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Today, AWS announces that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports running workloads on IPv6 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Amazon EMR on EKS enables data platform and analytics teams to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink on Amazon EKS. With IPv6 support, teams operating at scale can now run these workloads on IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters, giving them access to the vastly larger address space of IPv6 as their analytics workloads grow. You can now scale large Spark and Flink workloads using the expanded IPv6 address space, which removes the need for IPv4 conservation workarounds such as secon…
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Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development. On an internal OpenAI factuality evaluation, it makes roughly half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol. Luna is the family's most efficient model for focused, high-volume tasks such as summarization, extraction, classification, and routing. Both models support up to 1M tokens of context. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine …
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As Kubernetes adoption has grown, the conversation has shifted beyond running containers to managing increasingly complex application lifecycles. Modern platforms support stateless web services, stateful databases, batch processing, AI workloads, and platform services. At the same time, they must remain reliable during upgrades, scaling events, and infrastructure failures. Every Kubernetes user relies on SIG Apps, whether they realize it or not. Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, and CronJobs form the foundation of how applications are deployed, updated, scaled, and operated across the Kubernetes ecosystem. SIG Apps is focused on i…
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Amazon EMR 7.14 is now available with new features across Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless, along with version upgrades for additional applications. This release also upgrades Apache Spark to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1. Apache Iceberg materialized views now refresh faster on tables with updates and deletes, using change data capture to read only the data files affected by a change. On Amazon EMR on EKS, clusters now support Spark Connect endpoints for interactive Spark sessions with token-based authentication, and can run workloads on IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters. On Amazon EMR Serverless, the storage limit…
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Amazon Route 53 Resolver is now generally available on second-generation AWS Outposts, providing local, managed recursive DNS resolution directly on your Outpost. DNS queries from workloads running on your Outpost are resolved locally, reducing latency and eliminating the need to traverse the Service Link to reach the parent AWS Region. Route 53 Resolver maintains cached DNS records during Service Link disconnections, ensuring continuous DNS resolution even during connectivity interruptions. Route 53 Resolver runs entirely on AWS-managed infrastructure built into every second-generation Outpost, eliminating the need for customer compute capa…
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) for Microsoft SQL Server. This release includes support for SQL Server 2022 CU26 KB5093420 (RDS version 16.00.4265.3.v1). For additional information on the improvements and fixes included in these updates, see Microsoft documentation for KB5093420. You can upgrade your Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to apply these recommended updates using Amazon RDS Management Console, or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. To learn more about upgrading your database instances, see Amazon RDS Custom User Guide.
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Amazon Connect Customer now supports agent-to-agent collaboration, giving customers the choice to bring in specialized AI agents during a live interaction to resolve a customer request. With this launch, Connect Customer AI agents can collaborate with each other, and with AI agents outside Connect Customer, over the open agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol through text or bidirectional voice. For example, a bank's frontline AI agent handling a customer call can delegate a fraud risk assessment to a specialist scoring AI agent, use the result to approve the transaction on the spot, and then transfer a complex dispute to another AI agent that resolv…
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now provides real-time service deployment observability in the Amazon ECS Console for native Linear, Canary, and Blue/Green deployment strategies. With this launch, deployment monitoring and troubleshooting come together in one place in the console, so you can track deployment progress, monitor health, and diagnose failures without switching between tools. Real-time service deployment observability includes a live deployment timeline that narrates each service deployment as it happens, showing every deployment phase, service events, and task launch and termination progress, always reflecting the …
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Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the PersistentVolumeClaimUnusedSinceTime feature gate to Beta (enabled by default). With this feature, the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) protection controller adds an Unused condition to each PVC, telling you whether any running pod currently references it — no custom tooling or cross-referencing required. For the API definition of PVC conditions, see the PersistentVolumeClaim API reference. Read on to learn how the Unused condition works and how to use it. Why track PVC usage?In large-scale Kubernetes clusters, it is common for users to create PVCs and then delete the associated pods without cleaning up the storage, …
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the South America (São Paulo) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances. X8i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and Electronic Design Auto…
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Amazon Elastic Container Service Express Mode now supports specifying ARM64 as the CPU architecture for your service, making it easy to deploy ARM-based container images on AWS Graviton-powered compute and benefit from up to 40% better price-performance compared to x86-based instances. Amazon ECS Express Mode makes it easy to rapidly launch containerized applications, including web applications and APIs, by orchestrating and managing the cloud architecture for your application. You provide your container image, and ECS Express Mode handles the rest, configuring networking, load balancing, auto scaling, and deployments, and providing your app…
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The next generation of AWS Resilience Hub is a central location in the AWS that helps platform engineering and site reliability teams assess and strengthen the resilience of their workloads running on AWS. It provides automated dependency discovery, generative AI-powered failure mode analysis, modular resilience policies, resilience testing, and organization-wide resilience posture reporting. Today, AWS Resilience Hub adds three new capabilities: EKS labels support for service input sources, dependency insights, and resilience policy sharing through AWS Organizations. EKS labels support for service input sources. Resilience Hub now supports …
