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AWS announced that Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows batch termination of up to 100 instances in a single API call, streamlining scale-down operations for temporary workloads like AI/ML training or container...
Amazon MSK now allows configuring custom domain names for Provisioned clusters, including KRaft mode, simplifying endpoint management across migrations, failovers, and scaling without reconfiguration.
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in AWS’s Canada West (Calgary) region, offering up to 15% better price-performance and significant performance gains...
Amazon Quick has released Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook, integrating AI-driven task automation directly into these applications.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports automatic semantic enrichment for VPC-enabled domains, enabling AI-powered, context-aware search within private networks.
AWS Console-to-Code now supports 26 additional services and cross-region recording, expanding coverage to 32 services for easier IaC conversion.
AWS CloudShell now offers a built-in visual file editor accessible via a single 'edit' command, eliminating the need for terminal-based tools or file downloads.
AWS announced that Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle APEX version 26.1, expanding low-code development capabilities for managed Oracle databases in the cloud.
Amazon SES now supports custom URL paths for mobile deep linking in click tracking, enabling engagement metrics without disrupting app deep link functionality.
AWS Billing and Cost Management now offers five preconfigured, read-only Managed Dashboards to provide immediate cost insights without setup, available at no extra charge in all commercial regions.
AWS has introduced rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes for Amazon Redshift RG instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, expanding compute options for data warehouse and data lake workloads.
AWS GovCloud (US) now provides access to Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 model via Amazon Bedrock, with zero data retention enabled by default.
OpenAI’s Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue cybersecurity models are now accessible via Amazon Bedrock for eligible customers in US East (N. Virginia), with enrollment required through OpenAI.
AWS Clean Rooms now enforces minimum aggregation thresholds for custom SQL queries to protect individual privacy by preventing results about small groups.
AWS IAM now offers role manager to automatically generate and manage IAM roles for supported services, simplifying initial setup while maintaining user control and auditability.
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a unified embedding model for text, images, video, and audio, is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US-West).
AWS has launched Amazon Quick’s agentic AI features in AWS GovCloud (US-West), a FedRAMP High-authorized environment for U.S. government and regulated industries.
AWS has extended IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint in Amazon Bedrock, enabling granular tracking of inference costs by user, team, or project.
AWS has added three new foundation models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: NVIDIA’s LocateAnything-3B, Qwen’s Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen’s Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, expanding AI deployment options for customers.
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a high-throughput open model for agent workloads, is now accessible via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for AWS customers.
AWS Glue now offers one-click access to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio from the Glue console, enabling direct data querying, quality checks, and pipeline building without switching interfaces.
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports version 12.3, the latest Long-Term Support release, enabling Oracle compatibility and improved query performance.
AWS has added Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2-small-decoder and Google's gemma-4-12B-it models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding accessible AI tools for AWS customers.
AWS has added three new foundation models to Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: langcache-embed-v3-small, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOnOCR-2-1B, expanding AI deployment options for customers.
AWS customers can now access three new AI models via Amazon SageMaker JumpStart: GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2, and GLM-OCR, expanding AWS’s foundation model portfolio.
AWS Identity and Access Management introduced account access manager to simplify assigning IAM roles to workforce users via AWS IAM Identity Center, replacing two previous access management approaches.
Amazon EC2 has launched application status checks to detect application-level issues on instances, complementing existing system checks and enabling automated recovery via Auto Scaling.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) now maintains UEFI boot mode for recovered Linux servers, eliminating post-recovery configuration steps and ensuring consistency with source environments.
AWS has launched EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances in the Europe (Milan) region, featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with improved performance and memory bandwidth for memory-intensive workloads.
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now meets FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, CSA STAR, and PCI compliance standards, enabling regulated organizations to run sensitive HPC workloads on AWS while adhering to governance requirements.