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Tracking 680 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
AWS Direct Connect adds 100 Gbps in Lima, Peru
AWS has expanded its Direct Connect service with 100 Gbps connections at a new location in Lima, Peru. This expansion offers customers dedicated, private network access to AWS Regions, improving network consistency over the public internet. This is the first Direct Connect location in Peru offering 100 Gbps with MACsec encryption. Customers can now leverage these enhanced connections for greater performance and security.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2aws-eks ·
Amazon EKS Adds EFA and Placement Groups Support
Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and EC2 Placement Groups for node pools configured with EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter. This enhancement allows for optimized performance and availability of distributed workloads, such as training and inference, by providing finer control over network interface configuration and instance placement. These features are now available in all AWS Regions where EKS is offered.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery expands to six new regions
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). This expansion makes the disaster recovery service available in 36 AWS Regions, offering enhanced resilience for critical applications and databases across a wider geographic footprint. The service supports recovery from various infrastructure sources like on-premises servers and other cloud environments, as well as enabling cross-region recovery for EC2 instances.
announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon ECS now offers built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies within the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. This enhancement improves the safety and speed of software updates for containerized applications by eliminating the need for custom tooling and providing production-ready controls. These features are available for new or existing ECS services using various load balancers and can be configured via multiple AWS interfaces.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances expand to new regions
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, bringing enhanced network performance to these locations. These instances, powered by Intel Xeon processors and the AWS Nitro System, offer up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, benefiting network-intensive workloads like distributed caches and big data analytics. They come in various sizes with options for EBS bandwidth, IOPS, and instance storage, and are purchasable via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances expand to more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These network-optimized instances offer higher network bandwidth and packet processing performance, making them suitable for network-intensive workloads like databases and caches. They come in various sizes with options for EFA networking and local NVMe storage, and are available via multiple purchase options.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
AWS Partner Central agents now support all funding programs
AWS Partner Central agents have expanded to cover all AWS funding programs, offering faster, automated guidance for eligibility, applications, and program details. This enhancement, which includes Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) and AWS Growth Initiative (AGI) programs, aims to reduce manual data entry and errors for AWS Partners. The agents are now available in all commercial AWS Regions, providing quicker, documentation-backed answers and automating parts of the funding request process.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C6in instances now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei)
Amazon EC2 C6in instances, optimized for networking performance, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. These instances offer up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They are suitable for a variety of demanding workloads, including network appliances, Telco 5G UPF, data analytics, and HPC, and are available in 10 sizes.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio adds custom visual transforms for ETL
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom visual transforms within visual ETL flows, allowing data engineers to create reusable transformation logic without coding. This feature enables teams to share and discover custom transforms, promoting consistency and reducing duplicated effort across ETL jobs. The capability is now available in all SageMaker Studio regions.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
Amazon SES introduces new tiered pricing plans
Amazon SES now offers tiered pricing plans (Essentials, Pro, Enterprise) to simplify access to capabilities previously sold individually. This change aims to make essential deliverability and management features more accessible and cost-effective for businesses relying on email communication. The plans vary in features, with higher tiers offering more advanced capabilities like dedicated IPs, global inbox visibility, and multi-region resilience. Pricing plans are available across most AWS regions, excluding UAE and Bahrain.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds agent queue metrics to analytics dashboards
Amazon Connect now displays real-time and historical metrics for agent queues on customer dashboards, enabling supervisors to track agent performance within specific queues. This feature allows for proactive management of wait times and resource allocation based on contact volume. It is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
feature - AWS What's New dataaiawsengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-lambdaaws-rdsaws-sagemakeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds support for SQL Server 2025
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2025, bringing AI integration directly into the database engine. This allows customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL, enabling secure integration with AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker without application re-architecture. New features include a free developer edition, increased Standard Edition capacity, and a native vector data type for embeddings. Existing RDS users can upgrade, and on-premises users can migrate to take advantage of these capabilities.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus increases metric and rule limits
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports 1.5 billion active metric time series and 200,000 rules per workspace, enabling larger-scale monitoring. This enhancement allows customers to store and analyze billions of Prometheus metrics organization-wide across many workspaces. It is designed for high-cardinality workloads in various environments and integrates with AWS security services. To utilize the increased limits, users must file a service limit increase request.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-s3aws-ecsaws-kinesis ·
Amazon ECS Action Logs offer deployment and orchestration visibility
Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs, a new feature offering detailed, timestamped records of ECS operations during service deployments and Managed Daemon updates. This enhancement improves visibility for monitoring and troubleshooting containerized workloads without needing AWS Support. Action Logs are available at the cluster level, can be configured via the console or APIs, and logs can be sent to CloudWatch Logs, S3, or Kinesis Data Firehose. Amazon Q integration provides automated issue detection and remediation guidance.
feature - AWS What's New aigovernanceawsengineeraws-s3aws-bedrock ·
AWS Data Exports adds standardized Bedrock metadata
AWS Data Exports now provides standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock, enabling FinOps teams and administrators to consistently understand Bedrock costs. This eliminates the need for custom logic to parse varied product metadata in the Cost and Usage Report (CUR). The standardized attributes, including model provider, name, pricing unit, inference type, and feature, are available by default at no extra cost to customers using AWS Data Exports.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineergovernmentaws-s3aws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Local Zone now generally available in Athens, Greece
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, bringing compute and storage services closer to users within the country. This expansion aims to help organizations meet data residency requirements and reduce latency for applications requiring in-country processing. The Athens Local Zone supports a range of services including EC2, S3, EBS, ECS, and EKS, and is accessible via standard AWS APIs.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsengineermediaaws-s3 ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Apps Adds OneDrive, Google Drive to Multi-Session Fleets
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now integrates Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage for multi-session fleets, enhancing user access to cloud files within streaming sessions. This feature improves cost efficiencies for organizations using multi-session fleets by allowing familiar enterprise storage access alongside existing S3-backed home folders. It is available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Applications is offered, with no additional charges beyond standard streaming session pricing. Prerequisites include a WorkSpaces Applications agent or image update released on or after June 29, 2026.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances with Graviton4 now in AWS GovCloud
AWS has launched new EC2 I8ge instances, powered by Graviton4 processors and third-gen Nitro SSDs, in AWS GovCloud regions. These storage-optimized instances offer up to 60% better compute and 55% better storage performance than previous generations, with significantly lower I/O latency. They are suitable for demanding workloads requiring rapid local storage and are available in various sizes through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgagovernmentaws-s3aws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece, launches
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, expanding its global infrastructure. This zone supports data residency requirements for customers in Greece by enabling in-country data processing for services like S3 and EBS. It offers various EC2 instance types, S3 One Zone-IA storage, and integrates with other AWS services, benefiting public sector, financial, and gaming use cases.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances expand to Stockholm and Zurich regions
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions, offering enhanced performance and memory bandwidth powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. These instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous generations, making them suitable for memory-intensive and SAP workloads. This expansion allows more European customers to leverage these advanced compute capabilities.
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