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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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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 …
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AWS is announcing starting today, Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time s…
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AWS RTB Fabric now supports configurable Availability Zone (AZ) affinity for responder gateways. With this capability, you can configure how your partners connect to your responder gateway: either in their own Availability Zone or to any Availability Zone that the gateway spans. This launch helps advertising technology (AdTech) companies use their infrastructure more efficiently—with no extra charges on RTB Fabric. Demand-side platforms (DSPs) and supply-side platforms (SSPs) run their bidding systems across multiple Availability Zones. Previously, AWS RTB Fabric sent each request to available gateway capacity in the requester's own Availabi…
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Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports message payloads up to 1 MiB, a 4x increase from the previous 256 KiB limit, so you can publish larger messages to your SNS topics. Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. As workloads such as application integration, IoT, and generative AI increasingly exchange larger volumes of data in a single message, the previous 256 KiB limit required customers to offload or split payloads before publishing. With this launch, you can publish message payloads up to 1 MiB by s…
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Today, AWS announces the availability of the next generation of AgentCore Runtime, the serverless microVM compute within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The new Runtime delivers elastic memory management that reclaims unused memory throughout the session so you pay for actual usage rather than the peak, and consistent cold start times regardless of container image size or concurrency. You get the serverless model you already rely on: no pre-provisioning, scale to zero, hardware-enforced session isolation, and pay only for what you use - now with lower costs and faster starts. With the new Runtime, each session starts with a small, efficient memory…
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AWS PrivateLink customers can now use VPC endpoint to privately and securely access network segments in another VPC/account. They can use a ‘tunnel’ endpoint, a new type of VPC endpoint, to tunnel into the network segment and access resources located within it. AWS PrivateLink is a highly available and scalable technology that enables private access across VPC and account boundaries to load balanced services, appliances, and resources such as databases and domains. Prior to this launch, customers who wanted to share their resources with another party such as an external vendor had to do it one at a time by creating a Resource Configuration f…
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AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite Rapids), available only on AWS. T8i instances are among the lowest-cost EC2 instances and deliver up to 30% better price performance over previous generation T3 instances.
