Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is announcing v0.9.0 of the Karpenter  open-source cluster autoscaling project. Karpenter is a flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler that helps improve application availability and resource utilization. Karpenter v0.9.0 adds supports for Kubernetes podAffinity and podAntiAffinity  scheduling constraints, which increases its compatibility with popular third-party Helm charts and expands support for high-availability use cases.

Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on the Bell 5G network in Toronto. Enterprises, application developers, and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), can now use the AWS Wavelength Zone in Toronto to build ultra-low latency applications for mobile devices and end-users in Canada.

Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a Neural version of Inês, Polly’s European Portuguese female text to speech (TTS) voice.

Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are available in South America (São Paulo). R6gd instances provide up to 40 percent better price-performance and up to 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics. They are ideal for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency storage, as well as for temporary storage of data such as batch and log processing, and for high-speed caches and scratch files. Amazon EC2 R6gd instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom-designed by AWS to enable the best price performance in Amazon EC2.

Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These instances are powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offering up to 15% better compute price performance over comparable Gen5 instances for a wide variety of workloads, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME).

AWS Backup’s policy-based data protection capabilities are now available for Amazon FSx in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now use AWS Backup to centrally automate backup and restore of your application data stored in Amazon FSx along with other AWS services for compute, storage, and database in the Osaka Region.

Amazon Lightsail has added two new security features for the Lightsail load balancer: the ability to automatically redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS and the ability to configure the security policy used for TLS termination of the HTTPS requests. With these features, you can easily make your websites more secure, meet compliance goals, achieve better search ranking and high SSL/TLS scores just by configuring a Lightsail load balancer with the Lightsail instances hosting your websites.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB, version 10.4 and higher, now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. Both M6i and R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances.

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