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Tracking 678 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
EC2 High Memory U7i instances expand to new AWS regions
Amazon EC2 has expanded the availability of its High Memory U7i instances. U7i instances, powered by Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, offer up to 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and high network/storage bandwidth. These instances are now available in the South America (São Paulo) region (16TB) and Europe (Ireland) region (24TB), targeting customers running large in-memory databases like SAP HANA.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8a instances expand to Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Amazon EC2 M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These instances offer significant performance and price-performance improvements over M7a instances, making them suitable for latency-sensitive and high-throughput workloads. They are SAP-certified and available in 12 sizes, including bare metal options, ideal for diverse applications like financial services and gaming.
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 securityawsgaarchitectaws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecsaws-sns ·
Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections
Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now detects when sensitive files are modified on EC2, EKS, and ECS workloads. These new threat detections, including Persistence:Runtime/SensitiveFileModified, help identify post-compromise attacker activities like persistence and privilege escalation. Designed for security teams and architects, this feature monitors specific file operations to catch obfuscated techniques and reduces false positives with correlation-based analysis. The detections are available to all customers with Runtime Monitoring enabled, with a 30-day free trial for new users.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsarchitecthealthcarefinancegovernmentaws-iam ·
AWS Management Console Private Access adds VPC endpoint support
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows console traffic to flow through VPC endpoints, eliminating the need for internet access. This enhancement is critical for regulated industries and enterprises with strict security needs to manage AWS infrastructure securely from within VPCs. The feature leverages AWS PrivateLink and is available in all commercial AWS regions, with pricing based on PrivateLink usage.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in Instances Available in Seoul
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These instances provide 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and custom Intel Xeon Scalable processors, offering up to 45% better price performance than previous generations. They are designed for mission-critical in-memory databases and support high bandwidth for EBS and networking.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaarchitectaws-iam ·
AWS IAM Identity Center increases account and application quotas
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications, allowing up to 7,000 of each by default. This change matters for organizations managing large numbers of accounts and applications, preventing one quota from consuming the other's capacity. Customers with existing higher limits will have them applied to both quotas automatically. This update is available globally in all AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is offered.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaarchitecthealthcareaws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Adds Automated Reasoning Checks in Sydney
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers Automated Reasoning checks, utilizing formal verification to mathematically validate AI model outputs, a significant advancement over traditional sampling. This new capability enhances AI safety by reducing hallucinations, policy violations, and ambiguity, particularly benefiting regulated industries like finance and healthcare. The feature provides up to 99% accuracy with provable assurance, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and can be accessed via the Bedrock console or SDK.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsdeprecationarchitecthealthcare ·
AWS Amazon Connect Customer Competency Launched
AWS has launched the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization recognizing partners with expertise in customer experience transformations using Amazon Connect. This Competency aims to help customers identify skilled partners for migrating legacy contact centers and implementing AI-native solutions. It replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027, offering customers confidence in validated partners.
deprecation announcement - AWS What's New governanceawsgaarchitecthealthcareaws-s3aws-redshiftaws-iam ·
AWS Glue Data Catalog adds IAM authorization for S3 Tables, Iceberg views in GovCloud
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports IAM-based authorization for Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg materialized views, simplifying permission management for analytics services. This feature allows unified permissions across storage, catalog, and query engines, enhancing integration with services like Athena and EMR. It is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and offers optional integration with AWS Lake Formation for finer-grained access control.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitect ·
Amazon QuickSight supports customer-managed encryption keys
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to encrypt their data using their own AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys. This provides enhanced security control and audit capabilities for organizations with strict compliance needs, enabling them to manage encryption for their business intelligence data. The feature is generally available and requires keys to be in the same AWS account and region as QuickSight resources, supporting only symmetric KMS keys.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitect ·
AWS Security Hub Extended adds 21 partner solutions in 9 categories
AWS Security Hub Extended now offers 21 curated partner solutions across nine security categories, including new additions for endpoint, identity, and data security. This expansion provides customers greater flexibility in selecting solutions tailored to their enterprise needs, with unified billing and support benefits. The new solutions are available today in all commercial AWS Regions, enabling better risk identification and response across security domains.
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