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Amazon OpenSearch Service, expands availability of OR2 and OM2, OpenSearch Optimized Instance family to 12 additional regions. The OR2 instance delivers up to 26% higher indexing throughput compared to previous OR1 instances and 70% over R7g instances. The OM2 instance delivers up to 15% higher indexing throughput compared to OR1 instances and 66% over M7g instances in internal benchmarks The OpenSearch Optimized instances, leveraging best-in-class cloud technologies like Amazon S3, to provide high durability, and improved price-performance for higher indexing throughput better for indexing heavy workload. Each OpenSearch Optimized instance is provisioned with compute, local instance storage for caching, and remote Amazon S3-based managed storage. OR2 and OM2 offers pay-as-you-go pricing and reserved instances, with a simple hourly rate for the instance, local instance storage, as well as the managed storage provisioned. OR2 instances come in sizes ‘medium’ through ‘16xlarge’, and of...

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download . For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below: Microsoft Release Upstream Tag v1.26.1-1 go1.26.1 release notes v1.25.8-1 go1.25.8 release notes Post Updated on March 6, 2026 at 04:23PM Thanks for reading from devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Introduction: The Problem In a recent engagement, our team faced a complex challenge. Setting up a machine learning experiment required a long sequence of manual steps. None were individually hard, but together they created a fragile, error‑prone workflow. For example: – Users needed to provide key metadata (experiment name, hypothesis, ground-truth dataset), but the format wasn’t standardized, so people often filled it inconsistently. – They had to decide whether to reuse an existing baseline or create a new one — a choice that wasn’t always obvious to newcomers. – Multiple configuration files had to be manually updated for inference, evaluation, and the experiment runner, each with slightly different formats. – Retrieval parameters were configured through custom retrieval codes, which required knowing the right flags. – Prompts had to be written manually, without examples or validation. – And finally, multiple scripts had to be executed in the right sequence to provision agents and ...

Today, AWS announces the Lambda durable functions Kiro power, bringing Lambda durable function development expertise to agentic AI development in Kiro. With this power, you can build resilient, long-running multi-step applications and AI workflows faster with AI agent-assisted development directly in your local development environment. When you work with durable functions, the AI agent dynamically loads relevant guidance and development expertise. This includes replay model best practices, step and wait operations, concurrent execution with map and parallel patterns, error handling with retry strategies and compensating transactions, testing patterns, and deployment with AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), and AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). With this guidance, you can go from idea to a working durable function quickly, whether you are building order processing pipelines, AI agent orchestration with human-in-the-loop approvals, or payment coordination ...

  Hey WinUI developers! If you’re new around here, WinUI Gallery is the go-to app for exploring WinUI controls, samples, design guidance, and handy tools — all in one place. Today, we’re excited to announce WinUI Gallery 2.8 , bringing jump list support, new samples, improved accessibility, and several quality-of-life improvements and bugfixes! Jump list support WinUI Gallery now integrates with Windows jump lists , making it easier to quickly return to the samples and tools you use most. Right-clicking the WinUI Gallery icon in the taskbar (or accessing it from the Start menu ) now shows a Jump List that includes your favorited samples or recently viewed samples. This allows you to jump directly into the parts of the Gallery you use most often without navigating through the app first. In addition to the integration in the app itself, WinUI Gallery now also includes a Jump List sample demonstrating how developers can implement this functionality in their own WinUI applications....

For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers : CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language understanding, reasoning, and direct access to API specifications and control schemas , agents can convert human intent directly into validated platform actions, often without a bespoke interaction layer in between. Nowhere is this shift more visible than in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and pipeline workflows , where agents are increasingly acting as the “control plane interpreter” between engineers and cloud APIs, whether the output is Bicep/ARM , Terraform , or direct API calls. The Traditional Model In the traditional model, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) sits in a multi-layer intent-to-execution stack: human intent (architecture goals and requirements) is translated through an explicit interaction layer ...

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups (RIG), enabling teams training foundation models with Nova Forge to gain deep visibility into their compute resources and training workloads. This new capability eliminates the manual effort of collecting and correlating metrics across the infrastructure stack, providing a unified view of GPU performance, system health, network throughput, and Kubernetes cluster state through a pre-configured Amazon Managed Grafana dashboard backed by Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. You can now monitor GPU utilization, NVLink bandwidth, CPU pressure, FSx for Lustre usage, and pod lifecycle from a single Grafana dashboard, with metrics collected across four exporters covering GPU performance, host-level system health, network fabric, and Kubernetes object state. In addition, curated logs are automatically made available in these dashboards, covering epoch progress, step-level training logs, pipeline e...

The excitement is building as we head into the 2026 Game Developer Conference and the DirectX team has a lot to share. We will be showcasing major updates in asset streaming, GPU tooling, ML-powered real-time graphics on Windows, and shader compilation at GDC.   If you’re attending GDC, we’d love to see you in person. Below is a quick preview of what we’ll be covering so that you can mark your calendars!   DirectX State of the Union 2026: DirectStorage and Beyond   Wednesday, March 11, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM (Room 3001, West Hall)   Over the past year, we've tackled some of the toughest challenges facing developers on DirectX 12. One major investment is the next chapter in game asset streaming where we're introducing Zstandard compression support in DirectStorage. Alongside this we'll release the Game Asset Conditioning Library ...

Learn what is new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110). Read the full article Post Updated on March 4, 2026 at 05:00PM Thanks for reading from devamazonaws.blogspot.com

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS Glue 5.1 for Visual ETL, notebook, and code-based data processing jobs. With AWS Glue 5.1 in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, data engineers and data scientists can run jobs on Apache Spark 3.5.6 with Python 3.11 and Scala 2.12.18, and use updated open table format libraries including Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, Apache Hudi 1.0.2, and Delta Lake 3.3.2. You can use AWS Glue 5.1 in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio when creating data processing jobs by selecting Glue 5.1 from the version dropdown in job settings. This applies to Visual ETL jobs, notebook jobs, and code-based jobs, so you can take advantage of the latest Spark runtime and open table format libraries across all your data processing workflows. AWS Glue 5.1 in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Sing...

As you may have noticed, sometimes I waste time gathering useless information . Today we're going to look at write protect notches for floppy disks and other media. The 8-inch floppy was unusual in that the drive was mounted vertically. You inserted the floppy with the label facing left. The write protect notch was at the top of the leading edge. If you put the floppy on a table with the label in the upper left, the leading edge would be the bottom edge, and the write protect notch would be on the left part of that bottom edge. The presence of a notch made the floppy write-protected, so you started with a write-enabled floppy, and if you wanted to protect it, you punched a notch at just the right spot. If you placed a 5¼-inch floppy on a table with the label in the upper left, the leading edge would be the bottom edge, and the write-protect notch was on the right edge, near the top. When inserting the floppy into the drive, it would be on the left side near your hand. The prese...

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) via dual-stack endpoints in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, completing global availability of this feature across all AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is available. IAM Identity Center allows customers to enable workforce access to AWS managed applications and AWS accounts. When your client, such as a browser or an application, makes a request to a dual-stack endpoint, the endpoint resolves to an IPv4 or IPv6 address, depending on the protocol used by your network and client. To get started, locate the dual-stack access portal URL in the IAM Identity Center console under Settings, and share it with your workforce. For GovCloud deployments, refer to the AWS GovCloud (US) documentation for region-specific endpoint details. To learn more about IPv6 support in IAM Identity Center, see the IAM Identity Center User Guide .   Post Updated on February 27, 2026 at 12:32AM

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports API-driven Slurm configuration, enabling you to define Slurm topology and shared filesystem configurations directly in the cluster create and update APIs or through the AWS Console. SageMaker HyperPod helps you provision resilient clusters for running machine learning (ML) workloads and developing state-of-the-art models such as large language models (LLMs), diffusion models, and foundation models (FMs). With this new API-driven configuration, you can now specify Slurm node types including Controller, Login, and Compute for cluster instance groups; instance group to partition mappings; and FSx for Lustre and FSx for OpenZFS filesystem mounts per instance group directly in the cluster API definition or through the advanced configuration section in the AWS Console. When you modify partition-node mappings directly in Slurm's native configuration files to fine-tune cluster resource assignments, Slurm's partition-node configurations can drift ...

Windows App Development CLI v0.2 is here! This release is driven largely by community feedback and packs in native .NET project support, manifest placeholders that eliminate hardcoded executable names, Microsoft Store Developer CLI integration, a revamped help experience, and more. Get the update by running winget install Microsoft.WinAppCLI or check the repo for other install options . [cta-button text="Get started with the Windows App Development CLI" url="https://ift.tt/X9vzwmA" color="btn-primary" align="left"] Let’s dive in! 🟣 First-class .NET project support This was one of our most requested features. .NET projects (WinUI, WPF, WinForms, console apps) now work natively with winapp CLI. No more winapp.yaml for .NET. Just run winapp init in a folder with a .csproj and the tool takes care of the rest. Here’s what happens under the hood: Your TargetFramework is validated and updated to target the right Windows SDK version NuGet reference...

Modern software development is moving fast—and AI is now a practical part of how Microsoft developers design, build, and ship applications every day. From writing code in Visual Studio and VS Code, to building cloud-native apps on Azure, developers are looking for ways to stay productive without sacrificing quality. That’s exactly why GitHub Copilot Dev Days exists. GitHub Copilot Dev Days is a global series of hands-on, in-person, community-led events designed to help developers learn how AI-assisted development fits naturally into the Microsoft developer stack. You’ll see how GitHub Copilot works alongside Visual Studio, VS Code, .NET, and more to streamline real-world workflows—from your first line of code to deployment. [cta-button text="👉 Find a GitHub Copilot Dev Days event near you and register" url="https://ift.tt/7akoBg1" color="btn-primary" align="center"] Who should attend GitHub Copilot Dev Days? GitHub Copilot Dev Days is design...

You can now equip your Microsoft Agent Framework agents with portable, reusable skill packages that provide domain expertise on demand — without changing a single line of your agent's core instructions. With the new FileAgentSkillsProvider , available for both .NET and Python, your agents can discover and load Agent Skills at runtime, pulling in only the context they need, when they need it. What Are Agent Skills? Agent Skills is a simple, open format for giving agents new capabilities and expertise. At the core of every skill is a SKILL.md file — a markdown document that describes what the skill does and provides step-by-step instructions for how to do it. Skills can also include optional scripts, reference documents, and other resources the agent can fetch on demand. A skill directory looks like this: expense-report/ ├── SKILL.md # Required — frontmatter + instructions ├── scripts/ │ └── validate.py # Executable code agents can run ...

AWS is launching pricing for VPC Encryption Controls, a security and compliance feature that enables you to audit and enforce encryption-in-transit of all traffic flows within and across Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in a region. VPC Encryption controls can be enabled in two modes: Monitor mode detects presence of any unencrypted traffic within your VPCs, and Enforce Mode ensures all data-in-transit is encrypted and prevents the bring up of any resources that allow unencrypted traffic within your VPC.  Starting March 1, 2026, VPC Encryption Controls will transition from a free preview to a paid feature. You will be charged a fixed hourly rate for every non-empty VPC (VPC that has network interfaces in them) that has Encryption Controls enabled in either monitor or enforce mode. There will be no charge for empty VPCs that have encryption controls enabled. When you enable encryption support on a Transit Gateway, standard VPC Encryption Controls charges apply to all VPCs attached to...