Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available

by Azalio tdshpsk | Feb 16, 2026 | AWS

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance type powered by latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5...

Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models

by Azalio tdshpsk | Feb 16, 2026 | AWS

Since we launched Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI at AWS NY Summit 2025, customers have been asking for the same capabilities with Amazon Nova as they do when they customize open weights models in Amazon SageMaker Inference. They also wanted have more...

Open source maintainers are being targeted by AI agent as part of ‘reputation farming’

by Azalio tdshpsk | Feb 16, 2026 | Cloud

AI agents able to submit huge numbers of pull requests (PRs) to open-source project maintainers risk creating the conditions for future supply chain attacks targeting important software projects, developer security company Socket has argued. The warning comes after...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026)

by Azalio tdshpsk | Feb 16, 2026 | AWS

I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months...

OpenAI hires OpenClaw founder as AI agent race intensifies

by Azalio tdshpsk | Feb 16, 2026 | Cloud

OpenAI has hired Peter Steinberger, creator of the viral OpenClaw AI assistant, to spearhead development of what CEO Sam Altman describes as “the next generation of personal agents.” The move comes weeks after OpenClaw, previously known as Clawdbot and then...