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🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in Europe (London) and Canada (Central). Powered by AWS Graviton4, these storage-optimized instances deliver up to 60% better compute performance and up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB versus prior generations. I8ge provides up to 120TB of local NVMe, reduced storage I/O latency, and up to 180 Gbps network bandwidth across eleven sizes.

🚀 Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm). This expansion enables running VMware Cloud Foundation directly in your Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances powered by AWS Nitro. It supports VCF 9.0 and 9.1, allowing rapid migration, reduced operational risk, and improved proximity for lower latency and compliance.

🔧 AWS announces general availability of node lifecycle actions in AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS), letting users run custom scripts automatically at defined points in a compute node's lifecycle. Use cases include mounting shared storage, joining directory services, installing software, or setting up monitoring. Scripts are defined in compute node group configurations, sourced from Amazon S3 or HTTPS URIs, and support arguments, lifecycle stage selection, reboot re-run options, and error-handling behavior. AWS PCS writes action output to dedicated logs for visibility and the feature is available in all Regions that support PCS.

🗂️ AWS Wickr introduces a managed Data Retention Service for Premium customers, enabling retention of conversations across networks—including direct messages, Groups, Rooms, and federated teams—for archival and audit purposes. The serverless, cloud-native solution replaces container-based approaches with simplified deployment, managed infrastructure, automatic scaling, and monitoring while preserving Wickr's end-to-end encryption. The feature is opt-in for Premium networks and is available in multiple AWS regions including US, Canada, Asia Pacific, Europe, and AWS GovCloud.

🔔 Amazon has expanded EC2 High Memory U7i instances to additional regions, adding U7in-16TB in São Paulo and U7in-24TB in Ireland. These 7th-generation instances use custom Intel Sapphire Rapids processors and provide large DDR5 memory footprints of 16 TiB and 24 TiB respectively. Both instance sizes offer 896 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps Amazon EBS bandwidth, 200 Gbps networking, and ENA Express, targeting in-memory databases and high-throughput transaction workloads.

🔁 Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports listener rules to route connections to different target groups based on source IP address type. A single dual-stack NLB can now preserve original client IPs by sending IPv6 traffic to IPv6 targets and IPv4 traffic to IPv4 targets without protocol translation. Rules work on TCP, UDP, TCP_UDP, and TLS listeners and integrate with existing NLB features such as connection draining and cross-zone load balancing. Listener rules are available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional charge; standard NLB pricing applies.

⚙️ AWS Entity Resolution now supports advanced real-time matching workflows via the existing GenerateMatchId API. Customers can enable enableRealTimeMatching to apply complex rulesets—such as Exact and ExactManyToMany with AND/OR logic—for millisecond-scale matching. This removes the previous need for separate batch processing or extra infrastructure and is available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔒 AWS Lambda durable functions now support encrypting durable execution data with an AWS KMS customer managed key. Durable functions let you run long-lived workflows with automatic state management; execution state is encrypted at rest by default with an AWS‑owned key. With this update you can select and manage your own KMS key for execution data, enabling separate control of rotation and access for execution history and state. The feature is available in all Regions where durable functions exist; standard AWS KMS charges apply.

🛡️ Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto on July 22, 2026, releasing Corretto 26.0.2, 25.0.4, 21.0.12, 17.0.20, 11.0.32, and 8u502. The Corretto distribution remains a no-cost, multi-platform production-ready build of OpenJDK. Default Docker images now use Amazon Linux 2023 while Amazon Linux 2 remains available as a non-default option. JavaFX binaries are no longer included with Corretto 8; migration guidance is provided on GitHub.

🔒 AWS Organizations now supports up to 2,000 resource control policies (RCPs) per organization, doubling the prior 1,000 limit. RCPs let administrators centrally manage maximum permissions and restrict which external principals can access resources across member accounts. The increase is available at no extra cost in all supported Regions and requires no action from existing organizations. This helps large multi-account environments implement more granular, organization-wide access controls without changing individual resource policies.

📢 AWS has expanded 100 Gbps dedicated Direct Connect capacity at the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. This location now supports private connections to all public AWS Regions (excluding China), AWS GovCloud, and AWS Local Zones, and is the first in Peru to offer 100 Gbps with MACsec encryption. Direct Connect provides private, physical links between AWS and customer data centers, offices, or colocation environments to deliver more consistent network performance than the public internet.

🚨 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional Regions: Bangkok, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei, Calgary, and Mexico Central. AWS DRS is the recommended disaster recovery service for minimizing downtime and data loss, supporting recovery from physical servers, VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud environments. It enables point-in-time recovery, cross-Region EC2 recovery, and unified drills, failback, and recovery for diverse enterprise applications and databases.

🔎 Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, allowing you to query and analyze search and log analytics data alongside other assets. You can combine OpenSearch data with sources like Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and relational databases within a single governed environment. The integration enables correlating operational search data with analytical datasets for cross-source insights and streamlined workflows.

🟦 Amazon Elastic Container Service now includes built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling safer and faster containerized application updates. These features are native to Amazon ECS and remove the need for custom deployment tooling while offering production-ready controls like deployment lifecycle hooks, bake time, and quick rollback. Deployments run alongside existing versions for validation before traffic shifts, and you can use CloudWatch alarms, the deployment circuit breaker, or the StopServiceDeployment API to detect failures and rollback. Support includes ALB, NLB, and ECS Service Connect and configuration is available via the Console, CLI, SDKs, or IaC.

📣 Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers three hierarchical pricing plans — Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise — that bundle commonly used deliverability and management capabilities. Each plan builds on the prior tier and provides progressively greater features at a discount versus à‑la‑carte purchases. Plans remove the need to evaluate and buy individual add-ons and are available in all AWS Regions where SES operates except the Middle East (UAE) and Bahrain.

🛡️ Hidden text on a web page allowed Kiro, AWS's agentic coding IDE, to rewrite its mcp.json configuration and execute attacker-controlled commands on a developer's machine without a usable approval step. Researchers at Intezer and Kodem Security showed that asking Kiro to summarize or fetch a page could inject setup instructions in one-pixel white text, causing Kiro to register and launch a malicious Model Context Protocol server. AWS patched the vulnerability by protecting sensitive paths and adding platform-enforced approval checks.

📈 Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and up to 200,000 recording and alerting rules per workspace, with customers able to create many workspaces per account. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that automatically scales ingestion and storage for high-cardinality workloads across containerized, serverless, and hybrid environments. It integrates with AWS security services to provide secure access to monitoring data and lets customers request higher workspace limits via AWS Support Center or AWS Service Quotas.

🔔 Amazon RDS now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server, including specific builds for SQL Server 2016 SP3, 2017, 2019, and 2022. The GDR updates address vulnerabilities detailed in CVE-2026-40370. AWS recommends upgrading RDS for SQL Server instances via the Amazon RDS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI to apply these security and stability updates. See the Amazon RDS SQL Server User Guide for upgrade instructions.

📝 AWS Marketplace now lets India-based sellers upload and manage their seller signatures directly through AWS Partner Central, replacing the prior manual email submission process. This centralized flow consolidates GSTIN registration and signature management for sellers transacting in India. Uploaded signatures are securely stored and used for buyer tax invoices, with automated real-time validation and an at-a-glance tax summary showing verification status. Sellers receive email notifications on verification outcomes and can resubmit if rejected using provided rejection reasons.

🛠️ Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 across Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 integrates AI into the database engine, enabling T-SQL to call external REST endpoints and work with AWS services like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon S3, and AWS Lambda. Standard Edition capacity and features have been expanded, and a new free Developer edition is available for testing.