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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft, enabling customers to migrate existing clusters to KRaft without provisioning new infrastructure, migrating data, or reconfiguring client applications. KRaft is Apache Kafka’s consensus protocol that eliminates the dependency on Apache ZooKeeper for metadata management. KRaft shifts metadata management […]

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6TB instances offer 6 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data […]

Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. These instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances. R8a instances deliver 45% more memory […]

AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints over AWS PrivateLink for Tape Gateway and Volume Gateway. Previously, FIPS endpoints were available only over the public internet. Now you can keep FIPS-compliant traffic on the private AWS network, making it easier to use Storage Gateway for regulated workloads. With this launch, your Tape Gateway […]

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers a native monitoring experience embedded directly in the service console. Administrators can now access real-time session-level metrics, instance-level resource data, and network performance metrics without requiring third-party monitoring tools or Amazon CloudWatch expertise. Previously, enterprise customers managing large WorkSpaces Applications deployments relied on external solutions or built complex custom CloudWatch […]

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has increased the default quota for managed policies per role from 10 to 20. This higher default quota reduces the need to make Service Quota requests when following IAM best practices like separating permissions into purpose-specific policies or when onboarding to AWS Partner products that require attaching additional managed […]

Amazon Quick custom permissions now include deny by default, a governance setting that automatically restricts new AI capabilities before they reach users. Previously, new AI capabilities were available to all users on release, requiring administrators to react after the fact. With deny by default, administrators restrict the AI capability category in a custom permissions profile […]

AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 5 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Stockholm). With this launch, you can use Lambda MicroVMs in a total of 10 AWS Regions. Lambda MicroVMs is a serverless compute primitive that provides VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume […]

AWS has added a fourth Availability Zone to the Europe (London) Region (eu-west-2), expanding infrastructure capacity to meet growing demand for cloud compute in the Region. The new Availability Zone delivers next-generation AI and ML capacity, including Amazon EC2, Trn3, and P6 accelerated instances, alongside general-purpose compute. The new Availability Zone gives AWS customers in […]

Today, AWS Marketplace announces support for launching select Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon Lightsail. Customers who want simple, predictable pricing and a streamlined instance-creation experience can now easily deploy eligible AWS Marketplace AMIs on Amazon Lightsail in just a few clicks. Lightsail instance bundles include compute, storage, and a generous data transfer allowance at […]

Starting today, customers can use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), for ingesting data into their Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections. Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is a fully managed data ingestion tier that allows you to ingest and process data before indexing it in Amazon OpenSearch managed clusters […]

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors spend on third-party foundation models running on Amazon Bedrock, such as Anthropic Claude and other provider-hosted models. Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to detect and alert on unusual spend, and this launch extends that coverage to third-party model usage on Amazon Bedrock. Teams running production generative AI workloads […]

Amazon SageMaker Notebooks now support Trusted Identity Propagation (TIP) with Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon EMR Serverless, enabling per-user access control for data analytics. When connected to a TIP-enabled compute in a TIP-enabled Project, each notebook user’s IAM Identity Center identity flows through to AWS Lake Formation, ensuring they see only the tables, columns, […]

Amazon CloudWatch Centralization now copies log group tags from source accounts to the destination log groups created by centralization rules. CloudWatch Centralization aggregates log data from multiple accounts and Regions into one destination account. With tag propagation, the cost, ownership, and compliance tags you maintain at the source now apply to the copied log groups. […]

Web Search in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports domain filtering and published-date filtering, giving agents per-request control over which web sources and time windows they search. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore provides the infrastructure to build, connect, and optimize AI agents, and Web Search enables those agents to ground responses in current web data. With runtime domain […]