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Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports R7i and M7i instances

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports R7i and M7i instances. These instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable custom processors, available only on AWS. R7i and M7i instances are available in sizes up to 48xlarge, or 50% larger than the previous generation R6i and M6i instances.

M7i and R7i instances are available for Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle in Bring Your Own License model for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE) and Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) . You can modify your existing RDS instance or create a new instance with just a few clicks on the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS SDK or CLI. Visit Amazon RDS Custom Pricing Page for pricing details and region availability.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. To get started with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, refer the User Guide .

Amazon Aurora reduces cross-Region Global Database Switchover time to typically under 30 seconds

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Amazon Aurora for MySQL and Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL now offer faster Global Database cross-Region switchover, reducing recovery time for read/write operations to typically under 30 seconds and enhancing availability for applications operating at a global scale.

With Global Database, a single Aurora cluster can span multiple AWS Regions, providing disaster recovery from Region-wide outages and enabling fast local reads for globally distributed applications. Global Database cross-Region switchover is a fully managed process designed for planned events such as regional rotations. This launch optimizes the duration during which a writer in your global cluster is unavailable, improving recovery time and business continuity for your applications following cross-Region switchover operations. See documentation to learn more about Global Database Switchover.

To access these improvements for Aurora MySQL, upgrade your cluster to version 3.09 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.40) or higher. For Aurora PostgreSQL, upgrade your cluster to versions 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, 13.20, or higher . Once upgraded, the faster switchover capabilities are automatically available for your cluster without any additional configuration. See upgrading an Amazon Aurora global database guide to learn about upgrading your cluster.

Amazon Aurora combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open-source databases. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page .

AWS Control Tower releases Enabled controls view for centralized visibility

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Today, AWS Control Tower introduces a new ‘Enabled controls’ page, helping customers track, filter, and manage their enabled controls across their AWS Control Tower organization. This enhancement significantly improves visibility and streamlines the management of your AWS Control Tower controls, saving valuable time and reducing the complexity of managing enabled controls. For organizations managing hundreds or thousands of AWS accounts, this feature provides a centralized view of control coverage, making it easier to maintain consistent governance at scale.

Previously, to assess the enabled controls coverage, you had to navigate to the organizational unit (OU) or account details page in the console to track the controls deployed per target. With this release, the Enabled controls view centralizes all the enabled controls across your AWS Control Tower environment, giving you a single, unified location to track, filter, and manage enabled controls. With this new feature, you can now more easily identify gaps in your control coverage. For instance, you can quickly search and filter for all enabled preventive controls and verify if they’re applied consistently across critical OUs.

You can drill down by organizational units, behavior, severity and implementation to see exactly which controls are enabled, giving you a targeted visibility into your governance posture across your environment. Lastly, you can also get a pre-filtered list of enabled controls by behavior from the AWS Control Tower dashboard’s Controls summary page.

To benefit from the new Enabled controls view page, navigate to the Controls section in your AWS Control Tower console. To learn more, visit the AWS Control Tower homepage or see the AWS Control Tower User Guide . For a full list of AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is available, see the AWS Region Table .

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