AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest […]

We are excited to announce Advanced Scaling, a new capability in Amazon EMR Managed Scaling which provides customers increased flexibility to control the performance and resource utilization of their Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters. With Advanced Scaling, customers will be able to configure the desired resource utilization or performance levels for their cluster, and Amazon […]

Today, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a high-performance block storage service, announces the general availability of Time-based Copy. This new feature helps you meet your business and compliance requirements by ensuring that your EBS Snapshots are copied within and across AWS Regions within a specified timeframe. Customers use EBS Snapshots to back up their […]

Amazon EFS now supports up to 2.5 million read IOPS and up to 500,000 write IOPS per file system, a 10x increase over the previous limits, making it easier to power machine learning (ML) research, multi-tenant SaaS, genomics, and other data-intensive workloads on AWS. Amazon EFS provides serverless, fully elastic file storage that makes it […]

AWS Marketplace now enables customers to discover and subscribe to software from Colombia Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners. This expansion serves to increase the breadth of software and data offerings, adding to the 20,000+ software listings and data products from 5000+ sellers. Starting today, AWS Marketplace customers around the world can directly procure […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in Middle East (Bahrain) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 R8g instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big […]

New minor versions of Microsoft SQL Server are now available on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, providing performance enhancements and security fixes. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports these latest minor versions of SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022 across the Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. We encourage you to upgrade your […]

Today, AWS announces the addition of cost analysis capabilities to Amazon Q Developer, allowing customers to retrieve and interpret their AWS cost data through natural language interactions. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant that helps customers build, deploy, and operate applications on AWS. The cost analysis capability helps users of all skill levels […]

Today, we are excited to announce support for new protocols in AWS Network Firewall so you can protect your Amazon VPCs using application-specific inspection rules. With this launch, AWS Network Firewall will detect protocols like HTTP2, QUIC, and PostgreSQL so you can apply firewall inspection rules to these protocols. You can also use new rule […]