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Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances launch 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 improved price-performance and memory bandwidth, benefiting workloads such as PostgreSQL databases, NGINX applications, and AI recommendation models. They are suitable for memory-intensive applications, including SAP, providing enhanced performance for government sector workloads.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
GuardDuty Malware Protection now scans S3 continuous backups
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup now supports S3 continuous backups, allowing users to scan backups for malware and identify clean recovery points. This feature enables full or incremental scans within backup plans and on-demand scans, with a new API to query scan status at any point in time, providing enhanced safety for S3 data restoration.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitect ·
AWS Transform adds agentic migration assessment capabilities
AWS Transform has released new agentic migration assessment capabilities, including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, and enhanced total cost of ownership (TCO) features. These updates accelerate migration decisions by enabling users to quickly build business cases with diverse data inputs and explore various cost modeling scenarios. The improvements are aimed at engineers and architects planning AWS migrations, offering a faster and more comprehensive assessment.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineer ·
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 enables users to add business names, descriptions, and READMEs to AWS Glue Data Catalog tables, automatically generate metadata using AI, and create business glossaries for consistent terminology. These features enhance data discovery, access control, and collaboration for data engineers, analysts, and scientists within SageMaker environments.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerretailmedia ·
Amazon GameLift Streams adds Generation 6e stream classes for demanding game streaming
Amazon GameLift Streams has launched Generation 6e stream classes featuring NVIDIA L40S GPUs and AMD EPYC processors. These new classes offer double the GPU memory and significantly increased memory bandwidth, providing enhanced performance for high-fidelity game streaming and GPU-intensive applications. They are targeted at customers requiring maximum GPU power for AAA game streaming experiences.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 Now Generally Available
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL 8.4, aligning version numbers with community releases and simplifying operations. This update strengthens security defaults, enforces TLS 1.2/1.3, and improves upgrade confidence with prechecks. The release affects users who manage MySQL databases on AWS and require the latest features or LTS support.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon QuickSight supports customer-managed encryption keys
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to encrypt their data using customer-managed keys (CMK) via AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This feature enhances security and compliance for organizations by giving them control over their encryption keys and offering detailed audit trails through CloudTrail. The new capability is now generally available in all AWS Regions where QuickSight is offered.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon DocumentDB Serverless now on version 8.0
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on version 8.0, offering auto-scaling and significant cost savings. Version 8.0 enhances query latency, compression, and introduces improved vector search and expanded MongoDB API compatibility. This benefits developers and architects managing scalable, cost-effective MongoDB-compatible workloads on AWS.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitect ·
AWS Security Hub Extended adds 21 partner solutions across 9 categories
AWS Security Hub Extended now integrates 21 curated partner solutions across nine security categories, including endpoint, identity, and AI security. This expansion offers customers greater flexibility to choose solutions matching their enterprise needs, with unified billing and pricing advantages. The new solutions emit findings in the OCSF schema, aggregating into Security Hub for comprehensive risk identification and response.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
SageMaker Studio adds data quality rule authoring and evaluation
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now integrates AWS Glue Data Quality, enabling users to author and evaluate data quality rules directly within the studio. This feature helps catch data issues early in pipelines, benefiting data engineers, analysts, and data scientists by ensuring data integrity for downstream workloads.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of a new Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. This expansion brings AWS infrastructure closer to end-users in the region, enabling lower latency and supporting data residency requirements. Organizations can now leverage this zone for compute, storage, and networking services, including specific EC2 instance types and S3 storage classes, to accelerate cloud migration and modernization.
feature announcement - AWS What's New networkingawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Grafana adds dual-stack connectivity
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports dual-stack connectivity, allowing workspaces to communicate over both IPv4 and IPv6. This feature simplifies network management by eliminating the need for overlapping address spaces and aids in the transition to IPv6, which is increasingly important due to IPv4 address exhaustion. The update benefits organizations looking to streamline their network infrastructure and prepare for future connectivity needs.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
AWS Glue zero-ETL now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations have expanded to the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, simplifying data pipelines and reducing latency for analytics and ML workloads. This feature provides managed integrations for common ingestion and replication use cases, eliminating the need for customers to build and maintain complex ETL pipelines.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerhealthcare ·
Amazon Redshift adds ALTER TABLE and writes for Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift now supports writing directly to Apache Iceberg tables via AWS Glue Data Catalog and can modify Iceberg table schemas using ALTER TABLE DDL statements. This streamlines data pipelines by enabling in-place schema modifications, reducing complexity and latency previously associated with updating Iceberg table structures. The new capabilities benefit engineers and architects working with federated data lakes, particularly those using Iceberg tables with AWS Lake Formation.
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