All news with #product update tag

🖥️ Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025, enabling customers to launch streaming instances powered by the newest server OS. The update delivers improved security, performance, and modern platform capabilities, and allows administrators to provide a Windows 11-style desktop experience to end users. Images are available as AWS public images or can be customized with Image Builder, and support is generally available in all Regions where the service is offered.

🔁 Amazon EC2 now accepts Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) as a parameter in its APIs, enabling creation and management of instances, volumes, subnets and other resources using consistent, static zone identifiers. AZ IDs map to the same physical location across all AWS accounts, removing the need to reconcile per-account AZ names. This capability covers launch templates, fleets, reserved instances, volumes, capacity reservations, VPC endpoints, network interfaces, fast snapshot restore, instance connect and more, and is available in all regions including China and AWS GovCloud (US).

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL community releases 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23. The update combines upstream community bug fixes and product improvements with Aurora-specific optimizations, including faster Blue/Green deployment switchovers and enhancements to Query Plan Management (QPM). These engine versions are available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US), and can be deployed or used to upgrade existing clusters via the Amazon RDS console.

🔔 Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, enabling customers to run fault-tolerant container workloads on spare capacity at discounts up to 90% versus On‑Demand. The fully managed compute option continues to provision, configure, and operate EC2 instances in your account while AWS handles scaling and placement optimization. You set task requirements and choose capacityOptionType as spot or on-demand in the Managed Instances capacity provider. Spot support is available in all Regions where Managed Instances is offered; management fees apply in addition to Spot instance costs.

🌐 Amazon WorkSpaces now supports IPv6 for WorkSpaces domains and external endpoints, enabling IPv4/IPv6 dual‑stack connectivity from compatible clients while excluding SAML authentication over IPv6. Dual‑stack reduces the need for address translation hardware, simplifies IP management, and supports PrivateLink VPC endpoints over IPv6 for private access. The feature is available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud, at no additional cost; administrators must use the latest WorkSpaces clients to enable IPv6.

🌐 Amazon MSK Connect now supports dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for new connectors on MSK Connect, allowing customers to create connectors that use both protocols. Connectors can be created with dual-stack via the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDKs, or CloudFormation by setting the Network Type parameter. New connectors default to IPv4-only unless explicitly configured for dual-stack, and existing connectors remain IPv4 and must be deleted and recreated to change. The feature is available in all Regions where MSK Connect is offered and incurs no additional charge.

📦 AWS IoT Core now supports batching multiple device messages into a single HTTP rule action before routing to downstream HTTP endpoints. This reduces per-request overhead and can lower ingress cost and throughput demand for telemetry-heavy IoT workloads. Configure batch parameters on your HTTP rule action and AWS IoT Core will group incoming messages according to those settings. The capability is available in all AWS Regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) and Amazon China Regions.

📊 Cloudflare announces support for aggregations in R2 SQL, enabling GROUP BY, SUM, COUNT, HAVING and ORDER BY over data stored in R2 Data Catalog. The release introduces two distributed strategies — scatter-gather for pre-aggregates and shuffling with deterministic hash partitioning for global grouping and sorting. Developers can now run large-scale analytical queries and top-K reports on Parquet data without moving it or managing separate OLAP infrastructure.

🔒 AWS Clean Rooms now supports change requests for existing collaborations, enabling participants to propose updates such as adding new members, adjusting member abilities, and modifying auto-approval behavior. All members must approve change requests before updates take effect, and every request is recorded in the collaboration change history for member review. This preserves existing privacy controls while reducing onboarding time and speeding time-to-insight—for example, a publisher can add an advertiser’s marketing agency to receive analysis results directly.

🕒 Amazon ECS now lets you define weekly event windows to control when AWS Fargate retires tasks for platform updates. Enable the account setting fargateEventWindows, create EC2 event windows with time ranges, and associate them to ECS tasks using managed tags like aws:ecs:clusterArn, aws:ecs:serviceArn, or aws:ecs:fargateTask. This allows precise timing (for example, weekend-only retirements) to avoid disruption during peak business hours and is available in all commercial AWS Regions.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances to Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and South America (Sao Paulo). These memory-optimized instances run on custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances. R8i offers 13 sizes including two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge for the largest workloads, while R8i-flex provides common sizes (large to 16xlarge) for cost-efficient memory-heavy applications. Instances are available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🚀 Amazon Neptune is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region on engine versions 1.4.5.0 and later. You can create Neptune clusters using a broad set of instance types, including R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3. Neptune is a fully managed graph database that supports Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, openCypher, and SPARQL, and provides enterprise features such as high availability, automated backups, and network isolation. Clusters can be provisioned via the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or CloudFormation.

📣 AWS Lambda now offers durable functions in 14 additional Regions, enabling developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows closer to users and data. Durable functions add primitives such as "steps" and "waits" to checkpoint progress, recover from failures, and pause execution without incurring compute charges for on-demand functions. Activation is available for new Python (3.13, 3.14) and Node.js (22, 24) functions via the API, Console, SDK, or Infrastructure as Code tools like CloudFormation, SAM, and CDK.

🔐 Today, AWS Control Tower adds 176 additional AWS Security Hub controls to the Control Catalog, enabling you to search, discover, enable, and manage them directly from the Control Tower console. You can also call the ListControls, GetControl, and EnableControl APIs to automate governance across multi-account environments. New AWS Config rules are searchable in all Regions where Control Tower is available, including AWS GovCloud (US); check each rule's supported regions before deployment.

🧪 AWS Direct Connect now integrates with AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) to run controlled resilience tests that deliberately disrupt Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions on Virtual Interfaces. You can simulate BGP session failures to validate that traffic fails over to redundant Virtual Interfaces and that applications remain operational. This capability helps teams proactively verify failover behavior, observability, and recovery procedures and is available in all AWS Commercial Regions where AWS FIS is offered.

🚀 Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the new engine on Aurora without self-installation or manual provisioning. PostgreSQL 18.1, released September 9, 2025, adds skip scan for multicolumn B-tree indexes, improved WHERE handling for OR/IN, parallel GIN index builds, and join enhancements. Observability gains include buffer usage counts, index lookup details, and a per-connection I/O utilization metric. Preview clusters are retained up to 60 days and are priced the same as production Aurora instances in the US East (Ohio) Region.

📄 AWS Billing Conductor now supports service-specific custom line items scoped to a single AWS service or a selected set of services. Customers can control whether these line items appear itemized or consolidated in pro forma billing artifacts such as the Bills Page, Cost Explorer, and Cost and Usage Records. The enhancement enables more precise charge-back and re-billing workflows, including applying discounts to Saving Plans fees or allocating shared support charges. This capability is available now across AWS commercial Regions, excluding China.

🚀 AWS has expanded availability of Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g, and R8g instances to AWS GovCloud (US-West and US-East). These instances run on AWS Graviton4 processors and the AWS Nitro System, delivering up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and larger instance sizes with up to 3x vCPUs and memory. Enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth support high-throughput workloads.

⚡Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces the new LaunchInstances API, a synchronous operation that provides immediate feedback on capacity availability when provisioning instances inside an Auto Scaling group. Customers can specify placement overrides for any Availability Zone or subnet to control where capacity is launched. The call returns real-time insight so operators can implement alternative strategies if capacity is constrained, and it also supports optional asynchronous retries to help reach desired capacity. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional cost beyond standard EC2 and EBS usage.

🚀 Amazon EC2 C8g instances are now available in AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by Graviton4 processors, C8g delivers up to 30% better performance versus Graviton3 and offers up to 3x more vCPUs and memory than prior C7g sizes. Built on the AWS Nitro System, these instances provide enhanced performance, security, and networking (up to 50 Gbps) for compute‑intensive workloads. Twelve sizes, including two bare‑metal options, support HPC, gaming, video encoding, CPU inference, and analytics.