Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory-optimized instances with up to 6TB memory and 3.3x more bandwidth than X2i, are now available in Europe (Paris) for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA and data analytics.
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AWS RTB Fabric now supports health checks for EC2 Auto Scaling groups to monitor and route traffic to healthy instances, helping AdTech companies improve uptime and reduce failed real-time bidding transactions.
AWS demonstrates an AI-powered 4D Gaussian Splatting pipeline that automates mining site compliance monitoring by tracking equipment, detecting tree removal, and estimating water volumes from LiDAR point cloud sequences without manual labeling.
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes compliance and governance capabilities such as keeping original logs, adding transformation metadata, and providing IAM condition keys for fine-grained access control over pipeline creation.
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports conditional processing and a drop events processor, enabling selective log transformation and filtering to reduce noise and costs without additional charges.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates and General Distribution Release updates across SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022 to address security vulnerabilities.
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports creating monitors across multiple AWS Regions without requiring additional IAM Identity Center configuration, enabling efficient global render farm deployment.
AWS Backup expands Amazon FSx support to 5 new regions and enables cross-region and cross-account backup copying across 14 regions for enhanced disaster recovery and compliance capabilities.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in four additional AWS Regions, enabling higher performance and scalability with up to 72 GBps throughput and 1 PiB storage capacity.
AWS Lambda Managed Instances enables memory-intensive serverless applications by offering up to 32 GB of memory with EC2 instance flexibility, demonstrated through an AI-powered customer analytics application that performs in-memory data processing and semantic search.
AWS Private CA now supports customer managed permissions in AWS RAM, allowing organizations to grant specific API operations when sharing certificate authorities across accounts instead of using predefined AWS managed permissions.
Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS delegation for private hosted zones in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling simplified subdomain management between cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards now supports automated scheduled email delivery of reports on daily, weekly, or monthly schedules, enabling secure distribution of financial insights to decision-makers without manual compilation.
AWS Transform and Kiro enable automated modernization of PL/I mainframe applications into cloud-native microservices by extracting business logic, generating specifications, and deploying event-driven architectures on AWS.
Genmab built an automated AWS pipeline using SageMaker that processes whole-slide pathology images at scale, reducing analysis time from hours to under 30 minutes per batch and cutting manual work by 80 percent.
AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards now supports scheduled email delivery, enabling automated distribution of cost reports to stakeholders without manual intervention.
COOL (Cloud Optimized OpenCV Library) is an officially supported, Graviton-optimized version of OpenCV available on AWS that delivers 20-70% performance improvements and 30% cost savings for computer vision workloads in the cloud.
Telefónica Germany implemented a centralized network tracing solution using AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring with tag-based ENI management and event-driven automation to achieve real-time visibility across dynamic, multi-account cloud-native telecommunications workloads.
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports customer-defined maintenance windows, allowing you to schedule routine database maintenance at your preferred time with timezone support across all editions.
Amazon Bedrock now supports cost allocation by IAM user and role in AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 and Cost Explorer, enabling customers to track and attribute model inference costs across teams, projects, and applications.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression, enabling up to 32% reduction in index size compared to LZ4 and allowing customers to optimize the balance between storage costs and query performance.
Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy, enabling faster application recovery during switchover by eliminating DNS propagation delays and automatically redirecting connections to the new production environment.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now integrates Managed Prometheus and AI agent tracing to provide unified observability across metrics, logs, traces, and LLM execution in a single interface, reducing costs and operational complexity.
Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy, enabling faster application recovery during switchover by eliminating DNS propagation delays and automatically redirecting connections to the new production environment.
Amazon S3 Lifecycle now pauses expiration and transition actions on objects that fail replication, allowing you to fix replication issues before lifecycle rules are applied.
AWS now provides programmatic access to Regional availability data for services, APIs, and CloudFormation resources through Amazon S3, enabling organizations to automate deployment validation and multi-region planning workflows.
AWS DevOps Agent builds intelligent knowledge graphs that map Kubernetes resource relationships to autonomously investigate incidents, correlate multi-layer telemetry, and reduce Mean Time to Identify and Resolve for Amazon EKS operations.
Amazon GameLift Servers now offers a multi-build solution that enables rapid iteration by hosting multiple game server versions simultaneously on a single fleet, allowing developers to switch between builds without fleet updates.
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports custom vocabulary through Data Automation Library, enabling improved speech recognition and transcription accuracy for domain-specific terminology in audio and video processing across healthcare, legal, financial services, and other specialized...