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Amazon Aurora serverless now scales in even larger steps, adding up to 16 ACUs to its current capacity within a second and continuing to scale up to 256 ACUs as your workload grows. With this launch, your workload will scale faster and reach capacity that it requires. When the workload finishes, Aurora serverless automatically scales down to zero, so you only pay for what you use. This makes it especially well-suited for agentic AI applications, which typically have bursts of activity, long idle windows, and unpredictable traffic patterns. This enhancement is enabled by default on all Aurora serverless clusters running on platform version 3 …
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now lets you directly query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data stored in your data lake alongside live operational data—no ETL pipelines required. Powered by DuckDB embedded within Aurora, this capability enables single queries that join transactional and historical data using familiar PostgreSQL syntax. It supports AWS Glue Data Catalog, S3, and S3 Tables, with optimizations like predicate pushdown and caching for efficient performance.
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now support M8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads. Each vCPU in M8a database instances corresponds to a physical CPU core, which delivers consistent per-core performance. For workloads with high I/O requirements, M8a instances provide up to 75 Gbps of network bandwidth and 60 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth. All instances are built on the AWS Nitro System using sixth-generation Nitro Cards. M8a database instances are available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo, Hyder…
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Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads. Each vCPU in R8a database instances corresponds to a physical CPU core, which delivers consistent per-core performance. For workloads with high I/O requirements, R8a instances provide up to 75 Gbps of network bandwidth and 60 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth. All R8a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System using sixth-generation Nitro Cards. R8a database instances are supported for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition, RDS for …
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Starting today, you can directly query operational data together with data stored in data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools, without extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines or data duplication. Applications increasingly need access to data from data lakes, often stored in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats, to make more informed decisions and automate business processes. Accessing it has typically required pipelines that copy data from your data lake into Aurora, driving up costs and engineering work as schemas evolve. With this launch, you can create PostgreSQL foreign tab…
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AWS CloudTrail introduces Event Coverage, a new console experience that gives customers visibility into their data plane operations coverage at the account and organization level. You can now see which AWS services and resource types in your environment have data event logging enabled and which do not. This helps you quickly identify gaps in your logging posture without manually scanning accounts in your organization. Data events enable you to track data plane operations in AWS services. For example, you can log Amazon S3 object-level operations like GetObject and PutObject to detect unauthorized data access or exfiltration attempts. Without…
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AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Marketplace metering agent skill, an AI-guided experience that helps sellers build, deploy, and validate a usage-based (pay-as-you-go) SaaS metering integration from within their AI coding assistant. The skill guides sellers through the complete integration journey — gathering their product type, pricing model, and usage dimensions; recommending the correct metering API; generating integration code and a customized AWS CloudFormation stack tailored to their configuration; and running an end-to-end test against AWS Marketplace before any production code ships. Previously, sellers integrating m…
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Amazon S3 Tables add support for geometry, geography, unknown, and nanosecond timestamp data types, along with column default values, as defined in the Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) specification. You can now store geospatial coordinates and nanosecond-precision event times natively instead of encoding them in strings or integers. This helps simplify data architecture while improving storage efficiency and performance. With this launch, S3 Tables support all data types introduced in V3, adding to existing support for the Variant data type, deletion vectors, and row lineage. Geometry and geography columns store points, lines, and polygons nat…
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AWS Deadline Cloud now supports running jobs using Docker containers from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Linux-based service-managed fleets. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams run compute-intensive workloads in the cloud for visual effects, animation, product design, simulation, and gaming. Deadline Cloud customers can now bring their own software containers directly to the service using Docker-enabled fleets. Customers that already package software into container images can point Deadline Cloud to these images directly. This unlocks any container-deployed software use case, from rendering tools like Blende…
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Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations let you secure capacity up to 120 days in advance by specifying the capacity you need, the start date, and a commitment duration. If your plans change before delivery, you can now postpone your start date to match your new timeline. When you postpone your start date, EC2 presents a quote that shows the new start date and the required commitment duration. The commitment duration can increase, depending on when you postpone the start date. After you review and accept the quote, EC2 updates your reservation with the new start date. This feature is available to all Future-dated Capacity Reservation c…
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On September 25, 2026, Amazon announced a patch update for the following Amazon Corretto Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK: Corretto 25.0.4.10.1, 21.0.12.11.1, 17.0.20.12.1, and 11.0.32.12.1 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. This patch includes the latest tzdata 2026d updates. Visit Corretto home page to download Corretto 27, Corretto 25, Corretto 21, Corretto 17, Corretto 11, or Corretto 8. You can also get the updates on your Linux system by configuring a Corretto Apt, Yum, or Apk repo. Feedback is welcomed!
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For developers building MongoDB-compatible applications, retryable writes improve application resilience during transient errors such as network interruptions or primary failovers. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports retryable writes starting with engine version 8.0.2, eliminating the need for additional code changes when enabling this capability. With retryable writes, the MongoDB driver automatically retries certain write operations one time if a transient error occurs. Most current MongoDB-compatible drivers enable retryable writes by default. With this release, applications connecting to Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.2 no…
