Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g, and R7g instances are available in AWS Region Canada (Central) and AWS Region Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). These instances are built with AWS Graviton3 processors and the AWS Nitro System. Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. 

NICE DCV version 2023.1 introduces new features and enhancements, such as a new Windows display driver which optimizes the graphics pipeline and reduces the overall CPU usage. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that is designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

AWS Health introduces new features to help you manage planned lifecycle events, such as Amazon EKS Kubernetes version end of standard support, Amazon RDS certificate rotations, and end of support for other open source software. AWS Health is the authoritative source of information about service events and scheduled changes affecting your AWS cloud resources.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) First-In-First-Out (FIFO) topics now support 3,000 messages per second, per topic. All existing and future FIFO topics now have this new quota by default, with no configuration change required. To benefit from maximum throughput in FIFO topics where message order is strictly maintained within each message group, distribute your messages evenly over a large number of message group IDs, as messages from different message groups are delivered in parallel.

Today, AWS Resilience Hub announces enhancements to its Resiliency Score capability, which now provides more actionable recommendations customers can implement to improve their application resilience and increase their score. Combined with the Exclude Recommendation capability, customer can emphasize different parts of the Resiliency Score that are most relevant to their application. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) operational recommendations have been added to help improve the resilience posture of your applications which include EKS resources.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle Multitenant configuration on Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c running Oracle Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition 2. With this release, the Amazon RDS for Oracle DB instance can operate as a multitenant container database (CDB) hosting one or more pluggable databases (PDBs). A PDB is a set of schemas, schema objects, and non-schema objects that logically appears to a client as a non-CDB.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now delivers up to 3X higher write throughput at no additional charge, starting with RDS for MySQL version 8.0.35. If you’re running RDS for MySQL version 8.0.34 or lower, you can upgrade to RDS for MySQL version 8.0.35 to benefit from this performance improvement. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of extended industrial protocol support for AWS IoT SiteWise. Through a new integration with AWS Partner Domatica, customers can now ingest data from 10 additional industrial protocols including Modbus (TCP & RTU), Ethernet/IP, Siemens S7, KNX, LoRaWAN, MQTT, Profinet, Profibus BACnet, and Rest interfaces, in addition to native OPC UA support. Previously, ingesting data from these protocols required acquiring, provisioning, and configuring infrastructure and middleware for data collection resulting in additional cost and time to value.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Neural Search on OpenSearch 2.9, enabling builders to create and operationalize semantic search applications with reduced undifferentiated heavy-lifting. For years, customers have been building semantic search applications on OpenSearch k-NN, but they’ve been burdened with building middleware to integrate text embedding models into search and ingest pipelines. Amazon OpenSearch Service customers can power Neural Search through integrations with Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock enabling semantic search pipelines that run on-cluster.