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Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% better performance than M7i and M7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The M8i and M8i-flex instances are up to 30%…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver 20% higher performance than R7i instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. They are up to 30% faster for Postgr…
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Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i and C7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The C8i and C8i…
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AWS DataSync now provides a monitoring dashboard in the DataSync console that gives you visibility into your data transfers across your account. For each task execution, you can see its status, data and file transfer rates, duration, and the total data and files transferred. You can filter executions by status, task, task mode, execution ID, or start time to focus on a specific set of runs. The dashboard summarizes the filtered results, including the number of successful and failed executions, and the cumulative data and files transferred, grouped by task. To troubleshoot issues, you can select a failed execution to view its errors. The dash…
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Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses with a new enhanced Custom event bus that lets you build event-driven applications that decouple teams and can scale with your organization. Create a custom event bus, share it across accounts, and now teams can publish and consume events with strict ordering, open event formats, built-in retention, and support for advanced event transformations. The EventBridge Custom event bus is a serverless event broker that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your applications, SaaS integrations, and AWS services. It can now be shared with one or more accounts throu…
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Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 19 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 refines the query performance and autovacuum management capabilities introduced in earlier releases and includes bug fixes and stability improvements since Beta 3. Fixes include pg_stat_autovacuum_scores view reporting for TOAST tables and corrected freeze-score scaling so you can tune autovaccum prioritization effectively. Parallel autovacuum now shares a rebalanced cost limit across its workers to keep maintenance on larg…
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Amazon EMR on EKS now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions with Spark Connect. Data engineers and data scientists can develop and debug Apache Spark applications interactively from managed notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and their own IDEs, such as Jupyter and Visual Studio Code, with Spark running on the Amazon EKS clusters they already operate. An interactive session provides a persistent Spark context that spans across cells and scripts, letting you blend local Python code execution with remote Spark operations. Spark Connect's client-server architecture decouples your application client from the Spark driver and allows…
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Amazon ElastiCache now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control (TBAC) for Global Datastore. Previously, ElastiCache supported tagging on all resources except Global Datastore, which prevented customers from applying a single, consistent permission and cost-allocation model across their ElastiCache fleet. With this launch, you can use AddTagsToResource, RemoveTagsFromResource, and ListTagsForResource on a Global Datastore, and reference those tags as conditions in IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to grant permissions based on tag attributes rather than enumerating individual resources. Tag changes on a Global Da…
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ deployments using Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server Developer Edition. Multi-AZ deployments maintain a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone and provide automatic failover during infrastructure failure. You can use this capability to build and test high availability configurations in non-production environments using Developer Edition, which includes all the functionality of Enterprise Edition at no license cost. You can use this feature to validate your high availability architecture, test failover behavior, and develop aga…
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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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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…
