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Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Nova, a series of foundation models available in Bedrock, in a move that aims to provide large language model choice and commoditize the market.
AWS is expanding Amazon Bedrock to enable multi-agent collaboration to address higher complexity tasks. Alexa's overhaul will feature some of this orchestration.
AWS outlined a series of improvements to its S3 service to manage metadata automatically, leverage Apache Iceberg tables and optimize for analytics workloads with Amazon S3 Tables. Also on the data front, AWS moved to reduce latency for its databases.
AWS also prepped for larger training workloads with Trainium2 UltraServers that will be pooled into a cluster. The cloud giant also set the table for AWS Trainium3.
Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, said the company's integration with competing cybersecurity platforms such as CrowdStrike, generative AI upsells and new executive additions will fuel growth in future quarters.
Amazon Web Services said it will deploy simplified electrical and mechanical designs, liquid cooling, new rack designs and updated control systems to handle AI workloads sustainably.
AWS customers are increasingly focused on using cloud management approaches on-premises, optimizing GPU costs and modernizing mainframe infrastructure.
It's unclear who will be the new CEO of Intel, but one thing is certain--there will be a lot of work ahead. Here's a look at some of the big questions the new Intel leader will have to resolve.
Expect Regulations For National Security, But Overall Lighter Regulatory Framework
For the most part, tech has done well regardless of presidential administrations due to the light regulation of the overall industry. This has allowed large digital giants to emerge and dominate global markets across a multitude of industries. Amidst a national security backdrop and increasing capital required in the tech arms race, government has been hesitant to over regulate.
Oracle said that customers can now access Oracle Database@AWS in limited preview. The limited availability landed just a few weeks after Oracle and AWS announced their partnership.
Earnings results from Dell Technologies and HP indicate that a long overdue PC refresh cycle is going to be delayed.
