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.

With server-side composition in Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS), you can combine audio and video from stage participants into a composited view. This composited view can then be broadcast to an Amazon IVS channel (e.g., to reach a larger audience) or stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for video on-demand (VOD) viewing.

AWS Systems Manager now publishes status updates for operational issues and change requests to Amazon EventBridge. This enables customers to leverage Amazon EventBridge to respond to operational issues and change requests in real-time. With this integration, customers can now listen for changes in operational issues or change requests and trigger workflows in real-time, such as calling a Lambda function or sending notification to Slack and Pager Duty.

Amazon MSK now automatically sends you alerts when you are at risk of exhausting your storage capacity. The alerts also provide recommendations on the best steps to take to manage your storage. This feature makes it easier for you to identify and quickly resolve storage capacity issues before they become critical. Amazon MSK automatically sends these alerts to the Amazon MSK Console, AWS Health Dashboard, Amazon EventBridge, and email contacts for your AWS account. You can also configure Amazon EventBridge to deliver these alerts via Slack or to tools such as New Relic and Datadog. 

Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, and T3 instance types in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports minor version upgrades and system maintenance updates with typically less than one second of downtime when using Amazon RDS Proxy. This capability allows you to take advantage of the most recent performance improvements, bug fixes, and any new security fixes or patches from the latest minor versions of PostgreSQL and MySQL with minimal interruption to your application.

AWS Lambda announces advanced logging controls that enable you to natively capture logs in JSON structured format, adjust log levels, and select the Amazon CloudWatch log group for your Lambda functions.

Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports throughput scaling. This capability enables you to adjust the throughput tier of your file systems to meet changing performance requirements with greater agility and lower cost.