Amazon Redshift concurrency scaling is leveraged by thousands of customers to support virtually unlimited concurrent users and queries, and meet their SLAs for BI reports, dashboards and other analytics workloads. In addition to the read queries, Amazon Redshift concurrency scaling is now extended to support scaling of most common write operations performed as part of workloads such as data ingestion and processing. The write workloads support with concurrency scaling is available on Amazon Redshift RA3 instance types.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports integration with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). You can now transfer files between the RDS for Oracle DB instance and Amazon EFS file system. Amazon EFS is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of durability and up to 99.99% (4 9s) of availability. You can scale to petabytes on a single NFS file system.

Starting today, you can use AWS Nitro Enclaves in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. 

AWS announces the availability of AWS Fluent Bit container images for Windows Server on Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS, to help customers easily process and forward their container logs to various AWS and third-party destinations, such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon S3, Amazon Kineses Data Firehose, Datadog, and Splunk. This capability helps customers to centrally view, query, and manage their logs without needing to implement or manage a custom logging solution or agents to extract logs from their Windows containers. With this launch, customers have a common mechanism to process and route their logs across ECS and EKS for both Linux and Windows workloads. For more details about the supported Windows versions and the image tags for Fluent Bit, visit the public github repository here .

Kubernetes is rapidly evolving, with frequent feature releases and bug fixes. You can now use Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro to run Kubernetes version 1.24.

Today, we are excited to announce general availability of tooling support to build and deploy native AOT compiled .NET 7 applications to AWS Lambda. .NET 7 is the latest version of .NET and brings several performance improvements and optimizations, including support for the native AOT deployment model . Native AOT compiles .NET applications to native code. By using native AOT with AWS Lambda, you can enable faster application starts, resulting in improved end-user experience. You can also benefit from reduced costs through faster initialization times and lower memory consumption of native AOT applications on AWS Lambda. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge) of memory are now available in US East (Ohio). Instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Milan), instances with 18TiB of memory (u-18tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (Ireland), and instances with 24TiB of memory (u-24tb1.112xlarge) are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). This launch also includes support for On Demand, Savings Plan, Reserved Instance, and 1-year Dedicated Host Reservation purchase options for instances with 18TiB and 24TiB of memory which were previously only available with 3-year Dedicated Host Reservations.

Today, we are announcing the availability of EBS direct APIs in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports a linked server to Oracle database. From your RDS for SQL Server instance, you can use linked servers to access external Oracle databases to read data and execute SQL commands. If you have existing solutions that use linked servers to integrate Oracle databases, you can now migrate your SQL Server workloads directly to Amazon RDS.