Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, are generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances deliver up to 40% lower inference costs over comparable Amazon EC2 instances. You can use Inf2 instances to run popular applications such as text summarization, code […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the regional availability for Amazon AppStream 2.0. Starting today, AWS customers can deploy their applications and desktops in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region and stream them using AppStream 2.0. Deploying your applications on AppStream 2.0 in a region closer to your end users helps provide a more responsive experience. […]

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, Amazon EC2 M8gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have […]

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in AWS Middle East (UAE), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Paris, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built […]

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 41 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Connect, Amazon Sagemaker, and more. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: cloud9:environment cloudtrail:eventdatastore connect:instance/rule connect:instance/task-template connect:phone-number datapipeline:pipeline dax:cache devicefarm:project devicefarm:testgrid-project ds:directory ec2:ipam-resource-discovery ec2:ipam-resource-discovery-association elasticloadbalancing:listener-rule/net events:connection […]

AWS Systems Manager now enables customers to customize their configurations when enabling the new Systems Manager experience, which provides centralized node management capabilities across AWS accounts and Regions. Customers can choose to enable or disable default EC2 instance permissions for Systems Manager connectivity, set the frequency of inventory metadata collection, and define how often the […]

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now provides seamless certificate renewal for all MSK Provisioned clusters, allowing the brokers in your cluster to receive the most up-to-date encryption certificates without going through a restart. The encryption certificates used by Amazon MSK require renewal every 13 months. With this launch, certificate renewals on Amazon […]

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. The list of all supported regions where Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is generally available can […]