AWS announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M7i-flex and EC2 M7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids). These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

Today, with the launch of M7i instances, customers can attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an EC2 instance. By comparison, previous generation M6i instances allow up to 28 EBS volume attachments to an EC2 instance. The higher volume attachment limit enables customers to increase storage density per EC2 instance, so that they can host larger applications per instance or reduce total compute cost by improving their resource utilization. With this launch, customers can also take crash-consistent snapshots for up to 128 EBS volumes attached to a single EC2 instance.

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports three new CloudWatch metrics — VpcIPUsage, SubnetIPUsage, and PublicIPv4PoolIPUsage, that allow you to identify underutilized or near full capacity IP address ranges, optimizing your IP address usage on AWS. These metrics proactively track IP address usage across resources such as Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs), subnets, and Public IPv4 Pools. You can also set alarms for these metrics in Amazon CloudWatch to receive notifications when an IP address usage threshold is breached. Moreover, for a consolidated view of all IP address-related insights, these metrics are available on the IPAM Dashboard.

We are excited to announce the launch of a new CloudWatch Logger feature with AWS Amplify, which is available now for Swift and Android developers. This feature empowers developers to log errors from the Amplify libraries to CloudWatch, enhancing the ability to detect production issues. It also enables developers to write custom logs to detect failures in different parts of their applications. 

VT1 instances are the first Amazon EC2 instances that deliver dedicated hardware acceleration for video transcoding, and are optimized for workloads such as live streaming, video conferencing, video library optimization, and just-in-time asset transcoding. VT1 is powered by the AMD-Xilinx Alveo U30 media accelerator and can support streams up to 4K UHD resolution at 60 frames per second (fps) and can transcode up to 64 simultaneous 1080p60 streams in real time.

Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports Local Time Zones. You can now set the time zone for your Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server instances to the local time zone of your choice. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a managed database service that allows customization of the underlying operating system and database environment.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) now supports up to 55,000 read IOPS and 25,000 write IOPS, making it easier to power Machine Learning (ML) research, financial simulations, big data analytics, and other data-intensive workloads on AWS.

You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Starting today, the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports secondary host metrics in Enhanced Monitoring. Customers can now view essential metrics associated on the secondary host of a Multi-AZ DB instance, such as free storage, free memory, Read/Write IOPS, Read/Write Throughput, CPU utilization, and etc. See OS metrics in Enhanced Monitoring for more details.

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