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Let me begin this week’s replace with one thing I’m particularly enthusiastic about – the upcoming BeSA (Change into a Options Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host together with a couple of different AWS workers on a volunteer foundation to assist folks excel of their cloud careers. Final week, the instructors’ lineup was finalized for the 6-week cohort beginning September 6. The cohort will concentrate on migration and modernization on AWS. Go to the BeSA web site to study extra.
One other spotlight for me final week was the announcement of six new AWS Heroes for his or her technical management and distinctive contributions to the AWS group. Learn the full announcement to study extra about these group leaders.
Final week’s launches
Listed below are some launches from final week that acquired my consideration:
- Amazon EC2 Single GPU P5 cases at the moment are typically out there — You’ll be able to right-size your machine studying (ML) and excessive efficiency computing (HPC) sources cost-effectively with the brand new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 occasion measurement with one NVIDIA H100 GPU.
- AWS Superior Go Driver is usually out there — Now you can use the AWS Superior Go Driver with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Appropriate and MySQL-Appropriate database clusters for quicker switchover and failover instances, Federated Authentication, and authentication with AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor or AWS Id and Entry Administration (IAM). You’ll be able to set up the PostgreSQL and MySQL packages for Home windows, Mac, or Linux, by following the set up guides in GitHub.
- Expanded assist for Cilium with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes — Cilium is a Cloud Native Computing Basis (CNCF) graduated challenge that gives core networking capabilities for Kubernetes workloads. Now, you may obtain assist from AWS for a broader set of Cilium options when utilizing Cilium with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes together with software ingress, in-cluster load balancing, Kubernetes community insurance policies, and kube-proxy alternative mode.
- Amazon SageMaker AI now helps P6e-GB200 UltraServers — You’ll be able to speed up coaching and deployment of foundational fashions (FMs) at trillion-parameter scale by utilizing as much as 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs beneath one NVLink area with the brand new P6e-GB200 UltraServer assist in Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and Mannequin Coaching.
- Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now helps fine-grained quota allocation of compute sources, topology-aware-scheduling of LLM duties and customized Amazon Machine Pictures (AMIs) — You’ll be able to allocate fine-grained compute quota for GPU, Trainium accelerator, vCPU, and vCPU reminiscence inside an occasion to optimize compute useful resource distribution. With topology-aware scheduling, you may schedule your massive language mannequin (LLM) duties on an optimum community topology to attenuate community communication and improve coaching effectivity. Utilizing customized AMIs, you may deploy clusters with pre-configured, security-hardened environments that meet your particular organizational necessities.
Extra updates
Listed below are some further information gadgets and weblog posts that I discovered attention-grabbing:
- Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation — Be part of the livestream occasion on August 21, 2025, to rejoice a decade of Aurora database innovation.
- AWS named as a Chief in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Providers — For the fifteenth consecutive yr, Gartner has named AWS a Chief within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Providers (SCPS), making AWS the longest-running Magic Quadrant Chief.
- Introducing AWS Cloud Management API (CCAPI) MCP Server — Now you can use pure language to managing cloud infrastructure utilizing CCAPI MCP Server. You’ll be able to create, learn, replace, delete, and listing sources utilizing pure language.
- Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Id — AgentCore Id supplies a centralized functionality to handle agent identities, securing credentials, and supporting seamless integration with AWS and third-party companies by means of Sigv4, standardized OAuth 2.0 flows, and API key.
- Introducing Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway — A totally managed service to attach AI brokers with instruments and companies. It serves as a centralized device server, offering a unified interface the place brokers can uncover, entry, and invoke instruments.
Upcoming AWS occasions
Test your calendars and join upcoming AWS and AWS Neighborhood occasions:
- AWS re:Invent 2025 (December 1-5, 2025, Las Vegas) — The AWS flagship annual convention providing collaborative innovation by means of peer-to-peer studying, expert-led discussions, and invaluable networking alternatives.
- AWS Summits — Be part of free on-line and in-person occasions that deliver the cloud computing group collectively to attach, collaborate, and find out about AWS. Arising quickly are summits in Johannesburg (August 20) and Toronto (September 4).
- AWS Neighborhood Days — Be part of community-led conferences that function technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by professional AWS customers and trade leaders from around the globe: Adria (September 5), Baltic (September 10), Aotearoa (September 18), and South Africa (September 20).
Be part of the AWS Builder Heart to study, construct, and join with builders within the AWS group. Browse right here for upcoming in-person and digital developer-focused occasions.
That’s all for this week. Test again subsequent Monday for one more Weekly Roundup!
– Prasad
