Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Milan) region. 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,…
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now lets you create and manage your own backups and restore your data on demand. You can trigger one-time, on-demand backups, schedule automated recurring backups at the frequency and retention you choose, and restore a backup to a new resource or in place of an existing one. This capability is available for both the InfluxDB 2 and InfluxDB 3 engines through the AWS…
Amazon Cognito is now available as a core skill (aws-auth) in the Agent Toolkit for AWS. AI coding agents using the toolkit can now set up, configure, secure, and troubleshoot Amazon Cognito using best-practice workflows, helping developers implement secure sign-in flows for users, AI agents, and microservices faster. The Amazon Cognito (aws-auth) skill covers user pool and app client configuratio…
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) management for Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) prefixes. Network administrators can centrally monitor BGP route protection and automate Route Origin Authorization (ROA) management across their organization. Using BGP route monitoring, you can v…
AWS IAM Identity Center now makes it easier to enable multi-Region support when creating a new organization instance. Previously, enabling multi-Region support required multiple steps including creating a customer managed KMS key, configuring key policies, and manually adding Regions. Now, customers creating a new IAM Identity Center instance in supported Regions can enable multi-Region in one cli…
Today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduces new capabilities in AWS GovCloud (US-West). AgentCore is the platform to build, connect, and optimize agents. With these capabilities, teams operating in regulated environments can build context-aware agents and take them from prototype to production faster, with the controls needed to scale across their organization. AgentCore memory gives agents short-t…
Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 additional Amazon EC2 instance types for managed EC2 fleets and managed container fleets. Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service that enables game developers and studios to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated game servers in the cloud. This expansion gives customer access to the latest compute-optimized and general-purpose instance families. The…
In November 2024, Amazon OpenSearch Service announced Extended Support for legacy Elasticsearch and OpenSearch engine versions (see also the detailed blog post). Since that announcement, many customers have upgraded to newer versions. However, some customers need more time to plan and complete their migrations. To provide this flexibility, we are continuing security and operating system patch cove…
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now helps you identify automated email interactions. Open and Click event notifications now include an isBotEvent field that indicates whether the event was likely triggered by an automated system or a human recipient. Customers who publish Open or Click events through a configuration set event destination will now see an isBotEvent field with a value of Likely or…
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS), a managed service that simplifies running and scaling high performance computing (HPC) workloads on AWS using Slurm, has expanded its security and compliance coverage. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and enterprises in regulated industries can now use PCS to run sensitive and mission-critical HPC workloads while meeting their governance, securit…
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instances, enabling you to run your workloads on GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of an NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPU with 3 GB of GPU memory. Fractional GPUs give you the flexibility to right-size your containers for small-model AI inference, model experimentation, graphics rendering, and oth…
AWS Lambda console now extends its console-to-IDE integration to support Kiro and Cursor IDEs. This expansion builds on the existing console-to-IDE transition for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), providing a seamless transition between cloud and local development environments for serverless developers using these popular IDEs. With the expanded console-to-IDE integration, developers can start from th…
AWS WAF now supports the Salt Security managed rule group, available through AWS Marketplace: Salt Managed Rules for AWS WAF - AI Agent & API Security. This rule group gives AWS WAF customers detection and mitigation for API-focused attacks and for traffic from AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints, without writing or maintaining custom rules. The rule group detects common and compl…
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in Europe (Spain) Region. G7 instances deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to 2.1 graphics performance compared to G6 instances. G7 instances also deliver faster performance for GPU-accelerated data analytics workloads. Customers can use G7 instances…
Today, AWS announces runtime instances, a new feature in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets you run agents on your own Amazon EC2 instances without managing infrastructure. AgentCore runtime provides purpose-built infrastructure to deploy and operate AI agents securely at scale. Runtime instances complement the existing microVM-based option in AgentCore runtime and give teams running sustained, re…
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn node families for Valkey and Memcached. Graviton4-based nodes provide up to 47% higher throughput, up to 43% lower P99 latency, and up to 31% better price-performance for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based nodes of equivalent sizes on Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, depending on node family, size, and workload configuration. Gra…
You can now use the AWS Glue Schema Registry, a serverless and free feature of AWS Glue, in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Mexico (Central), Israel (Tel Aviv), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary) regions to validate and control the evolution of streaming data using…
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports network access controls for OpenSearch UI applications. OpenSearch UI is the fully managed web service for search, analytics, and unified observability across multiple AWS data sources. With network access controls, you can restrict access to your OpenSearch UI applications to approved networks using the same IAM condition keys (aws:SourceVpce, aws:SourceVpc,…
Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support drilling down into real-time queue and routing profile performance. With a single click, supervisors can drill from a summary view into pre-filtered routing profile, queue, agent, or routing step widgets. For example, a supervisor who sees a spike in queue wait times can immediately drill down to agent activity for a specific queue and reassign agents…
AWS Transform now automates the configuration and execution of post-launch actions through the migration workflow. Define actions at the account level and apply them automatically to each source server across your target accounts, including multi-account migrations. Automating these actions removes the slow, error-prone work of configuring them server by server, so your team moves more servers wit…
AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now enables penetration testing of applications that use email-based multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of their login flow. Previously, applications requiring one-time codes or verification links sent by email were out of scope for automated pentesting because the agent had no mechanism to intercept those messages. This launch expands coverage…
Amazon RDS now provides visibility into the initialization status of database storage volumes created from snapshots. You can use this status to determine when your storage is fully initialized after a restore and is ready to support latency-sensitive database workloads at fully provisioned performance. When you restore a database instance to a point-in-time, or create a read replica creation, or…
Amazon WorkSpaces now publishes additional performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, enabling IT administrators to gain deeper visibility into their virtual desktop workloads. These new metrics span network performance, compute and storage resource utilization, and session lifecycle events — all available at no additional cost. With these metrics, administrators can proactively…
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes additional performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, enabling IT administrators to gain deeper visibility into their application streaming workloads. These new metrics span network performance, compute resource utilization, and session lifecycle events — all available at no additional cost. With these metrics, administrators can proac…
AWS Marketplace now supports configurable net payment terms on private offers, with options including Net 30, Net 45, Net 60, or Net 90. Prior to this launch, net payment terms were uniform across all AWS Marketplace purchases, based on the buyer's payment terms with AWS. This new feature allows sellers to configure when payment is due, so invoice due dates match what buyers and sellers negotiate.…
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now supports Authorizer Log Delivery for Provisioned clusters, including both Standard and Express brokers, at no additional cost. With authorizer logs, you get detailed visibility into user and application access, identify and address client authorization issues , and meet your organization's security requirements. Each denied authorization request…
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now supports creating S3 Access Points, providing immediate read-only access to backup data using standard S3 APIs without initiating a restore. This enables targeted file recovery, data validation, compliance auditing, and forensic investigation while your backup data remains protected in your backup vault. You can create an access point for an S3 recovery point and read…
AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon Neptune is now available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). With this expansion, you can store Neptune backups in logically air-gapped vaults in these Regions. Logically air-gapped vaults are immutable, locked by default, and encrypted using AWS owned keys or customer-managed keys.…
Today, Amazon Quick announces supporting multi-dataset topics, enabling users to model relationships across multiple datasets in a single topic and use that model to build dashboards and answer questions in natural language. Previously, answering a question in a Quick Sight visual that spanned datasets required pre-joining the data into a single dataset—adding manual JOIN logic in the data prepara…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore announces two new controls: temporal policies for stateful agent authorization and rate limiting for AI traffic. Temporal policies let you define stateful authorization rules that evaluate each request in the context of an agent's prior actions within a session, because a single tool call can be safe in isolation yet harmful given what preceded it. With temporal policies y…