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AWS Site-to-Site VPN supports 5 Gbps bandwidth per tunnel

🔒 AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports configurable tunnel bandwidth up to 5 Gbps, a 4x increase over the previous 1.25 Gbps limit. The update reduces the need to deploy complex protocols such as ECMP to aggregate tunnels, simplifying high-throughput hybrid connectivity for migrations, analytics, and disaster recovery. The capability is available in most commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions with a few regional exceptions.

Amazon DCV Adds Support for EC2 Mac Apple silicon instances

🖥️ AWS announced Amazon DCV support for EC2 Mac instances powered by Apple silicon, enabling high-performance remote desktop access to macOS workloads in the cloud. Users can connect from Windows, Linux, macOS, or web clients and benefit from 4K resolution, multi-monitor support, and smooth 60 FPS streaming. Productivity features include time zone redirection and audio output, and the offering is available in all Regions that provide EC2 Mac instances.

AWS Security Incident Response: Communication Preferences

🔔 AWS announced customizable communication preferences for Security Incident Response, letting teams select notification types such as case changes, membership updates, and organizational announcements. The update replaces a one-size-fits-all model so individuals receive only relevant updates and reduces notification noise. Settings include smart defaults and can be adjusted as roles evolve. The feature is available to all Security Incident Response customers at no additional cost via the console.

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Network Load Balancer Access Logs

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch Logs now ingests Network Load Balancer (NLB) access logs as vended logs, enabling direct analysis within CloudWatch. You can run CloudWatch Logs Insights queries, create metric filters, and use Live Tail for real‑time traffic review to accelerate troubleshooting. NLB access logs are configurable from the NLB integrations tab, AWS CLI, or SDKs, and can also be delivered to Amazon Data Firehose or S3 with optional Apache Parquet conversion. Delivery to CloudWatch and Firehose is billed as vended logs; S3 delivery is free while Parquet conversion carries a per‑GB charge.

Amazon: APT Exploits Cisco ISE and Citrix Zero‑Days

🔒 Amazon Threat Intelligence identified an advanced threat actor exploiting undisclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Citrix products. The actor achieved pre-authentication remote code execution via a newly tracked Cisco deserialization flaw (CVE-2025-20337) and earlier Citrix Bleed Two activity (CVE-2025-5777). Following exploitation, a custom in-memory web shell disguised as IdentityAuditAction was deployed, demonstrating sophisticated evasion using Java reflection, Tomcat request listeners, and DES with nonstandard Base64. Amazon recommends limiting external access to management endpoints and implementing layered defenses and detection coverage.

AWS Builder Center launches Spaces for builder collaboration

💬 The AWS Builder Center introduces Spaces, a community collaboration feature that lets builders create and join topic-focused groups to share knowledge and collaborate on AWS solutions. Spaces supports three visibility modes — Public, Private, and Invite-Only — with membership controls, approval workflows, and invite capabilities. Members can post text and images, comment, react, and search discussions, while owners and admins self-moderate content. The feature includes moderation tools and multi-language support across 16 languages to keep conversations focused and accessible.

AWS Adds CUR 2.0 Detail for EC2 Capacity Reservations

🔍 AWS has extended the Cost and Usage Report (CUR 2.0) to surface hourly, resource-level billing information for capacity reservations including EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservation (ODCR) and EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML. CUR 2.0 now tags capacity-related line items as Reserved, Used, or Unused, enabling precise coverage and utilization calculations. The enhancement helps identify idle reservations and attribute reservation costs to resource owners for cost optimization.

Amazon Managed Prometheus Collector Adds MSK Support

📈 The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector now supports discovery and scraping of Prometheus metrics from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters without deploying agents. The agentless collector can target metrics exposed via the JMX exporter and the Node exporter, covering host-level, JVM-level, and broker-specific telemetry. This simplifies open monitoring for MSK, improves availability and scalability, and is available in all commercial regions where the service is offered.

Amazon EC2 F2 FPGA Instances Expand to Four Regions

🚀 Starting today, Amazon EC2 F2 instances — the second-generation FPGA-powered instances featuring an FPGA with 16 GB of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) — are available in four additional regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo and Seoul), and Canada (Central). F2 delivers substantial hardware upgrades over F1, including up to 192 vCPUs, 2 TB system memory, 7.6 TiB SSD, and 100 Gbps networking. These instances target genomics, multimedia processing, big data, and network acceleration workloads and can be purchased On-Demand or via Savings Plans.

AWS PCS Adds Slurm CLI Filter Plugin Support for HPC

🛠️ AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm CLI Filter plugins, letting administrators extend and modify how Slurm evaluates and schedules HPC jobs without changing Slurm source code. With CLI Filter plugins, you can enforce custom submission policies — validate required flags, reject submissions missing attributes, or adjust job parameters at submission. This capability is available in all Regions where PCS is offered.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Included in Amazon Linux 2023

🔧 Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now included in Amazon Linux 2023, making it straightforward to install, update, and mount S3 buckets with a single command. Previously, users downloaded the Mountpoint package from GitHub, resolved dependencies, and managed updates manually; inclusion in AL2023 streamlines that workflow. The open source project is backed by AWS and offers 24/7 AWS cloud support for Business and Enterprise Support customers—consult the repository and documentation to get started.

Amazon EC2 U7i-6tb High Memory Instances in Europe

⚙️ Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6tb instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm and Ireland). The u7i-6tb provides 6TB of DDR5 memory and 448 vCPUs, with up to 100 Gbps for EBS and network bandwidth and support for ENA Express. Powered by custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon (Sapphire Rapids), these instances target mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Threshold-Based Composite Alarms

🔔 Amazon CloudWatch now lets teams create threshold-based composite alarms that trigger only when a specified subset of monitored resources meet a condition. Using the new AT_LEAST function, you can define fixed counts or percentages — for example, at least two of four volumes low on capacity or 50% of hosts with high CPU — to reduce alert noise. The capability is available in all commercial AWS regions, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions; composite alarms pricing applies.

AWS expands Graviton4 EC2 C8gd, M8gd, R8gd regions

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8gd instances are now available in Europe (London) and Canada (Central), while M8gd and R8gd sizes have expanded to South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (London), respectively. Powered by AWS Graviton4, these instances deliver up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and offer up to 11.4 TB NVMe local storage and EFA on select sizes. Customers can also adjust network and EBS bandwidth by 25% via instance bandwidth weighting.

Amazon EC2 C6id and R6id Instances Expand Regions Now

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 C6id instances available in Europe (Milan) and R6id instances available in Africa (Cape Town). Powered by 3rd-generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors (3.5 GHz all-core turbo) and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe SSD, these Nitro-based instances deliver high compute, memory access, and low-latency storage. Use cases include media processing, distributed in-memory caches, in-memory databases, data logging, and real-time analytics. Customers can purchase capacity via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot, and provision using the AWS CLI and SDKs.

AWS Adds EC2 I7i Storage-Optimized Instances in Regions

⚡ AWS announced that high-performance, storage-optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Canada (Central) regions. Powered by 5th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs and 3rd-gen AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute and substantial NVMe storage improvements over I4i. Instances support torn-write prevention, real-time NVMe performance statistics, and sizes up to 48xlarge plus bare metal options.

Amazon Keyspaces Adds Logged Batches for Atomic Writes

🔒 Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches, enabling multiple INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations to be executed as a single atomic transaction. This ensures that all writes in a batch succeed or none are applied, improving consistency across rows and tables for use cases such as finance, inventory, and multi-entity profile updates. The feature preserves Cassandra's atomicity guarantees, integrates with CQL, scales serverlessly with your workload, and is available today in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers pay only for the standard write operations processed within each batch.

Amazon EC2 M8a Instances Now in N. Virginia & Tokyo

🚀 Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Turin) with up to 4.5 GHz, M8a delivers up to 30% higher performance, up to 19% better price-performance versus M7a, and 45% more memory bandwidth. They show workload gains up to 60% for GroovyJVM and 39% for Cassandra, are SAP-certified, come in 12 sizes including two bare-metal options, and run on sixth-generation AWS Nitro Cards. Customers can purchase M8a via Savings Plans, On‑Demand, or Spot.

AWS Backup Adds Native Support for Amazon EKS Across Regions

🔒 AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS, providing a fully managed, centralized solution for backing up cluster state and persistent application data. The agent-free integration replaces custom scripts and third-party tools with a native, policy-driven service that offers automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies. You can restore entire clusters, specific namespaces, or individual persistent volumes to support disaster recovery, compliance, or pre-upgrade protection.

AWS Releases 2025 H1 IRAP Report for Australian Customers

🔒 AWS announced the 2025 H1 IRAP report is now available on AWS Artifact for Australian customers. An ASD-certified IRAP assessor completed the evaluation in September 2025, and four services were newly assessed at the PROTECTED level: Amazon Application Recovery Controller, AWS Global Accelerator, Amazon Q Business, and AWS Resource Explorer. AWS also published an IRAP documentation pack aligned to ACSC guidance and the ISM (March 2025) to help customers assess and architect PROTECTED workloads. Customers can request inclusion of additional services via their AWS representatives.