Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, adds support for parametric circuits on superconducting, gate-based quantum processing units (QPUs), enabling up to 10X faster runtime performance for quantum-classical algorithms using Amazon Braket Hybrid Jobs .

Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) launched two new global condition keys for IAM policies that enable you to scalably allow AWS services to access your resources only on your behalf. With this new IAM capability, you can simplify management of your resource-based policies to require that AWS services access your resources only when the request originates from your organization or organizational unit (OU) in AWS Organizations.

Customers can now use default policies to backup all EC2 instances and EBS volumes in their account with a single API call via Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager. Default policies work in conjunction with customers’ existing backup mechanisms to only create EBS-backed AMIs and EBS Snapshots of instances and volumes with no recent backups. This helps ensure customers have comprehensive backup protection without creating duplicate backups or increasing management overhead and cost.

Today, we’re announcing AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) adds support for One Identity Active Roles. Active Roles enables customers to synchronize identities between AWS Managed Microsoft AD and self-managed Active Directories, HR systems, and modern identity management systems, such as One Login, Entra ID, Okta, Ping, Google Identity and other SCIM identity providers. In addition, Active Roles provides enhanced auditing capabilities and governance controls, dynamic delegation models, least privilege access management, automated provisioning, and workflow-based approval systems, layered on top of your identity services to enhance your overall management experience.

AWS Cloud Map now supports AWS CloudTrail data events for DiscoverInstances and DiscoverInstancesRevision APIs. With CloudTrail integration for these AWS Cloud Map APIs, customers can now get a history of APIs calls made for cloud resource discovery. This can help customers enhance governance, compliance, and risk auditing capabilities for the workloads running with AWS Cloud Map.

AWS Amplify Hosting is excited to announce the general availability of wildcard subdomains when using a custom domain with your Amplify application. This new capability is available for any application deployed to AWS Amplify Hosting using a custom domain including static applications, single page applications (SPA), and fullstack Server-side rendering applications using Next.js.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in AWS Region US West (N. California). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. 

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Region US West (N. California). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up to 2x higher packet-processing performance over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale the performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF).

We are excited to announce that Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unity now supports the latest versions of Unity Long Term Support (LTS) and Amazon GameLift Server SDK. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unity now supports 2021.3 LTS and 2022.3 LTS for Windows and Mac OS.

AWS announces the preview of AWS Integrated Application Test Kit (IATK) , a new open-source test library that makes it easier for developers to create tests for cloud applications with increased speed and accuracy. With AWS IATK, developers can quickly write tests that exercise their code and its AWS integrations against an environment in the cloud, making it easier to catch mistakes early in the development process. IATK includes utilities to generate test events, validate event delivery and structure in Amazon EventBridge Event Bus, and assertions to validate call flow using AWS X-Ray traces.