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Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
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- AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Notebook Instances Add P5.4xl Instance Support
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 P5.4xl instances, featuring NVIDIA H100 GPUs for accelerated deep learning and HPC workloads. This enhancement can improve training times by up to 4x and reduce costs by up to 40%, benefiting engineers and data scientists working with large language models and generative AI applications. P5 instances are available in select AWS regions, with setup instructions provided in developer guides.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Notebook Instances add P5en.48xl instance types
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support the new EC2 P5en.48xl instance types, featuring H200 GPUs with enhanced memory and bandwidth. This upgrade significantly boosts AI training and inference performance, particularly for distributed workloads like deep learning and generative AI. These instances are now available in select AWS regions and are designed for users running demanding AI and HPC applications.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerhealthcaremedia ·
Amazon EMR GA Support for Apache Spark 4.0.2
Amazon EMR now generally available supports Apache Spark 4.0.2, enhancing data pipeline development with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types. This update enables finer access control and strengthens compliance through Apache Iceberg v3, benefiting data engineers and analysts working with diverse data formats and regulatory requirements. It also improves real-time application deployment with enhanced streaming, and is available in all EMR regions, with an upgrade agent for existing applications.
feature patch - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS Glue adds large and memory-optimized workers in Spain region
AWS Glue has expanded its offerings in the Europe (Spain) region by introducing large and memory-optimized worker types. These new options, including G.12X, G.16X, R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X, enhance capabilities for complex data processing, aggregations, and memory-intensive Spark operations. Customers in the region can now leverage these resources for higher-volume data processing and intricate transformations, accessible via Glue Studio, notebooks, or APIs.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect uses generative AI for automated self-service interaction evaluation
Amazon Connect now integrates generative AI to automatically evaluate self-service customer interactions, providing managers with aggregated insights for improving customer experience. Users can define custom evaluation criteria in natural language, and the AI will assess interaction quality, offering detailed reasoning. This feature is available in select AWS regions and aims to help identify opportunities for enhancing AI agent performance.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod adds MinCount for Slurm clusters
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now allows users to specify minimum capacity requirements (MinCount) for Slurm-orchestrated clusters using continuous provisioning. This enhancement ensures distributed AI/ML training jobs start with a guaranteed number of nodes, preventing issues with partial cluster capacity. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker HyperPod is supported and is particularly beneficial for large-scale distributed training.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon Aurora MySQL integrates with Kiro Powers for AI-assisted development
Amazon Aurora MySQL now integrates with Kiro Powers, a repository of AI agent tools, to help developers build applications faster. This integration offers conversational control over database operations and configuration, reducing the need for complex syntax. It provides task-specific guidance for scaling, migration, and replication, and is available via one-click installation in all AWS Regions where Aurora MySQL is supported.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Backup adds OTP verification for multi-party approval
AWS Backup now requires one-time password (OTP) verification for multi-party approval actions on logically air-gapped vaults. This enhances security by ensuring only verified approvers authorize protected vault operations. The feature is automatically applied to all existing and new approval sessions for air-gapped vaults at no extra cost and requires no setup.
feature security - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 X8i instances expand to new AWS regions
Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in Singapore, Sydney, and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances offer enhanced performance and memory capacity for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, databases, and analytics. They are suitable for users running these types of workloads and looking for improved performance compared to previous generations.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds tag-based access to agent login/logout report
Amazon Connect now allows tag-based access controls for the agent login/logout report, enabling granular permissions for accessing this data. Contact center administrators can leverage resource tags to restrict who views login and logout information for specific agents. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US-West) where Amazon Connect is offered.
feature - AWS What's New mlawsgapreviewengineeraws-ec2 ·
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 Adds Trainium3 Capabilities and New NKI Kernels
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 is now generally available, introducing new hardware capabilities for AWS Trainium3 and 22 new NKI Library kernels, enhancing model porting and optimization. This release offers features like scalar engine instructions, FP8 support, and expanded Agentic Development skills, benefiting ML developers working with Trainium and Inferentia instances. The update also includes a Neuron DRA Driver for Kubernetes and performance improvements for the Graph Compiler and Runtime, with availability across all regions supporting Neuron instances.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ replication now uses ENA Express
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now leverage ENA Express, utilizing AWS's SRD protocol to enhance replication traffic between Availability Zones. This update promises up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth, reduced latency variability, and increased write throughput for write-intensive workloads. The feature is available at no extra cost for several RDS engines and can be enabled on existing instances via a start-stop or compute scaling action.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances now in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances offer significant performance improvements and better price-performance compared to previous generations, benefiting a wide range of general-purpose workloads. They are available immediately for use via the AWS Management Console.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances offer up to 15% better price-performance and significantly higher memory bandwidth compared to previous generations. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads, databases, web applications, AI recommendations, and SAP workloads, with R8i-flex providing flexible size options for varied compute utilization.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS VPC IPAM adds tags for pool allocations
AWS VPC IPAM now supports tags on IP address pool allocations, allowing users to organize and govern IP usage via existing AWS tagging workflows. This feature enables centralized governance through IAM and Service Control Policies, and simplifies searching and filtering allocations by tag. It is available in all AWS Regions where IPAM is supported at no additional cost.
feature - AWS What's New securitygovernanceawsengineeraws-s3 ·
GuardDuty Malware Protection adds S3 continuous backup scanning
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection now supports S3 continuous backups, enabling malware scanning for recovery points. This feature allows users to identify clean points in time, verify recovery safety, and initiate restores with greater confidence. Support is available in all regions where GuardDuty Malware Protection is offered, accessible via the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI.
feature - AWS What's New mlawsengineeraws-sagemakeraws-iam ·
SageMaker Studio adds interactive Feature Store management
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio IAM domains now offers an interactive interface for creating and managing SageMaker Feature Store feature groups, removing the need for manual coding. This enhancement makes feature management accessible to a wider range of users within a unified environment. The interface allows for discovering, creating, modifying, and monitoring feature groups without API calls. Features are crucial inputs for ML models, influencing training and inference outcomes.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemakeraws-iam ·
SageMaker Unified Studio expands domain management for Identity Center domains
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers domain management for Identity Center-based domains outside the AWS console, enabling administrators to manage projects, workforce identity, and networking. This expands capabilities previously limited to IAM-based domains, improving unified administration. These features are available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is supported.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-s3aws-ec2 ·
AWS Transform enhances migration assessments with new capabilities
AWS Transform now provides advanced migration assessment features including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, and TCO analysis to accelerate migration decisions. This update allows users to incorporate various data sources and include additional pillars of the Cloud Value Framework for comprehensive business cases. These new capabilities are available in all AWS Transform regions for engineers and architects planning AWS migrations.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineeraws-sagemakeraws-iam ·
SageMaker Unified Studio adds business metadata and governance to IAM domains
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports business context, metadata, and data governance for IAM-based domains. This allows customers to enrich AWS Glue Data Catalog tables with business names, descriptions, and documentation, potentially using AI for automatic generation. The update aims to improve data discovery and access management for data engineers, analysts, and scientists across the organization. These capabilities are now available in all supported AWS Regions.
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