Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS KMS with customer managed keys

By Dustin Ward

Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) S3 storage class, now supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys (SSE-KMS). S3 Express One Zone already encrypts all objects stored in S3 directory buckets with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) by default. Starting today, you can use AWS KMS customer managed keys…

Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, now generally available, enables near real-time analytics

By Dustin Ward

Zero-ETL integrations help unify your data across applications and data sources for holistic insights and breaking data silos. They provide a fully managed, no-code, near real-time solution for making petabytes of transactional data available in Amazon Redshift within seconds of data being written into Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL. This eliminates the…

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces Amazon EKS support

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are pleased to announce Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) support in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod — purpose-built infrastructure engineered with resilience at its core for foundation model (FM) development. This new capability enables customers to orchestrate HyperPod clusters using EKS, combining the power of Kubernetes with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod‘s resilient environment designed for training…

Stability AI’s best image generating models now in Amazon Bedrock

By Dustin Ward

Starting today, you can use three new text-to-image models from Stability AI in Amazon Bedrock: Stable Image Ultra, Stable Diffusion 3 Large, and Stable Image Core. These models greatly improve performance in multi-subject prompts, image quality, and typography and can be used to rapidly generate high-quality visuals for a wide range of use cases across marketing,…