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Preview – Connect Foundation Models to Your Company Data Sources with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

Preview – Connect Foundation Models to Your Company Data Sources with Agents for Amazon Bedrock

Amazon BedrockAnnouncementsArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AI

In July, we announced the preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, a new capability for developers to create generative AI applications that complete tasks. Today, I’m happy to introduce a new capability to securely connect foundation models (FMs) to your company data sources using agents. With a knowledge base, you can use agents to give […]

New – Amazon EC2 R7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory Optimized Workloads

New – Amazon EC2 R7a Instances Powered By 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory Optimized Workloads

Amazon EC2ComputeLaunchNews

We launched the memory optimized Amazon EC2 R6a instances in July 2022 powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC (Milan) processors, running at frequencies up to 3.6 GHz. Many customers who run workloads that are dependent on x86 instructions, such as SAP, are looking for ways to optimize their cloud utilization. They’re taking advantage of the […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: R7iz Instances, Amazon Connect, CloudWatch Logs, and Lots More (Sept. 11, 2023)

AWS Weekly Roundup: R7iz Instances, Amazon Connect, CloudWatch Logs, and Lots More (Sept. 11, 2023)

Amazon CloudWatchAmazon ConnectAmazon EC2Amazon SageMakerAWS Step FunctionsLaunchNews

Looks like it is my turn once again to write the AWS Weekly Roundup. I wrote and published the first one on April 16, 2012 — just 4,165 short day ago! Last Week’s Launches Here are some of the launches that caught my eye last week: R7iz Instances – Optimized for high CPU performance and […]

New Amazon EC2 R7iz Instances are Optimized for High CPU Performance, Memory-Intensive Workloads

New Amazon EC2 R7iz Instances are Optimized for High CPU Performance, Memory-Intensive Workloads

Amazon EC2AnnouncementsCompute

Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon EC2 R7iz instances. R7iz instances are the fastest 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable-based (Sapphire Rapids) instances in the cloud with 3.9 GHz sustained all-core turbo frequency. R7iz instances are suitable for workloads where there’s a requirement for more memory to process additional data, larger sizes of instances […]

New – NVMe Reservations for Amazon Elastic Block Store io2 Volumes

New – NVMe Reservations for Amazon Elastic Block Store io2 Volumes

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)LaunchNews

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) io2 and io2 Block Express volumes now support storage fencing using NVMe reservations. As I learned while writing this post, storage fencing is used to regulate access to storage for a compute or database cluster, ensuring that just one host in the cluster has permission to write to the […]

New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers

New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances Built on Apple Silicon M2 Pro Mac Mini Computers

Amazon EC2Amazon EC2 Mac InstancesComputeLaunchNews

Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances. These instances deliver up to 35 percent faster performance over the existing M1 Mac instances when building and testing applications for Apple platforms. New EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances are powered by Apple M2 Pro Mac Mini computers featuring 12 core […]

AWS Weekly Roundup: C7i Instances, Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock, and More (Sept. 18, 2023)

AWS Weekly Roundup: C7i Instances, Knowledge Base for Amazon Bedrock, and More (Sept. 18, 2023)

AnnouncementsLaunchNewsWeek in Review

While daylight is getting shorter in the Northern hemisphere, we’ve got two new EC2 instance types optimized for compute and memory and many new capabilities for other services. Last week there was also the EMEA AWS Heroes Summit in Munich, an amazing day full of insights and passion. Here’s a nice picture of the participants! […]

Building companies means building careers: why I joined Cloudflare as Chief People Officer

Building companies means building careers: why I joined Cloudflare as Chief People Officer

Life @ CloudflarePeopleCareers

We're excited to introduce Michele Yetman as Cloudflare's new Chief People Officer

Elevate load balancing with Private IPs and Cloudflare Tunnels: a secure path to efficient traffic distribution

Elevate load balancing with Private IPs and Cloudflare Tunnels: a secure path to efficient traffic distribution

Load BalancingCloudflare TunnelTraffic

We are extremely excited to announce a new addition to our Load Balancing solution, Local Traffic Management (LTM) with deep integrations with Zero Trust!

How Waiting Room makes queueing decisions on Cloudflare's highly distributed network

How Waiting Room makes queueing decisions on Cloudflare's highly distributed network

Waiting RoomCloudflare WorkersDurable ObjectsNetworkDistributed Network

We want to give you a behind the scenes look at how we have evolved the core mechanism of our product–namely, exactly how it kicks in to queue traffic in response to spikes

Making Content Security Policies (CSPs) easy with Page Shield

Making Content Security Policies (CSPs) easy with Page Shield

Page ShieldSecurity

We just deployed a number of updates to our Client-Side Security Product: Page Shield. As of today we support all major CSP directives, better suggestions, better violation reporting, Page Shield specific user role permissions, and domain insights

New! Rate Limiting analytics and throttling

New! Rate Limiting analytics and throttling

WAFRate LimitingThrottleAnalyticsThresholdRecommendations

Cloudflare Analytics can now suggest rate limiting threshold based on historic traffic patterns. Rate Limiting also supports a throttle behavior