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Using zonal shift with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

This post is written by Michael Haken, Senior Principal Solutions Architect, AWS Today, we’re announcing support for zonal shift in Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling. Zonal shift allows you to rapidly recover from application impairments in a single Availability Zone (AZ) impacting your Auto Scaling Group (ASG) resources. In this post, we describe how performing an […]

Changing a function to Python 3.13

Python 3.13 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

This post is written by Julian Wood, Principal Developer Advocate, and Leandro Cavalcante Damascena, Senior Solutions Architect Engineer. AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.13 as both a managed runtime and container base image. Python is a popular language for building serverless applications. The Python 3.13 release includes a number of changes to the language, the implementation, and the […]

Figure 1. C7a.large and C6a.large performance results over ten tests

Reduce your Microsoft licensing costs by upgrading to 4th generation AMD processors

This post is written by Jeremy Girven, Solutions Architect at AWS and Chase Lindeman, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AMD have collaborated since 2018 to deliver cost effective performance for a broad variety of Microsoft workloads, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft Systems […]

Efficiently monitor your On Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) by Grouping on CloudWatch Dimensions

This post is written by Ballu Singh, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS, Ankush Goyal, Enterprise Support Lead in AWS Enterprise Support, Hasan Tariq, Principal Solutions Architect with AWS and Ninad Joshi, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS. The On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) allows you to reserve compute capacity for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) […]

Changing CPU options after instance launch

Retaining Optimize CPUs configuration during Amazon EC2 scaling to save on licensing costs

This post is written by Rafet Ducic, Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) Introduction Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) now lets you modify CPU configurations after an instance has launched. With this new feature, users can change instance CPU settings either by directly modifying the CPU configuration, or when changing instance size […]

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Introducing an enhanced local IDE experience for AWS Lambda developers

AWS Lambda is introducing an enhanced local IDE experience to simplify Lambda-based application development. The new features help developers to author, build, debug, test, and deploy Lambda applications more efficiently in their local IDE when using Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Overview The IDE experience is part of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. […]

Viewing function code in the Lambda Code Editor

Introducing an enhanced in-console editing experience for AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda is introducing a new code editing experience in the AWS console based on the popular Code-OSS, Visual Studio Code Open Source code editor. This brings the familiar Visual Studio Code interface and many of the features directly into the Lambda console, allowing developers to use their preferred coding environment and tools in the cloud. […]

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Simplifying Lambda function development using CloudWatch Logs Live Tail and Metrics Insights

This post is written by Shridhar Pandey, Senior Product Manager, AWS Lambda Today, AWS is announcing two new features which make it easier for developers and operators to build and operate serverless applications using AWS Lambda. First, the Lambda console now natively supports Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail which provides you real-time visibility into Lambda […]

Learn how to deploy Falcon 2 11B on Amazon EC2 c7i instances for model Inference

Learn how to deploy Falcon 2 11B on Amazon EC2 c7i instances for model Inference

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This post is written by Paul Tran, Senior Specialist SA; Asif Mujawar, Specialist SA Leader; Abdullatif AlRashdan, Specialist SA; and Shivagami Gugan, Enterprise Technologist. Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has developed Falcon 2 11B foundation model (FM), a next-generation AI model that can be now deployed on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) c7i instances, which support […]