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🖥️ Amazon has launched EC2 X8i instances in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai), powered by AWS-exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors and certified for SAP. These memory-optimized instances deliver up to 1.5x more memory (up to 6 TB), 3.3x greater memory bandwidth, and up to 43% higher performance compared with prior X2i generations. Offered in 14 sizes from large to 96xlarge, including two bare-metal options, X8i targets SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and EDA, and is available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, or Spot.

🔒 The April 2026 AWS Security monthly digest highlights new features, hands-on samples, and security bulletins across identity, AI security, data protection, and detection. Notable posts include IAM Identity Center session tags for ABAC, guidance for securing agentic AI via the Model Context Protocol, and practical steps to adopt hybrid post‑quantum TLS for Secrets Manager. The edition also summarizes April CVEs and ships 16 runnable code samples and workshops to validate recommended controls.

🔔 AWS Builder Center's AWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications that alert subscribers when services or features become available in selected Regions. Subscriptions are set at the service level and automatically cover all underlying features, removing the need to track each feature individually. Notifications arrive as instantaneous in-app alerts and a consolidated weekly email digest; manage preferences under Settings > Notifications.

🔧 AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports monetization functions, a capability that lets customers customize how ad decision server (ADS) requests are built and how session data is managed during ad-personalized playback. Monetization functions enable inline data transformations and calls to external APIs at defined lifecycle hooks, removing the need for middleware between the player and the ADS. They are fail-open by design so playback continues if a function errors or times out, and the feature is generally available in all regions where MediaTailor operates; billing is a flat per-lifecycle-hook invocation rate.

🔒 The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now includes a KMS Encryption plugin that provides column-level client-side encryption for Java applications. Operating at the JDBC driver, the plugin encrypts values before they reach the database and decrypts on read, keeping plaintext visible only to the application while allowing HMAC-based integrity checks. It integrates with Aurora and RDS (PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible), Spring, Hibernate, and common connection pools without code changes, and is available as open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.

🔒 AWS earned three SNI certifications for the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region: SNI ISO/IEC 27017:2015, SNI ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and SNI ISO 9001:2015. An independent auditor accredited by KAN assessed the controls against local requirements. Combined with the 2023 SNI ISO/IEC 27001, AWS is the first cloud provider to hold all four SNI certifications. Certificates are available in AWS Artifact.

🔧Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters, provisioning nodes with the software and configurations needed for production-ready AI/ML training environments. The AMI includes required components such as Docker, Enroot, and Pyxis, plus Slurm accounting, SSH key generation, log rotation, and user home setup. To enable it, omit the LifeCycleConfig block when creating clusters or select "None" under Lifecycle scripts in the console; you can still supply an extension script for additional customization or continue using full custom lifecycle scripts if you need complete control. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker HyperPod is offered.

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are available in AWS Europe (Ireland). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and 6th-generation Nitro Cards, they deliver up to 30% better compute vs Graviton3. M8gn offers up to 600 Gbps networking for network‑intensive workloads, while M8gb provides up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth for storage‑heavy applications. Larger sizes up to 48xlarge and metal options are supported.

📣 Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now detects customer time zones using all phone numbers and addresses on a profile, not just the primary contact fields. When a profile's contacts span multiple time zones, the system delivers only during hours that overlap across every detected zone and will skip profiles when no common window exists. This reduces off-hours contacts and is available at no extra cost where the service is offered.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of the new Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances, powered by custom sixth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth‑generation AWS Nitro cards. R8idn offers up to 600 Gbps networking and up to 22,800 GB of NVMe local storage; R8idb delivers up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth and up to 1,440K IOPS, representing up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus the prior R6in generation. Both families target memory‑intensive workloads and are available in select US and Europe regions via On‑Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🟢 AWS now supports UPI Scan and Pay for India customers to sign up for AWS and make one-time invoice payments. The Console displays a QR code that customers scan with popular UPI apps (Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm, Amazon Pay), removing the need to manually enter a UPI ID. Customers can also enable UPI AutoPay for recurring monthly charges up to INR 15,000. The feature improves convenience, reduces input errors, and aligns billing with common local payment habits.

🚀 Amazon Web Services announced general availability of Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances powered by custom sixth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the latest sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU versus M6idn, with M8idn offering up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth and M8idb up to 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth. They target network- and storage-intensive general-purpose workloads and are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain) via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot.

🔍 AWS has enabled AWS Resource Explorer in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions. The managed search capability lets authorized users locate resources via the Resource Explorer console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or the unified console search bar, and jump directly to a resource’s service console and Region to take action. Administrators can enable the feature from the Resource Explorer console and consult AWS documentation for setup and usage.

📨 Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West), expanding Mail Manager coverage to 30 AWS regions. The managed gateway centralizes inbound and outbound email routing, filtering, and archiving to simplify infrastructure and reduce reliance on multiple third‑party tools. This AWS-native solution aims to improve visibility and operational control while lowering cost and complexity for regulated and government customers.

🔒 Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports a VPC egress option that enables a domain to establish private, outbound network connections to resources in your VPC—such as ML models, other AWS services, and custom applications—without exposing traffic to the public internet. When enabled, OpenSearch Service adds network interfaces to the subnets you select and routes outbound traffic into your VPC. You can enable or disable VPC egress via the console, AWS CLI, or the CreateDomain and UpdateDomainConfig APIs. This option is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔧 AWS announced that AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports modifying tunnel bandwidth on existing VPN connections, enabling customers to switch between standard (up to 1.25 Gbps) and large (up to 5 Gbps) tunnel sizes without recreating connections. The upgrade preserves tunnel IP addresses, CIDR blocks, pre-shared keys, and all configuration settings, removing the need to update on-premises VPN devices or firewall rules. This capability is available across a broad set of AWS Regions to simplify bandwidth scaling for hybrid and multi-site deployments.

🔒 AWS published a practical compliance guide, ISO/IEC 42001:2023 on AWS, to help organizations design and operate an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) using AWS services. The guide maps ISO 42001 clauses 4–10 and the Annex A controls to AWS services and architectural patterns, and it explains scoping, shared responsibility, and audit readiness. It highlights automation, evidence collection, monitoring, and responsible AI features to reduce effort in preparing for certification.

⚡ Amazon ElastiCache now supports aggregation queries that let developers filter, group, transform, and summarize data directly in cache with a single query. By running aggregations in-memory, applications can deliver microsecond latencies across terabytes of data while returning results that reflect completed writes. The feature reduces architectural complexity by removing the need for a separate analytics engine and enables use cases such as faceted navigation, rollups, leaderboards, and real-time dashboards. Aggregations are available at no additional cost on node-based clusters running Valkey 9.0 in commercial, GovCloud, and China Regions.

🔍 Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search that combines vector similarity and full-text search in a single query, removing the need for a separate search service. New writes are searchable immediately, enabling microsecond latencies and up to 99% recall across billions of embeddings from providers such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The feature is available at no additional cost for node-based clusters running Valkey 9.0+ in all commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions, and Valkey is recommended as a permissive, vendor-neutral alternative to Redis.

🔎 Amazon ElastiCache now provides real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search directly in the cache, eliminating the need for a separate search service. Applications can query terabytes of frequently changing data with microsecond latency and up to millions of operations per second, and can combine search types in a single query to power complex filters. The capability is available in all commercial Regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions for node-based clusters running Valkey 9.0 at no additional cost; create or upgrade clusters via Console, SDK, or CLI.