New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations

By Dustin Ward

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 to address customer needs for high performance and scalability in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) applications. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances accelerate a broad range of GPU-enabled workloads but are especially…

Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability

By Dustin Ward

Starting today, you can use AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability to provision a dedicated and persistent Docker server directly within your CodeBuild project. With Docker Server capability, you can accelerate your Docker image builds by centralizing image building to a remote host, which reduces wait times and increases overall efficiency. From my benchmark, with this…

Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform

By Dustin Ward

Generative AI has brought many new possibilities to organizations. It has equipped them with new abilities to retire technical debt, modernize legacy systems, and build agile infrastructure to help unlock the value that is trapped in their internal data. However, many enterprises still rely heavily on legacy IT infrastructure, particularly mainframes and VMware-based systems. These…

In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region

By Dustin Ward

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026. The AWS South America (Chile) Region will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, bringing AWS infrastructure and services closer to customers in Chile. This new Region joins the AWS South America (São Paulo) and…