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Tracking 284 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ replication now uses ENA Express
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now leverage ENA Express, utilizing AWS's SRD protocol to enhance replication traffic between Availability Zones. This update promises up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth, reduced latency variability, and increased write throughput for write-intensive workloads. The feature is available at no extra cost for several RDS engines and can be enabled on existing instances via a start-stop or compute scaling action.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances now 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 significant performance improvements and better price-performance compared to previous generations, benefiting a wide range of general-purpose workloads. They are available immediately for use via the AWS Management Console.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances offer up to 15% better price-performance and significantly higher memory bandwidth compared to previous generations. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads, databases, web applications, AI recommendations, and SAP workloads, with R8i-flex providing flexible size options for varied compute utilization.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS VPC IPAM adds tags for pool allocations
AWS VPC IPAM now supports tags on IP address pool allocations, allowing users to organize and govern IP usage via existing AWS tagging workflows. This feature enables centralized governance through IAM and Service Control Policies, and simplifies searching and filtering allocations by tag. It is available in all AWS Regions where IPAM is supported at no additional cost.
feature - AWS What's New securitygovernanceawsengineer ·
GuardDuty Malware Protection adds S3 continuous backup scanning
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection now supports S3 continuous backups, enabling malware scanning for recovery points. This feature allows users to identify clean points in time, verify recovery safety, and initiate restores with greater confidence. Support is available in all regions where GuardDuty Malware Protection is offered, accessible via the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI.
feature - AWS What's New mlawsengineer ·
SageMaker Studio adds interactive Feature Store management
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio IAM domains now offers an interactive interface for creating and managing SageMaker Feature Store feature groups, removing the need for manual coding. This enhancement makes feature management accessible to a wider range of users within a unified environment. The interface allows for discovering, creating, modifying, and monitoring feature groups without API calls. Features are crucial inputs for ML models, influencing training and inference outcomes.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
SageMaker Unified Studio expands domain management for Identity Center domains
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers domain management for Identity Center-based domains outside the AWS console, enabling administrators to manage projects, workforce identity, and networking. This expands capabilities previously limited to IAM-based domains, improving unified administration. These features are available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is supported.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transform enhances migration assessments with new capabilities
AWS Transform now provides advanced migration assessment features including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, and TCO analysis to accelerate migration decisions. This update allows users to incorporate various data sources and include additional pillars of the Cloud Value Framework for comprehensive business cases. These new capabilities are available in all AWS Transform regions for engineers and architects planning AWS migrations.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
SageMaker Unified Studio adds business metadata and governance to IAM domains
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports business context, metadata, and data governance for IAM-based domains. This allows customers to enrich AWS Glue Data Catalog tables with business names, descriptions, and documentation, potentially using AI for automatic generation. The update aims to improve data discovery and access management for data engineers, analysts, and scientists across the organization. These capabilities are now available in all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineer ·
AWS Security Agent generates scripts to verify pentest findings
AWS Security Agent can now automatically generate scripts to reproduce penetration test findings. This feature allows security teams to independently validate discovered vulnerabilities, reducing manual effort and accelerating remediation. The scripts include setup instructions and are available in all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerretailmedia ·
Amazon GameLift Streams launches Generation 6e stream classes
Amazon GameLift Streams has launched new Generation 6e (G6e) stream classes featuring enhanced GPU performance for graphically demanding games and applications. These new classes leverage EC2 G6e instances with NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs, offering increased GPU memory and bandwidth. They are designed for users requiring maximum GPU performance for AAA-quality game streaming and are now available in select AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Linux Migration Now Available
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports migrating Linux WorkSpaces between operating systems, automating user data transfer and streamlining upgrades. This feature allows customers to move to newer OS versions or different distributions without manual intervention, improving user experience and IT efficiency. It is available for all supported Linux OSs in AWS commercial and GovCloud regions where WorkSpaces Personal is offered.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon Keyspaces expands to AWS Malaysia and Thailand regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions. This expansion allows customers in the region to build Cassandra-compatible applications with lower latency and meet data residency requirements. The service offers features like point-in-time recovery and Multi-Region replication, enabling highly scalable, low-latency applications without managing Cassandra clusters.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerhealthcarefinance ·
AWS Clean Rooms adds mutable payment configurations for collaborations
AWS Clean Rooms now allows mutable fine-grained payment configurations for collaboration members, offering greater flexibility and control over cost responsibilities. Customers can specify which partners pay for specific cost types like queries, PySpark jobs, and ML training after a collaboration is established. This enhancement, available through change requests requiring member approval, particularly benefits scenarios like pharmaceutical research collaborating with healthcare organizations where different payment responsibilities can be assigned.
feature - AWS What's New securityawssnowflakeengineer ·
AWS Secrets Manager supports Datadog keys and Snowflake PATs
AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Datadog keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens (PATs). This feature automates the rotation of third-party credentials, reducing manual effort and potential security risks for engineers managing secrets across different services. These new integrations are available in all supported AWS Regions where managed external secrets are offered.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds string, encode/decode, and parse commands
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now supports 13 new query commands and functions for string manipulation, encoding/decoding, and log parsing. These enhancements allow users to derive deeper insights by performing operations like URL encoding, Base64 decoding, logfmt parsing, and calculating geographic distances directly within queries. The new capabilities are available today in all commercial AWS Regions and are particularly useful for analyzing non-JSON log formats and complex data.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineermedia ·
EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i Instances Now in Hyderabad Region
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances, powered by custom Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These instances offer improved performance and price-performance benefits over previous generations and comparable x86 processors from other cloud providers. They are suitable for a wide range of workloads, from general-purpose applications to compute-intensive tasks like ML and video streaming, with options for various instance sizes and bare metal configurations.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet job retries
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now automatically provisions AWS Glue connectors across subnets, enhancing data pipeline resilience. This feature reduces unplanned downtime and SLA breaches by enabling automatic job retries on alternate subnets during failures, without manual engineer intervention. It's available for all SageMaker Unified Studio users in supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineermedia ·
SageMaker Inference Supports OpenAI-Compatible APIs
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, allowing direct integration with tools like OpenAI SDK and LangChain by simply changing the endpoint URL. This feature simplifies connecting to SageMaker endpoints, enabling users to leverage existing code and authentication with custom models and VPCs. It offers flexibility in instance choice, data privacy, model execution, and autoscaling, with authentication managed via AWS credentials. The capability is available today in multiple AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 Generally Available
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports community MySQL 8.4, aligning version numbers and simplifying operations. This release enhances security defaults, enforcing TLS and updating authentication plugins, while also introducing automated upgrade prechecks for smoother transitions. It is available globally for users seeking high performance and availability with full MySQL compatibility.
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