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Amazon EC2 M8azn instances now available in Europe (Ireland)
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, featuring fifth-generation AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the Europe (Ireland) region. These general-purpose instances offer significantly improved compute, memory bandwidth, and networking performance compared to previous generations, benefiting latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads. They are suitable for applications like financial analytics, HPC, and simulations across various industries.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon SES adds inbox placement and blocklist monitoring
Amazon SES now offers inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring to provide customers with more insight into their email deliverability. This feature helps users understand how many emails reach the inbox versus the spam folder, and alerts them to potential reputation issues caused by blocklist activity. The new capabilities enable customers to optimize their sending content for better engagement and maintain a positive sender reputation.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS End User Messaging RCS support expands to 20 more countries
AWS End User Messaging now supports RCS for Business in 20 additional countries, expanding reach to 22 total. This allows businesses to send verified, branded messages with automatic fallback to SMS, enabling reliable communication with customers. The feature is accessible via the existing SendTextMessage API, requiring no application modifications for affected businesses.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS IoT Core adds APIs for MQTT connection and subscription management
AWS IoT Core now offers GetConnection and ListSubscriptions APIs to retrieve MQTT client connection and topic subscription details. These features aid in troubleshooting connectivity, monitoring client behavior, and auditing device fleet activity by providing granular insights into device sessions and subscriptions.
feature - AWS What's New aiinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Resilience Hub Next Generation Achieves General Availability
AWS Resilience Hub's next generation is now generally available, enhancing resilience assessment for critical workloads. This update introduces a new application model, dependency discovery, generative AI for failure mode analysis, and organization-wide reporting, benefiting platform engineering and SRE teams. The improvements aim to provide deeper insights and more actionable recommendations for workload resilience.
feature announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.47.0: New Resources and Attribute Deprecations
This release introduces new resources for AWS Bedrock Agent and S3 Multi-Region Access Points, along with several enhancements and bug fixes. Multiple data sources now deprecate the `id` attribute in favor of more descriptive alternatives, and some `secretsmanager` attributes are updated. These changes affect users managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform, particularly those working with Bedrock, S3, or leveraging the updated data sources.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiinfraawsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 X8i instances expand to more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These SAP-certified instances offer significantly higher performance, memory capacity, and bandwidth compared to X2i instances, benefiting memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, and AI inference. The expanded availability allows more customers to leverage these powerful compute options.
feature - AWS What's New mlinfraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 Enhances Trainium3 Capabilities and Developer Tools
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 is now generally available, featuring NKI 0.4.0 with new AWS Trainium3 hardware support and 22 new NKI Library kernels. This release benefits ML developers by improving model porting and validation with expanded Neuron Agentic Development skills and introduces the Neuron DRA Driver for Kubernetes. Key updates include hardware-specific instructions, FP8 support, and performance enhancements for custom kernel development and deployment on Trainium and Inferentia instances.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ now uses ENA Express for replication
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now leverage ENA Express, utilizing AWS's SRD protocol for cross-AZ replication traffic. This enhancement boosts network performance by delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth and reducing latency variability, benefiting write-intensive database workloads. Existing instances can enable this by performing a start-stop or compute scale action.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances launch 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 improved performance and memory bandwidth compared to previous generations, providing better price-performance for general-purpose workloads, databases, web applications, and AI models. This expansion benefits users requiring enhanced compute capabilities within the secure AWS GovCloud environment.
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 infraawsengineer ·
AWS WorkSpaces Linux Migration Now Available
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports migrating Linux WorkSpaces between operating systems, automatically moving user data. This simplifies upgrades and OS transitions for users, reducing manual effort and disruption.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineermedia ·
EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, M7i instances launch in AWS Hyderabad region
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances, powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These instances offer improved price-performance and enhanced capabilities for various workloads, including general-purpose applications, gaming, ML, and video streaming. They are suitable for engineers and architects seeking better performance and cost efficiency for their compute needs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Deadline Cloud: Browse Job Attachments in Monitor
AWS Deadline Cloud now allows users to browse job attachment files directly within the monitor interface. This feature simplifies managing input and output files for render jobs by enabling users to view and download individual files, improving asset retrieval without downloading entire job outputs.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.46.0: New resources, fixes, and enhancements
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.46.0 introduces several new resources, including those for AWS Bedrock Agent, IAM Access Keys, and Observability Admin. Enhancements improve existing resources like CloudFront distributions and Bedrock Agent runtimes, while bug fixes address issues with S3 bucket configurations and X-Ray resource policies. The `policy_name` change in `aws_xray_resource_policy` is noted as a potential breaking change due to previous incorrect functionality.
feature patch breaking - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transform network modernization advances migration speed
AWS Transform adds a new modernization engine that optimizes network constructs and identifies conflicts before provisioning, reducing manual review from days to instant guidance. The service also accepts network configurations in any format, accelerating migration regardless of the source tool. These features are now available in all AWS Transform target regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transfer Family web apps now support federated permissions with IAM Identity Center
AWS Transfer Family web apps now support federated permissions with IAM Identity Center across multiple AWS Regions. This enhancement allows web apps to be created in regions beyond where IAM Identity Center is enabled, improving reliability and reducing latency for users by leveraging IAM Identity Center's multi-Region replication. Administrators can manage permissions using existing IAM Identity Center configurations, and users can sign in with their current credentials.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon ECS Adds Pause and Continue Controls for Service Deployments
Amazon ECS now allows pausing and continuing service deployments at specific stages, enabling manual approvals, operational checks, or custom automation. This feature, integrated via PAUSE lifecycle hooks and the ContinueServiceDeployment API, enhances control over native deployment strategies, benefiting engineers and architects managing containerized applications on AWS.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Console Adds Local Zones to Region Selector
AWS Local Zones are now integrated into the Region selector within the AWS Management Console, offering a consolidated view and streamlined navigation for managing resources across global infrastructure. This enhancement aims to simplify operations for customers utilizing multiple Local Zones, directly linking them to their parent Region's console page for resource management.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineerautomotive ·
Amazon EVS Doubles Host Limit to 32 per Environment
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports up to 32 ESXi hosts per environment, a doubling of the previous limit. This change allows for larger, more consolidated VMware Cloud Foundation domains, reducing operational overhead for managing multiple environments. The update is available across all EVS regions and benefits users needing to scale their VMware deployments on AWS.
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