AWS – Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2025.06 now available

Today we announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2025.06, which introduces significant improvements to instance bootstrapping, security configurations, and logging capabilities. This release streamlines the RES deployment process, enhances security controls for infrastructure hosts, adds Amazon CloudWatch logging for virtual desktop instances (VDI), and provides new customization options.

RES 2025.06 features a streamlined bootstrapping process that accelerates infrastructure and VDI launch times. The improved process also enables customers to create RES-ready Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) without requiring an active RES deployment, making it easier to apply patches and customizations. Enhanced security configurations for infrastructure hosts now have more granular permissions, helping reduce security risks from compromised hosts. Additionally, a new Amazon CloudWatch Logs integration, enabled by default, centralizes VDI logs to simplify troubleshooting and monitoring.

RES 2025.06 adds support for Amazon Linux 2023 for both infrastructure hosts and VDIs, while also introducing support for Rocky Linux 9 for VDIs. Customers can now specify prefixes on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles used by RES, providing greater control over IAM resource naming conventions. The release also introduces the ability to delete or remove mounted file systems directly from the RES user interface, simplifying storage management. Furthermore, RES 2025.06 expands regional availability to include AWS GovCloud (US-East), offering an additional deployment option for government customers.

To learn more about RES 2025.06, including detailed release notes and deployment instructions, visit the Research and Engineering Studio documentation. You can also consult the RES GitHub repository for additional technical information.

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