AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 57 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation accelerated computing instances (P5e, P5en, G6e), storage optimized instances (I7ie, I8g), and compute optimized instances (M8g), as well as high memory instances (U7i) and new instance sizes for C7i-flex and M7i-flex. With these newly supported instance types, AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations to help you identify cost and performance optimization opportunities across a wider range of EC2 instance types, helping you improve performance and cost savings for your workloads.

This new feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Compute Optimizer is available, except the AWS GovCloud (US) and the China Regions. For more information about Compute Optimizer, visit our product page and documentation. You can start using AWS Compute Optimizer through the AWS Management Console, AWS Services CLI, or AWS SDK.

 

​AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 57 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation accelerated computing instances (P5e, P5en, G6e), storage optimized instances (I7ie, I8g), and compute optimized instances (M8g), as well as high memory instances (U7i) and new instance sizes for C7i-flex and M7i-flex. With these newly supported instance types, AWS Compute Optimizer delivers recommendations to help you identify cost and performance optimization opportunities across a wider range of EC2 instance types, helping you improve performance and cost savings for your workloads. This new feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Compute Optimizer is available, except the AWS GovCloud (US) and the China Regions. For more information about Compute Optimizer, visit our product page and documentation. You can start using AWS Compute Optimizer through the AWS Management Console, AWS Services CLI, or AWS SDK.  

IAM Identity Center has released a new SDK plugin that simplifies AWS resource authorization for applications that authenticate with external identity providers (IdPs) such as Microsoft EntraID, Okta, and others. The plugin which supports trusted identity propagation (TIP), streamlines how external IdP tokens are exchanged for IAM Identity Center tokens. These tokens enable precise access control to AWS resources (e.g., Amazon S3 buckets) leveraging user and group memberships as defined in the external IdP.

The new SDK plugin automates the token exchange process eliminating the need for complex, custom-built workflows. Once configured, it seamlessly handles the IAM Identity Center token creation and the generation of user identity-aware credentials. These credentials can be used for creating identity-aware IAM role sessions while requesting access to different AWS resources. Currently available for Java 2.0 and JavaScript v3 SDK, this TIP plugin is AWS’s recommended solution for implementing user identity-aware authorization.

IAM Identity Center enables you to connect your existing source of workforce identities to AWS once, and access the personalized experiences offered by AWS applications such as Amazon Q, define and audit user identity-aware access to data in AWS services, and manage access to multiple AWS accounts from a central place. For instructions on installation of this plug-in, see here. For an example of how Amazon Q business developers can integrate into this plugin to build user identity-aware GenAI experiences, see here. This plugin is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is supported.

 

​IAM Identity Center has released a new SDK plugin that simplifies AWS resource authorization for applications that authenticate with external identity providers (IdPs) such as Microsoft EntraID, Okta, and others. The plugin which supports trusted identity propagation (TIP), streamlines how external IdP tokens are exchanged for IAM Identity Center tokens. These tokens enable precise access control to AWS resources (e.g., Amazon S3 buckets) leveraging user and group memberships as defined in the external IdP. The new SDK plugin automates the token exchange process eliminating the need for complex, custom-built workflows. Once configured, it seamlessly handles the IAM Identity Center token creation and the generation of user identity-aware credentials. These credentials can be used for creating identity-aware IAM role sessions while requesting access to different AWS resources. Currently available for Java 2.0 and JavaScript v3 SDK, this TIP plugin is AWS’s recommended solution for implementing user identity-aware authorization. IAM Identity Center enables you to connect your existing source of workforce identities to AWS once, and access the personalized experiences offered by AWS applications such as Amazon Q, define and audit user identity-aware access to data in AWS services, and manage access to multiple AWS accounts from a central place. For instructions on installation of this plug-in, see here. For an example of how Amazon Q business developers can integrate into this plugin to build user identity-aware GenAI experiences, see here. This plugin is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is supported.  

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of two new EC2 I7ie bare metal instances. These instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The I7ie instances feature 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with a 3.2GHz all-core turbo frequency. Compared to I3en instances, they deliver 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest in the cloud) for storage optimized instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3en instances.

EC2 bare metal instances provide direct access to the 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory resources. They allow EC2 customers to run applications that benefit from deep performance analysis tools, specialized workloads that require direct access to bare metal infrastructure, legacy workloads incompatible with virtual environments, and licensing-restricted business critical applications. These instances feature three Intel accelerator technologies: Intel Data Streaming accelerator (DSA), Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT). These accelerators optimize workload performance through efficient data operation offloading and acceleration.

I7ie instances offer metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes with 96 and 192 vCPUs respectively and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

To learn more, visit the I7ie instances page.

 

​Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of two new EC2 I7ie bare metal instances. These instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The I7ie instances feature 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with a 3.2GHz all-core turbo frequency. Compared to I3en instances, they deliver 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest in the cloud) for storage optimized instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3en instances. EC2 bare metal instances provide direct access to the 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor and memory resources. They allow EC2 customers to run applications that benefit from deep performance analysis tools, specialized workloads that require direct access to bare metal infrastructure, legacy workloads incompatible with virtual environments, and licensing-restricted business critical applications. These instances feature three Intel accelerator technologies: Intel Data Streaming accelerator (DSA), Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA), and Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT). These accelerators optimize workload performance through efficient data operation offloading and acceleration. I7ie instances offer metal-24xl and metal-48xl sizes with 96 and 192 vCPUs respectively and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, visit the I7ie instances page.  

AWS CodeBuild now supports Node 22, Python 3.13, Go 1.24 and Ruby 3.4 in Lambda Compute. These new runtime versions are available in both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment.

The new Lambda Compute runtime versions are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt).

To learn more about runtime versions provided by CodeBuild, please visit our documentation. To learn more about CodeBuild’s Lambda Compute mode, see CodeBuild’s documentation for Running builds on Lambda.
 

 

​AWS CodeBuild now supports Node 22, Python 3.13, Go 1.24 and Ruby 3.4 in Lambda Compute. These new runtime versions are available in both x86_64 and aarch64 architectures. AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages ready for deployment. The new Lambda Compute runtime versions are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more about runtime versions provided by CodeBuild, please visit our documentation. To learn more about CodeBuild’s Lambda Compute mode, see CodeBuild’s documentation for Running builds on Lambda.    

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 – 15.0.4430.1) and SQL Server 2022 (CU18 – 16.0.4185.3). These minor versions include performance improvements and bug fixes, and are available for SQL Server Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU32 and CU18 for details.

We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to benefit from the performance improvements and bug fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide.

These minor versions are available in all AWS regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server is available. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.
 

 

​Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports new minor versions for SQL Server 2019 (CU32 – 15.0.4430.1) and SQL Server 2022 (CU18 – 16.0.4185.3). These minor versions include performance improvements and bug fixes, and are available for SQL Server Express, Web, Standard, and Enterprise editions. Review the Microsoft release notes for CU32 and CU18 for details. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to benefit from the performance improvements and bug fixes. You can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide. These minor versions are available in all AWS regions where Amazon RDS for SQL Server is available. See Amazon RDS for SQL Server Pricing for pricing details and regional availability.    

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in US West (N. California) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.

M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics.

These instances are generally available today in the US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N. California), Canada West (Calgary), Canada (Central), Mexico (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore, Malaysia, Mumbai, Thailand), Europe (Zurich, Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions.

Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit our product page for M6id.

 

​Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6id instances are available in US West (N. California) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. M6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are generally available today in the US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N. California), Canada West (Calgary), Canada (Central), Mexico (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul, Singapore, Malaysia, Mumbai, Thailand), Europe (Zurich, Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit our product page for M6id.  

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6id instances are available in Europe (Spain) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. R6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics.

These instances are generally available today in the US East (Ohio, N.Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Thailand, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Spain), Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions.

Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see Amazon R6id instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs.

 

​Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6id instances are available in Europe (Spain) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. R6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are generally available today in the US East (Ohio, N.Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Thailand, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Spain), Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see Amazon R6id instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs.  

Amazon Lex now allows you to disable automatic intent switching during slot elicitation using request attributes. This new capability gives you more control over conversation flows by preventing unintended switches between intents while gathering required information from users. The feature helps maintain focused conversations and reduces the likelihood of interrupting the process.

This enhancement is particularly valuable for complex conversational flows where completing the current interaction is crucial before allowing transitions to other intents. By setting certain attributes, you can ensure that your bot stays focused on collecting all necessary slots, or conformations for the current intent, even if the user’s utterance matches another intent with higher confidence. This helps create more predictable and controlled conversation experiences, especially in scenarios like multi-step form filling or sequential information gathering.

This feature is supported for all Lex supported languages and is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates.

To learn more about controlling intent switching behavior, please reference the Lex V2 Developer Guide.

 

​Amazon Lex now allows you to disable automatic intent switching during slot elicitation using request attributes. This new capability gives you more control over conversation flows by preventing unintended switches between intents while gathering required information from users. The feature helps maintain focused conversations and reduces the likelihood of interrupting the process. This enhancement is particularly valuable for complex conversational flows where completing the current interaction is crucial before allowing transitions to other intents. By setting certain attributes, you can ensure that your bot stays focused on collecting all necessary slots, or conformations for the current intent, even if the user’s utterance matches another intent with higher confidence. This helps create more predictable and controlled conversation experiences, especially in scenarios like multi-step form filling or sequential information gathering. This feature is supported for all Lex supported languages and is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Lex operates. To learn more about controlling intent switching behavior, please reference the Lex V2 Developer Guide.  

AWS Transfer Family announces new configuration options for SFTP connectors, providing you more flexibility and performance when connecting with remote SFTP servers. These enhancements include support for OpenSSH key format for authentication, ability to discover remote server’s host key for validating server identity, and ability to perform concurrent remote operations for improved transfer performance.

SFTP connectors provide a fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. You can now authenticate connections to remote servers using OpenSSH keys, in addition to the existing option of using PEM-formatted keys. Your connectors can now scan the remote servers for their public host keys that are used to validate the host identity, eliminating the need for manual retrieval of this information from server administrators. To improve transfer performance, connectors can now create up to five parallel connections with remote servers. These enhancements provide you greater control when connecting with remote SFTP servers to execute file operations.

The new configuration options for SFTP connectors are available in all AWS Regions where the Transfer Family is available. To learn more about SFTP connectors, visit the documentation. To get started with Transfer Family’s SFTP offerings, take the self-paced SFTP workshop.
 

 

​AWS Transfer Family announces new configuration options for SFTP connectors, providing you more flexibility and performance when connecting with remote SFTP servers. These enhancements include support for OpenSSH key format for authentication, ability to discover remote server’s host key for validating server identity, and ability to perform concurrent remote operations for improved transfer performance. SFTP connectors provide a fully managed and low-code capability to copy files between remote SFTP servers and Amazon S3. You can now authenticate connections to remote servers using OpenSSH keys, in addition to the existing option of using PEM-formatted keys. Your connectors can now scan the remote servers for their public host keys that are used to validate the host identity, eliminating the need for manual retrieval of this information from server administrators. To improve transfer performance, connectors can now create up to five parallel connections with remote servers. These enhancements provide you greater control when connecting with remote SFTP servers to execute file operations. The new configuration options for SFTP connectors are available in all AWS Regions where the Transfer Family is available. To learn more about SFTP connectors, visit the documentation. To get started with Transfer Family’s SFTP offerings, take the self-paced SFTP workshop.    

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in the Mexico (Central) Region to build real-time stream processing applications.

Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications and integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB streams, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), custom integrations, and more using built-in connectors.

You can learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink here. For Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table.
 

 

​Starting today, customers can use Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink in the Mexico (Central) Region to build real-time stream processing applications. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications and integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon DynamoDB streams, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), custom integrations, and more using built-in connectors. You can learn more about Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink here. For Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink region availability, refer to the AWS Region Table.