AWS can’t restore me-south-1, six months after the drone strikes
On 15 September 2026 AWS said it can't restore data hosted exclusively in me-south-1 or in mec1-az2. Multi-AZ did what it was designed for, and that wasn't enough.
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Trainium4 takes Nvidia memory, which matters more than 2M GPUs
Two million GPUs is the number in every headline, and honestly it's the least interesting thing in the announcement. AWS and Nvidia published a joint expansion on 26 August: Blackwell ...
AWS bought DuckLabs, and DuckDB stays MIT
You ran `pip install duckdb` this morning and nothing was different. Good, because that is the honest answer here: AWS signed a definitive agreement on 26 August to buy DuckLabs, ...
MTurk closes on 30 September, and approvals run a month later
Five weeks. That is how long a working `boto3` MTurk client has left, because Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk permanently on 30 September 2026 and HIT submission stops the same ...