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Tracking 284 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS DevOps Agent adds custom SRE agents and headless access
AWS DevOps Agent now supports custom SRE agents, allowing teams to automate recurring workflows, and headless access via MCP/A2A protocols for integration with existing tools. This enables teams to build agents for tasks like health reports or anomaly detection, and invoke the agent from IDEs or coding assistants without leaving their current environment. These enhancements aim to streamline SRE operations and broaden integration possibilities for developers, with availability expanding to five new regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon Lightsail expands availability to Hong Kong, São Paulo, and Spain
Amazon Lightsail is now available in three new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion allows customers in these geographies to benefit from lower latency, improved performance, and local data residency options. Developers and businesses in these regions can now access Lightsail's full suite of services, including instances, managed databases, and container services, with simple pricing. Resources can be provisioned via the Lightsail Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.
announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
SageMaker now offers serverless fine-tuning for NVIDIA Nemotron models
Amazon SageMaker now supports serverless fine-tuning for NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Nano model, allowing users to adapt foundation models with proprietary data. This feature simplifies the process by managing infrastructure and orchestration, enabling users to focus on data and evaluation. Serverless customization is now available in specific AWS regions and can be accessed via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
SageMaker Serverless Fine-Tuning for Nvidia Nemotron Models
Amazon SageMaker now offers serverless fine-tuning for Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Nano model, allowing users to adapt foundation models with proprietary data. This feature enables tailoring models for domain-specific tasks or tone alignment, abstracting infrastructure management and adopting a pay-for-use model. It's available in specific AWS regions and can be accessed via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon EKS local clusters on Outposts now support EC2 instance store
Amazon EKS local clusters on AWS Outposts now support EC2 instances that boot from instance store on first and second-generation Outposts racks. This expansion provides static stability for Kubernetes control planes, aiding data residency and mitigating network disconnect impacts. The new architecture offers greater parity with cloud EKS clusters and supports several advanced features, now generally available in commercial AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineergovernment ·
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML available in AWS GovCloud
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, offering reserved GPU capacity for government and regulated industries. This feature allows customers to secure GPU instances for ML workloads like training and prototyping up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to six months. The service provides low-latency connectivity and can be shared across accounts via AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This enablement is crucial for organizations needing assured, on-demand accelerated compute within the stringent compliance requirements of AWS GovCloud.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 I7i instances launched in Paris region
Amazon EC2 I7i instances, featuring 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances offer improved compute and storage performance, making them ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads. They are available in eleven sizes and provide up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineerhealthcare ·
AWS Lake Formation Adds Direct S3 Data File Access via Table Permissions
AWS Lake Formation now allows direct read and write access to underlying Amazon S3 data files for tables using existing Lake Formation table grants, consolidating permissions for SQL and file-based operations. This enables Spark jobs for tasks like model training and feature engineering by providing temporary, scoped S3 credentials based on table permissions. The feature is integrated with Amazon EMR 7.13+ and logged in AWS CloudTrail, available at no extra charge across all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances Expand to Paris Region
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances, powered by Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, offer 8 TiB of DDR5 memory and up to 45% better price performance than previous generations. They are designed for mission-critical in-memory databases and support high EBS and network bandwidth, making them suitable for large-scale data environments.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds Web Search
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers general availability for Web Search, a fully managed tool to ground AI agents in current web knowledge. This eliminates the need for custom integrations with external search providers, simplifying agent development and enhancing response accuracy with multi-source grounding. The feature is available today in the US East (N. Virginia) region and is optimized for token-efficient retrieval of relevant information.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawssnowflakeengineer ·
Amazon Quick integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI
Amazon Quick now integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI via the Model Context Protocol, allowing users to query Snowflake data and documents using natural language and automate multi-step workflows directly within Quick. This integration enables teams to build orchestrated workflows with Snowflake Cortex Agents for repeatable, governed processes. It benefits any multi-step process involving structured data and unstructured documents, offering both structured rigor and conversational flexibility.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds native histogram support
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports native histograms, allowing for higher-resolution metric distributions with reduced cardinality and more precise percentile calculations. This benefits DevOps and SRE teams by eliminating the need for manual bucket configuration and lowering the active series count. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and offers a more cost-effective way to monitor distributions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL adds support for version 18.3
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL major version 18.3, bringing community improvements for query performance, database management, and new capabilities like pg_roaringbitmap for efficient set operations. This update benefits users by improving query execution, reducing index overhead, and enabling faster logical replication. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, with multiple upgrade paths available.
feature patch - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Application Signals adds context for troubleshooting
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now integrates infrastructure, logs, and traces directly into its service overview and application map. This enhancement allows operators to triage unhealthy services and inspect underlying compute, log snippets, and trace details within a single interface, reducing the need to switch between tools for root cause analysis. These capabilities are available for workloads on Amazon EKS, ECS, Lambda, and EC2 in all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon MWAA Serverless supports EventBridge notifications
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless now integrates with Amazon EventBridge to emit notifications for workflow and task state changes. This feature enables data engineering and platform teams to build event-driven automation, reducing the need for custom polling logic. It's available in all AWS Regions where MWAA Serverless is supported, offering enhanced automation possibilities like triggering alerts or restarting dependent pipelines.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgamedia ·
Google Gemma 4 models available on Amazon Bedrock
AWS has announced the integration of Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family of open-weight models into Amazon Bedrock. These models enable the development of generative AI applications for reasoning, multimodal understanding, agentic workflows, and software engineering. The Gemma 4 family includes three variants optimized for different use cases, all running on a new, price-performant Bedrock innovation. The models are now available in select AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
VPC Flow Logs adds EC2 resource tags and next-hop metadata
Amazon VPC Flow Logs now includes EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting. This eliminates manual data correlation, allowing users to directly link flow logs to specific resources and understand traffic traversal. This enhancement is available across numerous AWS Regions and is ideal for engineers managing VPC network traffic.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon MWAA Serverless supports EventBridge notifications
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, allowing for event-driven automation of Airflow workflows. This eliminates the need for custom polling by emitting events for workflow and task state changes, such as success or failure. Data engineering and platform teams can leverage this feature to automate alerts, restart dependent pipelines, or log state transitions, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Elastic Beanstalk console integrates CloudWatch Logs
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now integrates CloudWatch Logs directly into the console's Logs tab, eliminating the need to navigate to the CloudWatch console. This feature allows users to view log events, select log groups and streams, and provides direct links for deeper analysis in CloudWatch Logs Insights. The integration is available across all supported Elastic Beanstalk platform branches and AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New securityinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Workload Credentials Provider automates certificate and secret distribution
AWS has released the Workload Credentials Provider, a new client-side tool that automates the deployment and caching of certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. This simplifies certificate renewal management, especially with shorter certificate lifetimes mandated by the CA/B Forum, and unifies secret and certificate distribution across cloud and on-premises workloads. The provider is open source, available for Windows and Linux, and supports common web servers, aiming to prevent expiry-related failures for users.
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