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🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 M8i and M8i‑flex instances available in AWS GovCloud (US‑West). Powered by AWS‑exclusive Intel Xeon 6 processors, the instances deliver up to 15% better price‑performance and 2.5x memory bandwidth versus prior Intel‑based generations, and up to 20% higher performance than M7i variants. AWS cites workload gains of up to 30% for PostgreSQL, 60% for NGINX web workloads, and 40% for deep learning recommendation models. M8i‑flex targets common sizes for cost‑efficient general purpose use, while M8i supports large, SAP‑certified and bare‑metal options including a new 96xlarge.

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries now accept parameters, enabling reusable query templates with placeholders for values such as log level, service name, or time interval. You can define up to 20 parameters with optional defaults and invoke parameterized queries by prefixing the saved query name with $ and supplying arguments. This reduces duplicate queries and simplifies complex analysis. Saved queries with parameters are available in all commercial AWS regions and can be created or executed via the Console, AWS CLI, AWS CDK, and AWS SDKs.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has made EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US‑West) Region. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, these instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared with prior Intel-based generations. R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads, while R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for applications that don’t fully utilize vCPUs. Both families are SAP-certified and targeted at memory-intensive databases, web services, analytics, and recommendation models.

🌍AWS has expanded AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management to the Israel (Tel Aviv) and Europe (Milan) Regions. This move enables local organizations to reduce latency, strengthen data residency controls, and lower cross-region transfer costs. The services support industry-standard protocols and scale to manage billions of devices. AWS IoT is now available in 27 Regions worldwide.

🔁 Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups into and out of opt-in Regions for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, Amazon FSx for Lustre, and Amazon FSx for OpenZFS. This extends cross-Region, cross-account backup and recovery capabilities beyond Regions enabled by default, enabling broader resilience, disaster recovery, and compliance architectures. Backup copies can be managed via the Amazon FSx console, API, CLI, and across accounts in the same AWS Organization using AWS Backup.

🌐 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now supports IPv6 for both data replication and control plane connections, enabling replication in IPv6-only or dual-stack environments. Customers can set the internet protocol to IPv6 in replication configuration to use dual-stack endpoints for agent-to-service communication and data transfer, removing the requirement for IPv4 addresses. Existing replication configurations remain on IPv4 by default, and the capability is available in Regions where AWS DRS and Amazon EC2 support IPv6.

🔗 AWS has made AWS Interconnect - multicloud generally available, providing private, resilient, high-speed connections between Amazon VPCs and other cloud providers. Google Cloud is the initial launch partner, with Microsoft Azure slated to join later in 2026. The service integrates with AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN to simplify scaling across VPCs and Regions, and introduces single-fee bandwidth pricing plus one free local 500 Mbps interconnect per Region starting in May.

🔌 AWS has announced general availability of AWS Interconnect - last mile, a fully managed offering that streamlines private, high-speed connections from branch offices, data centers, and remote sites to AWS in partnership with Lumen. Through the AWS Console customers can provision pre-provisioned capacity, automate BGP, VLAN and ASN configuration, and scale bandwidth from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps while MACsec is enabled by default. The service is SLA-backed, designed for high availability, zero-downtime maintenance, and includes an open API for partner adoption.

🚀 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next‑generation memory‑optimized VMs powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i delivers up to 43% higher performance, up to 1.5× more memory (up to 6 TB) and 3.3× greater memory bandwidth versus X2i. Offered in 14 sizes, including two bare‑metal options, they target SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics and EDA and are available in select US and European regions.

⚙️ Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports conditional processing and a new Drop Events processor, letting you apply transformations only to matching log entries. You can set processor-level 'run when' conditions or entry-level conditions across 21 processors such as Add Entries, Grok, and Rename Key. The Drop Events processor filters unwanted entries from third-party connectors to reduce noise and lower costs. These features are available at no additional charge where pipelines are generally available; standard CloudWatch Logs ingestion and storage rates still apply.

☁️ AWS Deadline Cloud now supports creating monitors in multiple AWS Regions without requiring changes to your IAM Identity Center configuration. You can deploy render farms and place resources closer to artists and studios worldwide, and run or compare workloads across Regions to optimize rendering strategy or diversify instance types. Deadline Cloud automatically routes authentication to your IAM Identity Center instance in its primary Region, keeping identity data in place and avoiding replication.

🛡️ Amazon CloudWatch pipelines introduces compliance and governance controls to help preserve data integrity and restrict pipeline creation. You can enable a keep original toggle to store raw logs before any transformation, and processed entries now include metadata indicating they were transformed. New IAM condition keys let administrators limit pipeline creation by log source and type. These capabilities are provided at no additional cost and are available in Regions where pipelines is supported.

🚀 Amazon announced second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in four additional Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), South America (Sao Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). The second-generation file systems deliver greater performance scalability and flexibility compared with first-generation deployments, enabling up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs per file system. That configuration provides workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and up to 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. You can deploy second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs, broadening choices for redundancy and capacity.

🔐 Amazon Quick now supports document-level access control lists (ACLs) for Amazon S3 knowledge bases, enabling granular permissions for documents and folders. You can configure ACLs with a centralized global ACL configuration file or with per-document metadata files for faster, targeted permission updates. ACLs are permanent at knowledge base creation and documents without an ACL entry are not ingested. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and is documented in the Amazon Quick User Guide.

📧 AWS Billing and Cost Management Dashboards now support scheduled email delivery for dashboard reports. You can configure daily, weekly, or monthly deliveries that send secure links to password-protected PDF reports optimized for offline viewing, and manage recipients through AWS User Notifications. The feature is available at no additional cost in all commercial AWS Regions (excluding AWS China Regions) and is accessible via AWS SDKs and the CLI.

✅AWS RTB Fabric now supports health checks for real-time bidding workloads running on EC2 Auto Scaling groups, providing continuous monitoring and automatic routing to healthy instances via configurable settings in RTB responder gateways. This reduces failed bidding transactions caused by bootstrapping, draining, or instance failures and helps AdTech operators improve uptime and lower error rates. The capability is generally available in multiple AWS Regions and integrates with a broad set of advertising partners.

📁 AWS Backup now supports backup and restore for Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, FSx for OpenZFS, and FSx for Lustre in five additional Regions — Malaysia, Taipei, Thailand, Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). You can centrally manage FSx backup policies, automate schedules, and monitor backup activity through AWS Backup in those Regions. AWS Backup also supports cross‑Region and cross‑account copy of FSx backups across 14 Regions, available for on‑demand copies and scheduled copy rules. In opt‑in Regions, backups can be placed in logically air‑gapped vaults to help defend against accidental deletion and ransomware.

🛠 Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now lets customers define weekly maintenance windows for both InfluxDB 2 instances and InfluxDB 3 clusters across all supported editions. You can specify day-and-time in an IANA timezone such as America/New_York, Europe/London, or Asia/Tokyo, and the service will automatically handle Daylight Saving Time transitions. Configure or modify the window when creating or updating resources via the console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. If no window is specified, Timestream will continue to schedule maintenance automatically.

🔧 Amazon OpenSearch Service now delivers a unified observability workspace that combines metrics, logs, traces, and AI agent tracing with native integration for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. You can query Prometheus metrics directly with PromQL alongside logs and traces in the OpenSearch UI using live queries that avoid data duplication and reduce costs compared with premium platforms. New RED-based application monitoring workflows and OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions enable correlating slow traces, overlaying Prometheus metrics on service dashboards, and tracing LLM agent execution within a single tool.

🔁 Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy, eliminating DNS propagation delays to enable faster application recovery during switchovers. RDS Proxy actively monitors database instances during single-Region switchovers and redirects connections to the Green environment so applications begin using the new production database immediately without driver or configuration changes. This integration supports Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Amazon RDS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB in commercial Regions where RDS Proxy is available, and deployments can be initiated via the RDS Console or CLI.