All news with #aws tag

AWS Resource Explorer Enables Immediate Regional Discovery

🔍 AWS Resource Explorer now provides immediate access to resource search within each AWS Region without requiring prior activation. To start searching you need, at minimum, permissions granted by the AWS Resource Explorer Read Only Access or AWS Read Only Access managed policies, and you can discover resources via the Resource Explorer console, Unified Search, or AWS CLI/SDKs. To index the full inventory, including historical backfill and automatic updates, complete Resource Explorer setup so it can create a service-linked role. You can also enable cross-Region search with a single console click or the new CreateResourceExplorerSetup API, and the feature is available at no additional cost in supported Regions.

AWS launches EC2 High Memory U7i-12TB in Mumbai region

🚀 Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-12tb instances with 12TiB of DDR5 memory are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region as of Oct 13, 2025. The u7i-12tb.224xlarge is powered by custom fourth‑generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Sapphire Rapids) processors, offers 896 vCPUs, and supports up to 100Gbps for both EBS and network throughput plus ENA Express. These instances are targeted at mission‑critical in‑memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server, enabling higher transaction throughput, faster data loading, and shorter backup windows for large-scale deployments.

SageMaker AI Projects Adds Custom ML Templates from S3

🛠️ Amazon Web Services announced that SageMaker AI Projects can now provision custom ML project templates stored in Amazon S3. Administrators can define and manage standardized end-to-end project templates in SageMaker AI Studio so data scientists can create projects that follow organizational patterns and automated workflows. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker AI Projects is offered.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore GA: Secure Agent Platform

🔐 Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available, offering an agentic platform to build, deploy, and operate agents securely at scale without infrastructure management. It adds VPC support, extended eight-hour runtimes, session isolation, and initial Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol support. Identity, Gateway, and Observability features provide secure authorization, tool discovery, and CloudWatch/OTEL monitoring.

AWS Service Changes: Maintenance, Sunset, and End of Support

📢 AWS is updating the availability status of a range of services and features across three lifecycle categories: moving to Maintenance, entering Sunset, and reaching End of Support. Services moving to maintenance will stop accepting new customers on Nov 7, 2025, while current customers can continue using them as they evaluate alternatives. Several services, including Amazon FinSpace, AWS IoT Greengrass v1, and AWS Proton, are entering sunset with documented timelines (typically ~12 months). AWS Mainframe Modernization App Testing has reached end of support as of Oct 7, 2025. AWS provides migration guides and support resources to help customers transition.

Amazon CloudWatch Adds Generative AI Observability

🔍 Amazon CloudWatch is generally available with Generative AI Observability, providing end-to-end telemetry for AI applications and AgentCore-managed agents. It expands monitoring beyond model runtime to include Built-in Tools, Gateways, Memory, and Identity, surfacing latency, token usage, errors, and performance across components. The capability integrates with orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and Strands Agents, and works with existing CloudWatch features and pricing for underlying telemetry.

Amazon ElastiCache Adds Vector Search with Valkey 8.2

🚀 Amazon ElastiCache now offers vector search generally available with Valkey 8.2, enabling indexing, searching, and updating billions of high-dimensional embeddings from providers such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with microsecond latency and up to 99% recall. Key use cases include semantic caching for LLMs, multi-turn conversational agents, and RAG-enabled agentic systems to reduce latency and cost. Vector search runs on node-based clusters in all AWS Regions at no additional cost, and existing Valkey or Redis OSS clusters can be upgraded to Valkey 8.2 with no downtime.

Buyer’s Guide — Data Protection Platforms for Hybrid Clouds

🔒 This buyer’s guide explains why organizations need comprehensive data protection platforms for hybrid cloud environments and which capabilities to prioritize. It highlights core requirements such as data discovery and classification, layered protections (encryption, DLP, immutability), continuous monitoring, and automated recovery to address ransomware, misconfigurations, outages and compliance. The guide also surveys market trends and leading vendors to help IT teams evaluate DPaaS, cloud-native and on-premises options.

AWS Config Adds Support for Three New Resource Types

📣 AWS Config now supports three additional resource types—AWS::ApiGatewayV2::Integration, AWS::CloudTrail::EventDataStore, and AWS::Config::StoredQuery—providing broader visibility across AWS environments. If you have recording enabled for all resource types, AWS Config will automatically begin tracking these new types. They are available for use in Config rules and Config aggregators in all Regions where the resources exist. This expansion enhances your ability to discover, assess, audit, and remediate a wider range of resources.

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters: Risks to Retail & Hospitality

🔒 Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with core actors such as Bling Libra, claim responsibility for large-scale theft of Salesforce customer data and launched a public data leak site in early October 2025. The group operates an extortion-as-a-service model, recruiting affiliates to send targeted executive extortion messages and taking revenue shares from payments. Recent activity included a Clearnet domain seizure by law enforcement and threatening deadlines for victim disclosures. Retail and hospitality organizations face heightened risks of identity theft, account takeover, returns and loyalty fraud; Unit 42 recommends secrets scanning, zero trust controls, least privilege and participation in industry ISACs.

AWS Client VPN Now Supports macOS Tahoe (26.0) Release

🔒 AWS Client VPN now supports macOS Tahoe (26.0) with client version 5.3.1. You can run the AWS-supplied VPN client on the latest macOS releases; desktop clients are provided free and can be downloaded from the AWS Client VPN download page. AWS Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects remote workers to AWS and on-premises networks and already supports macOS 13–15, Windows 10/11 (x64 and Arm64), and Ubuntu 22.04/24.04. This update helps organizations maintain secure remote access as endpoints upgrade to the latest macOS.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds R8g Instances in New Regions

⚡ Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports Graviton4-based R8g DB instances in AWS Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Seoul). R8g offers larger sizes up to 48xlarge with an 8:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio and DDR5 memory, including new 24xlarge and 48xlarge options delivering up to 192 vCPUs, up to 50 Gbps networking, and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. AWS reports up to 40% performance and up to 29% price/performance improvements over Graviton3 equivalents, varying by engine, version, and workload. You can launch or upgrade instances through the Amazon RDS console or AWS CLI with a simple instance type modification.

Amazon Connect adds copy and bulk edit for agent scheduling

🔁 Amazon Connect now supports copy and bulk edit for agent scheduling configuration, making it faster to create and maintain schedules. Administrators can copy existing scheduling configurations—such as a weekday shift profile to create a weekend variant—or clone a full schedule from one agent to multiple new hires. Bulk edits allow selective updates to fields like time zone and start date without altering weekly working hours, reducing manager time spent on configuration and improving operational efficiency.

Amazon Connect adds agent schedule adherence alerts

🔔 Amazon Connect now supports agent schedule adherence notifications, enabling supervisors to receive automated alerts by email or text (via EventBridge) when agents fall outside defined adherence thresholds. You can create rules—such as alerting when adherence drops below 85% in a trailing 15‑minute window—to notify supervisors proactively. These automated notifications remove the need for constant dashboard monitoring and help teams intervene before service levels decline.

Amazon Neptune Analytics Launched in Two New Regions

🚀 Amazon has made Neptune Analytics available in the AWS Canada (Central) and Australia (Sydney) Regions, enabling local creation and management of analytics graphs. Neptune Analytics is a memory‑optimized graph engine that supports fast, in‑memory processing, a library of optimized analytic algorithms, low‑latency graph queries, and vector similarity search within traversals. You can ingest data from an Amazon Neptune Database, snapshots, or Amazon S3, and start via the AWS Console or CLI; consult the Neptune pricing page and AWS Region Table for costs and availability.

Amazon EBS io2 Block Express Now Available in China Regions

🔔 Amazon EBS io2 Block Express is now available in AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. The service delivers consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability with single-volume limits of 256,000 IOPS, 4 GiB/s throughput, and up to 64 TiB capacity. Volumes support multi-attach within an Availability Zone with NVMe reservations for shared storage fencing. Existing io1 users can nondisruptively upgrade via the ModifyVolume API to gain higher performance, durability, and improved cost-efficiency.

Amazon Quick Suite: Agentic AI Workspace for Business

🤖 Amazon Quick Suite is now generally available as an agentic, AI-powered workspace that retrieves insights across the public internet and your enterprise data stores — including Slack, Salesforce, Snowflake, databases, and other documents — and moves instantly from answers to actions. Quick Suite can execute or trigger tasks in popular applications like Salesforce, Jira, and ServiceNow, and automate workflows from RFP responses to invoice processing and account reconciliation. AWS highlights customer privacy — queries and data are not used to train models — and administrators can enable and tailor the experience quickly; new customers receive a 30-day trial for up to 25 users.

AWS Direct Connect Adds 10G/100G with MACsec in KC

🔒 AWS expanded 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated Direct Connect links with MACsec encryption at the Netrality KC1 facility near Kansas City, MO. Customers at this location can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Direct Connect delivers a private, physical connection that can provide more consistent performance and lower latency than the public internet. AWS also notes there are over 146 Direct Connect locations worldwide.

Amazon EC2 I7i Storage-Optimized Instances Available in Spain

🖥️ Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Amazon EC2 I7i storage-optimized instances in the AWS Europe (Spain) region, powered by 5th-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 3rd-generation AWS Nitro SSDs. Compared with prior I4i instances, I7i delivers up to 23% better compute performance, improved price performance, and up to 45 TB of NVMe storage with notable reductions in storage I/O latency and variability. Offered in eleven sizes (including bare-metal), I7i targets I/O-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads requiring very high random IOPS and real-time access to multi-TB datasets.

Amazon EC2 C6in network-optimized instances in Mexico

🚀 AWS announced general availability of Amazon EC2 C6in instances in the Mexico (Central) Region. These sixth-generation, network-optimized instances run on 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the AWS Nitro System, delivering up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth and improved EBS throughput and IOPS. C6in offers up to 128 vCPUs across 10 sizes (including bare metal) and provides Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. Targeted use cases include network virtual appliances, Telco 5G UPF, data analytics, HPC, and CPU-based AI/ML workloads.