Starting today, memory-optimized, high-frequency Amazon EC2 R7iz instances are available in preview. R7iz instances are the first EC2 instances powered by 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Sapphire Rapids) with an all core turbo frequency up to 3.9 GHz. These instances have the highest performance per vCPU among x86-based EC2 instances, and they deliver up to 20% higher performance than z1d instances. The instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor that delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. R7iz instances are ideal for front-end Electronic Design Automation (EDA), relational database with high per-core licensing fees, financial, actuarial, data analytics simulations, and other workloads requiring a combination of high compute performance and high memory footprint.

Today, AWS is announcing the preview of Amazon Verified Permissions, a scalable, fine-grained permissions management and authorization service for custom applications. With Amazon Verified Permissions, application developers can let their end users manage permissions and share access to data. For example, application developers can use Amazon Verified Permissions to define and manage fine grained permissions to determine which Amazon Cognito users have access to which application resources. 

Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now delivers lower latencies enabling you to power an even broader set of applications with simple, scalable storage on AWS.

Starting today, the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gn instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton processors, are available in preview. Featuring the new AWS Nitro Cards, Amazon EC2 C7gn instances deliver the highest network bandwidth, and the best packet-processing performance for Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances. C7gn instances offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth and up to 50% higher packet-processing performance compared to previous generation C6gn instances. Amazon EC2 C7gn instances are built on the AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities to scale performance and throughput while optimizing the cost of running network-intensive workloads. Workload examples include network virtual appliances, data analytics, and CPU based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

AWS announces the general availability of Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. All current generation EC2 instances use ENA, a purpose-built network interface, to deliver an enhanced networking experience. ENA Express is a new ENA feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance in two key ways: higher single flow bandwidth and lower tail latency for network traffic between EC2 instances.

AWS Local Zones are now available in four new metro areas—Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Helsinki, and Muscat. You can now use these Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. 

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is doubling the maximum throughput capacity per file system from 2 GB/s to 4 GB/s and the maximum SSD IOPS from 80,000 to 160,000, enabling you to accelerate your performance-intensive workloads such as video rendering and database applications.

Amazon Inspector now supports AWS Lambda functions, adding continual, automated vulnerability assessments for Serverless compute workloads. With this expanded capability, Amazon Inspector now automatically discovers all eligible Lambda functions and identifies software vulnerabilities in application package dependencies used in the Lambda function code. All functions are initially assessed upon deployment to Lambda service and continually monitored and reassessed, informed by updates to the function and newly published vulnerabilities. When vulnerabilities are identified in the Lambda function or layer, actionable security findings are generated, aggregated in the Amazon Inspector console , and pushed to AWS Security Hub and Amazon EventBridge to automate workflows.

Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller now supports zonal shift to help you quickly recover from application failures in an AWS Availability Zone (AZ). Starting today, you can shift application traffic away from using an AZ with a single action for multi-AZ resources with support of Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer. This will help you quickly recover an unhealthy application in an AZ, and reduce the duration and severity of impact to the application due to events such as power outages and hardware or software failures.

Amazon QuickSight now supports Paginated Reports, which allows the capture of detailed operational data in custom formats to facilitate critical and day-to-day business processes. For example, you can get a weekly snapshot of operational metrics in a tabular format for critical review by business teams.