Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. 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 data analytics. 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. AWS Graviton4-based R8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory (up to 1.5TB) than Graviton3-based R7g instances. These instances are up to 30% faster for web applications, 40% faster for databases, and 45% faster for large Java applications compared to AWS Graviton3-based R7g instances. R8g 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 R8g 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) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS Europe (Spain) regions. 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 data analytics. 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. AWS Graviton4-based R8g instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPU (up to 48xlarge) and memory (up to 1.5TB) than Graviton3-based R7g instances. These instances are up to 30% faster for web applications, 40% faster for databases, and 45% faster for large Java applications compared to AWS Graviton3-based R7g instances. R8g 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 R8g 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.    

AWS CodePipeline now offers an enhanced debugging experience in the AWS Management Console, enabling you to identify and resolve pipeline failures more efficiently. The new debugging interface introduces a dedicated debugging page, accessible through the left navigation bar’s «Action details» button.

This page presents a simplified pipeline view with execution and action details displayed in a side panel. This streamlined layout allows you to easily monitor the pipeline process and quickly debug action failures.

This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where CodePipeline is supported, excluding AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page.

 

​AWS CodePipeline now offers an enhanced debugging experience in the AWS Management Console, enabling you to identify and resolve pipeline failures more efficiently. The new debugging interface introduces a dedicated debugging page, accessible through the left navigation bar’s «Action details» button. This page presents a simplified pipeline view with execution and action details displayed in a side panel. This streamlined layout allows you to easily monitor the pipeline process and quickly debug action failures. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions where CodePipeline is supported, excluding AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and China Regions. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, visit our product page.  

Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account.

Customer applications scale multiple accounts following AWS best-practice guidelines. They often use accounts for different environments such as development, testing, production, and compare resource configurations and statuses across multiple accounts for troubleshooting application issues and other application related jobs. Before this launch, the AWS Console supported one account sign-in at a time, and customers used mechanism such as signing-in accounts in different browsers or installing third-party browser plugins to access multiple accounts in different browsers. Using multi-session capability in the AWS Console, customers can sign-in to their different AWS accounts and manage their resources in a single browser.

Multi-session support is available in Commercial Regions. Try it today by signing in to the AWS Console, selecting the account menu, and selecting “Turn on multi-session”. You can opt out at any time from the account menu. Visit AWS Console documentation to learn more.

 

​Today, AWS announces multi-sesssion support which enables customers to access multiple AWS accounts in the AWS Console. Customers can sign-in to up to 5 sessions in a single browser, and this can be any combination of root, IAM, or federated roles in different accounts or in the same account. Customer applications scale multiple accounts following AWS best-practice guidelines. They often use accounts for different environments such as development, testing, production, and compare resource configurations and statuses across multiple accounts for troubleshooting application issues and other application related jobs. Before this launch, the AWS Console supported one account sign-in at a time, and customers used mechanism such as signing-in accounts in different browsers or installing third-party browser plugins to access multiple accounts in different browsers. Using multi-session capability in the AWS Console, customers can sign-in to their different AWS accounts and manage their resources in a single browser. Multi-session support is available in Commercial Regions. Try it today by signing in to the AWS Console, selecting the account menu, and selecting “Turn on multi-session”. You can opt out at any time from the account menu. Visit AWS Console documentation to learn more.  

AWS Resource Explorer now supports 29 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon FSx, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Glue.

With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:

1. acm:certificate
2. codepipeline:webhook
3. comprehend:document-classifier
4. comprehend:entity-recognizer
5. databrew:job
6. databrew:project
7. dataexchange:data-sets
8. dms:es
9. dms:subgrp
10. elasticmapreduce:cluster
11. emr-containers:virtualclusters
12. frauddetector:external-model
13. frauddetector:model
14. fsx:file-system
15. glacier:vaults
16. glue:crawler
17. greengrass:connectorsDefinition
18. greengrass:coresDefinition
19. greengrass:devicesDefinition
20. greengrass:functionsDefinition
21. greengrass:loggersDefinition
22. greengrass:resourcesDefinition
23. greengrass:subscriptionsDefinition
24. mq:broker
25. route53:domain
26. ses:contact-list
27. ses:configuration-set
28. ses:identity
29. storagegateway:gateway

To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.

 

​AWS Resource Explorer now supports 29 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including Amazon FSx, Amazon Route 53, and AWS Glue. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer:

acm:certificate
codepipeline:webhook
comprehend:document-classifier
comprehend:entity-recognizer
databrew:job
databrew:project
dataexchange:data-sets
dms:es
dms:subgrp
elasticmapreduce:cluster
emr-containers:virtualclusters
frauddetector:external-model
frauddetector:model
fsx:file-system
glacier:vaults
glue:crawler
greengrass:connectorsDefinition
greengrass:coresDefinition
greengrass:devicesDefinition
greengrass:functionsDefinition
greengrass:loggersDefinition
greengrass:resourcesDefinition
greengrass:subscriptionsDefinition
mq:broker
route53:domain
ses:contact-list
ses:configuration-set
ses:identity
storagegateway:gateway

To view a complete list of all supported types, see the supported resource types page.  

Starting today, Amazon EC2 I8g instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads.

I8g instances offer instance sizes up to 24xlarge, 768 GiB of memory, and 22.5 TB instance storage. They are ideal for real-time applications like relational databases, non-relational databases, streaming databases, search queries and data analytic.

To learn more, see Amazon EC2 I8g 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, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.
 

 

​Starting today, Amazon EC2 I8g instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g instances. I8g instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 50% lower storage I/O latency and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software enhancing the performance and security for your workloads. I8g instances offer instance sizes up to 24xlarge, 768 GiB of memory, and 22.5 TB instance storage. They are ideal for real-time applications like relational databases, non-relational databases, streaming databases, search queries and data analytic. To learn more, see Amazon EC2 I8g 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, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.    

Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions with immutable recovery points and vaults, and restore your data in the event of a data loss incident.

You can get started with AWS Backup using the AWS Backup console, SDKs, or CLI by creating a data protection policy and then assigning AWS resources to it using tags or Resource IDs. For more information on the features available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, visit the AWS Backup product page and documentation. To learn about the Regional availability of AWS Backup, see the AWS Regional Services List.

 

​Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region. AWS Backup is a fully-managed, policy-driven service that allows you to centrally automate data protection across multiple AWS services spanning compute, storage, and databases. Using AWS Backup, you can centrally create and manage backups of your application data, protect your data from inadvertent or malicious actions with immutable recovery points and vaults, and restore your data in the event of a data loss incident. You can get started with AWS Backup using the AWS Backup console, SDKs, or CLI by creating a data protection policy and then assigning AWS resources to it using tags or Resource IDs. For more information on the features available in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region, visit the AWS Backup product page and documentation. To learn about the Regional availability of AWS Backup, see the AWS Regional Services List.  

Today, AWS Partner Central announces the general availability of Partner Connections, which allows AWS Partners to discover and connect with other Partners for collaboration on shared customer opportunities. With Partner Connections, Partners can co-sell joint solutions, accelerate deal progression, and expand their reach by teaming with other AWS Partners.

At the core of Partner Connections are two key capabilities: connections discovery and multi-partner opportunities. The connections discovery feature uses AI-powered recommendations to streamline Partner matchmaking, making it easier for Partners to find suitable collaborators and add them to their network. With multi-partner opportunities, Partners can work together seamlessly to create and manage joint customer opportunities in APN Customer Engagements (ACE). This integrated approach allows Partners to work seamlessly with AWS and other Partners on shared opportunities, reducing the operational overhead of managing multi-partner opportunities.

Partners can also create, update, and share multi-partner opportunities using the Partner Central API for Selling. Our CRM integration Partners can also enable this capability, allowing their customers to collaborate with other Partners and AWS on joint sales opportunities from their own customer relationship management (CRM) system.

Partner Connections is available to all eligible AWS Partners who have signed the ACE Terms and Conditions and have linked their AWS account to their Partner Central account. To get started, log in to AWS Partner Central and review the ACE user guide for more information.
 

 

​Today, AWS Partner Central announces the general availability of Partner Connections, which allows AWS Partners to discover and connect with other Partners for collaboration on shared customer opportunities. With Partner Connections, Partners can co-sell joint solutions, accelerate deal progression, and expand their reach by teaming with other AWS Partners. At the core of Partner Connections are two key capabilities: connections discovery and multi-partner opportunities. The connections discovery feature uses AI-powered recommendations to streamline Partner matchmaking, making it easier for Partners to find suitable collaborators and add them to their network. With multi-partner opportunities, Partners can work together seamlessly to create and manage joint customer opportunities in APN Customer Engagements (ACE). This integrated approach allows Partners to work seamlessly with AWS and other Partners on shared opportunities, reducing the operational overhead of managing multi-partner opportunities. Partners can also create, update, and share multi-partner opportunities using the Partner Central API for Selling. Our CRM integration Partners can also enable this capability, allowing their customers to collaborate with other Partners and AWS on joint sales opportunities from their own customer relationship management (CRM) system. Partner Connections is available to all eligible AWS Partners who have signed the ACE Terms and Conditions and have linked their AWS account to their Partner Central account. To get started, log in to AWS Partner Central and review the ACE user guide for more information.    

Today’s launch extends the abilities of Amazon Q Developer to access CloudZero’s cloud cost optimization platform without leaving the AWS Management Console. Administrators on the Q Developer Pro Tier can enable the new CloudZero plugin in the AWS Management Console by configuring the credentials to access these third party services. Builders can now easily get cost insights, billing information and learn more about CloudZero directly in the console using Q Developer. For example, customers can ask about insights and cost information using natural language by asking “@cloudzero list my top cost insights”.

When working with Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console, prefix your questions with “@cloudzero”. Q Developer will call out to CloudZero’s APIs, assemble a natural language response, and return a summary with deep links to CloudZero. Access to CloudZero information directly in the Console allows builders avoid context switching and deep links let them investigate further as needed.

CloudZero is a leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency, enabling engineers to build cost-efficient software without slowing down innovation. CloudZero’s next-generation cloud cost optimization platform automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of cloud costs to uncover savings opportunities and improve unit economics. CloudZero enables companies to understand their operational cloud spend and take an engineering-led approach to optimizing that spend.

To learn more about Amazon Q Developer, visit the service overview page.
 

 

​Today’s launch extends the abilities of Amazon Q Developer to access CloudZero’s cloud cost optimization platform without leaving the AWS Management Console. Administrators on the Q Developer Pro Tier can enable the new CloudZero plugin in the AWS Management Console by configuring the credentials to access these third party services. Builders can now easily get cost insights, billing information and learn more about CloudZero directly in the console using Q Developer. For example, customers can ask about insights and cost information using natural language by asking “@cloudzero list my top cost insights”.
When working with Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console, prefix your questions with “@cloudzero”. Q Developer will call out to CloudZero’s APIs, assemble a natural language response, and return a summary with deep links to CloudZero. Access to CloudZero information directly in the Console allows builders avoid context switching and deep links let them investigate further as needed. CloudZero is a leader in proactive cloud cost efficiency, enabling engineers to build cost-efficient software without slowing down innovation. CloudZero’s next-generation cloud cost optimization platform automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of cloud costs to uncover savings opportunities and improve unit economics. CloudZero enables companies to understand their operational cloud spend and take an engineering-led approach to optimizing that spend. To learn more about Amazon Q Developer, visit the service overview page.    

AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 36 additional AWS services including AWS End User Messaging and Amazon Q Apps, an Amazon Q Business capability. You can leverage our breadth and depth of services in your workflow, without writing additional integration code.

AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers build distributed applications at scale. By directly invoking AWS services or their API actions from AWS Step Functions, customers can write less code, simplify their architecture, and save costs. In addition to the 36 newly added services, Step Functions also added support for over 1,000 new API actions from new and existing AWS services such as AWS Transfer Family, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Glue. For the full list of added services, visit AWS SDK service integrations.

These enhancements are now generally available in all regions where AWS Step Functions is available. Specific services and API actions are subject to the availability of the target services in the AWS Region. To learn more about AWS SDK integrations, visit the Developer Guide, or build a state machine using our AWS SDK integration tutorial.
 

 

​AWS Step Functions expands its AWS SDK integrations with support for 36 additional AWS services including AWS End User Messaging and Amazon Q Apps, an Amazon Q Business capability. You can leverage our breadth and depth of services in your workflow, without writing additional integration code. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating over 14,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to help customers build distributed applications at scale. By directly invoking AWS services or their API actions from AWS Step Functions, customers can write less code, simplify their architecture, and save costs. In addition to the 36 newly added services, Step Functions also added support for over 1,000 new API actions from new and existing AWS services such as AWS Transfer Family, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and AWS Glue. For the full list of added services, visit AWS SDK service integrations. These enhancements are now generally available in all regions where AWS Step Functions is available. Specific services and API actions are subject to the availability of the target services in the AWS Region. To learn more about AWS SDK integrations, visit the Developer Guide, or build a state machine using our AWS SDK integration tutorial.    

AWS announces GeneralPurpose.4xlarge and GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core, providing customers with powerful cloud desktops for resource-intensive Windows workloads.

GeneralPurpose.4xlarge bundles offer 16vCPUs and 64 GB RAM, while GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles provide 32vCPUs and 128 GB RAM. Both bundles include a 175GB root volume and a 100GB user volume and are available on WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. These new large bundles are designed to allow developers, scientists, financial analysts, and engineers to run demanding applications with ease. Developers can handle large compilation and development tasks with tools like Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Eclipse, while engineers and scientists can run complex simulations with MatLab, GNU Octave, R, and Stata. With pay-as-you-go pricing and on-demand scaling, these bundles offer an efficient alternative to costly physical workstations.

The new General Purpose bundles are available today in AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core are offered, except Africa (Cape Town) and Israel (Tel Aviv). They support Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 through BYOL options. You can launch these bundles through the Amazon WorkSpaces Console, or via APIs. To get started, sign in to the Amazon WorkSpaces Management Console. For pricing details, visit Amazon WorkSpaces Personal pricing or Amazon WorkSpaces Core pricing.

 

​AWS announces GeneralPurpose.4xlarge and GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core, providing customers with powerful cloud desktops for resource-intensive Windows workloads. GeneralPurpose.4xlarge bundles offer 16vCPUs and 64 GB RAM, while GeneralPurpose.8xlarge bundles provide 32vCPUs and 128 GB RAM. Both bundles include a 175GB root volume and a 100GB user volume and are available on WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core. These new large bundles are designed to allow developers, scientists, financial analysts, and engineers to run demanding applications with ease. Developers can handle large compilation and development tasks with tools like Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and Eclipse, while engineers and scientists can run complex simulations with MatLab, GNU Octave, R, and Stata. With pay-as-you-go pricing and on-demand scaling, these bundles offer an efficient alternative to costly physical workstations. The new General Purpose bundles are available today in AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Personal and WorkSpaces Core are offered, except Africa (Cape Town) and Israel (Tel Aviv). They support Windows Server 2022 and Windows 11 through BYOL options. You can launch these bundles through the Amazon WorkSpaces Console, or via APIs. To get started, sign in to the Amazon WorkSpaces Management Console. For pricing details, visit Amazon WorkSpaces Personal pricing or Amazon WorkSpaces Core pricing.