With the arrival of September, AWS re:Invent 2024 is now 3 months away and I am very excited for the new upcoming services and announcements at the conference. I remember attending re:Invent 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the biggest in-person re:Invent with 60,000+ attendees and it was my second one. It was…
Today we are announcing AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS), a new managed service that helps customers set up and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters so they seamlessly run their simulations at virtually any scale on AWS. Using the Slurm scheduler, they can work in a familiar HPC environment, accelerating their time to results…
The AWS User Group Japan (JAWS-UG) hosted JAWS PANKRATION 2024 themed ‘No Border’. This is a 24-hour online event where AWS Heroes, AWS Community Builders, AWS User Group leaders, and others from around the world discuss topics ranging from cultural discussions to technical talks. One of the speakers at this event, Kevin Tuei, an AWS…
You know what I find more exciting than the Amazon Prime Day sale? Finding out how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes it all happen. Every year, I wait eagerly for Jeff Barr’s annual post to read the chart-topping metrics. The scale never ceases to amaze me. This year, Channy Yun and Jeff Barr bring us…
Starting today, you can build applications on macOS with AWS CodeBuild. You can now build artifacts on managed Apple M2 machines that run on macOS 14 Sonoma. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces ready-to-deploy software packages. Building, testing, signing, and distributing applications for Apple…
In March of last year, Jeff Barr announced the plan for an AWS Region in Malaysia. Today, I’m pleased to share the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region with three Availability Zones and API name ap-southeast-5. The AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region is the first infrastructure Region in Malaysia and the thirteenth Region in Asia Pacific,…