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Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

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Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Deven Goratela 2 September 2025

Kia ora! Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand)...

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New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i Flex instances are now available

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New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i Flex instances are now available

Deven Goratela 29 August 2025

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) general-purpose M8i and M8i-Flex...

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AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones

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AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones

Deven Goratela 26 August 2025

Amazon Prime Day 2025 was the biggest Amazon Prime Day shopping event ever, setting records for both...

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025)

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025)

Deven Goratela 25 August 2025

As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology...

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Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances

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Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances

Deven Goratela 20 August 2025

Today, we’re announcing general availability of the new eighth generation, memory optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon...

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)

Deven Goratela 18 August 2025

Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become...

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AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row

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AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row

Deven Goratela 16 August 2025

On August 4, 2025, Gartner published its Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (SCPS). Amazon...

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Meet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025

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Meet our newest AWS Heroes — August 2025

Deven Goratela 14 August 2025

We are excited to announce the latest cohort of AWS Heroes, recognized for their exceptional contributions and...

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AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)

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AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI models, Automated Reasoning checks, Amazon EVS, and more (August 11, 2025)

Deven Goratela 12 August 2025

AWS Summits in the northern hemisphere have mostly concluded but the fun and learning hasn’t yet stopped...

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Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available

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Minimize AI hallucinations and deliver up to 99% verification accuracy with Automated Reasoning checks: Now available

Deven Goratela 6 August 2025

Today, I’m happy to share that Automated Reasoning checks, a new Amazon Bedrock Guardrails policy that we...

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