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Tracking 284 AWS releases · Updated
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AWS Marketplace Storefront GA for Partners
AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, allowing AWS Partners to launch their own branded solution catalogs on their websites. This simplifies cloud marketplace management for channel partners and ISVs, enabling customers to discover and purchase solutions more easily. The storefront offers no-code branding, automated deal workflows, and integrates with existing AWS billing, with availability across all AWS Marketplace regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
AWS Bedrock AgentCore Memory Adds Strictly Consistent Metadata
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now allows developers to directly attach metadata to long-term memory records, ensuring data integrity and enabling precise filtering. This feature improves data organization, facilitates compliance, and supports multi-tenant architectures by guaranteeing metadata values are preserved without LLM inference. Strictly consistent metadata is available in all AWS Regions where AgentCore Memory is supported.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineermedia ·
Amazon EC2 C7i Instances Now Available in Israel (Tel Aviv)
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 C7i instances in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These instances offer up to 15% better price-performance for compute-intensive workloads and include enhanced features like larger instance sizes and support for Intel accelerators. They are now available to customers for various demanding applications.
feature - AWS What's New awsgapreviewengineer ·
Amazon RDS for MariaDB Adds MariaDB 12.3 Preview Support
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the RDS Database Preview Environment for evaluation before general availability. This version introduces Oracle TO_DATE() compatibility, JSON and XML data types, and performance improvements for query optimization. The preview environment is for testing and instances are retained for a maximum of 60 days.
announcement feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio GA
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio is now generally available, offering a unified interface for querying and visualizing metrics across multiple AWS accounts and regions. This feature allows teams to use PromQL or Metrics Insights to explore OpenTelemetry and AWS-vended metrics from a single workspace, simplifying fleet-wide correlation of performance data. It provides visual query building, diverse visualization options, and integration with CloudWatch dashboards and Grafana, aiding engineers and architects in monitoring complex distributed systems.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
AWS Lambda Managed Instances adds tag propagation
AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, automatically applying specified tags to provisioned EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and ENIs. This addresses a gap for organizations using tagging for cost tracking and governance, enabling better cost allocation and policy enforcement. The feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where LMI is generally available and can be configured via capacity provider APIs or standard AWS tools.
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 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 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 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 observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds out-of-order ingestion and rule query offset
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports out-of-order sample ingestion and a workspace-level rule query offset. These features help reduce data loss and improve alerting accuracy for workloads with distributed collectors or variable network latency. This update is available in all regions where the service is generally available and benefits users with intermittent ingestion delays.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
New Amazon EC2 M8, R8 metal instance sizes launch
AWS has launched new metal-48xl and metal-96xl instance sizes for M8 and R8 EC2 instances, offering up to 43% better compute performance and significantly higher network and EBS bandwidth. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon processors and AWS Nitro cards, targeting workloads like big data analytics, in-memory caches, AI/ML clusters, and storage-intensive applications. The new sizes are initially available in the US East (N. Virginia) region.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs now in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances deliver up to twice the performance of P5en instances for AI training and inference workloads, featuring advanced GPUs, increased memory bandwidth, and enhanced networking capabilities. They are designed for secure and scalable AI workloads within Amazon EC2 UltraClusters and are also available in other US regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineermedia ·
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances with Graviton5 processors are GA
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are now generally available. These new instances offer up to 25% better compute performance than previous generations and are designed for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads. They are available in select regions and purchasing options, with M9gd instances providing high-speed local NVMe storage for specific use cases like media processing.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgapreviewengineer ·
AWS announces Claude Fable 5, a generally available AI model
AWS has made Claude Fable 5, a state-of-the-art Mythos-class AI model, generally available. This model offers enhanced autonomous knowledge work and coding capabilities for developers and enterprises building AI applications. Claude Fable 5 is designed for professional tasks across various industries and can be accessed via Amazon Bedrock or the Claude Platform on AWS. Amazon Bedrock offers AWS-managed features and data residency, while the Claude Platform provides direct Anthropic access with unified billing.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Redshift Serverless and RG manual snapshot costs reduced
Amazon Redshift has updated its billing for manual snapshots on Serverless and RG instances. Snapshots are now metered by unique data blocks rather than total size, reducing costs for users with multiple snapshots. This change benefits customers needing frequent snapshots for disaster recovery or retention by lowering storage expenses. The new model automatically applies to all snapshots across all available AWS regions.
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Amazon Aurora DSQL adds JSONB support with compression
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports PostgreSQL's JSONB data type, enabling easier storage of semi-structured data alongside relational data. This feature improves efficiency for storing payloads like configuration metadata and logs by leveraging PostgreSQL's compression, reducing storage costs. The JSONB data type is available for creating or modifying tables, with initial access potentially covered by the AWS Free Tier.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsgaarchitecthealthcare ·
AWS Glue Data Catalog adds IAM authorization for S3 Tables, Iceberg views in GovCloud
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports IAM-based authorization for Amazon S3 Tables and Apache Iceberg materialized views, simplifying permission management for analytics services. This feature allows unified permissions across storage, catalog, and query engines, enhancing integration with services like Athena and EMR. It is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and offers optional integration with AWS Lake Formation for finer-grained access control.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch UI now available in AWS GovCloud regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service has extended its operational analytics UI to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and US-West regions, allowing unified insights from managed domains and serverless collections. This expansion includes enhanced Workspaces for team collaboration and a revamped Discover interface with improved usability and multi-source support for languages like PPL and SQL. The availability ensures users can leverage the latest UI features and tools across different OpenSearch versions, connecting to domains above 1.3 or serverless collections.
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