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Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX GPUs now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances offer significant performance improvements for AI inference and graphics workloads compared to G6, supporting applications like language translation, real-time graphics rendering, and game streaming. G7 instances are now available in two AWS Regions and can be purchased through various pricing models.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineerhealthcaremedia ·
AWS HealthOmics streams workflow logs to CloudWatch in real time
AWS HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time, allowing for immediate monitoring of workflow execution. This feature accelerates development and debugging for researchers and bioinformaticians by providing instant access to execution details. The streamed logs include orchestration events, task scheduling, import/export activity, and error stack traces, which can be used for alarms, dashboards, and integration with existing observability tools. This capability is now available for Nextflow, WDL, and CWL workflows in all HealthOmics regions.
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AWS Outposts adds AMD-based bmn-cx3a instances with accelerated networking
AWS Outposts now supports bmn-cx3a instances, featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and NVIDIA ConnectX-7 for up to 800 Gbps network bandwidth. This enables high-throughput workloads like real-time data processing and media distribution for customers with second-generation Outposts racks. The instances are available globally where Outposts racks are supported.
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xAI's Grok 4.3 available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers xAI's Grok 4.3 model, expanding choices for generative AI applications. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model designed for consistent multi-step agent behavior and efficient token usage, making it suitable for enterprise workloads like contract review and financial analysis. It runs on Bedrock's new Mantle inference engine, optimized for performance and cost.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineerfinancemedia ·
AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization for bots
AWS WAF now offers AI traffic monetization, a new capability allowing content owners to set prices, accept payments, and grant access to AI bots accessing their APIs and content. This feature utilizes an HTTP 402 response for machine-to-machine payments, with initial integration via Coinbase and upcoming support for Stripe. It enables differentiated pricing and revenue analytics, and is available at no additional charge for AWS WAF customers.
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Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics Unifies Log Querying, Streaming, and Analysis
Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics is a new unified console experience that integrates Logs Insights for querying, Live Tail for real-time streaming, and Contributor Insights for identifying top contributors. This consolidation aims to streamline log analysis for engineers and architects by providing all these capabilities within a single interface. Log Analytics is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses the same pricing as its constituent services.
feature announcement - 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.
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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.
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OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models now on Amazon Bedrock
AWS has expanded the availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models to the US East (N. Virginia) Region on Amazon Bedrock. These models offer advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic task capabilities for building generative AI applications. GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's most capable model for complex tasks, while GPT-5.4 supports frontier reasoning and long-context workflows. Both support a 272K-token context window with text and image inputs and are available via the Responses API.
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.
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Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Intelligent-Tiering expands to 8 new AWS Regions
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports its Intelligent-Tiering storage class in eight new AWS Regions. This feature automatically optimizes storage costs by moving data across access tiers, benefiting workloads like file shares and media libraries. The expansion makes cost-effective, high-performance storage more accessible to users across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America.
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AWS Transform adds TCO assessment for SQL Server migrations to RDS
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now integrates TCO assessment into AWS Transform, allowing users to estimate migration costs from on-premises SQL Server to RDS for SQL Server. The service uses AI to analyze existing environments, recommend optimal instances, and evaluate cost-saving options like Database Savings Plans and the AWS Migration Acceleration Program. Assessments support various data inputs and can be combined with analyses for other AWS services.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds Bring Your Own Media support
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), allowing customers to reuse existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses when migrating to AWS. This feature helps reduce costs for organizations moving SQL Server applications from on-premises or other cloud environments to Amazon RDS. It is particularly beneficial for companies looking to adopt a managed database service while leveraging their current license agreements. BYOM is integrated with AWS License Manager for tracking usage and compliance.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awshealthcaremedia ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications supports Windows Desktop OS BYOL
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Windows Desktop operating systems, allowing customers to use existing licenses for streaming desktop applications. This change offers potential cost savings by eliminating OS fees and provides a consistent user experience between on-premises and cloud environments. The feature is available in multiple AWS Regions and requires meeting Microsoft's licensing requirements.
feature - AWS What's New securityinfraawsengineermediagovernment ·
DynamoDB Streams adds PrivateLink for FIPS in AWS GovCloud
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This enhancement enables government agencies to establish private connectivity to DynamoDB Streams, enhancing security and simplifying network architecture. This allows for secure, real-time data streaming applications that meet federal compliance requirements. The feature is available in AWS GovCloud (US) and other select AWS Regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerhealthcaremedia ·
Amazon EMR GA Support for Apache Spark 4.0.2
Amazon EMR now generally available supports Apache Spark 4.0.2, enhancing data pipeline development with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types. This update enables finer access control and strengthens compliance through Apache Iceberg v3, benefiting data engineers and analysts working with diverse data formats and regulatory requirements. It also improves real-time application deployment with enhanced streaming, and is available in all EMR regions, with an upgrade agent for existing applications.
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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 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 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 awsmedia ·
Amazon ECS integrates with EBS volumes in AWS GovCloud Regions
Amazon ECS now supports Amazon EBS volumes within AWS GovCloud Regions, simplifying the deployment of storage-intensive applications like ETL and media transcoding. Users can configure EBS volume details within ECS task definitions and API requests. This integration offers access to EBS features such as encryption and snapshots for containerized workloads across EC2, Fargate, and managed instances.
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