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Compute (EC2) opened the front door to the first generation cloud. Agents need something different: compute, inference, and data working as one. We built the cloud that delivers all three as one simple, intuitive developer experience for AI-natives. Every era of the cloud has its own unit of work. For the last twenty years, that unit was the virtual machine hour. Customers came for the compute,…
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Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources
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