2025 - Week 23 (2 Jun - 8 Jun)
Ankur Patel
3x AWS® certified | AWS Community Builder | Cloud Enabler and Practitioner | Solutions Architect | FullStack | DevOps | DSML | 6x Sisense certified | Blogger | Photographer & Traveller
AWS Backup is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Published Date: 2025-06-06 19:00:00
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions with immutable recovery points and vaults, and restore your data in the event of a data loss incident. You can get started with AWS Backup using the AWS Backup console, SDKs, or CLI by creating a data protection policy and then assigning AWS resources to it using tags or Resource IDs. For more information on the features available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, visit the AWS Backup product page and documentation. To learn about the Regional availability of AWS Backup, see the AWS Regional Services List.
Amazon SageMaker AI Training Jobs announces general availability of P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs
Published Date: 2025-06-06 17:50:00
Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances in Training Jobs, powered by NVIDIA B200 GPUs. Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances offer up to 2x performance compared to P5en instances for AI training. P6-B200 instances feature 8 Blackwell GPUs with 1440 GB of high-bandwidth GPU memory and a 60% increase in GPU memory bandwidth compared to P5en, 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors (Emerald Rapids), and up to 3.2 terabits per second of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFAv4) networking. P6-B200 instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System, so you can reliably and securely scale AI workloads within Amazon EC2 UltraClusters to tens of thousands of GPUs. The instances are available through SageMaker HyperPod Flexible Training Plans in US West (Oregon) AWS Region. For on-demand reservation of B200 instances, please reach out to your account manager. Amazon SageMaker Model Training lets you easily train machine learning models at scale using fully managed infrastructure optimized for performance and cost. To get started with Training Jobs, visit SageMaker Model Training.
Ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence into Amazon OpenSearch Service
Published Date: 2025-06-06 17:30:00
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you ingest data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence and seamlessly index it in Amazon OpenSearch managed clusters and serverless collections. With this integration, you can now create a unified searchable knowledge base of all your data in Atlassian Jira and Confluence to power your RAG applications. This integration allows data ingestion with flexible filtering options for projects and types in Jira and spaces and pages in Confluence ensuring that only the information you need is imported. Updates to your data in Jira and Confluence is continuously monitored and automatically synchronized with indices in Amazon OpenSearch Service. To ensure secure and reliable connectivity, multiple authentication methods, including basic API key authentication and OAuth2 authentication, with the added security of managing credentials using a secret stored in AWS Secrets Manager are supported. This feature is available in all the 16 AWS commercial regions where Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is currently available: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), and Europe (Stockholm). To get started, you can start ingesting data from Atlassian Jira and Confluence using the AWS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI. To learn more about this feature, see the Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide.
Upgrade Experience from Amazon SageMaker Studio to SageMaker Unified Studio
Published Date: 2025-06-06 17:00:00
Amazon SageMaker now offers an upgrade experience that enables customers to transition from SageMaker Studio to SageMaker Unified Studio while preserving their existing resources and maintaining consistent access controls. This new capability allows customers to import their SageMaker AI domains, user profiles, and spaces into SageMaker Unified Studio without redeploying infrastructure. The upgrade tool ensures that identity, authentication, and authorization experiences remain consistent, with users retaining access to only the resources they were previously permitted to use. With this upgrade experience, customers can continue to access their resources from both SageMaker Studio and SageMaker Unified Studio during the transition period, allowing teams to gradually adapt to the new experience. The tool preserves access to existing JupyterLab and CodeEditor spaces, as well as other SageMaker AI resources like training jobs, ML pipelines, models, inference endpoints etc, previously created from SageMaker Studio. Administrators maintain control over the upgrade process and can disable access to SageMaker Studio once users are comfortable with the SageMaker Unified Studio experience. The upgrade tool is available as an open-source solution that provides a guided, step-by-step process to ensure a smooth transition to SageMaker Unified Studio. The upgrade experience is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where the next generation of Amazon SageMaker is available. See the supported regions list for more details. To learn more about upgrading from SageMaker Studio to SageMaker Unified Studio, visit the GitHub repository, and to learn more about the next generation of Amazon SageMaker, visit the product detail page.
Amazon Connect enhances hold duration tracking for multiparty calls
Published Date: 2025-06-06 17:00:00
Amazon Connect now allows you to track durations of holds initiated by individual agents in multiparty calling scenarios through the new Agent Initiated Hold Duration field on the contact record. This new field allows contact center managers to gain insights into hold patterns at the individual agent level during customer interactions. This also provides other benefits including better agent performance management, allowing managers to identify areas for improvement in call handling. Additionally, it helps in optimizing your customers’ experience by providing insights into hold patterns and durations across different agents and scenarios. This level of granularity in data can lead to more informed decision-making in workforce management and training initiatives. To learn more refer to our public documentation. This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.
Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Published Date: 2025-06-06 17:00:00
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region.
Amazon EFS is designed to provide serverless, fully elastic file storage that lets you share file data without provisioning or managing storage capacity and performance. It is built to scale on demand to petabytes without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files. Because Amazon EFS has a simple web services interface, you can create and configure file systems quickly and easily. The service is designed to manage file storage infrastructure for you, meaning that you can avoid the complexity of deploying, patching, and maintaining complex file system configurations. For more information, visit the Amazon EFS product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.
AWS KMS launches on-demand key rotation for imported keys
Published Date: 2025-06-06 17:00:00
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is announcing support for on-demand rotation of symmetric encryption KMS keys with imported key material. This new capability enables you to rotate the cryptographic key material of Bring Your Own Keys (BYOK) keys without changing the key identifier (key ARN). Rotating keys helps you meet compliance requirements and security best practices that mandate periodic key rotation. Organizations can now better align key rotation with their internal security policies when using imported keys within AWS KMS. This new on-demand rotation capability supports both immediate rotation as well as scheduled rotation. Similar to flexible rotation for standard KMS keys, this new rotation capability offers seamless transition to new key material within an existing KMS key ARN and key alias, with zero downtime and complete backwards compatibility with existing data protected under this key. On-demand key rotation is available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and in the China Regions. To learn more, see the AWS Security Blog for how to use on demand rotation with imported keys, and the rotate on-demand topic in the AWS KMS developer guide.
Announcing ASN match support for AWS WAF
Published Date: 2025-06-05 20:55:00
AWS WAF now supports matching incoming request against Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs). By monitoring and restricting traffic from specific ASNs, you can mitigate risks associated with malicious actors, comply with regulatory requirements, and optimize the performance and availability of your web applications. This new ASN Match Statement integrates seamlessly with existing WAF rules, making it easy for you to incorporate ASN based security controls into your overall web application defense strategy. You can specify a list of ASNs to match against incoming request and take appropriate action such as block or allow the request. You can also use ASN in your rate-based rule statements. These rules aggregate requests according to your criteria, counts and rate limits the requests based on the rule's evaluation window, request limit, and action settings. ASN Match statement is available in all regions where AWS WAF is available. The rate-based rule support with ASN is available in regions where the enhanced rate-based rules are currently supported. There is no additional cost for using ASN in Match statement and rate-based rules, however standard AWS WAF charges still apply. For more information about the service, visit the AWS WAF page. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS WAF Pricing page
AWS Invoice Summary API is now generally available
Published Date: 2025-06-05 20:15:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Invoice Summary API. This allows you to retrieve your AWS invoice summary details programmatically via SDK. You can retrieve multiple invoice summary details by making a single API call that accepts input parameters like AWS Account ID, AWS Invoice ID, billing period, or a date range as input. The output of the Invoice Summary API will include data elements like Invoice Amount in base currency and tax currency, purchase order number and other meta data that can be found in this link. You can integrate the API to your accounts payable systems to automate invoice processing and improve efficiency. Invoice Summary API is available in all AWS Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions.
Amazon Q Developer agentic coding experience is now available within JetBrains and Visual Studio
Published Date: 2025-06-05 20:00:00
Today, Amazon Q Developer announces support for the agentic coding experience within the JetBrains and Visual Studio IDEs. This experience, already available in Visual Studio Code and the Amazon Q Developer CLI, redefines how you write, modify, and maintain code by leveraging natural language understanding to seamlessly run complex workflows. Agentic coding provides intelligent task execution, enabling Q Developer to perform actions beyond code suggestions, such as reading files, generating code diffs, and running command-line tasks. To get started, simply type in your prompt in your preferred spoken language. As Q Developer works through your tasks, it provides continuous status updates, instantly applying your changes and feedback along the way. This allows you to seamlessly complete tasks, while improving and streamlining the development process. The agentic coding experience is available in all AWS regions where Q Developer is supported. To learn more about agentic coding in Visual Studio and JetBrains, read our blog.
Amazon EC2 now enables you to delete underlying EBS snapshots when deregistering AMIs
Published Date: 2025-06-05 19:00:00
Amazon EC2 now enables you to automatically delete underlying Amazon EBS snapshots when deregistering Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), allowing you to better manage your storage costs and simplify your AMI cleanup workflow. Previously, when deregistering an AMI, you had to separately delete its associated EBS snapshots, which required additional steps. This process could lead to abandoned snapshots, resulting in unnecessary storage costs and resource management overhead. Now you can automatically delete EBS snapshots at the time of AMI deregistration. This capability is available to all customers at no additional costs, and is enabled in all AWS commercial regions including AWS GovCloud (US), AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can deregister AMIs from the EC2 Console, CLI, API, or SDK, and learn more in the AMI documentation.
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.11.13 and 11.4.7
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:20:00
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports new community MariaDB minor versions 10.11.13 and 11.4.7. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for MariaDB makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale MariaDB deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.
AWS HealthOmics now supports automatic detection of WDL workflow parameters
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
Today, AWS HealthOmics announces automatic parameter interpolation for Workflow Description Language (WDL) workflows to help streamline the workflow creation process. This new capability automatically identifies and extracts required and optional parameters along with their descriptions directly from WDL workflow definitions, eliminating the need for customers to manually create input parameter templates. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows. Removing the need to define parameters simplifies and accelerates building and deploying bioinformatics workflows. Customers can now onboard new WDL workflows more rapidly while retaining complete flexibility through optional customization. For organizations with extensive WDL workflow libraries, this feature significantly reduces the time required to migrate or deploy new workflows. Additionally, HealthOmics customers still maintain full control by providing custom input parameter templates when needed to override the automatic interpolation. Input parameter interpolation for WDL workflows is now supported in all regions where AWS HealthOmics is available: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Israel (Tel Aviv). To learn more about automatic parameter interpolation and how to implement WDL workflows, see the AWS HealthOmics documentation.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless' compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, and query is measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). To control costs, customers can configure the maximum number of OCUs per account. Please refer to the AWS Regional Services List for more information about Amazon OpenSearch Service availability. To learn more about OpenSearch Serverless, see the documentation.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights launches Query Results Summarization and OpenSearch PPL enhancements
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights launches Query Results Summarization and OpenSearch PPL enhancements to help accelerate your logs analysis. The new logs summarizer generates a natural language summary of the query results, providing users with clear, actionable insights. Interpreting log entries can be time-consuming and this natural language summarization capability transforms complex query results into clear, concise summaries that help you quickly identify issues and gain actionable insights from your log data. With CloudWatch Logs Insights, you can interactively search and analyze your logs with Logs Insights query language, OpenSearch Service Piped Processing Language (PPL), and OpenSearch Service Structured Query Language (SQL). Customers using OpenSearch PPL can now analyze their logs more efficiently with new PPL commands and functions such as JOIN, SubQuery, Fillnull, Expand, Flatten, Cidrmatch and JSON functions. These new capabilities help accelerate your troubleshooting. For example, you can use subqueries to find those services which have more than 20 errors in the last day using an inner query, and then use the results of the inner query to get the average response times of those services from a different log group. The logs summarizer is available in the US East (N. Virginia) region. OpenSearch PPL query enhancements are available in regions where OpenSearch Service direct query is available. To learn about the log summarizer in CloudWatch Logs Insights, visit the Amazon CloudWatch Logs documentation. To learn about the new PPL commands and functions, visit the CloudWatch Logs documentation.
AWS Wickr announces a Preview experience for files
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
AWS Wickr announces the launch of Wickr File Previews. This new feature empowers organizations to protect sensitive files and lower the risk of data loss, by allowing network administrators to configure a “view-only” mode in the Security Groups section of the AWS Management Console for Wickr. Users within these security groups will be restricted to only viewing the supported files, and will be unable to download them. AWS Wickr is a security-first messaging and collaboration service with features designed to help keep your communications secure, private, and compliant. AWS Wickr protects one-to-one and group messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and location sharing with end-to-end encryption. Customers have full administrative control over data, which includes addressing information governance polices, configuring ephemeral messaging options, and deleting credentials for lost or stolen devices. You can log internal and external conversations in an AWS Wickr network to a private data store that you manage for data retention and auditing purposes. AWS Wickr is available in commercial AWS Regions that include US East (N. Virginia), AWS Canada (Central), AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo), and AWS Europe (London, Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Zurich). It is also available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) as FedRAMP High and Department of Defense Impact Level 5 (DoD IL5)-authorized AWS WickrGov. To learn more and get started, see the following resources:
Amazon Q Developer CLI now supports Claude Sonnet 4
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
Amazon Q Developer CLI now supports Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 and allows developers to select specific Claude Sonnet models when performing tasks in the Q Developer CLI. With Claude Sonnet 4, you can optimize everyday development tasks through enhanced coding and reasoning capabilities, including performing complex actions, implementing bug fixes, running bash commands and developing new features with immediate feedback loops and more precise responses. You can choose from premium models - Claude Sonnet 4, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet - using the “/model” command, launch a new chat with a specific model using the "q chat --model <model_name>" command, or configure default model settings using the "q settings chat.defaultModel <model_name>" command. This allows you to refine specific use cases such as long-running development tasks, while providing greater control over your development workflows and increased flexibility in model selection. Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4 is available in the Q Developer CLI across all supported Amazon Q Developer regions at no additional cost. For more information, visit the Amazon Q Developer documentation.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now available in 7 additional AWS Regions
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. The list of all supported regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is generally available can be found on the user guide. Customers can send up to 1 billion active metrics to a single workspace and can create many workspaces per account, where a workspace is a logical space dedicated to the storage and querying of Prometheus metrics. To learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector, visit the user guide or product page.
Amazon Q Developer Eclipse IDE plugin is now generally available
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
Amazon Q Developer plugin for the Eclipse IDE is now generally available. With this launch, developers can leverage the power of Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, within the Eclipse IDE. Within the Eclipse IDE, you’ll now be able to utilize Amazon Q Developer’s agentic coding experience to seamlessly execute complex workflows. With this coding experience, Q Developer can intelligently take actions on your behalf. It can read your project files to intelligently build the context it needs, suggest code diffs, and run shell commands. As Q Developer works through your tasks, it provides continuous status updates, instantly applying your changes and feedback along the way. This helps Q Developer create code, generate unit tests, and perform code reviews significantly faster, streamlining development workflows across the entire software development lifecycle. The Amazon Q Developer plugin for the Eclipse IDE is available in all AWS regions where Q Developer is supported. Learn more and download the free Amazon Q Developer plugin for Eclipse to get started.
Amazon Connect now supports external voice transfers in five additional AWS Regions
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
Amazon Connect external voice transfer is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) AWS Regions. Amazon Connect external voice transfer enables Amazon Connect to directly transfer voice calls and metadata to other voice systems without using the public telephone network. You can use Amazon Connect telephony and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) with your existing voice systems to help improve customer experience and reduce costs. For the list of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect external voice transfer is available, refer to Availability of Amazon Connect features by Region in the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. To learn more about Amazon Connect and other voice systems, review the following resources:
Amazon MWAA now available in additional Region
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Malaysia). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today to orchestrate your workflows and enjoy improved scalability, availability, and security without the operational burden of having to manage the underlying infrastructure. Learn more about using Amazon MWAA on the product page. Please visit the AWS region table for more information on AWS regions and services. To learn more about Amazon MWAA visit the Amazon MWAA documentation. Apache, Apache Airflow, and Airflow are either registered trademarks or trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation in the United States and/or other countries.
Pricing and usage model updates for Amazon EC2 instances accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs
Published Date: 2025-06-05 17:00:00
AWS announces two updates to Amazon EC2 instances accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs.
Availability of savings plans for Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances which were available at launch only through EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML.
Reduced pricing for Amazon EC2 P5 and P5en instances and Amazon EC2 P4d and P4de instances: The following pricing reductions apply to On Demand pricing beginning June 1, 2025 and to Savings Plan purchases effective after June 4, 2025: P5 - up to 45% reduction, P5en - up to 26% reduction, and P4d and P4de - up to 33% reduction. The percentages apply to instances running Amazon Linux, slightly smaller reductions apply to instances running other operating systems. To provide increased accessibility to reduced pricing, we are also making at-scale, On-Demand capacity available for:
The new pricing reflects AWS's commitment to making advanced GPU computing more accessible while passing cost savings directly to customers. To learn more about the updated pricing please consult the EC2 pricing page.
AWS Network Firewall launches new monitoring dashboard
Published Date: 2025-06-04 21:20:00
Today, AWS announces the launch of a new monitoring dashboard in the AWS Network Firewall console, enhancing customers ability to monitor their network traffic. This new feature provides visibility into network activities, allowing for more effective management and troubleshooting of firewall configurations. The new dashboard offers valuable insights into traffic patterns, including top traffic flows, TLS Server Name Indication (SNI), and HTTP Host headers. This level of detail allows customers to quickly identify and analyze their most significant network interactions. Additionally, the dashboard provides visibility into long-lived TCP flows and traffic flows where TCP handshake failed, which is particularly useful for troubleshooting network issues and identifying potential security concerns. This new monitoring dashboard is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Network Firewall is supported, see AWS Region table. There are no additional charges on AWS Network Firewall to use this dashboard. Please check Amazon CloudWatch pricing or Amazon Athena pricing to understand charges related to Logs and Queries. To take advantage of this new feature, customers need to configure Flow logs and Alert logs in their AWS Network Firewall, and enable the monitoring dashboard. For more information on how to set up and use the new monitoring dashboard, please visit the AWS Network Firewall documentation or log in to the AWS Management Console.
ENA Express supports 120 new instances
Published Date: 2025-06-04 21:15:00
120 EC2 instances now support ENA Express, including network optimized, storage, high-memory, and accelerated computing. With this launch, ENA Express is adding support for 35 network optimized instances, 6 storage instances, 7 high-memory instances, and 5 accelerated computing instances. Additionally, ENA Express has added support for 67 different compute, general purpose, and memory optimized EC2 instances. ENA Express is a networking 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. SRD is a proprietary protocol that delivers these improvements through advanced congestion control, multi-pathing, and packet reordering directly from the Nitro card. ENA Express works transparently to your applications with TCP and UDP protocols. ENA Express with network optimized instances is great for file systems and media encoding workloads that need higher single flow bandwidth and consistent tail latency. ENA Express coupled with storage instances improves performance for large object transactions to and from databases. ENA Express on high-memory instances is great for single flow performance for in memory databases transactions like with SAP HANA. Finally, for accelerated computing instances ENA Express provides better single flow performance for file system access to services like FSx Lustre. ENA Express is available in all AWS Commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and comes at no additional cost. For a complete list of supported instances, please review the latest EC2 Documentation.
Announcing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support versions R2 11.22-rds.20250508 and 12.22-rds.20250508
Published Date: 2025-06-04 19:00:00
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL introduces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20250508 and 12.22-rds.20250508, which include important security updates and bug fixes for PostgreSQL databases.. We recommend upgrading your RDS instances to these latest versions to maintain optimal security and performance of your PostgreSQL deployments. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your RDS for PostgreSQL databases after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to three years beyond a major version’s end of standard support date. You can use automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also use Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments for RDS for PostgreSQL using physical replication for your minor version upgrades. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.
Amazon EC2 M7g instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Published Date: 2025-06-04 17:00:00
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these instances are available in 9 different instance sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M7g. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS GovCloud (US) Console.
Amazon Redshift now supports increased concurrency for vacuum operations
Published Date: 2025-06-04 17:00:00
Amazon Redshift has enhanced its vacuum operations to support increased concurrency across different tables in data warehouses. This feature reduces maintenance time and improves resource utilization by allowing multiple vacuum operations to run simultaneously. Vacuum operations maintain optimal query performance by performing two critical functions: sorting table data and reclaiming disk space from deleted rows. Redshift already offers automatic vacuum operations to minimize the need for manual maintenance. Now, these operations run at a higher concurrency automatically managed by Redshift. Further, users can also run multiple manual vacuum operations concurrently on different tables across sessions. This enhancement also extends support to run automatic and manual vacuum operations simultaneously across various vacuum modes. Concurrent vacuum operations reduces the maintenance time and enables better resource utilization of the data warehouse, solving a key operational challenge for database administrators. This support for concurrent vacuum operations is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Redshift is available. For more information, please refer to our documentation.
AWS Resource Groups now supports IPv6
Published Date: 2025-06-04 17:00:00
AWS Resource Group APIs now supports IPv6 for dual stack subnets so you can filter IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows to and from the public internet, on-premises network, or any endpoint in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). AWS Resource Groups enables you to model, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources by using tags to logically group your resources. You can create logical collections of resources such as applications, projects, and cost centers, and manage them on dimensions such as cost, performance, and compliance in AWS services such as myApplications, AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch. IPv6 support is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Resource Groups is available today. To get started, learn how to configure IPv6 support or learn more about AWS Resource Groups.
Amazon EKS add-ons now supports Private CA Connector for Kubernetes
Published Date: 2025-06-04 17:00:00
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Private CA Connector for Kubernetes Amazon EKS add-on. This new integration allows customers to easily issue certificates from AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to their Kubernetes clusters running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). The add-on installs and manages the Private CA Connector for Kubernetes. The connector enables customers to use AWS Private CA certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) termination at load balancers, Kubernetes ingress controllers, and pods, as well as securing pod-to-pod communication.
Now, with the new Amazon EKS add-on, customers can quickly and easily set up new and existing clusters using automation to leverage AWS Private CA certificates, enhancing security and simplifying certificate management. Previously, this process could take hours or even days and involved numerous manual steps. The connector works in conjunction with cert-manager, an open-source certificate lifecycle management Kubernetes add-on, to provide a comprehensive solution for certificate issuance and management within Kubernetes environments. cert-manager is also available through the Amazon EKS add-ons catalog. Amazon EKS add-ons are curated extensions that automate the installation, configuration, and lifecycle management of operational software for Kubernetes clusters, simplifying the process of maintaining cluster functionality and security. AWS Private CA is a managed service that lets you create private certificate authority hierarchies to issue private certificates. AWS Private CA secures private key material using Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 Security Level 3 hardware security modules (HSMs). This new Amazon EKS add-on is available in all commercial AWS Regions.
To get started, see the following resources:
Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region
Published Date: 2025-06-04 17:00:00
Starting today, the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) Region. C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances. C7a instances offer new processor capabilities such as AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16. They feature Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory to enable high-speed access to data in memory and 2.25x more memory bandwidth compared to C6a instances, making these instances ideal for even latency sensitive workloads. C7a instances offer 12 sizes from medium to 48xlarge, including a bare-metal size. And with the launch of C7a instances, customers can attach up to 128 EBS volumes to an EC2 instance — by comparison, C6a instances allow up to 28 EBS volume attachments to an EC2 instance. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and ideal for high performance, compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. C7a instances are available through On-Demand, Spot Instances, and Savings Plans. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, see C7a instances.
AWS Resource Groups adds support AWS PrivateLink
Published Date: 2025-06-04 17:00:00
AWS Resource Group APIs now come with AWS PrivateLink support, allowing you to invoke AWS Resource Group APIs from within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without traversing the public internet. AWS Resource Groups enables you to model, manage and automate tasks on large numbers of AWS resources by using tags to logically group your resources. You can create logical collections of resources such as applications, projects, and cost centers, and manage them on dimensions such as cost, performance, and compliance in AWS services such as myApplications, AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS PrivateLink support for AWS Resource Groups is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Resource Groups is available. To get started, follow the directions provided in the AWS PrivateLink documentation or visit AWS Resource Groups.
Amazon Lex extends custom vocabulary feature to additional languages
Published Date: 2025-06-04 17:00:00
Amazon Lex now extends custom vocabulary support to multiple languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Catalan, French, German, and Spanish locales. This enhancement enables you to improve speech recognition accuracy for domain-specific terminology, proper nouns, and rare words across a wider range of languages, creating more natural and accurate conversational experiences. With custom vocabulary, you can provide Amazon Lex with specific phrases that should be recognized during audio conversations, even when the spoken audio might be ambiguous. For example, you can ensure technical terms like "Cognito" or industry-specific vocabulary like "solvency" are correctly transcribed during bot interactions, providing consistent speech recognition capabilities that work both for intent recognition and improving slot value elicitation. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates for the supported languages. To learn more about implementing custom vocabulary for your bots, visit the Amazon Lex V2 Developer Guide.
ENA Express for AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Published Date: 2025-06-03 21:45:00
AWS announces ENA Express, a purpose-built network interface powered by the SRD (scalable reliable datagram) protocol, for EC2 instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. ENA Express is an ENA feature that uses the SRD protocol to improve network performance in two key ways: higher single flow bandwidth and lower tail latency for network traffic between EC2 instances. Workloads such as databases, file systems, and distributed storage systems need larger single flows and are sensitive to variance in tail latency. Before today, customers could use multipath TCP to increase bandwidth, but this adds complexity and at times, it maybe incompatible with the application layer. TCP is also not equipped to handle congestion when your server is overloaded with requests. SRD is a proprietary protocol that delivers these improvements through congestion control, multi-pathing, and packet reordering directly from the Nitro card. Enabling ENA Express is a simple configuration that makes enabling SRD as easy as a single command or console toggle for your EC2 instances. Using the SRD protocol, ENA Express increases the maximum single flow bandwidth and improves tail latencies for high throughput workloads. ENA Express works transparently to your applications with the TCP and UDP protocols. When configured, ENA Express works between any two supported instances in an Availability Zone. ENA Express is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and comes at no additional cost. To learn more and get started, please review the latest EC2 Documentation.
AWS Site-to-Site VPN introduces three new capabilities for enhanced security
Published Date: 2025-06-03 20:25:00
AWS Site-to-Site VPN, a fully managed service that allows you to create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels, is adding three new capabilities for enhanced security and ease of configuration.
There is no additional charge for using these capabilities. These capabilities are available in all AWS commercial Regions where AWS Site-to-Site VPN is available, except Europe (Milan) Region. To learn more and get started, visit the AWS Site-to-Site VPN documentation.
Amazon Athena announces managed query results to streamline analysis workflows
Published Date: 2025-06-03 20:22:00
Amazon Athena announces managed query results, a new feature that automatically stores, encrypts, and manages the lifecycle of query results for you at no additional cost. Managed query results streamlines analysis and administration workflows by providing temporary query results storage, removing the requirement for Amazon S3 buckets to store results and separate processes to clean up results that you no longer need. Now, Athena offers both service-managed, temporary result storage and customer-managed S3 storage options to meet different needs. Whether you're working on a team conducting interactive analysis across multiple workgroups or automating workgroup creation through code, managed query results allows you to run queries in fewer steps. For example, if you create a new workgroup for an analysis that you'll perform, you can now choose to have Athena manage your result data for you. This allows you to run queries without first specifying the S3 result location, ensures results are encrypted, and avoids cost from storing query results after they're no longer needed. When you use managed query results, you can continue to access query results through the same interfaces as you can when using an S3 bucket in your account. To get started, use the AWS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI to configure your new or existing workgroups to use managed query results. Managed query results is generally available in all regions where Athena is available, except GovCloud and China regions. To learn more, see Managed query results in the Athena User Guide.
Amazon API Gateway introduces routing rules for REST APIs
Published Date: 2025-06-03 19:10:00
Amazon API Gateway now supports routing rules for REST APIs using custom domain names. This new capability enables you to dynamically route incoming requests based on HTTP header values, URL base paths, or a combination of both. This flexibility enables various use cases, including A/B testing, API versioning, and dynamic backend selection. To use this feature, you define routing rules by assigning priorities, defining conditions (HTTP headers, URL paths, or both), and associating actions. API Gateway then evaluates these rules in priority order with lower numbers taking precedence. When a request meets all conditions in a rule, API Gateway routes it to the configured REST API ID and stage. By implementing routing logic directly within API Gateway, you can eliminate proxy layers and complex URL structures while maintaining granular routing control over your API traffic. This feature is supported on both public and private REST APIs and is compatible with existing API mappings. Routing rules for custom domain names are available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, please refer to the blogpost and the API Gateway documentation.
AWS Backup adds support for SNS notifications and EventBridge events for backup indexes
Published Date: 2025-06-03 18:50:00
Today, AWS Backup announces the addition of notification support for backup indexes in AWS Backup. You can now subscribe to Amazon SNS notifications and Amazon EventBridge events for backup indexing, allowing you to proactively monitor the status of your backup indexes. You can now receive notifications when a backup index is created, deleted, or fails to create, enhancing your ability to monitor and track your backup operations. To get started, you can subscribe to SNS notifications or create a rule in EventBridge. Once opted in, you will receive notifications on the status of your backup index, including when it is created, deleted or failed to create. This is valuable, as backup indexes are a pre-requisite to the search metadata of your backups and conduct file-level item restores. Prepare for potential data loss events by knowing when your backup indexes are created as it expedites search and recovery granular data if needed. AWS Backup support for notification backup indexes is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, where AWS Backup indexes, Amazon SNS, and Amazon EventBridge are supported are available. You can get started by using the User Notifications Console or CLI and Amazon EventBridge Console or CLI. For more information, visit our documentation.
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink adds IPv6 endpoints
Published Date: 2025-06-03 18:00:00
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports dual-stack endpoints for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. When you make a request to a dual-stack endpoint, the endpoint URL resolves to an IPv6 or an IPv4 address. You can access dual-stack endpoints using the SDK, a configuration file, or an environment variable. The continued growth of the internet is exhausting available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses. IPv6 increases the number of available addresses by several orders of magnitude so customers will no longer need to manage overlapping address spaces in their VPCs. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Create or update an Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application in the Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink console. This capability is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is currently available. For Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table. You can find out more about IPv6 on AWS here. For a full list of dual-stack endpoints, see the SDK Reference guide.
Amazon Q Developer now helps customers optimize AWS costs
Published Date: 2025-06-03 17:00:00
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces that Amazon Q Developer now provides personalized cost optimization recommendations to help customers easily identify and implement savings opportunities. This new capability helps customers find and implement opportunities for rightsizing instances, purchasing Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, terminating idle resources, and more - all through natural language conversations. Amazon Q Developer combines recommendations from AWS Cost Optimization Hub with expert guidance to help customers accelerate their cost optimization journey and maximize savings. With this launch, customers can ask Amazon Q Developer questions like "How can I lower my AWS bill?" to receive prioritized recommendations based on potential savings, implementation effort, and performance risk. Customers can also ask detailed follow-up questions like "How was this recommendation calculated?" or "How was this instance identified as idle?", and receive narrative explanations including metrics, configurations, and customization options. Customers can also ask Amazon Q Developer to analyze their costs, check resource details, and receive step-by-step implementation guidance, completing more of their end-to-end cost optimization workflow through natural conversations. This feature is available in the US East (N. Virginia) region, and provides cost optimization recommendations spanning all commercial AWS Regions, except the China Regions, and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about using Amazon Q Developer for cost optimization, see the Amazon Q Developer User Guide. To get started, simply open the Amazon Q chat panel in the AWS Management Console and ask about ways to optimize your costs.
Amazon VPC Route Server announces logging enhancements
Published Date: 2025-06-03 17:00:00
Amazon VPC Route Server enhances connectivity monitoring and logging with new network metrics. These metrics allow customers to proactively monitor network health, troubleshoot network issues and gain visibility into route propagation and peer connectivity. Previously, customers would manually track Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) session changes and often required AWS Support assistance for network troubleshooting. With these new logging capabilities, customers can independently monitor and diagnose network connectivity issues, leading to faster resolution times and improved network visibility. The enhancement offers real-time monitoring of BGP and BFD session states, historical peer-to-peer session data logging and flexible log delivery options through CloudWatch, S3, Data Firehose or AWS CLI. Enhanced logging for VPC Route Server is available in all AWS commercial regions where VPC Route Server is supported. Data charges for vended logs will apply for Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon S3, and Amazon Data Firehose. To learn more about this feature, please refer to our documentation.
Amazon EC2 I4i instances now available in AWS Europe (Spain) region
Published Date: 2025-06-03 17:00:00
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I4i Instances in the AWS Europe (Spain) region. Designed for large I/O intensive storage workloads, these instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver high local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using 2nd generation AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.
I4i instances offer up to 30 TB of NVMe storage from Amazon Nitro SSDs and Torn Write Prevention (TWP) feature which can improve database transactions per seconds without compromising resiliency. These instances deliver high performance and are ideal for databases such as MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike, and Redis where low latency local NVMe storage is needed in order to meet application service level agreements (SLAs). I4i instances offer up to 75 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).
Customers can purchase the I4i instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances.
To learn more, please visit the Amazon EC2 I4i instances page.
Near real-time matching available in AWS Entity Resolution
Published Date: 2025-06-03 17:00:00
Today, AWS Entity Resolution introduces near real-time rule-based matching to enable customers to match new and existing records within seconds. With this launch, organizations can match records in near real-time to support use cases across multiple industries that require low-latency, time-sensitive matching on consumer records. For example, travel and hospitality companies can match consumer records in near real-time to prioritize callers in contact centers, recognize loyal customers, deliver tailored product recommendations, and personalize guest check-in experiences. Healthcare organizations can match patient records in near real-time, with appropriate patient consent, to provide clinicians with a complete view of medical history and improve care coordination. Additionally, financial institutions can match new and historical financial transactions within seconds to identify discrepancies and detect fraudulent transactions. When processing incremental records using rule-based matching, AWS Entity Resolution compares the incoming record against existing records, returns a match using a consistent match ID, or generates a new match ID, all within seconds. AWS Entity Resolution helps organizations match, link, and enhance related customer, product, business, or healthcare records stored across multiple applications, channels, and data stores. You can get started in minutes using matching workflows that are flexible, scalable, and can seamlessly connect to your existing applications, without any expertise in entity resolution or ML. AWS Entity Resolution is generally available in these AWS Regions. To learn more, visit AWS Entity Resolution.
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Published Date: 2025-06-03 17:00:00
Amazon EC2 U7i-6tb instances are now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TiB of DDR5 memory enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-6tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 60Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.
Amazon CloudWatch now supports logs transformation for Contributor Insights
Published Date: 2025-06-02 21:00:00
Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights now supports analyzing transformed or enriched logs. With today’s launch, customers can now create Contributor Insights rules on CloudWatch logs that have been transformed into JSON format to create time series that display the top-N contributors, total number of unique contributors, and their usage. Using transformation and enrichment, customers can structure their logs using pre-configured templates for common AWS services such as AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs, or custom transformers such as Grok to analyze transformed log data at account level or log group level. Customers can define the Contributor Insights rules leveraging these transformed logs. Customers can also rename attributes and add additional metadata. For example, customers can create Contributor Insights rules that have been enriched with metadata like accountID or loggroupname, which improves troubleshooting. Log transformation and enrichment capabilities are available in all AWS Commercial Regions and are included with the existing Standard log class ingestion price. Customers can create Contributor Insights rules on transformed and enriched logs in the Amazon CloudWatch Console or using AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and AWS SDKs. To learn more about log transformation and enrichment in Amazon CloudWatch Logs and how to leverage it with Contributor Insights, visit the Amazon CloudWatch documentation.
AWS Private CA announces support for Microsoft Active Directory child domains
Published Date: 2025-06-02 19:05:00
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now supports Active Directory (AD) child domains through the Private CA Connector for AD. With this feature, customers get a consistent experience using AWS Private CA across parent and child AD domains. AD administrators can issue certificates to users, computers, and devices in a child domain independently of the parent domain and other child domains. This feature works with on-premises and self-hosted AD deployments that are connected to AWS through AWS Directory Service AD Connector. Private CA Connector for AD allows you to replace your certificate authorities (CAs) with AWS Private CA, a highly-available, fully-managed cloud CA that secures private key material using hardware security modules (HSMs). Connector for AD supports auto-enrollment to ensure AD domain-joined users, computers, and devices get and maintain valid certificates automatically. In addition to Connector for AD, AWS Private CA provides connectors that enable integration with Kubernetes clusters and enterprise mobile device management (MDM) solutions. AD child domain support is available in all regions where both AWS Private CA Connector for AD and AWS Directory Service are available. To learn more about using AWS Private CA with Active Directory child domains, visit the AWS Private CA User Guide.
AWS Marketplace now supports a localized experience in four additional languages
Published Date: 2025-06-02 18:40:00
AWS Marketplace has expanded its global accessibility by introducing support for French, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese languages across both the website and AWS console. This enhancement allows customers to discover, evaluate, procure, and deploy solutions in their preferred language, reducing friction for global customers and enhancing their purchasing process. For a localized experience, buyers select their preferred language out of 5 options in the language dropdown. The resulting language switch extends across the customer journey, allowing customers to browse the AWS Marketplace homepage, search for products, view details, and buy products and services in their chosen language. The localization covers SaaS products, AMI-based products, container-based products, and professional services. For AWS Marketplace sellers, this launch expands their global reach. AWS Marketplace automatically translates product information into all supported languages, allowing the translated versions to become available to buyers with no additional seller effort. Sellers maintain control over their global presence and can opt out from this feature on a language or listing basis. Furthermore, sellers can now provide End User License Agreements (EULAs) in the primary language of the country for geo-fenced listings. To get started, select your preferred language in the upper right corner of the website or console header. To learn more about AWS Marketplace's language support, visit the AWS Marketplace Buyer Guide and Seller Guide.
Second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now available in the AWS Mumbai and Tokyo Regions
Published Date: 2025-06-02 18:12:00
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the FSx for ONTAP user guide.
Introducing agentic capabilities for Amazon Q Developer Chat in the AWS Management Console and chat applications
Published Date: 2025-06-02 18:00:00
Today, we’re announcing new and improved agentic Amazon Q Developer experience in the AWS Management Console, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. Amazon Q Developer can now answer more complex queries than ever before in the AWS Management Console chat, offering deeper resource introspection and a dynamic, more interactive troubleshooting experience for users. Till today, Amazon Q Developer helped simplify manual work needed from cloud engineering teams to monitor and troubleshoot resources by answering basic AWS questions and providing specialized guidance. Now, it combines deep AWS expertise with new multi-step reasoning capabilities that enable it to consult multiple information sources and resolve complex queries within the AWS Management Console and chat applications.Customers can ask questions about AWS services and their resources, leaving Amazon Q to automatically identify the appropriate capabilities tools for the task, selecting from AWS APIs across 200+ services. Amazon Q breaks all queries into executable steps, asks for clarification when needed, and combines information from multiple services to solve the task. For example, you can ask, “Why am I getting 500 errors from my payment processing Lambda function?” and Q automatically gathers relevant CloudWatch logs, examines function’s configuration and permissions, checks connected services like API Gateway and DynamoDB and analyzes recent changes - all while showing progress and reasoning to enable builders to work more efficiently. These new capabilities are accessible in all AWS regions where Amazon Q Developer is available. Learn more in this deep-dive blog.
Amazon DataZone launches upgrade domain to SageMaker
Published Date: 2025-06-02 17:00:00
Today, Amazon DataZone and Amazon SageMaker announced a new user interface (UI) capability allowing a DataZone domain to be upgraded and used directly in the next generation of Amazon SageMaker. This makes the investment customers put into developing Amazon DataZone transferable to Amazon SageMaker. All content created and curated through Amazon DataZone such as assets, metadata forms, glossaries, subscriptions, etc. are available to users through Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio after the upgrade. As an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can choose which of your domains to upgrade to Amazon SageMaker via a UI driven experience. The upgraded domain lets you leverage your existing Amazon DataZone implementation in the new Amazon SageMaker environment and expand to new SQL analytics, data processing and AI uses cases. Additionally, after upgrading both Amazon DataZone and Amazon SageMaker portals remain accessible. This provides administrators flexibility with user rollout of Amazon SageMaker, while ensuring business continuity for users operating within Amazon DataZone. By upgrading to Amazon SageMaker, users can build on their investment from Amazon DataZone by utilizing Amazon SageMaker's unified platform that serves as the central hub for all data, analytics, and AI needs. The domain upgrade capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon DataZone and Amazon SageMaker is supported, including: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (London), South America (São Paulo), Mumbai (BOM), Stockholm (ARN), and Paris (CDG). To learn more, visit Amazon DataZone and Amazon SageMaker then get started with the upgrade domain documentation.
Amazon Lex adds AWS CloudFormation support for GovCloud (US-West) and advanced features
Published Date: 2025-06-02 17:00:00
Amazon Lex now offers AWS CloudFormation support in AWS GovCloud (US-West), extending infrastructure-as-code capabilities to government agencies and their partners.Additionally, CloudFormation support also now includes composite slots and QnAIntent features across all AWS regions where Amazon Lex operates, allowing developers to define, deploy, and manage these advanced conversational components through CloudFormation templates. With CloudFormation support in AWS GovCloud (US-West), government agencies can now automate the deployment of Amazon Lex chatbots while maintaining compliance with strict security requirements. Additionally, two key conversational AI features are now supported via CloudFormation: composite Slots, which enable more natural interactions by collecting multiple data points in a single prompt (e.g., "Please provide your city and state" instead of separate questions), and QnAIntent, which automatically answers user questions by searching configured knowledge bases and returning relevant information from documents, FAQs, or knowledge bases. CloudFormation support for Amazon Lex including composite slots and QnAIntent, is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates. To get started with these features, see the CloudFormation resources for Amazon Lex in the Amazon Lex Developer Guide.
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations
Published Date: 2025-06-02 17:00:00
AWS Compute Optimizer now provides Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized recommendations for Aurora DB Cluster Storage. These recommendations help make informed decisions about adopting Aurora I/O-Optimized configurations to increase pricing predictability and achieve potential cost savings based on your cluster's storage patterns and usage. AWS Compute Optimizer automatically analyzes your Aurora DB clusters' instance storage and I/O costs to provide detailed cost comparisons between Aurora I/O-Optimized and Aurora Standard configurations. By default, Compute Optimizer analyzes 14 days of metrics, which you can extend to 32 days for free or up to 93 days with enhanced infrastructure metrics enabled. With enhanced metrics, you can also view month-over-month I/O usage variations to better evaluate the benefits of each storage configuration. This new feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Compute Optimizer is available except the AWS GovCloud (US) and the China Regions. To learn more about the new feature updates, please visit Compute Optimizer’s product page and user guide.
Cost Optimization Hub supports recommendations for Amazon Aurora
Published Date: 2025-06-02 17:00:00
Cost Optimization Hub now supports instance and cluster storage recommendations for Amazon Aurora databases. These recommendations help you identify idle database instances and choose the optimal DB instance class and storage configuration for your Aurora databases. With this launch, you can view, filter, consolidate, and prioritize Aurora optimization recommendations across your organization's member accounts and AWS Regions through a single dashboard. Cost Optimization Hub quantifies estimated savings from these recommendations, taking into account your specific discounts, such as Reserved Instances, enabling you to evaluate Aurora cost savings alongside other cost optimization opportunities. The new Amazon Aurora recommendations are now available in Cost Optimization Hub across all AWS Regions where Cost Optimization Hub is supported.