. Standard Clou

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling organizations with data sovereignty requirements to protect their mission-critical workloads with disaster recovery on AWS. AWS DRS minimizes downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery, with Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) measured in seconds and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) typically in minutes. With AWS DRS, you can recover applications from physical infrastructure, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and cloud infrastructure. AWS DRS uses a unified process for testing, recovery, and failback for a wide range of applications, including critical databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server, and enterprise applications such as SAP. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is available in t

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Regions. You can now provision WorkSpaces closer to your users, helping to provide in-country data residency and a more responsive experience. In US East (Ohio), organizations can also now implement disaster recovery solutions, meet local data residency compliance mandates, and support regional workforces with consistent, low-latency access to their virtual desktop environments across varying network conditions. Amazon WorkSpaces Personal provides users with instant access to their desktops from anywhere. It allows users to stream desktops from AWS to their devices, and WorkSpaces Personal manages the AWS resources required to host and run your desktops, scales automatically, and provides access to your users on demand. Amazon WorkSpaces Core provides cloud-based, fully managed virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) accessible to third-party VDI manage

You can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 file systems in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta), Europe (Zurich), and South America (São Paulo). Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 file systems are built on AWS Graviton processors and provide higher throughput per terabyte (up to 1 GB/s per terabyte) and lower cost of throughput compared to previous generation FSx for Lustre file systems. Using FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 file systems, you can accelerate execution of machine learning, high-performance computing, media & entertainment, and financial simulations workloads while reducing your cost of storage. To get started with Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 in these new regions, create a file system through the AWS Management Console. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product pag

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances are available in Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. X8aedz instances are built using the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards and are ideal for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads such as physical layout and physical verification jobs, and relational databases that benefit from high single-threaded processor performance and a large memory footprint. The combination of 5 GHz processors and local NVMe storage enables faster processing of memory-intensive backend EDA workloads such as floor planning, logic placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, and power/signal integrity analysis. X8aedz instances feature a 32:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and are available in 8 sizes rang