Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance type powered by latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These instances are ideal for compute-intensive tightly coupled HPC workloads, including computational fluid dynamics,…
Since we launched Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI at AWS NY Summit 2025, customers have been asking for the same capabilities with Amazon Nova as they do when they customize open weights models in Amazon SageMaker Inference. They also wanted have more control and flexibility in custom model inference over instance types, auto-scaling…
I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new instance type landing that pushes performance boundaries further. As of…
When we talk about agentic AI, it’s easy to default to abstract conversations about models, prompts, and orchestration. But the most compelling stories I see are the ones where AI unlocks something deeply human—creativity, intuition, and expertise—at entirely new speed and scale. That’s why I was excited to host Color Meets Code: Pantone’s Agentic AI…
Cloud operations have reached an inflection point. For more than a decade, the industry has focused on scale—more infrastructure, more data, more services, more dashboards to build and manage both infrastructure and applications. While today’s cloud delivers extraordinary flexibility, the rapid growth of modern applications and AI workloads has introduced levels of scale and complexity…
As the demand for AI and data-intensive computing is on the rise, the need for efficient and reliable power delivery is critical. Enter high-temperature superconductors (HTS), a game-changing technology that can improve energy efficiency by reducing transmission losses. Microsoft is investigating HTS technology to understand how our datacenters can meet the growing demand for power…