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[MS] Advanced Shader Delivery expands Public Preview with AMD - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

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Last October, we released Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) on the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds. Advanced Shader Delivery addresses one of the most frustrating challenges for PC players today – long load times and disruptive stuttering during a game’s first launch. The feature works by delivering precompiled shaders to your game at download time, reducing load time by up to 90% and eliminating shader stutter. Since the launch of the ROG Xbox Ally handhelds, we’ve partnered with AMD to invest in and improve the experience of players on PC. Today, Advanced Shader Delivery expands beyond ROG Xbox Ally handhelds to Windows 11 PCs with discrete GPUs and gaming laptop integrated GPUs from AMD. Players can take advantage of this preview by joining Xbox Insiders . This expansion includes Forza Horizon 6, which showcases the advantage of ASD by dramatically improving loading times by 95%. We partnered closely with the team behind Forza Horizon 6 to give more players the advantage of ASD on day one. ...
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[MS] The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Learn why the coding harness around GitHub Copilot in VS Code matters as models, tools, agents, and providers evolve. Read the full article Post Updated on May 15, 2026 at 01:00AM Thanks for reading from devamazonaws.blogspot.com
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Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances are available in Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. X8aedz instances are built using the latest sixth generation  AWS Nitro Cards  and are ideal for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads such as physical layout and physical verification jobs, and relational databases that benefit from high single-threaded processor performance and a large memory footprint. The combination of 5 GHz processors and local NVMe storage enables faster processing of memory-intensive backend EDA workloads such as floor planning, logic placement, clock tree synthesis (CTS), routing, and power/signal integrity analysis. X8aedz instances feature a 32:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and are available in 8 sizes ranging from 2 to 96 vCPUs with 64 to 3,072 GiB of memory, i...
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[MS] Exponential backoff and circuit breaker for Service Bus-triggered Azure Functions - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

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Modern distributed systems fail in partial, uneven ways. A downstream API slows down, a database starts timing out, or a burst of messages arrives faster than a dependency can absorb. If every Azure Function instance retries immediately and indefinitely, the system creates its own backpressure and turns a transient fault into a wider outage. Two patterns are especially useful for controlling that failure mode: Exponential backoff increases the delay between retries so a dependency has time to recover. Circuit breaker stops repeated calls to an unhealthy dependency and fails fast until the dependency is likely to be healthy again. Used together, these patterns reduce retry storms, protect downstream systems, and give your Functions app a controlled way to degrade under stress. Reference architecture The queue absorbs burst traffic, the Functions app decides whether the dependency is safe to call, and failed work is either delayed or isolated instead of being retried immedi...
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Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now available for IAM Identity Center domains - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is now available in SageMaker Unified Studio domains configured with IAM Identity Center. Data Agent extends its AI-powered capabilities to help data analysts and engineers streamline their analytics workflows across both SageMaker notebooks and Query Editor environments, eliminating the need to manually write complex SQL joins, aggregations, and Python code. With Data Agent, you can describe your analysis goals in plain English and receive working Python or SQL code tailored to your connected data sources, including Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and AWS Glue Data Catalog. The agent maintains conversational context across notebook cells, selected tables, and query history, proposing step-by-step plans before generating code. Use it to calculate quarterly revenue growth rates, generate visualizations, transform DataFrames, or optimize query performance—all through natural language interaction. The "Fix with AI" feature provides intell...
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[MS] PyCon US 2026 - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Come See Us at PyCon US 2026! Microsoft and GitHub will be at PyCon US 2026, May 14–17 in Long Beach, CA . Stop by our booth, say hello, and tell us about your experience with our tools and services. We'd love to meet you. Don't miss the Meta booth on Saturday at 1 p.m. , where we'll be showing off the integration of Pylance with Meta's new Pyrefly type checker. The integration is currently in early preview in our Insiders build, and we can't wait to bring it to all our users later this year. Hands-on Labs at the Booth Drop in for 10-minute interactive labs covering: GitHub Copilot Azure DocumentDB Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Agent Framework Azure PostgreSQL Azure AI Search Talks and Sessions Date & Time Room Session Speaker Wed, May 13 · 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 101A Build your first MCP server in Python Pamela Fox Wed, May 13 · 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. 201B Dungeons and Databases: Build NPC agents to work with data in D...
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Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle SE2 License Included - devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI). M8i and R8i instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The new instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. With RDS for Oracle SE2 LI, customers don’t have to separately purchase Oracle license and support. Amazon RDS for Oracle SE2 LI offers subscription based pay-per-use pricing inclusive of software license, support, compute resources, and a managed database service. To use RDS for Oracle SE2 LI, customers can create database instances from the AWS Management Console or using the AWS CLI . and specify the LI option. For more details about how you can lower cost and simplify operations of running Oracle database...
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