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AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides various services under its umbrella including compute, storage, security, and application services. Here are some recent announcements and updates: 1. AWS Outposts: AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that offers infrastructure consisting of compute, storage, and database capabilities. The latest update includes launch of Outposts in various countries. 2. AWS Lambda: Provides a compute service on-demand resource. Recent updates include enhancements for concurrency control and integration with Amazon API Gateway. 3. Amazon S3: Offers durable storage. Recent updates include the launch of the application migration API and encryption for snapshots. 4. AWS Billing: Allows you to view detailed billing information, and recent updates include improvements in billing details. 5. AWS Config: Provides resource monitoring, reporting, and auto-remediation for AWS resources. Recent updates include a notification action and AWS Step Functions. 6. AWS Multi-Region Access Point for Amazon S3: Multi-Region Access Points for S3 provide a global namespace to deliver a fast, secure, and resilient storage service. 7. Amazon Route 53: Provides domain registration and DNS service. Recent updates include support for multi-Region Access Points for S3. 8. AWS Lake Formation: A data engineering, data transformation and data governance service. Recent updates include creation of workflows and database credentials connection using JDBC drivers. 9. Amazon EMR: A big data processing service used for data processing, analytics, machine learning (ML) etc. Recent updates include cluster versioning and bug fixes. 10. AWS Step Functions: A service for coordinating the components of distributed applications and microservice-oriented architectures. Recent updates include enhanced task token input handling and auto-replace.
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RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Aug 19, 2024

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Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC

Agents using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 Cloud PC can now take calls directly from their virtual desktop session with audio optimization enabled. To get started, IT administrators need to complete a one-time setup for their virtual desktop environment. Once configured, media is redirected from the virtual desktop to the agent's local device, improving audio quality. Agents simply log into their Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365 Cloud PC session and start accepting calls using the Amazon Connect Customer agent workspace or a custom agent interface built with the Amazon Connect Customer open-source JavaScript libraries. This support is in addition to existing audio optimization for Amazon WorkSpaces, Citrix cloud desktops, and Omnissa cloud desktops. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered, except AWS GovCloud (US-West). To learn more, see the Amazon Connect Customer Administrator Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/amazon-connect/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.11.2

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.11.2. Amazon MWAA is a managed service that runs Apache Airflow at scale without the operational overhead of managing the underlying infrastructure. Apache Airflow 2.11.2 is a maintenance release that includes security improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades. This release upgrades core dependencies with security patches and stability improvements to the Airflow webserver and task execution layers. It also includes fixes to task lifecycle management for queued tasks, enhanced secrets masking in logs, UI corrections in the Task Instances list view, and provider package updates for S3 and CloudWatch log delivery. You can create a new Apache Airflow 2.11.2 environment on Amazon MWAA or upgrade your existing environments with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console in all currently available Amazon MWAA regions. To learn more, visit the Amazon MWAA documentation, review the Apache Airflow 2.11.2 release notes, and explore the list of available Airflow versions on MWAA.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-mwaa-now-supports-apache-airflow-version-2-11-2 aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support host resource groups without self-managed licenses

Starting today, customers can create Host Resource Groups (HRGs) for EC2 Dedicated Hosts without the previously required step of creating Self-Managed Licenses (SMLs) and associating AMIs through AWS License Manager. This flexibility is particularly valuable for EC2 Mac Instance customers and for customers who need Dedicated Hosts for hardware-level isolation rather than Bring Your Own License (BYOL). Customers with BYOL workloads can continue to create HRGs with SMLs to ensure that only instances from associated AMIs can be launched on the host and track host-level license consumption. To create an HRG without SML, uncheck the "Restrict to AMIs associated with self-managed license" option when creating a Host Resource Group in the EC2 Console, or set instance-launch-option to license-configuration-required via the AWS CLI. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Host Resource Groups are supported. To learn more, visit the Host Resource Group User Guide
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/ec2-dedicated-hosts-hrg/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. On-demand streams automatically increase ingest capacity in response to rising data ingest usage. With On-demand Advantage mode, you can proactively manage stream capacity using warm throughput to prepare streams for sudden changes in data traffic. We are extending warm throughput with the ability to also scale down ingest capacity, giving you full control to scale your stream's write throughput up or down. To scale down, simply set a lower warm throughput value on your on-demand stream. The stream adjusts to the requested capacity or the amount needed to support peak data ingest usage in the last hour, whichever is higher. This ensures your stream always retains sufficient capacity for current traffic while releasing excess capacity you no longer need. As a result, you get optimal stream-processing performance and cost efficiency.  Warm throughput scale-down is available at no additional cost for all on-demand streams with On-demand Advantage mode enabled.  For more information about On-demand Advantage, see Choose the right mode to stream in in the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Developer Guide. To get started with the feature, see Update a stream. For pricing details, see Amazon Kinesis Data Streams pricing. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Kinesis Data Streams On-demand Advantage is supported.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/kinesis/on-demand-scale-down aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers

AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations. LMI enables you to run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 instances while maintaining serverless operational simplicity. Capacity providers are resources that let you define compute resources that Lambda provisions on your behalf. With capacity provider logs, you can monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize these managed EC2 instances, helping you quickly diagnose provisioning issues and understand scaling behavior. Customers use LMI to operate high-volume, predictable workloads with specialized compute configurations and achieve cost efficiency through EC2 pricing options like Savings Plans and Reserved Instances. With this launch, Lambda automatically generates logs for compute resources managed by capacity providers and delivers them to CloudWatch Logs. Lambda publishes structured JSON logs capturing instance lifecycle events like launches, terminations, and health checks. This structured format lets you identify failed operations and provisioning errors through CloudWatch Logs filtering, helping you resolve issues quickly and shorten debugging cycles. The capacity provider logs are available in all AWS Commercial Regions where LMI is available. The logs are enabled by default for all capacity providers. You can view your capacity provider logs by visiting the Lambda console's capacity provider page. You can use the Lambda API, Lambda console, AWS CLI, AWS SAM, or AWS CloudFormation to change capacity provider log configuration. Standard Amazon CloudWatch Logs charges apply. To learn more, visit the AWS Lambda Managed Instances product page and documentation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-lambda-managed-instances-logs/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

Amazon SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers a simplified console experience for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Mail Manager is a capability within SES for managing email flow, but configuring its resources individually to set up SMTP sending requires multiple steps. The new guided setup creates and configures these resources automatically, so developers can get started in just a few clicks. The guided setup gives developers a working SMTP endpoint and downloadable credentials they can plug into any application or framework that supports SMTP. This is ideal for teams building applications that send email notifications, password resets, or transactional messages and need a fast path to a production-ready SMTP configuration. This experience is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SES is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon SES console or refer to the documentation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ses-simplified-smtp-mail-manager aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

Claude Opus 5 is now available on AWS

AWS now offers Claude Opus 5 — the most advanced Opus model yet, and compatible with zero data retention (ZDR) — bringing a step-change in coding, long-running agents, and complex professional work to teams building at the highest level.  Claude Opus 5 delivers advances in coding, understanding and navigating codebases like an experienced engineer and writing production-quality code while adapting its strategy as it works. It powers dependable agents that run for hours and even overnight, finding paths around obstacles, recovering from errors, and reaching their objectives. And it brings deeper reasoning to long documents and higher accuracy to complex analysis, with the largest gains on document-heavy enterprise work.  Customers have two ways to access Claude Opus 5: Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS.  Amazon Bedrock offers Claude Opus 5 with zero data retention (ZDR) enabled by default, giving you Opus' top-tier intelligence while meeting your data governance requirements. It keeps your data within AWS infrastructure with regional data residency, and provides access through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails and Knowledge Bases. To learn more, see the Amazon Bedrock documentation and regional availability. Claude Platform on AWS gives you direct access to Anthropic's native platform experience and capabilities via the AWS Console, with support for zero data retention (ZDR) available on request. Build, test, and deploy with the same APIs, features, and console experience you'd get working with Anthropic directly, unified with AWS billing and authentication. To get started, see the Claude Platform on AWS documentation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/claude-opus-5-aws/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and User Activity Monitoring now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)

Two new models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Claude Opus 4.8 is the most intelligent Opus model, delivering stronger self-verification, more efficient tool calling, and better follow-through on long-horizon projects. It plans before it edits, catches its own mistakes, and finds creative paths around obstacles instead of stalling, making it well suited for complex multi-step tasks that previously required close supervision. Available with a 1M context window and 2.2x credit multiplier. Claude Sonnet 5 is the most agentic Sonnet model, bringing stronger reasoning, tool use, and coding at Sonnet-class pricing. It approaches Opus 4.8 on reasoning and agentic coding benchmarks while running at meaningfully lower cost, giving developers a cost-performance dial between maximum accuracy and higher throughput. Available with experimental support, a 1M context window, and 1.3x credit multiplier. Kiro enterprise administrators now have full visibility into organizational usage through built-in monitoring and tracking. A usage dashboard provides aggregate metrics at a glance, per-user activity reports deliver daily CSV telemetry (credits, model usage, and more) to your S3 bucket for license optimization and audit, and optional prompt logging captures user prompts and Kiro responses for compliance and debugging. All data is stored in your own account with no additional charge beyond S3 storage. Ensure your IDE or CLI is updated to the latest version, then restart it to access the new models from the model selector. For more details, visit the GovCloud documentation, the monitoring and tracking guide, or contact your AWS account team. To learn more about Kiro, visit the Kiro product page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/kiro-opus-sonnet-monitoring-launch-aws-govcloud-us/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS

Today, AWS announces a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark that measures how accurately and efficiently AI agents complete real-world AWS tasks. Model providers and AI researchers building agents that operate on AWS infrastructure need an objective, reproducible way to measure performance and diagnose failures. aws-bench provides a public suite of test cases derived from analysis of real AWS usage, including investigation, troubleshooting, and infrastructure creation tasks. Each test case pairs a natural-language query with a defined cloud resource state and a ground-truth answer, so you can score any agent or model on a consistent, verifiable basis. Researchers and model providers can use aws-bench to improve foundation model performance on AWS tasks, improve agent harnesses, and track improvement progress. The release includes an easy-to-use CLI tool to instantiate testing environments, execute and score evaluation runs, and reset resource state. aws-bench is available now on GitHub. To get started, follow the setup instructions on the README.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-bench/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 24

AWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferences

AWS now enables customers who pay through electronic funds transfer to configure preferences for how credit memos are automatically applied to outstanding invoices. Customers can choose from different application preferences directly on the Billing and Cost Management console to match their internal payment processes. These options include combinations of applying credit memos to the original invoice, next eligible invoice, and oldest unpaid invoice. By default, credit memos are applied to the original invoice first, then to future invoices, unless a different preference is selected. Automatic credit memo application preferences are available in all commercial AWS Regions. To get started, visit the Payment Preferences page in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. To learn more, see Managing balance application preferences.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/credit-memo-applications/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the latest Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MySQL 9.7 capabilities before they become generally available. MySQL 9.7 is the latest Long-Term Support release for community MySQL. MySQL Long-Term Support releases include bug fixes, security patches, as well as new features. Please refer to the MySQL 9.7 release notes for more details about this release. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are retained for a maximum of 60 days and are automatically deleted after the retention period. Amazon RDS database snapshots created in the preview environment can only be used to create or restore database instances within the preview environment. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are priced the same as production RDS instances created in the US East (Ohio) Region. For further information, see Working with the Database Preview Environment.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-rds-mysql-long-term-9-7-rds-database-preview/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

AWS Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET is now generally available

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET, empowering C# developers to build resilient, long-running workflows using Lambda durable functions. With this SDK, developers can create multi-step applications like payment processing pipelines, AI agent orchestration, and human-in-the-loop approvals directly in their applications without implementing custom progress tracking or integrating external orchestration services.  Lambda durable functions extend Lambda's event-driven programming model with operations that checkpoint progress automatically and pause execution for up to a year when waiting on external events. The AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET provides an idiomatic C# experience for building with Lambda durable functions. It includes steps for progress tracking, callback integration for human and agent-in-the-loop workflows, durable invocation for reliable function chaining, and waits for efficient suspension. The SDK installs from NuGet into the .NET toolchain you use today. The local testing emulator in the SDK enables developers to build and debug locally before deploying to production. To get started, see the Lambda durable functions developer guide and the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET on NuGet. For Regional availability and pricing details, see the AWS Regional Services List and AWS Lambda Pricing.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/lambdadf-dotnet/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched new Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in its Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. These instances feature the latest AWS Graviton4 processors, offering a significant performance boost. They provide up to 60% better compute performance than previous Graviton2-based storage-optimized EC2 instances. The I8ge instances utilize third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs and local NVMe storage. This combination delivers up to 55% improved real-time storage performance per terabyte compared to older Im4gn instances. Customers can expect up to 60% lower storage I/O latency and significantly reduced latency variability. These storage-optimized instances offer substantial local NVMe storage capacity, up to 120TB. They are well-suited for workloads requiring fast local storage with high performance and low latency for large datasets. With eleven different sizes available, including metal options, these instances offer flexibility for various computational needs. They also provide high network bandwidth, up to 180 Gbps, and dedicated EBS bandwidth of 60 Gbps.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-i8ge-additional-regions/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers unified observability for AI agents. Previously, agent telemetry was split between separate log groups for traces and event logs, complicating debugging. This new feature consolidates all agent telemetry into a single Amazon CloudWatch log group per agent. This includes traces, prompts, inputs, outputs, structured logs, and standard output. Unified observability allows for easier correlation of traces and logs, simplifying debugging for individual agents and multi-agent systems. It also enables fine-grained access control and customer-managed key encryption at the individual agent level. Newly created agents in supported regions will use unified observability by default from July 20, 2026. For existing agents, enabling this feature requires setting an environment variable and upgrading the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). This functionality is available in all AWS commercial regions where AgentCore runtime is supported. Further details can be found in the AgentCore Developer Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-bedrock-agentcore-unified-observability-single-log-group/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer (ALB) logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns. You can now analyze ALB access, connection and health check logs directly in CloudWatch to gain insights into client connections, traffic distribution, connection status and target health, helping you identify and troubleshoot network issues faster. Additionally, you can set up CloudWatch telemetry enablement rules to automatically configure logging of both existing and newly created ALB resources, for your organization, specific accounts, or specific resources, ensuring consistent monitoring coverage without manual setup. With this CloudWatch Logs integration, you can track detailed access patterns using CloudWatch Logs Insights queries, create metric filters for monitoring and alarming, and review traffic patterns in real time using Live Tail. ALB logs can be configured through the integrations tab of your application load balancer in AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs. You can also configure delivery of ALB logs to Amazon Data Firehose or Amazon S3 with support for Apache Parquet format. ALB logs delivery to CloudWatch is available in all AWS Commercial and GovCloud regions where Application Load Balancer and CloudWatch are available. ALB logs are charged as vended logs when delivered to CloudWatch Logs and Data Firehose, while delivery to Amazon S3 is free (Parquet conversion is charged at $0.035/GB - N. Virginia). To learn more about configuring ALB logs in CloudWatch Logs, please visit our documentation. For pricing information, see CloudWatch pricing page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-cloudwatch-logs/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Amazon EVS is now available in additional Regions

Today, we're announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage the scale and flexibility of AWS for running your VMware workloads in the cloud. Amazon EVS lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on EC2 bare-metal instances, powered by AWS Nitro. You can set up a complete VCF environment in just a few hours, enabling rapid workload migration to AWS to help you eliminate aging infrastructure, reduce operational risks, and meet critical timelines for exiting your data center. This launch supports all existing Amazon EVS features, including VCF 9.0 and 9.1 support to take advantage of the latest VMware features, such as memory tiering. The added availability in these Regions gives your VMware workloads lower latency through closer proximity to your end users, compliance with data residency or sovereignty requirements, and additional high availability and resiliency options for your enhanced redundancy strategy. To get started, visit the Amazon EVS product detail page and user guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-evs-available-in-additional-regions/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock. Claude Sonnet 5 delivers strong performance across coding, professional work, and agentic tasks while maintaining the balance of capability, cost, and speed. For coding, it navigates large codebases, lands multi-file changes, and carries debugging and refactoring tasks through to completion with fewer rounds of correction. For agents, it calls tools precisely, holds state across many steps, and recovers from errors so more runs finish correctly the first time. For knowledge work, it builds spreadsheets, drafts documents, and turns unstructured material into structured analysis.  With this launch, Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Sonnet 5 are available on bedrock-runtime endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East) and bedrock-mantle endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US-West) for performing inference. Bedrock Mantle, Amazon Bedorck's next-generation inference engine, supports the Anthropic Messages API. Amazon Bedrock keeps your data within AWS infrastructure and provides access to Claude Sonnet 5 through a unified service with AWS-managed features like Guardrails, Knowledge Bases, and regional data residency. To learn more, see the Amazon Bedrock documentation and regional availability.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/claude-sonnet-5-govcloud/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Announcing region expansion of G7e instances on SageMaker AI inference

Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now available on Amazon SageMaker for AI inference in Seoul, London, and Tokyo. These instances offer up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, each with 96 GB of memory. They also feature 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors and high networking bandwidth. G7e instances provide up to 2.3 times better inference performance than the previous G6e generation. This expansion allows for deploying inference endpoints closer to users in Asia and Europe, reducing latency for generative AI. With up to 768 GB of total GPU memory, G7e instances can handle LLMs up to 70 billion parameters using FP8 precision without multi-node setups. These instances are ideal for LLM inference, image and video generation, spatial computing, and scientific computing. The new regions join previously supported locations for G7e instances on SageMaker. Pricing details are available on the Amazon SageMaker pricing page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/g7e-sagemaker-ai/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Announcing region expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker AI Inference

Amazon EC2 G6 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region for Amazon SageMaker AI inference. These instances leverage NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, each equipped with 24 GB of memory, and AMD EPYC processors. G6 instances offer significantly improved deep learning inference performance, up to double that of G4dn instances. This expansion allows government agencies in GovCloud to deploy inference endpoints for generative AI. Such workloads include language models, image generation, and computer vision tasks. These deployments will adhere to strict compliance and data residency regulations. G6 instances provide excellent price-performance for production inference needs within 24 GB of GPU memory. They are now accessible in AWS GovCloud (US-East) in addition to other regions. Interested users can find detailed pricing information on the AWS pricing page. This availability enhances AI capabilities for government entities.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/g6-sagemaker-ai-inference/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

AWS Wickr announces Data Retention Service feature

AWS Wickr now offers a managed Data Retention Service feature for Premium users, enabling organizations to retain conversations across their network for data archiving purposes. AWS Wickr is an enterprise-grade, secure collaboration product that provides end-to-end encrypted messaging, file management, screen sharing, and voice/video conferencing capabilities. The Data Retention Service feature provides a cloud-native alternative to traditional container-based data retention methods. The Data Retention Service can retain conversations in your network, including direct messages and conversations in Groups or Rooms between internal members and external federated teams. The serverless architecture offers simplified deployment, managed infrastructure, automatic scaling, and comprehensive monitoring while maintaining Wickr's end-to-end encryption standards. This feature is particularly valuable for organizations that require comprehensive data archiving capabilities and maintaining audit trails. AWS Wickr Premium customers can opt in to enable data retention for their networks. To learn more, visit the AWS Wickr documentation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-wickr-data/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-16TB instances (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region, and U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7in-16TB instances offer 16 TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. Both U7in-16TB and U7in-24TB instances deliver 896 vCPUs and support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 200 Gbps of network bandwidth, and ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers running mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-high-memory-u7i/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 23

Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the US West (N. California) Region

Starting today, the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in AWS US West (N. California) Region. C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances. C7a instances offer new processor capabilities such as AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16. They feature Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory to enable high-speed access to data in memory and 2.25x more memory bandwidth compared to C6a instances, making these instances ideal for even latency sensitive workloads. C7a instances offer 12 sizes from medium to 48xlarge, including a bare-metal size. And with the launch of C7a instances, customers can attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an EC2 instance — by comparison, C6a instances allow up to 28 EBS volume attachments to an EC2 instance. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and ideal for high performance, compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. C7a instances are available through On-Demand, Spot Instances, and Savings Plans. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see C7a instances.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-c7a-instances-us-west-ncalifornia-region/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances. M8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to M7a instances, making these instances ideal for even latency sensitive workloads. M8a instances deliver even higher performance gains for specific workloads. M8a instances are up to 60% faster for GroovyJVM benchmark, and up to 39% faster for Cassandra benchmark compared to Amazon EC2 M7a instances. M8a instances are SAP-certified and offer 12 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes. This range of instance sizes allows customers to precisely match their workload requirements. M8a instances are built using the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards and ideal for applications that benefit from high performance and high throughput such as financial applications, gaming, rendering, application servers, simulation modeling, mid-size data stores, application development environments, and caching fleets. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 M8a instance page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-m8a-instances-asia-pacific-hyderabad-region/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region

Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in (Ireland). These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors and deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation M6id instances. M8id instances offer up to 384 vCPUs, 1.5TiB of memory, and 22.8TB of NVMe SSD storage, 3x more than previous generation instances. These instances deliver up to 46% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 30% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than previous sixth-generation instances. Additionally, these instances support Instance Bandwidth Configuration, allowing 25% flexible allocation between network and EBS bandwidth, allocating resources optimally for each workload. M8id instances are well-suited for balanced workloads including application servers, microservices, enterprise applications, and small to medium databases. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 instance type page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-m8id-europe-ireland/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

AWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routing

Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports listener rules allowing you to route connections to different target groups based on the source IP address type. With listener rules, a single dual-stack NLB sends IPv6 client traffic to IPv6 targets and IPv4 client traffic to IPv4 targets, preserving the original client IP address end to end for both address families. Previously, serving both IPv4 and IPv6 clients from one NLB meant accepting a tradeoff: either run two separate load balancers (one per IP version) and split clients with DNS, or send all traffic to one target group and lose the original client IP through protocol translation. Listener rules remove that tradeoff by enabling conditional routing at Layer 3, directing each connection to a same-family target group with no translation and no additional infrastructure. You can add listener rules to existing dual-stack NLBs without recreating them. Rules are supported on TCP, UDP, TCP_UDP, and TLS listeners and work alongside existing NLB features including connection draining, target group stickiness, cross-zone load balancing, weighted target groups, and client IP preservation. Listener rules for Network Load Balancer are available in all AWS commercial Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional charge. Standard NLB pricing for load balancer hours and LCUs applies. To get started, see this AWS blog, and the Network Load Balancer User Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-network-load-balancer-supports-listener-rules/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

AWS Entity Resolution now supports advanced real-time matching

AWS Entity Resolution now supports real-time matching with advanced matching workflows, enabling customers to match records in milliseconds using complex rulesets through the GenerateMatchId API. Previously, real-time matching was limited to simple rule-based workflows, while advanced rulesets—which support operators like Exact and ExactManyToMany combined with AND/OR logic—could only be used for batch processing that took minutes to hours. This created a critical gap for customers needing real-time entity resolution with sophisticated matching logic. With this launch, customers performing fraud detection, real-time account lookup, or website personalization can define advanced matching rules and get results in real-time without maintaining separate matching infrastructure or re-architecting applications. To enable advanced real-time matching, customers set the enableRealTimeMatching parameter to true on their matching workflow, then call the existing GenerateMatchId API—no new endpoints or migration required. Advanced real-time matching is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Entity Resolution is available.  To get started, see Using GenerateMatchId in the AWS Entity Resolution User Guide.   For more information about AWS Entity Resolution, visit the product page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-entity-resolution/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

AWS Lambda durable functions now supports customer managed key encryption

AWS Lambda durable functions now supports encryption of durable execution data with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed key. Lambda durable functions lets you build long-running, reliable workflows directly in your Lambda function code with automatic state management. Lambda encrypts execution state at rest by default with an AWS owned key. Now with support for AWS KMS, you can choose and manage the encryption key yourself. If you operate in regulated industries such as financial services or healthcare, your data governance policies may require customer-owned encryption keys. You can now configure a customer managed key for durable execution data, giving you control over key rotation and who can access execution history and state. The durable execution key operates independently of the function-level key that protects environment variables and SnapStart snapshots, so you can manage access to execution data separately from function configuration. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Lambda durable functions is available. Standard AWS KMS charges apply for customer managed keys. There are no additional Lambda charges for this feature. To learn more, see Encrypting Lambda durable execution data in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/durablefunctions-cmk/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

Amazon Corretto July 2026 Quarterly Updates

On July 22, 2026, Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 26.0.2, 25.0.4, 21.0.12, 17.0.20, 11.0.32, and 8u502 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Starting with this release, the default Amazon Corretto Docker images are based on Amazon Linux 2023. Amazon Linux 2 images will continue to be provided as non-default options for customers who cannot yet migrate. JavaFX binaries are no longer included with Corretto 8 starting from this release. You can learn more about the migration recommendations at Corretto 8 GitHub. Visit Corretto home page to download Corretto 26, Corretto 25, Corretto 21, Corretto 17, Corretto 11, or Corretto 8. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt, Yum, or Apk repo. Feedback is welcomed!
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-corretto-july-2026-quarterly-updates aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

AWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization

AWS Organizations now supports up to 2,000 resource control policies (RCPs) per organization, doubling the previous limit of 1,000. RCPs enable centralized management of the maximum permissions available to resources across member accounts in your organization. This quota increase helps customers managing large, complex, multi-account environments define more granular resource access controls without encountering policy limits.  With RCPs, you can restrict which external principals can access resources across your organization's member accounts, helping enforce organization-wide access control guidelines at scale — without updating individual resource-based policies. This is especially valuable for organizations that require fine-grained, centralized permission management across hundreds of accounts, where the previous 1,000-policy limit created barriers to sufficiently detailed access control configurations.  The increased quota of 2,000 RCPs per organization is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where AWS Organizations is supported. No action is required — existing organizations automatically have access to the higher limit.   To learn more about resource control policies and managing quotas in AWS Organizations, visit the AWS Organizations documentation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-organizations-resource-control-policy-limit-increase-2000 aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7 instances

Amazon SageMaker AI inference now offers enhanced performance with G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These new instances deliver up to 4.6 times better AI inference performance than previous-generation G6 instances. This advancement addresses the growing need for high GPU throughput and memory capacity for deploying generative AI models in production. Previously, users often had to over-provision compute or quantize models due to memory limitations. G7 instances provide 32 GB of GPU memory per GPU and feature 5th Generation Tensor Cores. They also offer significantly improved networking capabilities with up to 700 Gbps of EFA-enabled networking, seven times faster than G6. Additionally, these instances include up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe SSD storage for rapid access to large models. These features make G7 instances ideal for serving models with 7B to 30B parameters, as well as image and video generation tasks. Deployment is streamlined through the SageMaker AI Inference console, API, or SDK, by selecting G7 instance types. G7 instances are currently available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio) and US West (Oregon) regions.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-sagemaker-ai-g7/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

Amazon EKS now supports EFA and placement groups on Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now supports Amazon EC2 placement groups and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) network device configuration for node pools on EKS Auto Mode and the open-source Karpenter project, enabling you to optimize EKS workloads for performance and availability. These capabilities allow you to control EFA network interface configuration and how EC2 instances are physically distributed across AWS infrastructure for distributed training and inference workloads. With EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter’s EFA configuration, you can configure network interfaces as EFA-only or standard ENI on EFA-capable instances with both dynamic and static capacity node pools. EFA-only interfaces do not consume IP addresses, giving you fine-grained control over IP utilization in your VPC while achieving full interconnect bandwidth. With placement group support, you can launch EC2 instances using cluster, spread, or partition strategies directly from your EKS Auto Mode or Karpenter node pool configuration, giving you control over how instances are physically distributed without additional operational workarounds. Together, these capabilities let you optimize for the performance, availability, and fault isolation characteristics your workloads require, whether that's maximizing throughput for distributed training jobs or minimizing blast radius for critical production services. These features are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon EKS is available. To get started and learn more, see the EKS Auto Mode User Guide and Karpenter documentation.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-eks-efa-placement-groups/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge

AWS Secrets Manager now automatically publishes events to Amazon EventBridge whenever your secret values change, enabling you to build event-driven workflows that respond in real time to secret updates. Until now, you had to rely on AWS CloudTrail events parsed into EventBridge to know when a secret value changed — requiring you to match multiple API events such as rotation success, PutSecretValue, and UpdateSecretValue. With this launch, Secrets Manager publishes events directly into EventBridge whenever your secret value changes. You can use EventBridge rules to detect when the active secret value changes — such as during rotation — and route notifications to targets like AWS Lambda, Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, or Amazon Step Functions. This enables you to proactively refresh cached credentials in your applications, restart dependent services, or update compliance reports for secret rotation. Secret update notifications are published to your default event bus automatically with no additional configuration or opt-in required. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Secrets Manager is available at no additional cost. To get started, see secret event notifications in the AWS Secrets Manager User Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/secrets-manager-update-notifications aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Lima, Peru

Today, AWS announced the expansion of 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the existing AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This is the first AWS Direct Connect location in Peru to provide 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption capabilities. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet. For more information on the over 150 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-direct-connect-100g-lima/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 22

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). Elastic Disaster Recovery is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It helps minimize downtime and data loss with fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications using affordable storage, minimal compute, and point-in-time recovery. With Elastic Disaster Recovery, you can recover your applications on AWS from physical infrastructure, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and cloud infrastructure. You can also use Elastic Disaster Recovery to recover Amazon EC2 instances in a different AWS Region. AWS DRS replicates and recovers a wide range of applications, including critical databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server, and enterprise applications such as SAP. AWS DRS uses a unified process for drills, recovery, and failback, so you do not need application-specific skillsets to operate the service. With this launch, Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in 36 AWS Regions. See the AWS Regional Services List for the most up-to-date availability information. To learn more about AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery, visit our product page or documentation. To get started, sign in to the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Console.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-drs-additional-regions/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances.  Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale their performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function. M6in and M6idn instances are available in 10 different instance sizes including metal, offering up to 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory. They deliver up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS. M6in and M6idn instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. M6idn instances offer up to 7.6 TB of high-speed, low-latency instance storage. With this regional expansion, M6in and M6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich, London), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Customers can purchase the new instances through Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see M6in and M6idn instances page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-m6in-m6idn/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances.    Customers can use C6in instances to scale the performance of applications such as network virtual appliances (firewalls, virtual routers, load balancers), Telco 5G User Plane Function (UPF), data analytics, high-performance computing (HPC), and CPU based AI/ML workloads. C6in instances are available in 10 different sizes with up to 128 vCPUs, including bare metal size. Amazon EC2 sixth-generation x86-based network optimized EC2 instances deliver up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS. C6in instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support on 32xlarge and metal sizes.    C6in instances are available in these AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain, UAE), Israel (Tel Aviv), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, Thailand), Africa (Cape Town), South America (Sao Paulo), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East), and Mexico (Central). To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 C6in instance page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-c6in/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth, and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances.  Customers can use R6in and R6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as memory-intensive SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches (Memcached, Redis), in-memory databases (SAP HANA), and real-time big data analytics (Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark).    R6in and R6idn instances are available in 10 different instance sizes including metal, with up to 128 vCPUs and 1024 GiB of memory. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS. R6in and R6idn instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. R6idn instances offer up to 7.6 TB of high-speed, low-latency instance storage.    With this regional expansion, R6in and R6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Customers can purchase the new instances through Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see R6in and R6idn instances page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-r6in-r6idn/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, enabling you to query and analyze your search and log analytics data directly alongside your other data assets. With this new connection, you can combine operational search data in OpenSearch with data from sources like Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and relational databases - all within a single, governed environment. This integration is particularly valuable when you need to correlate data across analytical and operational workloads. For example, you can join application logs and metrics stored in OpenSearch with transactional data to gain insights into system performance and user behavior. Data engineers and analysts can build data pipelines that bring together real-time search and analytics data with structured datasets, streamlining cross-source workflows without switching between tools. To get started, add an Amazon OpenSearch connection under your project’s data section. Your OpenSearch data now appears in the data explorer alongside your other project data. From there, you can query it directly using the query editor, explore it in notebooks, or incorporate it into a visual ETL job, all without leaving the studio. Support for Amazon OpenSearch connections is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is available. To get started, see connecting to a new data source in the Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio User Guide. For more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service, visit the Amazon OpenSearch Service page.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-sagemaker-unified/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, making software updates for containerized applications safer and allowing you to release new application versions faster with greater confidence. Built directly into Amazon ECS, these capabilities eliminate the need for custom deployment tooling while providing production-ready controls including deployment lifecycle hooks, bake time, and quick rollback. With these strategies, Amazon ECS provisions a new application version alongside the existing version and allows you to validate it before shifting production traffic. Blue/green deployments shift traffic in a single step, linear deployments shift traffic in equal increments over a specified period, and canary deployments shift a small percentage initially before shifting the remainder. You can use deployment lifecycle hooks, including Lambda hooks and pause hooks, to run custom validation logic and approval workflows at specific deployment stages. You can also configure bake time to evaluate the new version after traffic has shifted, and roll back without downtime if regressions are identified. To automatically detect failures, configure Amazon CloudWatch alarms or Amazon ECS deployment circuit breaker, or initiate a rollback directly using the StopServiceDeployment API. These capabilities are available for Amazon ECS services using Application Load Balancers (ALB), Network Load Balancers (NLB), and Amazon ECS Service Connect. You can configure deployments using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, AWS SDKs, or infrastructure-as-code tools on new or existing Amazon ECS services. To learn more, see our documentation for Amazon ECS blue/green, linear, and canary deployments, and deployment lifecycle hooks.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/ecs-adv-deployments-eu-sovereign-cloud/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon SES introduces pricing plans

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) introduced pricing plans, making it easy to purchase and access SES capabilities without evaluating them individually. Amazon SES pricing plans include three hierarchical options: Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise. Each plan builds on the one before it, offering progressively more capability at a discount compared to à-la-carte pricing. Businesses depend on email reaching the inbox and getting read, but the capabilities needed to ensure this have traditionally been sold as individual add-ons that must be evaluated and purchased independently. With pricing plans, customers pick a plan and have access to the right capabilities at no additional cost. Essentials provides deliverability insights, Pro adds managed dedicated IPs, email validation, and global inbox placement visibility to proactively prevent problems, and Enterprise adds multi-region resilience, workload-level reputation isolation, and an annual deliverability assessment. Pricing plans are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SES is available, except the Middle East (UAE) and Middle East (Bahrain) Regions. To get started, sign in to the Amazon SES console and navigate to the pricing plan section. To learn more, visit the Amazon SES Pricing page or the Amazon SES Developer Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ses-pricing-plans/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility

Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces Action Logs, a new observability feature that delivers detailed, timestamped records of the actions Amazon ECS performs on behalf of customers during service deployments and ECS Managed Daemon updates. By surfacing service-side operations that were previously invisible, Action Logs help you monitor and troubleshoot your workloads directly, without contacting AWS Support or manually correlating data from multiple sources. With Action Logs, you gain visibility into key deployment state transitions of service deployments, Managed Daemon updates. Each log entry includes the event name, log level(INFO, WARN, OR ERROR), relevant resource ARNs, and a status reason, helping you reduce mean time to resolution when issues arise. You can opt in at the cluster level through the Amazon ECS console or by using Amazon CloudWatch vended logs APIs, and choose to deliver logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose depending on your operational needs. At launch, Amazon Q in the Amazon ECS console integrates with Action Logs to automatically detect deployment issues such as circuit breaker rollbacks and unstable service revisions, providing customers with root cause analysis, resource-level comparisons, and step-by-step remediation guidance without leaving the console. Standard CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose pricing applies for log ingestion and storage. For pricing details, see Amazon CloudWatch Pricing. Amazon ECS Action Logs are available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, refer Monitor Amazon ECS operations with Action Logs in Amazon ECS Developer Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ecs-action-logs/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and up to 200,000 total recording and alerting rules per workspace. Customers can also create many workspaces per account, enabling the storage and analysis of billions of Prometheus metrics across their organization. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alert on operational metrics at scale. It automatically scales ingestion and storage for high-cardinality workloads across containerized, serverless, and hybrid environments, and integrates with AWS security services for fast, secure access to data. To get started, create an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace and increase your workspace active series or rules limits by filing a service limit increase request in AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-managed-service-prometheus-1500m-metrics-workspace/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP3+GDR KB5089271 (RDS version 13.00.6490.1.v1), SQL Server 2017 CU31+GDR KB5090354 (RDS version 14.00.3530.2.v1), SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR KB5090407 (RDS version 15.00.4470.1.v1) and SQL Server 2022 CU25 KB5081477 (RDS version 16.00.4255.1.v1). The GDR updates address vulnerabilities described in CVE-2026-40370. For additional information on the improvements and fixes included in these updates, see Microsoft documentation for KB5089271, KB5090354, KB5090407 and KB5081477. We recommend that you upgrade your Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances to apply these updates using Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. You can learn more about upgrading your database instance in the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide for upgrading your RDS Microsoft SQL Server DB engine.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-rds-supports-latest-cu-gdr-microsoft-sql-server aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

AWS Marketplace now supports self-service seller signature management for India-based sellers

AWS Marketplace now enables India-based sellers to upload and manage their seller signatures directly through AWS Partner Central, eliminating the previous manual, email-based submission process. Sellers located in India are required to provide a valid seller signature for tax invoicing and regulatory compliance. This launch consolidates Goods and Services Tax Identification Number (GSTIN) registration and seller signature management into a single, centralized location purpose-built for India-based sellers transacting on AWS Marketplace. Once uploaded, AWS Marketplace securely stores your signature and uses it for applicable buyer tax invoices generated on your behalf for transactions in India. This launch introduces automated real-time validation and a new tax summary container providing at-a-glance visibility into GSTIN registration and seller signature verification status. Sellers are notified by email when their signature is verified or rejected, and can resolve rejections independently by resubmitting directly in the console using the displayed rejection reason, ensuring real-time compliance visibility. To learn more about managing your tax compliance and seller signature in AWS Partner Central, visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-marketplace-india/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 brings AI integration directly into the database engine, enabling customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL without additional middleware. Customers running RDS for SQL Server can use this capability to integrate existing database workloads securely with AWS services such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda, without re-architecting applications. This enables scenarios such as AI-powered query advisor, automated performance analysis, event-driven workflows, and calling custom web services on Amazon EC2. SQL Server 2025 introduces a new free edition for development and testing without licensing costs (Standard Developer Edition, or Dev-SE), and significant Standard Edition capacity increases up to 32 cores and 256 GB buffer pool memory. Standard Edition also gains Resource Governor, previously exclusive to Enterprise Edition. SQL Server 2025 also introduces a native vector data type for storing and querying vector embeddings directly within the database. Customers running earlier SQL Server versions on RDS can upgrade to SQL Server 2025 by modifying the DB engine version, and customers running SQL Server on premises can migrate to take advantage of these capabilities with fully managed infrastructure. For more information, see the Amazon RDS for SQL Server User Guide. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for up-to-date pricing and regional availability.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/rds-sqlserver-supports-sqlserver-2025 aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 21

AWS Partner Central agents expand funding guidance to all programs

AWS Partner Central agents now support all AWS Partner funding programs. AWS Partners can get guidance on eligibility requirements, application processes, and program details for any funding program and receive documentation-backed answers in seconds. The agents already automate the full funding lifecycle for four funding programs, supported since the March 2026 launch. This expansion adds Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) and AWS Growth Initiative (AGI) funding programs, eliminating manual data entry and reducing eligibility errors. The agents validate eligibility against opportunity and partner data, review uploaded documentation against program requirements, and draft fund requests with auto-populated fields. AWS Partner Central agents are available in all commercial AWS Regions. To get started, open an opportunity in AWS Partner Central to receive funding recommendations, or review the agents guide for more details.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-partner-central/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 20

AWS HealthOmics now available in two additional AWS Regions

AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio) Regions, expanding access to fully-managed bioinformatics workflows for research, drug discovery, and agriculture science initiatives with regional compliance requirements. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed bioinformatics workflows. With HealthOmics private workflows, customers can build and scale genomics data analysis pipelines using familiar domain-specific languages including Nextflow, WDL, and CWL, enabling healthcare and life sciences customers to focus on scientific discovery rather than infrastructure management. HealthOmics provides built-in features, such as Git integrations for version-controlled workflow development and third-party container registry support through Amazon ECR, to make it easy to migrate existing pipelines and accelerate development of new genomics workflows while maintaining full data provenance and compliance requirements.   Private workflows are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Asia Pacific (Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo). To learn more, visit the AWS HealthOmics User Guide. For more information on pricing, visit AWS HealthOmics pricing.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/healthomics-tokyo-ohio/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 20

AWS Data Exports now provides standardized Amazon Bedrock product metadata

Today, AWS announces standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock in AWS Data Exports (Cost and Usage Report), giving FinOps teams and cloud administrators consistent, structured attributes to understand  Bedrock costs. AWS Data Exports lets you create customized exports of your AWS cost and usage data and deliver them to Amazon S3 for querying with Amazon Athena or loading into your data warehouse. With these attributes, you can attribute Bedrock spend without building custom logic to parse various product metadata in CUR 2.0. The standardized attributes include model provider, model name, pricing unit, inference type (such as input tokens or output tokens), and feature (the inference serving mode, such as On-Demand or Batch), along with a unified "Amazon Bedrock" product family name that consolidates all Bedrock costs. In CUR 2.0, the model provider, model name, inference type, and feature attributes are available in the product map column, and pricing unit is available as a column. The standardized fields are available by default, at no additional cost, to Amazon Bedrock customers using AWS Data Exports. To learn more, visit the Amazon Bedrock product page, and see Product columns in the AWS Data Exports User Guide for the standardized product attributes.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-data-exports-amazon-bedrock-product-metadata/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 20

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver 20% higher performance than R7i instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. They are up to 30% faster for PostgreSQL databases, up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, and up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models compared to R7i. R8i-flex, our first memory-optimized Flex instances, are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of memory-intensive workloads. They offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don't fully utilize all compute resources. R8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. R8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. R8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver 142,100 aSAPS, delivering exceptional performance for mission-critical SAP workloads. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. For more information about the R8i and R8i-flex instances visit the AWS News blog.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/amazon-ec2-r8i-r8i-flex-instances-in-stockholm-zurich-regions/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 20

Selectively log network activity events by identity in AWS CloudTrail

Today, AWS launches enhanced event filtering for network activity events for VPC end points, a CloudTrail event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint. Customers can now control which network activity events are logged based on the IAM user identity making the API call. For example, you can configure selectors to log only access denied events when the calling user identity is not on a known safe list. This lets you capture unauthorized access attempts while excluding routine traffic from trusted identities, reducing both logging costs and noise. With UserIdentity filtering, customers building a data perimeter strategy can focus on network activity event logging for scenarios that matter most in security. You can configure selectors to log only VpceAccessDenied events from identities outside a trusted set of IAM roles. This enables detection of potential data exfiltration attempts through VPC endpoints without the cost of logging every successful API call from approved principals. You can combine UserIdentity conditions with existing fields like eventName or vpcEndpointId for fine-grained control over what gets recorded. You can use this feature via the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, and AWS SDKs. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where CloudTrail network activity events are supported. To learn more about Network Activity events, visit the AWS CloudTrail user guide or read AWS Blog on how to enable Network Activity Events.
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/07/aws-cloudtrail-filter-useridentity-advance-selectors/ aws.amazon.com
RSS Hunter RSS Hunter • Jul 20