NICE DCV is now Amazon DCV with 2024.0 release

By Dustin Ward

Today, NICE DCV has a new name. So long NICE DCV, welcome Amazon DCV. Today, with the 2024.0 release, along with enhancements and bug fixes, NICE DCV is rebranded to Amazon DCV. The new name is now also used to consistently refer to the DCV protocol powering AWS managed services such as Amazon AppStream 2.0…

Run your compute-intensive and general purpose workloads sustainably with the new Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g instances

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing general availability of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances. C8g instances are AWS Graviton4 based and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. Also Graviton4 based,…

Jamba 1.5 family of models by AI21 Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock

By Dustin Ward

Today, we are announcing the availability of AI21 Labs’ powerful new Jamba 1.5 family of large language models (LLMs) in Amazon Bedrock. These models represent a significant advancement in long-context language capabilities, delivering speed, efficiency, and performance across a wide range of applications. The Jamba 1.5 family of models includes Jamba 1.5 Mini and Jamba…