Today, Amazon Web Services announces that SageMaker Hyperpod Flexible Training Plans is available in six new regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm, London), and South America (São Paulo). SageMaker Training Plans allows you to gain predictable model training timelines and run training workloads within your budget requirements. You can use SageMaker Training Plans to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances (P4d, P5, P5e, P5en) for Hyperpod for a future date.

SageMaker Training Plans enables you to reserve GPU capacity up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to six months in cluster sizes of 1 to 256 instances, giving you the flexibility to run a broad range of ML workloads. It is ideal for short-duration pre-training and fine-tuning workloads and rapid prototyping. SageMaker automatically provisions the infrastructure and runs the training workloads on these compute resources without requiring any manual intervention.

With this expansion, SageMaker Training Plans is available for the following instance types and AWS Regions: P5 instances in US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Melbourne, Mumbai), Europe (London, Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo); P5e instances in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai), Europe (London, Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo); P5en instances in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), and Europe (Stockholm); Trn1 in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon); and P4d in US East (N. Virginia).

To learn more, visit: SageMaker HyperPod, documentation, and the announcement blog.

 

​Today, Amazon Web Services announces that SageMaker Hyperpod Flexible Training Plans is available in six new regions: US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai), Europe (Stockholm, London), and South America (São Paulo). SageMaker Training Plans allows you to gain predictable model training timelines and run training workloads within your budget requirements. You can use SageMaker Training Plans to reserve highly sought-after GPU instances (P4d, P5, P5e, P5en) for Hyperpod for a future date. SageMaker Training Plans enables you to reserve GPU capacity up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to six months in cluster sizes of 1 to 256 instances, giving you the flexibility to run a broad range of ML workloads. It is ideal for short-duration pre-training and fine-tuning workloads and rapid prototyping. SageMaker automatically provisions the infrastructure and runs the training workloads on these compute resources without requiring any manual intervention. With this expansion, SageMaker Training Plans is available for the following instance types and AWS Regions: P5 instances in US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Melbourne, Mumbai), Europe (London, Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo); P5e instances in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Mumbai), Europe (London, Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo); P5en instances in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N. California), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai), and Europe (Stockholm); Trn1 in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon); and P4d in US East (N. Virginia). To learn more, visit: SageMaker HyperPod, documentation, and the announcement blog.  

Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database.

To learn more, visit the EC2 X2i Instances Page, or connect with your AWS Support contacts.
 

 

​Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. These instances are SAP-certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. To learn more, visit the EC2 X2i Instances Page, or connect with your AWS Support contacts.    

Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Omnissa Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Omnissa remote desktop application (e.g., Omnissa Horizon) and start accepting calls using your custom agent user interface (i.e., custom Contact Control Panel) using APIs in the Amazon Connect open source JavaScript libraries.

These new features are available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, please see the documentation.

 

​Amazon Connect now makes it easier to deliver high-quality voice experiences in Omnissa Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments. Amazon Connect automatically optimizes audio by redirecting media from your agent’s local desktop to Connect, simplifying the agent experience and improving audio quality by reducing network hops. Agents can simply log into their Omnissa remote desktop application (e.g., Omnissa Horizon) and start accepting calls using your custom agent user interface (i.e., custom Contact Control Panel) using APIs in the Amazon Connect open source JavaScript libraries. These new features are available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more, please see the documentation.  

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service.

To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

 

​Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage in the cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides the first and only complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. It offers the familiar features, performance, capabilities, and APIs of ONTAP with the agility, scalability, and simplicity of an AWS service. To learn more about Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.    

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression).

To learn more about Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

 

​Customers can now create Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared file storage built on the OpenZFS file system. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS provides fully managed, cost-effective, shared file storage powered by the popular OpenZFS file system, and is designed to deliver sub-millisecond latencies and multi-GB/s throughput along with rich ZFS-powered data management capabilities (like snapshots, data cloning, and compression). To learn more about Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.    

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA).

To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

 

​Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system.
Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.    

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, enabling you to receive near-real time notifications about changes in your cluster’s status. With this integration, you can easily track key events such as HyperPod cluster status transitions and node health changes.

SageMaker HyperPod delivers two types of notifications via EventBridge – 1. Cluster Status Change Events, that notify you when your HyperPod cluster transitions between states, such as InService or Failed. 2) Node Health Events that notify you when nodes change health status (e.g. Healthy/Unhealthy), or are automatically replaced during recovery from failures. You can also write simple EventBridge rules to trigger automated actions when these events occur.

SageMaker HyperPod events via EventBridge are now available in all AWS regions where both SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EventBridge are generally available.

To learn more about Amazon SageMaker HyperPod’s integration with EventBridge, visit the Amazon SageMaker AI documentation.

 

​Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, enabling you to receive near-real time notifications about changes in your cluster’s status. With this integration, you can easily track key events such as HyperPod cluster status transitions and node health changes. SageMaker HyperPod delivers two types of notifications via EventBridge – 1. Cluster Status Change Events, that notify you when your HyperPod cluster transitions between states, such as InService or Failed. 2) Node Health Events that notify you when nodes change health status (e.g. Healthy/Unhealthy), or are automatically replaced during recovery from failures. You can also write simple EventBridge rules to trigger automated actions when these events occur. SageMaker HyperPod events via EventBridge are now available in all AWS regions where both SageMaker HyperPod and Amazon EventBridge are generally available. To learn more about Amazon SageMaker HyperPod’s integration with EventBridge, visit the Amazon SageMaker AI documentation.  

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol.

To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.

 

​Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems in the AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, providing fully managed shared storage built on Windows Server. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed, highly reliable file storage built on Windows Server and can be accessed via the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. To learn more about Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.  

Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports the ability to exclude network resources when analyzing reachability between a source and destination, providing you greater flexibility to run reachability analyses.

VPC Reachability Analyzer is a configuration analysis feature that enables you to check network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs). With this launch, you can easily identify an alternative traffic path in your network. For example, if you want to identify any path from your internet gateway to Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) that is not passing through the network firewall for inspection, you can specify Network Firewall under resource exclusion and run the reachability analysis. If the analysis returns a reachable path, you know there is an alternative path in your network and can take required actions.

To learn more about Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer, please visit documentation. To view Reachability Analyzer prices, visit Amazon VPC Pricing.

 

​Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer now supports the ability to exclude network resources when analyzing reachability between a source and destination, providing you greater flexibility to run reachability analyses. VPC Reachability Analyzer is a configuration analysis feature that enables you to check network reachability between a source resource and a destination resource in your virtual private clouds (VPCs). With this launch, you can easily identify an alternative traffic path in your network. For example, if you want to identify any path from your internet gateway to Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) that is not passing through the network firewall for inspection, you can specify Network Firewall under resource exclusion and run the reachability analysis. If the analysis returns a reachable path, you know there is an alternative path in your network and can take required actions. To learn more about Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer, please visit documentation. To view Reachability Analyzer prices, visit Amazon VPC Pricing.  

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system.

Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA).

To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
 

 

​Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region, providing fully managed shared storage with the scalability and performance of the popular Lustre file system. Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.