AWS Partners and consulting firms can now create an AWS IQ profile for their company and connect with AWS customers. Customers can message the Partner directly and connect to receive immediate help. Partners can choose to respond as a company or as an individual who works for the company when engaging with customers. Any Partner can set up a public profile showcasing their expertise, solutions, employee profiles, ratings, and reviews.

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enables you to configure port ranges for your container as part of the port mapping. Port mappings (specified in the container definition) allow containers to access ports on the host container instance to send or receive traffic. In addition to individual ports, Amazon ECS now allows your application to access an entire range of ports that you select by opening these ports on the container for you, and binding them to ports on the host. This makes it easier for you to run applications such as game servers and real-time streaming which typically require multiple ports to be opened simultaneously on the container.

Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6a instances and compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6a instances are now available in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), and Europe (London) regions. M6a and C6a instances are powered by third-generation AMD EPYC processors with an all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.6 GHz. M6a instances deliver up to 35% better price performance than comparable M5a instances, while C6a instances deliver up to 15% better price performance than comparable C5a instances. Both M6a and C6a instances offer 10% lower cost than comparable x86-based EC2 instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security.

We’re excited to announce availability of AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. The AWS Middle East (UAE) Region is the second Region in the Middle East, in addition to the Middle East (Bahrain) Region.

AWS Storage Gateway introduces Terraform modules for deploying Amazon S3 File Gateways in VMware environments. You can now leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate and streamline the provisioning and configuration of Amazon S3 File Gateways, providing users with a faster, repeatable, and secure deployment option that can scale.

Amazon Neptune Serverless is now available in the Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall has expanded its offering to include threat intelligence provided by Recorded Future , expanding the breadth of DNS threats you can block using the DNS Firewall’s AWS Managed Domain Lists . Recorded Future’s domain risk list contains over 100,000 domains, with dynamic risk scores, which is updated as new threats are identified and continuously added to DNS Firewall. Recorded Future’s Intelligence Cloud uses sandbox analysis, network traffic analysis, and command and control detection to identify potentially malicious domains from news sites, blogs, the dark web, TOR sites, underground forums, and other external sources.

AWS Marketplace is announcing free trials for SaaS usage-based pricing products, an extension of the free trials for SaaS contracts experience that was introduced on May 31, 2022. With free trials in AWS Marketplace, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can grow their business by reducing sign up friction and providing prospects a first-hand experience of the product. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id, M6id and R6id instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt). These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. Compared to previous generation C5d, M5d and R5d instances, C6id, M6id and R6id instances deliver up to 15% better price performance. C6id offers up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB; M6id and R6id offer up to 58% higher TB storage per vCPU, and 34% lower cost per TB.

Amazon SageMaker Experiments now supports tracking and analysis of machine learning (ML) experiments performed in any IDE (e.g., SageMaker Studio, JupyterHub) or executable code (e.g., local notebooks, scripts) using the SageMaker Python SDK or Boto3. You can track the inputs, parameters, configurations, and results of your ML training iterations. You can assign, group, and organize these iterations into experiments.