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CloudWatch Application Signals Now in AWS GovCloud

🔒 CloudWatch Application Signals is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), extending automated application observability to government and regulated workloads. The service automatically collects telemetry from Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS and AWS Lambda to provide real-time health, dependency visualization and anomaly detection. By eliminating manual instrumentation, it helps teams meet compliance and monitoring requirements while improving incident detection and resolution. For pricing and setup, consult the CloudWatch pricing page and Application Signals documentation.

AWS Deadline Cloud Adds 6th–8th Gen EC2 Instances Now

🚀 Deadline Cloud now supports an expanded set of EC2 instance families — including C7i, C7a, M7i, M7a, R7a, R7i, M8a, M8i and R8i — plus additional 6th-generation types that were previously unavailable. The update broadens compute-optimized, general-purpose and memory-optimized options for visual effects and animation rendering workloads. Studios can better right-size resources for tasks ranging from compute-heavy simulations to memory-intensive scene processing, improving performance and cost-efficiency in the Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered.

Amazon ECS: Managed EBS Permissions for Non-Root Containers

🔐 Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports mounting Amazon EBS volumes to containers running as non-root users. ECS automatically sets file system permissions on the attached EBS volume so non-root processes can securely read and write while preserving root ownership. This removes the need for manual chown/chmod or custom entrypoint scripts, simplifying security-first container deployments. The capability is available across all AWS Regions for EC2, AWS Fargate, and ECS Managed Instances.

Amazon EVS Expanded to Mumbai, Sydney, Canada, Paris

🚀 Amazon has expanded Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) to all availability zones in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Paris). EVS runs VMware Cloud Foundation on EC2 bare‑metal instances powered by AWS Nitro, and can be deployed via a step‑by‑step workflow or the AWS CLI in hours. The expansion delivers lower latency, improved data‑residency options, and additional resiliency and high‑availability choices for VMware workloads.

Amazon CloudFront Adds Cross-Account VPC Origins Support

🔒 Amazon announced that CloudFront now supports cross-account VPC origins, enabling distributions to reach ALB, NLB, and EC2 origins inside private subnets across different AWS accounts. Customers can grant access via AWS RAM, including across Organizations and OUs, removing the need to place origins in public subnets. The capability is available in AWS Commercial Regions at no extra charge and is designed to simplify security and multi-account operations.

AWS Launches Memory-Optimized EC2 R8a Instances, GA

🧠 AWS has announced general availability of new Amazon EC2 R8a memory-optimized instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (Turin) with up to 4.5 GHz. R8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance and 45% more memory bandwidth versus R7a. Available in 12 sizes (including 2 bare metal) and SAP-certified, R8a targets latency-sensitive, memory-intensive workloads and supports Savings Plans, On-Demand and Spot purchasing.

AWS Launch Wizard: SQL Server Developer Edition Deployments

🛠️ AWS Launch Wizard now provides a guided workflow to size, configure, and deploy Windows Server EC2 instances with Microsoft SQL Server Developer Edition installed from your own media. The capability simplifies provisioning cost-effective, full-featured SQL Server instances on Amazon EC2 and is aimed at developers building non-production and test database environments. It supports customers migrating non-production databases from SQL Server Enterprise and Standard Editions to reduce licensing costs while preserving feature parity, and is available in all supported commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

EC2 Auto Scaling: Warm Pools Now Support Mixed Instances

🚀 Starting today, AWS lets you add warm pools to EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASGs) that use mixed instances policies. Warm pools maintain a set of pre-initialized EC2 instances that can rapidly serve traffic, reducing scale‑out latency for workloads with lengthy initialization tasks like large disk writes or complex scripts. The capability supports manual instance type lists and attribute-based selection, and is available via the Console, SDKs, and CLI in all public AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US). Combining warm pools with instance type flexibility helps ASGs scale to their maximum size quickly while improving availability across multiple instance types.

AWS Config Adds 52 New Resource Types Across Key Services

🔔 AWS Config now supports 52 additional AWS resource types across services including Amazon EC2, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon SageMaker. With recording for all resource types enabled, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these additions and they are available to Config rules and aggregators. You can monitor the new types in all Regions where supported, expanding discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation coverage.

CloudWatch Agent Adds NVMe Local Volume Performance Metrics

📈 The Amazon CloudWatch agent can now collect detailed performance metrics for NVMe local volumes attached to EC2 instances, including queue depths, I/O sizes, and device utilization. These metrics mirror the detailed statistics available for EBS volumes, enabling a consistent monitoring experience across storage types. You can create CloudWatch dashboards, set alarms, and analyze trends for NVMe-based instance store volumes, and the capability is available for all local NVMe volumes on Nitro-based EC2 instances in AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Mountpoint S3 CSI Driver Adds Observability Metrics

📈 You can now monitor Mountpoint operations in observability tools such as Amazon CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. Mountpoint emits near real-time metrics (request count, request latency, and error types) over the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), so you can use the CloudWatch agent or an OpenTelemetry collector to publish metrics and build dashboards. Configure Mountpoint at mount time to stream per-EC2-instance metrics for proactive monitoring and faster troubleshooting.

AWS announces EC2 Capacity Reservation Topology API

🚀 AWS has announced general availability of the Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservation Topology API, providing a hierarchical, per-account view of the relative location of capacity reservations for AI/ML and HPC workloads. The API represents reservations as a network node set so customers can assess proximity without launching instances. Paired with the Instance Topology API, it enables consistent job scheduling, capacity planning, and node ranking across distributed parallel workloads and is available in most major AWS regions.

Amazon EBS adds per-minute avg IOPS and throughput metrics

📈 Amazon EBS now emits two new per-volume CloudWatch metrics—VolumeAvgIOPS and VolumeAvgThroughput—providing one-minute average I/O and throughput visibility. These metrics are enabled by default at no extra charge for all EBS volumes attached to EC2 Nitro instances in Commercial Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China. Use them to monitor trends, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, tune provisioned performance, and build dashboards or alarms to automate responses.

AWS EC2 Im4gn Instances Available Now in Milan Region

🚀 Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances are now available in Europe (Milan). Built on the AWS Nitro System and powered by Graviton2 processors, these instances provide up to 30 TB of 2nd Generation Nitro SSD local instance storage for I/O‑intensive workloads. They deliver high compute performance, up to 100 Gbps networking, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support for demanding database, search, and analytics use cases. Get started via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDKs.

AWS Offers EC2 I7i Storage-Optimized Instances in GovCloud

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 I7i storage-optimized instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. These instances use 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance versus prior I4i instances, along with up to 45 TB of NVMe local storage. I7i is offered in eleven sizes (nine virtual up to 48xlarge and two bare metal) with up to 100 Gbps network and 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth, and supports torn write prevention up to 16KB to reduce database bottlenecks for I/O-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads.

Amazon EC2 I7ie Instances Now in AWS GovCloud (US-West)

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made Amazon EC2 I7ie instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. I7ie instances, powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, are designed for large storage I/O–intensive workloads and offer up to 120 TB of local NVMe, higher vCPU and memory densities, and up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth. AWS cites up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance versus I3en, along with substantial improvements in storage throughput, latency, and latency variability for low-latency, high-random I/O use cases.

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex Available in London Region

🚀 Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (London), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS. AWS reports up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus previous Intel-based generations, and up to 20% higher performance compared to R7i for many workloads. R8i-flex introduces memory-optimized Flex sizing (large through 16xlarge) for applications that do not fully utilize compute, while R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge and is SAP-certified. Instances can be purchased via On-Demand, Savings Plans or Spot.

Amazon ECS Managed Instances Now in All Commercial Regions

🚀 Amazon ECS Managed Instances is now available in all commercial AWS Regions as a fully managed, EC2-based compute option that reduces infrastructure management overhead while retaining the full capabilities of Amazon EC2. Managed Instances dynamically scales EC2 capacity, continuously optimizes task placement, and applies security patching on a 14-day cadence. You specify task requirements such as vCPU, memory, and CPU architecture, and Amazon ECS provisions and operates optimal instances in your account. Management fees apply in addition to regular EC2 charges.

Predictive Scaling Now Available in Six More AWS Regions

⚙️ AWS has expanded Predictive Scaling for EC2 Auto Scaling to six additional regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). Predictive Scaling learns from historical patterns and launches instances ahead of anticipated demand to reduce over-provisioning, lower EC2 costs, and keep applications responsive. It complements real-time policies like Target Tracking and Simple Scaling and can be previewed using a "Forecast Only" mode. The feature is available via the console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and AWS SDKs.

CloudWatch Adds EC2 Metrics for EBS IOPS and Throughput

🔔 Amazon introduced two new Amazon CloudWatch instance-level metrics — Instance EBS IOPS Exceeded Check and Instance EBS Throughput Exceeded Check — that flag when the driven IOPS or throughput exceeds the EBS-Optimized limits of an EC2 instance. Each metric returns 0 (not exceeded) or 1 (exceeded), enabling rapid identification of I/O bottlenecks and the creation of dashboards or alarms. These metrics are provided by default at a 1-minute frequency at no additional charge for Nitro-based EC2 instances with EBS attached and are accessible via the EC2 console, CLI, or CloudWatch API across Commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions.