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Saturday, October 17, 2026 · 8 stories, curated & summarized — click any story for the source.
Today, AWS announced the general availability of application code conversion from Azure SDK to AWS SDK in AWS Transform, giving you an accelerated path to migrate Microsoft Azure cloud-native .NET applications to AWS. The AWS Transform .NET modernization agent identifies Azure service code and converts it to equivalent AWS service code.
For blockchain node operators running Ethereum or Solana, AWS is announcing Blockchain Snapshots on AWS, an initiative that publishes pre-synced public blockchain node chain data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) so you can bootstrap a node from a snapshot instead of peer-to-peer syncing from the network. These snapshots are hosted on Amazon S3 within AWS infrastructure, enabling…
AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Lambda durable functions enable developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience.
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This vision-language model from the Nemotron 3.5 family accepts images, video, and text as input and generates text, enabling customers to deploy multimodal AI solutions on AWS infrastructure.
Beam, the first open weight model offered by US-based Reflection, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, the model hub in Amazon SageMaker AI. According to Beam, they operate at the frontier of open weight models in its class, with strong performance across reasoning, coding, and agentic benchmarks.
Amazon SageMaker Studio now lets new customers sign up with their Google, GitHub, or Apple credentials and land inside a fully configured Studio environment - no traditional AWS account setup and no console navigation required. Previously, new customers who discovered a model on Hugging Face or an AWS product page had to complete a multi-step AWS account creation process, provide a credit card,…
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) T8i instances are now available in South America (São Paulo). These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon 6 processors, available exclusively on AWS, and built on the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards.
Amazon Time Sync Service introduces support for microsecond-accurate time on 135 additional EC2 instance types—spanning 12 instance families—in all commercial regions. Built on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, microsecond-accurate time and nanosecond-precision hardware timestamps leverage the reference clocks running in the Nitro System directly, enabling customers…