Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. 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 deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage.

Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these instances are available in 9 different instance sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M7g. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.
 

 

​Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances are available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. 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 deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. Amazon EC2 Graviton3 instances also use up to 60% less energy to reduce your cloud carbon footprint for the same performance than comparable EC2 instances. For increased scalability, these instances are available in 9 different instance sizes, including bare metal, and offer up to 30 Gbps networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M7g. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.    

Amazon SageMaker AI is pleased to announce support for M7i, C7i, and R7i instance types for SageMaker Model Training and SageMaker Processing. Amazon SageMaker Model Training lets you easily train machine learning models at scale using fully managed infrastructure optimized for performance and cost. Amazon SageMaker Processing makes it easy to run data pre-processing, post-processing, and model evaluation workloads on fully managed infrastructure.

M7i, C7i, and R7i instances are powered by custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to their previous generation (M6i, C6i, and R6i) instances. M6i, C6i, and R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. M7i, R7i, and C7i instances are a great choice for CPU-based, compute-intensive Machine Learning (ML) workloads

M7i, C7i, and R7i instances are now available to run Training and Processing jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI in multiple AWS Regions. For pricing and regional availability information on these instances, please visit our pricing page.
 

 

​Amazon SageMaker AI is pleased to announce support for M7i, C7i, and R7i instance types for SageMaker Model Training and SageMaker Processing. Amazon SageMaker Model Training lets you easily train machine learning models at scale using fully managed infrastructure optimized for performance and cost. Amazon SageMaker Processing makes it easy to run data pre-processing, post-processing, and model evaluation workloads on fully managed infrastructure. M7i, C7i, and R7i instances are powered by custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to their previous generation (M6i, C6i, and R6i) instances. M6i, C6i, and R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. M7i, R7i, and C7i instances are a great choice for CPU-based, compute-intensive Machine Learning (ML) workloads M7i, C7i, and R7i instances are now available to run Training and Processing jobs on Amazon SageMaker AI in multiple AWS Regions. For pricing and regional availability information on these instances, please visit our pricing page.    

Starting today, EC2 1-year Instance Savings Plans are now available for EC2 P5 and P5en instances in all Regions where these instances are available.

EC2 Instance Savings Plans are a flexible pricing model that offer lowest prices on individual instance family’s usage in a region (for example, P5 usage in the US (N. Virginia) Region), in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1- or 3- year term. Today we are adding 1-year option for EC2 P5 and P5en instances, offering savings of up to 40% as compared to On-Demand price, complementing the existing 3-year option.

To learn more about the new pricing options for P5 and P5en instances, see EC2 Instance Savings Plans.
 

 

​Starting today, EC2 1-year Instance Savings Plans are now available for EC2 P5 and P5en instances in all Regions where these instances are available. EC2 Instance Savings Plans are a flexible pricing model that offer lowest prices on individual instance family’s usage in a region (for example, P5 usage in the US (N. Virginia) Region), in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1- or 3- year term. Today we are adding 1-year option for EC2 P5 and P5en instances, offering savings of up to 40% as compared to On-Demand price, complementing the existing 3-year option. To learn more about the new pricing options for P5 and P5en instances, see EC2 Instance Savings Plans.    

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) has added support for Express Brokers in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) regions. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes.

You can now create an MSK cluster with Express brokers in these AWS Regions from the Amazon MSK console. To learn more, check out this blog.

 

​Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) has added support for Express Brokers in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) regions. Express brokers are a new broker type for Amazon MSK Provisioned designed to deliver up to 3x more throughput per broker, scale up to 20x faster, and reduce recovery time by 90% as compared to standard Apache Kafka brokers. Express brokers come pre-configured with Kafka best practices by default, support all Kafka APIs, and provide the same low-latency performance that Amazon MSK customers expect, so they can continue using existing client applications without any changes. You can now create an MSK cluster with Express brokers in these AWS Regions from the Amazon MSK console. To learn more, check out this blog.  

AWS Marketplace helps Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) manage their AWS Marketplace Channel Partner relationships through selling authorizations, allowing channel partners to resell ISV products. Starting today, ISVs can access an enhanced selling authorization experience through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. This update streamlines the process, making it more efficient to manage channel operations.

The redesigned experience offers ISVs a step-by-step guide for creating and managing selling authorizations for their channel partners, with the ability to save progress and resume later. The authorization process has been simplified by combining granular sections and reducing the number of required steps. The «Partners» tab has been renamed to «Selling authorizations» and the interface now aligns with the private offer experience. Additionally, the authorization table has been revamped with a consolidated status field for improved tracking. Together, these enhancements streamline the selling process through channel partners, making it more efficient for ISVs to scale their channel sales and accelerate business growth through AWS Marketplace.

These features are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is available for ISVs selling software-as-a-service (SaaS), Amazon Machine Images (AMI), professional services, and container products in AWS Marketplace. To learn more, visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide, or access the AWS Marketplace Management Portal to try the new capabilities.
 

 

​AWS Marketplace helps Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) manage their AWS Marketplace Channel Partner relationships through selling authorizations, allowing channel partners to resell ISV products. Starting today, ISVs can access an enhanced selling authorization experience through the AWS Marketplace Management Portal. This update streamlines the process, making it more efficient to manage channel operations. The redesigned experience offers ISVs a step-by-step guide for creating and managing selling authorizations for their channel partners, with the ability to save progress and resume later. The authorization process has been simplified by combining granular sections and reducing the number of required steps. The «Partners» tab has been renamed to «Selling authorizations» and the interface now aligns with the private offer experience. Additionally, the authorization table has been revamped with a consolidated status field for improved tracking. Together, these enhancements streamline the selling process through channel partners, making it more efficient for ISVs to scale their channel sales and accelerate business growth through AWS Marketplace. These features are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Marketplace is available for ISVs selling software-as-a-service (SaaS), Amazon Machine Images (AMI), professional services, and container products in AWS Marketplace. To learn more, visit the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide, or access the AWS Marketplace Management Portal to try the new capabilities.    

AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within AWS Backup that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager helps you maintain and demonstrate compliance with those policies.

To find a full list of AWS Regions in which AWS Backup Audit Manager is available, please refer to the AWS Backup Regional availability. To learn more about AWS Backup Audit Manager, visit the product page and documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.

 

​AWS Backup Audit Manager is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup Audit Manager is a feature within AWS Backup that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies to help you meet your business and regulatory needs. AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection policies across AWS services based on organizational best practices and regulatory standards, and AWS Backup Audit Manager helps you maintain and demonstrate compliance with those policies. To find a full list of AWS Regions in which AWS Backup Audit Manager is available, please refer to the AWS Backup Regional availability. To learn more about AWS Backup Audit Manager, visit the product page and documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.  

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS South America (São Paulo) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads.

AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon M7g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M8g Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

 

​Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS South America (São Paulo) Region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon M7g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M8g Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.  

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon Inspector code security capabilities, helping you secure your applications before they reach production. This new feature, with native integration to GitHub and GitLab, helps you rapidly identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your application source-code, dependencies, and infrastructure as code (IaC). You can evaluate source-code as builders push or pull code changes in repositories, within CI/CD pipelines, or through scheduled scans. Findings from these scans are surfaced both in the Amazon Inspector console for an aggregated view across the organization and within the source code management platform as fast feedback for the developers.

This expansion builds upon existing Amazon Inspector capabilities for scanning Amazon EC2 instances, container images in Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and AWS Lambda functions to provide consistent vulnerability management from compute running on AWS to your code. Amazon Inspector delivers three core capabilities: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) for analyzing application source-code, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for evaluating third-party dependencies, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning for validating infrastructure definitions.

Amazon Inspector code scanning is available in 10 Regions including: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). To learn more and get started with Inspector code security, visit:

• Getting started with Amazon Inspector
• Amazon Inspector free trial

 

​Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon Inspector code security capabilities, helping you secure your applications before they reach production. This new feature, with native integration to GitHub and GitLab, helps you rapidly identify and prioritize security vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across your application source-code, dependencies, and infrastructure as code (IaC). You can evaluate source-code as builders push or pull code changes in repositories, within CI/CD pipelines, or through scheduled scans. Findings from these scans are surfaced both in the Amazon Inspector console for an aggregated view across the organization and within the source code management platform as fast feedback for the developers. This expansion builds upon existing Amazon Inspector capabilities for scanning Amazon EC2 instances, container images in Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and AWS Lambda functions to provide consistent vulnerability management from compute running on AWS to your code. Amazon Inspector delivers three core capabilities: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) for analyzing application source-code, Software Composition Analysis (SCA) for evaluating third-party dependencies, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning for validating infrastructure definitions. Amazon Inspector code scanning is available in 10 Regions including: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). To learn more and get started with Inspector code security, visit:

Getting started with Amazon Inspector
Amazon Inspector free trial  

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) enhanced scanning now surfaces how an image is used on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), including last used date, the number of clusters that the image was used, and the cluster ARNs. You can use this information to prioritize vulnerability remediation for images that are actively being used.

ECR enhanced scanning is an integration with Amazon Inspector that provides vulnerability scanning for your container images. ECR enhance scanning scans your container images for both operating systems and programming language package vulnerabilities. With the launch today, you can understand whether and where your images are used on EKS and ECS. Using ECR or Inspector consoles and APIs, you can now identify when you last used an image, the number of clusters that the image was used, and which clusters are running the image with cluster ARNs. As the image use status changes, ECR enhanced scanning will continuously update the status and surface the new status as part of the enhanced scanning findings.

ECR support for image use status is available for enhanced scanning customers at no additional cost and is generally available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where enhanced scanning is available. To get started with ECR enhanced scanning, visit ECR documentation.
 

 

​Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) enhanced scanning now surfaces how an image is used on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), including last used date, the number of clusters that the image was used, and the cluster ARNs. You can use this information to prioritize vulnerability remediation for images that are actively being used. ECR enhanced scanning is an integration with Amazon Inspector that provides vulnerability scanning for your container images. ECR enhance scanning scans your container images for both operating systems and programming language package vulnerabilities. With the launch today, you can understand whether and where your images are used on EKS and ECS. Using ECR or Inspector consoles and APIs, you can now identify when you last used an image, the number of clusters that the image was used, and which clusters are running the image with cluster ARNs. As the image use status changes, ECR enhanced scanning will continuously update the status and surface the new status as part of the enhanced scanning findings. ECR support for image use status is available for enhanced scanning customers at no additional cost and is generally available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where enhanced scanning is available. To get started with ECR enhanced scanning, visit ECR documentation.    

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex 12xlarge and 16xlarge instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (London) region. The new sizes expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, that are available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.

Flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose and compute intensive workloads. M7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to M6i instances respectively. These instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources such as web and application servers, virtual desktops, batch-processing, microservices, databases, caches, and more. For workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage M7i instances.

The new M7i-flex sizes are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Thailand, Tokyo), Mexico (Central), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West).

 

​Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7i-flex 12xlarge and 16xlarge instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (London) region. The new sizes expand the EC2 Flex portfolio, providing additional compute options to scale-up existing workloads or run larger sized applications that need additional memory. These instances are powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, that are available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price-performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose and compute intensive workloads. M7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to M6i instances respectively. These instances offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources such as web and application servers, virtual desktops, batch-processing, microservices, databases, caches, and more. For workloads that need larger instance sizes (up to 192 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory) or continuous high CPU usage, you can leverage M7i instances. The new M7i-flex sizes are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris, Spain, Stockholm), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Thailand, Tokyo), Mexico (Central), South America (São Paulo), and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West).