All news with #product update tag

🚀 Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) exclusive to AWS. They deliver up to 15% better performance over comparable Intel-based offerings and up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i. C7i offers larger sizes up to 48xlarge, two bare-metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl) with built-in Intel accelerators and supports AMX and up to 128 EBS volumes to scale data-intensive workloads.

🔐 Amazon CloudFront now supports CWT (CBOR Web Tokens) and CAT (Common Access Tokens), providing a compact, binary alternative to JWTs using CBOR and protected with COSE. Developers can validate, generate, and refresh tokens directly in CloudFront Functions with sub-millisecond execution and seamless integration with the CloudFront Functions KeyValueStore for secure key management. CAT extends CWT with fine-grained access controls such as URL patterns, IP restrictions, and HTTP method limits, enabling edge-enforced authorization without additional charge.

🔧 Amazon announced three new CloudFront Functions capabilities: edge location and Regional Edge Cache (REC) metadata, raw query string retrieval, and advanced origin overrides. CloudFront Functions runs lightweight JavaScript at edge locations with sub-millisecond execution, and these additions give developers direct visibility into serving edges and expected RECs. The raw query string preserves exact viewer input for precise parsing and compliance, while advanced origin overrides let teams customize SSL/TLS handshake behavior, including SNI, to support multi-tenant and complex backend configurations.

🔍 Amazon EC2 now publishes AMI ancestry, enabling you to trace an AMI’s full lineage from its immediate parent back to the root across regions. This built‑in visibility replaces manual tagging and cross‑region record‑keeping, simplifying compliance audits and incident response. AMI ancestry is accessible via the AWS CLI, SDKs, and Console at no additional cost. It helps quickly identify all derived AMIs when a vulnerability is discovered in an ancestor, improving remediation speed and reducing operational risk.

🔔 AWS now lets customers in India sign up using UPI AutoPay as the default payment method, replacing the prior card-only requirement. Users add and verify a UPI ID in the AWS console, confirm their billing address, and approve an authorization request in their UPI app to enable recurring payments up to INR 15,000. After verification, future invoices up to that limit are charged automatically from the next billing cycle, reducing manual payment steps and the risk of missed payments.

⚡ Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), and US West (N. California). Powered by AWS-exclusive custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5× the memory bandwidth versus prior Intel-based instances, and about 20% higher performance than R7i. R8i-flex provides common memory-optimized sizes from large to 16xlarge for workloads that underutilize CPU; R8i includes 13 sizes, two bare-metal options and a new 96xlarge, and is SAP-certified at 142,100 aSAPS. Available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot.

🔍 AWS CloudTrail Insights now analyzes data events as well as management events, automatically detecting anomalies in data access patterns such as unexpected surges in S3 delete calls or increased Lambda error rates. When unusual activity is found, CloudTrail generates an Insights event that includes the relevant data events and can trigger alerts for rapid investigation. The capability is available in all regions where CloudTrail is offered; additional charges apply for data-event Insights.

🚀 Amazon Web Services has expanded availability of its EC2 High Memory U7i instances: the u7in-16tb.224xlarge (16TiB) is now in AWS Europe (Ireland); u7i-12tb.224xlarge (12TiB) is available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad); and u7i-8tb.112xlarge (8TiB) is available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Powered by custom 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids) and DDR5 memory, these instances provide high vCPU counts (up to 896), ENA Express support, up to 100Gbps EBS performance and up to 200Gbps networking on the 16TiB size, making them suited for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

🔍 Amazon Aurora DSQL now surfaces statement-level cost estimates directly in query plans, providing developers immediate visibility into resource use per SQL statement. The EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE output is extended to append per-category (compute, read, write, and multi-Region write) and total estimated Distributed Processing Unit (DPU) usage. This enhancement offers fine-grained, real-time cost insight that complements CloudWatch metrics, enabling faster identification of cost drivers and more effective query tuning. The feature is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is supported.

🔬 Amazon Braket now offers access to IBEX Q1, a 12-qubit trapped-ion QPU from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT) featuring full all-to-all connectivity that eliminates the need for intermediate SWAP gates. The device is available on-demand and via Hybrid Jobs, and customers can reserve dedicated capacity through Braket Direct with hourly pricing and no upfront commitments. IBEX Q1 runs in the Europe (Stockholm) Region with launch access Tuesdays and Wednesdays 09:00–16:00 UTC. Accredited researchers may apply for AWS Cloud Credits for Research to support experiments.

🔁 The AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports the Slurm REST API, enabling programmatic job submission, resource management, and cluster monitoring over HTTP. This removes reliance on CLI-only workflows and lets teams integrate HPC operations into web portals, CI/CD pipelines, and data processing frameworks. The feature is available in all AWS Regions with AWS PCS and has no additional charge.

🔍 Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for end-customer self-service across voice and digital channels, including PSTN/telephony, in-app and web calling, chat, SMS, WhatsApp Business, and Apple Messages for Business. The capability analyzes sentiment, redacts sensitive data, surfaces top contact drivers and themes, flags compliance risks, and supports semantic matching rules to categorize interactions. Administrators can use easy-to-customize dashboards to proactively identify areas for improvement and align automated flows with customer needs.

🔍 Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes Cluster Insights, a unified monitoring dashboard that consolidates logs and metrics to give operators comprehensive operational visibility across nodes, indices, and shards. The feature automates correlation of critical data, highlights performance metrics and top‑N query analysis, and surfaces targeted remediation steps to speed troubleshooting. Built into the OpenSearch UI, Cluster Insights retains monitoring resilience during cluster unavailability and provides account‑level summaries for managing multiple deployments. It is available at no additional cost for OpenSearch 2.17 or later in regions where the OpenSearch UI is offered.

🔁 Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports scheduled Logs Insights queries that run automatically on a recurring cadence and deliver results to Amazon S3 or Amazon EventBridge. This capability lets teams automate log analysis, track trends, and detect anomalies without manually re-running queries. Administrators can configure schedules via the Console, AWS CLI, AWS CDK, or SDKs, and store results for reporting or trigger incident workflows. The feature is available in multiple AWS regions across the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America.

🔐 Amazon API Gateway now supports enhanced TLS security policies for REST APIs and custom domain names, giving customers more granular control over encryption, cipher selection, and endpoint access. Policy options include TLS 1.3-only, Perfect Forward Secrecy, FIPS-compliant cipher suites, and Post Quantum Cryptography choices. The update, available in many AWS commercial Regions, aims to simplify compliance with stricter regulations and strengthen cryptographic posture.

🔔 AWS announced general availability of AWS Data Exports supporting the FOCUS 1.2 schema, enabling customers to export standardized cost and usage data to Amazon S3. The release preserves the four-cost-column structure (ListCost, ContractedCost, BilledCost, EffectiveCost) from FOCUS 1.0 while adding fields for broader enterprise use cases. Key capabilities include invoice reconciliation, capacity reservation tracking to find unused reservations, and virtual currency support for multi-cloud and SaaS cost scenarios. The export is available in US East (N. Virginia) and covers all AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China Regions.

🔒 AWS Directory Service now supports AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to route all Directory Service API and Directory Service Data API traffic through private VPC endpoints. This removes the need for internet gateways or NAT devices and reduces latency by creating requester-managed ENIs in enabled subnets. The feature covers directory management and user operations and is available in all Regions where AWS Directory Service is supported.

🔐 AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduces temporary delegation, enabling time-limited, delegated access to Amazon and AWS Partner products for tasks like initial deployments, ad-hoc maintenance, and feature upgrades. The capability eliminates the need for persistent IAM roles, improves auditability, and reduces setup and operational burden. It is available in all AWS commercial Regions and is being adopted by partners such as Archera, Aviatrix, Databricks, HashiCorp, Qumulo, Rapid7 and others.

🛡️ AWS now lets administrators enforce a centralized IP allocation strategy using VPC IPAM policies, ensuring public IPv4 addresses for resources like NAT Gateways and Elastic IPs are allocated from specified IPAM pools. The centrally defined policy cannot be overridden by individual teams, improving compliance and simplifying network and security management. Available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions, this feature works with both Free and Advanced IPAM tiers and enables cross-account, cross-region policy control when using the Advanced tier.

📦 Amazon Web Services announced a new Amazon ECR Archive storage class to lower costs for large volumes of rarely accessed container images. Lifecycle policies can now archive images by last pull time, age, or count, and archived images are excluded from repository image limits. Archived images are inaccessible for pulls but can be restored via Console, CLI, or API within about 20 minutes, and all operations are logged to CloudTrail; the feature is available in AWS Commercial and GovCloud (US) Regions.