TwelveLabs’ Marengo 2.7 and Pegasus 1.2 multimodal foundation models are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Marengo 2.7 is a video embedding model proficient at performing tasks such as search and classification, enabling enhanced video understanding, while Pegasus 1.2 is a video language model that can generate text based on your video data. By integrating these AI capabilities, organizations can now easily search, categorize, and extract insights from video libraries without deep technical expertise.

These models open up new possibilities for content discovery, analysis, and enhanced user experiences, making video intelligence more accessible across industries. Media and entertainment customers can transform production workflows by instantly finding, summarizing, and connecting video moments, helping storytellers focus on creativity instead of searching through footage. Advertising customers can accelerate content analysis and workflow efficiency through AI-powered video understanding, helping brands more effectively connect with their audience while reducing production time and costs.

Marengo 2.7 is available in Amazon Bedrock in the US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. Pegasus 1.2 is available in Amazon Bedrock in the US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland) AWS Regions via cross-region inference. To learn more, read the blog, product page, Amazon Bedrock pricing, and documentation. To get started with TwelveLabs in Amazon Bedrock, visit the Amazon Bedrock console.

 

​TwelveLabs’ Marengo 2.7 and Pegasus 1.2 multimodal foundation models are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Marengo 2.7 is a video embedding model proficient at performing tasks such as search and classification, enabling enhanced video understanding, while Pegasus 1.2 is a video language model that can generate text based on your video data. By integrating these AI capabilities, organizations can now easily search, categorize, and extract insights from video libraries without deep technical expertise. These models open up new possibilities for content discovery, analysis, and enhanced user experiences, making video intelligence more accessible across industries. Media and entertainment customers can transform production workflows by instantly finding, summarizing, and connecting video moments, helping storytellers focus on creativity instead of searching through footage. Advertising customers can accelerate content analysis and workflow efficiency through AI-powered video understanding, helping brands more effectively connect with their audience while reducing production time and costs. Marengo 2.7 is available in Amazon Bedrock in the US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Regions. Pegasus 1.2 is available in Amazon Bedrock in the US West (Oregon) and Europe (Ireland) AWS Regions via cross-region inference. To learn more, read the blog, product page, Amazon Bedrock pricing, and documentation. To get started with TwelveLabs in Amazon Bedrock, visit the Amazon Bedrock console.  

Today, AWS announces enhancements to its Free Tier program, offering new customers up to $200 in AWS credits to evaluate over 200 services. This program benefits a wide range of users, including cloud professionals, software developers, students, and early entrepreneurs to gain hands-on experience with AWS services, develop new skills, and build proof-of-concepts. With the new AWS Free Tier, new customers can explore AWS’s extensive portfolio of services without incurring costs, making it easier to get started with AWS.

As part of the enhanced Free Tier program, new customers receive $100 in AWS credits upon sign-up and can earn an additional $100 in credits by using services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon Bedrock. It provides customers access to greater number of AWS services, while providing them control over the transition to paid usage. In addition to the ability to apply credits to paid services, customers continue to have access to over 30 always-free services. Additionally, the new Free Tier is integrated with AWS’s suite of Cloud Financial Management tools, making it easy to monitor and forecast future usage.

Customers can get started with the new AWS Free Tier program features by selecting the free account plan during sign-up. The free account plan expires either 6 months after sign-up or when Free Tier credits are depleted, whichever comes first. When ready, customers can easily upgrade to the paid plan with a single click to get access to more services and continue building on AWS.

The new AWS Free Tier features are generally available in all AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. To learn more, visit AWS Free Tier website and AWS Free Tier documentation.

 

​Today, AWS announces enhancements to its Free Tier program, offering new customers up to $200 in AWS credits to evaluate over 200 services. This program benefits a wide range of users, including cloud professionals, software developers, students, and early entrepreneurs to gain hands-on experience with AWS services, develop new skills, and build proof-of-concepts. With the new AWS Free Tier, new customers can explore AWS’s extensive portfolio of services without incurring costs, making it easier to get started with AWS. As part of the enhanced Free Tier program, new customers receive $100 in AWS credits upon sign-up and can earn an additional $100 in credits by using services such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon Bedrock. It provides customers access to greater number of AWS services, while providing them control over the transition to paid usage. In addition to the ability to apply credits to paid services, customers continue to have access to over 30 always-free services. Additionally, the new Free Tier is integrated with AWS’s suite of Cloud Financial Management tools, making it easy to monitor and forecast future usage. Customers can get started with the new AWS Free Tier program features by selecting the free account plan during sign-up. The free account plan expires either 6 months after sign-up or when Free Tier credits are depleted, whichever comes first. When ready, customers can easily upgrade to the paid plan with a single click to get access to more services and continue building on AWS. The new AWS Free Tier features are generally available in all AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. To learn more, visit AWS Free Tier website and AWS Free Tier documentation.  

Today, Amazon SageMaker launches two new capabilities designed to simplify data management and governance. The first capability, automated lakehouse onboarding, allows customers to automatically ingest metadata for datasets, such as Glue Data Catalog tables, into SageMaker Catalog. This occurs when creating a new SageMaker Unified Studio domain or by updating existing domains. It removes the need for manual IAM permissions configuration, metadata ingestion jobs, or scripts, making datasets immediately discoverable and ready for governance, analysis, and collaboration in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. The second capability, direct sharing enables data owners to grant access to their assets in SageMaker Catalog to other SageMaker Unified Studio projects without the need for subscription requests. This streamlines cross-team collaboration, accelerates projects, and reduces handoffs, all while maintaining robust governance.

These enhancements are generally available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker is supported, including: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm).

For more details, visit the Amazon SageMaker documentation.

 

​Today, Amazon SageMaker launches two new capabilities designed to simplify data management and governance. The first capability, automated lakehouse onboarding, allows customers to automatically ingest metadata for datasets, such as Glue Data Catalog tables, into SageMaker Catalog. This occurs when creating a new SageMaker Unified Studio domain or by updating existing domains. It removes the need for manual IAM permissions configuration, metadata ingestion jobs, or scripts, making datasets immediately discoverable and ready for governance, analysis, and collaboration in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio. The second capability, direct sharing enables data owners to grant access to their assets in SageMaker Catalog to other SageMaker Unified Studio projects without the need for subscription requests. This streamlines cross-team collaboration, accelerates projects, and reduces handoffs, all while maintaining robust governance. These enhancements are generally available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker is supported, including: Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm). For more details, visit the Amazon SageMaker documentation.  

You can now add Amazon S3 general purpose buckets to the Amazon SageMaker Catalog. This helps data scientists, engineers, and business analysts to easily discover and access datasets in Amazon S3, while giving data producers the ability to maintain granular security controls. As a result, teams get efficient access to the right datasets in S3, without any compromise on data governance.

SageMaker Catalog now allows data producers to share unstructured data in Amazon S3 general purpose buckets as assets called «S3 Object Collections». You can curate these assets using simple predefined forms, enriching them with business metadata such as the data owner, classification terms, and more. Once you publish an S3 Object Collection, consumers can discover them using SageMaker’s search and browse capabilities, and subscribe to them to receive access to data and updates over time. This feature helps you to manage permissions and governance at scale, with efficient cross-team data sharing.

This integration is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker is available. To learn more, visit Amazon SageMaker. Get started with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon S3 by reading the documentation.

 

​You can now add Amazon S3 general purpose buckets to the Amazon SageMaker Catalog. This helps data scientists, engineers, and business analysts to easily discover and access datasets in Amazon S3, while giving data producers the ability to maintain granular security controls. As a result, teams get efficient access to the right datasets in S3, without any compromise on data governance. SageMaker Catalog now allows data producers to share unstructured data in Amazon S3 general purpose buckets as assets called «S3 Object Collections». You can curate these assets using simple predefined forms, enriching them with business metadata such as the data owner, classification terms, and more. Once you publish an S3 Object Collection, consumers can discover them using SageMaker’s search and browse capabilities, and subscribe to them to receive access to data and updates over time. This feature helps you to manage permissions and governance at scale, with efficient cross-team data sharing. This integration is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker is available. To learn more, visit Amazon SageMaker. Get started with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon S3 by reading the documentation.  

Amazon SageMaker now offers a visual builder experience for creating and managing workflows. This feature is part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker – the center for all your data, analytics, and AI, and is available within SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment. Visual workflows in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building workflows and simplifies authoring and scheduling processes for data engineers and data scientists.

With visual workflows, you now have a visual, low-code way to represent a series of tasks, such as a data processing job that loads information into a table followed by a notebook that analyzes the loaded data. You can quickly get started by authoring your workflow visually and then continue to customize with code, if desired. Amazon SageMaker uses Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) to run workflows. With this new feature, you can create and modify workflows, view and adjust workflow schedules, pause or resume schedules as needed, and monitor the status and logs of workflow runs. This visual approach simplifies workflow management and provides greater ease-of-use for your data processes.

This new feature is now available in all AWS regions where Amazon SageMaker is available. Access the supported region list for the most up-to-date availability information.

To learn more, visit our Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio documentation, blog post and MWAA pricing page. 

 

​Amazon SageMaker now offers a visual builder experience for creating and managing workflows. This feature is part of the next generation of Amazon SageMaker – the center for all your data, analytics, and AI, and is available within SageMaker Unified Studio, a single data and AI development environment. Visual workflows in Amazon SageMaker provides a drag-and-drop interface for building workflows and simplifies authoring and scheduling processes for data engineers and data scientists. With visual workflows, you now have a visual, low-code way to represent a series of tasks, such as a data processing job that loads information into a table followed by a notebook that analyzes the loaded data. You can quickly get started by authoring your workflow visually and then continue to customize with code, if desired. Amazon SageMaker uses Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) to run workflows. With this new feature, you can create and modify workflows, view and adjust workflow schedules, pause or resume schedules as needed, and monitor the status and logs of workflow runs. This visual approach simplifies workflow management and provides greater ease-of-use for your data processes. This new feature is now available in all AWS regions where Amazon SageMaker is available. Access the supported region list for the most up-to-date availability information. To learn more, visit our Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio documentation, blog post and MWAA pricing page.   

Amazon Redshift now supports automatic refresh of materialized views that are defined on external Apache Iceberg tables in the Amazon S3 data lake.

With this update, Amazon Redshift will automatically refresh a materialized view defined on Apache Iceberg tables, that reside in the Amazon S3 bucket of the Amazon data lake, when there is new data is added or deleted to the Apache Iceberg tables.

You can start using this new capability immediately to build more complex and flexible analytics pipelines in the Amazon S3 data lake. To learn more about automatic refresh of materialized views and to get started with using materialized views in Amazon Redshift, refer to the Autorefreshing a materialized view sub-section of the Refreshing a materialized view section of the Amazon Redshift Materialized Views documentation.

 

​Amazon Redshift now supports automatic refresh of materialized views that are defined on external Apache Iceberg tables in the Amazon S3 data lake.
With this update, Amazon Redshift will automatically refresh a materialized view defined on Apache Iceberg tables, that reside in the Amazon S3 bucket of the Amazon data lake, when there is new data is added or deleted to the Apache Iceberg tables.
You can start using this new capability immediately to build more complex and flexible analytics pipelines in the Amazon S3 data lake. To learn more about automatic refresh of materialized views and to get started with using materialized views in Amazon Redshift, refer to the Autorefreshing a materialized view sub-section of the Refreshing a materialized view section of the Amazon Redshift Materialized Views documentation.  

AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads.

Amazon EC2 I8g instances are designed for I/O intensive workloads that require rapid data access and real-time latency from storage. These instances excel at handling transactional, real-time, distributed databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hbase and NoSQL solutions like Aerospike, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Apache Druid. They’re also optimized for real-time analytics platforms such as Apache Spark, data lakehouse and AI LLM pre-processing for training. I8g instances are available in 10 different sizes with up to 48xlarge including one metal size, 1.5 TiB of memory, and 45 TB local instance storage. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of network performance bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

To learn more, visit EC2 I8g instances.

 

​AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads. Amazon EC2 I8g instances are designed for I/O intensive workloads that require rapid data access and real-time latency from storage. These instances excel at handling transactional, real-time, distributed databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hbase and NoSQL solutions like Aerospike, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Apache Druid. They’re also optimized for real-time analytics platforms such as Apache Spark, data lakehouse and AI LLM pre-processing for training. I8g instances are available in 10 different sizes with up to 48xlarge including one metal size, 1.5 TiB of memory, and 45 TB local instance storage. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of network performance bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, visit EC2 I8g instances.  

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports usage-based licensing (UBL) for Chaos V-Ray so you can seamlessly leverage the cloud to render and access flexible V-Ray licensing. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television, broadcasting, web content, and design.

With AWS Deadline Cloud, you can submit submit and run standalone V-Ray job bundles as well as submit V-Ray jobs from within Autodesk Maya without having to manage your own render farm infrastructure. You can now scale V-Ray rendering workloads effortlessly, eliminating bottlenecks caused by local resource limitations. UBL integration offers a pay-as-you-go licensing model, ideal for studios managing dynamic workloads. You can build pipelines for 3D graphics and visual effects without having to set up, configure, or manage the worker infrastructure yourself.

Creative teams can get started with V-Ray usage-based licensing today in all AWS Regions where Deadline Cloud is available.

For more information, please visit the Deadline Cloud product page, and see the Deadline Cloud pricing page for UBL price details.

 

​AWS Deadline Cloud now supports usage-based licensing (UBL) for Chaos V-Ray so you can seamlessly leverage the cloud to render and access flexible V-Ray licensing. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects for films, television, broadcasting, web content, and design. With AWS Deadline Cloud, you can submit submit and run standalone V-Ray job bundles as well as submit V-Ray jobs from within Autodesk Maya without having to manage your own render farm infrastructure. You can now scale V-Ray rendering workloads effortlessly, eliminating bottlenecks caused by local resource limitations. UBL integration offers a pay-as-you-go licensing model, ideal for studios managing dynamic workloads. You can build pipelines for 3D graphics and visual effects without having to set up, configure, or manage the worker infrastructure yourself. Creative teams can get started with V-Ray usage-based licensing today in all AWS Regions where Deadline Cloud is available. For more information, please visit the Deadline Cloud product page, and see the Deadline Cloud pricing page for UBL price details.  

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in Europe (Spain) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.

M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics.

Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit our product page for M6id.

 

​Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in Europe (Spain) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit our product page for M6id.  

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Change Data Capture (CDC). In Microsoft SQL Server, CDC is a feature that utilizes the SQL Server Agent to log insertions, updates, and deletions occurring in a database table, and makes these data changes accessible to applications in a relational format to provide historical context.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customers to bring-your-own-license (BYOL) for Microsoft SQL Server. When you configure CDC in Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, RDS automatically applies your specified configurations when the underlying hardware needs to be replaced, or when you scale up to use a larger database instance. Thus, RDS Custom for SQL Server removes the operational overhead of setting up and verifying configurations in different operational situations.

CDC is available in all AWS Regions where RDS Custom for SQL Server is available.

 

​Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Change Data Capture (CDC). In Microsoft SQL Server, CDC is a feature that utilizes the SQL Server Agent to log insertions, updates, and deletions occurring in a database table, and makes these data changes accessible to applications in a relational format to provide historical context. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customers to bring-your-own-license (BYOL) for Microsoft SQL Server. When you configure CDC in Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, RDS automatically applies your specified configurations when the underlying hardware needs to be replaced, or when you scale up to use a larger database instance. Thus, RDS Custom for SQL Server removes the operational overhead of setting up and verifying configurations in different operational situations. CDC is available in all AWS Regions where RDS Custom for SQL Server is available.