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Boasting 32 cores, the latest Kratos 3U VPX computing board is the hightest core-count Intel Xeon board available, says Concurrent. The SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) -compliant form factor increases …

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You can now change the server-side encryption type of encrypted objects in Amazon S3 without any data movement. You can use the UpdateObjectEncryption API to atomically change the encryption key of your objects regardless of the object size or storage class. With S3 Batch Operations, you can use UpdateObjectEncryption at scale to standardize the encryption type on entire buckets of objects while preserving object properties and S3 Lifecycle eligibility.

Customers across many industries face increasingly stringent audit and compliance requirements on data security and privacy. A common requirement for these compliance frameworks is more rigorous encryption standards for data-at-rest, where organizations must encrypt data using a key management service. With UpdateObjectEncryption, customers can now change the encryption type of existing encrypted objects to move from Amazon S3 managed server-side encryption (SSE-S3) to use server-side encryption with AWS KMS keys (SSE-KMS). You can also change the customer-managed KMS key used to encrypt your data to comply with custom key rotation standards or enable the use of S3 Bucket Keys to reduce your KMS requests.

The Amazon S3 UpdateObjectEncryption API is available in all AWS Regions. To get started, you can use the AWS Management Console or the latest AWS SDKs to update the server-side encryption type of your objects. To learn more, please visit the documentation .

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes. With additional storage volumes, customers can add up to three storage volumes, each with up to 64 TiB, in addition to the primary storage volume for their database instance. As a result, customers get flexibility to add or remove storage with evolving workload demands, without incurring application downtime, and set up their database instance with up to 256 TiB storage. Now, with support for cross-Region replicas, customers that set up database instances with cross-Region replicas for business-critical applications also get the benefit of using additional storage volumes for storage flexibility.

When you create a cross-Region replica for a database instance that is set up with additional storage volumes, Amazon RDS for Oracle automatically configures the same storage layout on the replica. Subsequently, you can apply changes to additional storage volumes on the primary instance and the replica using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. In disaster recovery situations, you can promote a cross-Region replica to serve as the new standalone database, or execute a switchover to reverse roles between the primary database and the replica to meet low recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) for business critical applications.

You will need an Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE) license to use replicas in mounted mode, and an additional Oracle Active Data Guard license to use replicas in read-only mode. We recommend consulting your legal team or licensing expert to verify Oracle license requirements for your specific use case. Amazon RDS for Oracle cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes is available in all AWS Regions including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, see Amazon RDS for Oracle User Guide .

Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Europe (Spain) and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. 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 bandwidth compared to R7a instances, making these instances ideal for latency sensitive workloads. Compared to Amazon EC2 R7a instances, R8a instances provide up to 60% faster performance for GroovyJVM, allowing higher request throughput and better response times for business-critical applications.

Built on the AWS Nitro System using sixth generation Nitro Cards, R8a instances are ideal for high performance, memory-intensive workloads, such as SQL and NoSQL databases, distributed web scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) applications. R8a instances offer 12 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes. Amazon EC2 R8a instances are SAP-certified, and providing 38% more SAPS compared to R7a instances.

To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console . For more information about the new instances, visit the Amazon EC2 R8a instance page .

Starting today, Amazon GameLift Streams provides streaming capabilities in six new locations – eu-west-2 (London), eu-north-1 (Stockholm), sa-east-1 (São Paulo), ap-south-1 (Mumbai), ap-northeast-2 (Seoul), and ap-southeast-2 (Sydney) for all customers.

New streaming locations enable customers to provide low latency streaming experiences to their players in Europe, South America, India, and Asia regions. Additionally, these locations increase overall GPU availability, enabling customers to scale their streaming services more effectively.

The service supports all stream classes in these new regions.

To get started, customers need to edit Location and capacity configurations to add new locations to their new or existing stream groups via console or CLI.

For more details, see Amazon GameLift Streams developer guide: AWS Regions and remote locations

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now publishes container health status as a new metric in CloudWatch Container Insights with enhanced observability. Customers can now track the operational health of their containers through a dedicated CloudWatch metric and create alarms to respond proactively to unhealthy containers.

When customers configure a container health check in the container definition of an ECS task definition, Container Insights now publishes the UnHealthyContainerHealthStatus metric in the ECS/ContainerInsights namespace. The metric reports 0 for HEALTHY and 1 for UNHEALTHY. Container health state information is also available in embedded metric format (EMF) logs, providing additional context while health checks are being evaluated during the UNKNOWN state. The metric is available across cluster, service, task, and container-level dimensions, enabling customers to monitor health at their preferred level of granularity. Customers can create CloudWatch alarms on the metric to receive notifications when containers become unhealthy, allowing teams to take immediate action and maintain application reliability.

To get started, enable Container Insights with enhanced observability on your ECS cluster and configure a container health check in your task definition to start collecting the metric in CloudWatch. Container health metric is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon ECS Container Insights is supported. For more information, see the Amazon ECS container health checks documentation and the CloudWatch Container Insights documentation .