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AWS today announced Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances, simplifying virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) migrations with highly customizable instance configurations. Utilizing EC2 Managed Instances at its foundation, WorkSpaces Core can now provision resources in your AWS account, handling infrastructure lifecycle management for both persistent and non-persistent workloads. Managed Instances complement existing WorkSpaces Core pre-configured bundles by providing greater flexibility for organizations requiring specific compute, memory, or graphics configurations. You can now use existing discounts, Savings Plans, and other features like On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs), with the operational simplicity of WorkSpaces - all within the security and governance boundaries of your AWS account. WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances is ideal for organizations m

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless has added support for Point in Time (PIT) search and SQL in AWS GovCloud US-East and US-West Regions, enabling you to run multiple queries against a dataset fixed at a specific moment. With PIT search you to maintain consistent search results even as your data continues to change, making it particularly useful for applications that require deep pagination or need to preserve a stable view of data across multiple queries. OpenSearch SQL API allows you to leverage your existing SQL skills and tools to analyze data stored in your collections. PIT supports both forward and backward navigation through search results, ensuring consistency even during ongoing data ingestion. This feature is ideal for e-commerce applications, content management systems, and analytics platforms that require reliable and consistent search capabilities across large datasets. SQL and PPL API support addresses the need for familiar query syntax and improved integration with

AWS VPC has increased the default value for routes per route table from 50 to 500 entries. Before this enhancement, customers had to request a limit increase to use more than 50 routes per VPC route table. Organizations often need additional routes to maintain precise control over their VPC traffic flows to insert firewalls or network functions in the traffic path, or direct traffic to peering connections, internet gateway, virtual private gateway or transit gateway. This enhancement automatically increases the route table capacity to 500 routes, mitigating administrative overhead and enables customers to scale their network architecture seamlessly as their requirements grow. The new default limit will be automatically available for all route tables in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customer accounts without route quota overrides will automatically get 500 routes per VPC route table for their existing and new VPCs. Customer accounts with route qu

The Amazon Time Sync Service now supports nanosecond-precision hardware packet timestamping on supported Amazon EC2 instances. Built on Amazon's proven network infrastructure and the AWS Nitro System, customers can enable the Amazon Time Sync Service's hardware packet timestamping to add a 64 bit nanosecond-precision timestamp to every inbound network packet. By timestamping at the hardware level, before the kernel, socket, or application layer, customers can now more directly leverage the reference clock running in the AWS Nitro System and bypass any delays added by timestamping in software. Customers can then use these timestamps to determine the order and resolve fairness of incoming packets to their ec2 instances, measure 1-way network latency, and further increase distributed system transaction speed with higher precision and accuracy than most on-premises solutions. Customers already using the Amazon Time

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) through new dual-stack endpoints. Customers can connect to AWS Private CA service, download Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs), and check revocation status via Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. AWS Private CA Connector for Active Directory (AD) and AWS Private CA Connector for Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP) also support IPv6. The existing AWS Private CA endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility. AWS Private CA is a managed service that lets you create private certificate authorities (CAs) to issue digital certificates for authenticating users, servers, workloads, and devices within your organization, while securing the CA's private keys using FIPS 140-3 Level 3 hardware security modules (HSMs). AWS Private CA offers connectors so you can use AWS Private C

AWS AppSync is now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand), and Canada West (Calgary). AWS AppSync GraphQL is a fully managed service that enables developers to create scalable APIs that simplify application development by allowing applications to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or multiple sources. AWS AppSync Events is a fully managed service for serverless WebSocket APIs with full connection management. To learn more about AWS AppSync's regional availability, please visit the AWS Services by Region page. For more information about AWS AppSync, visit the AWS AppSync documentation.

Today, AWS End User Messaging announces support for Service Quota. This integrations provides customers with improved visibility and control over their SMS, voice, and WhatsApp service quotas, streamlining the quota management process and reducing the need for manual intervention. With Service Quotas, customers can now view and manage their End User Messaging quota limits directly through the AWS Service Quotas console. This integration enables automated limit increase approvals for eligible requests, improving response times and reducing the number of support tickets. Customers will also benefit from visibility into quota usage for all on-boarded quotas via Amazon CloudWatch usage metrics, allowing for better resource planning and management. Service Quotas for End User Messaging is available in all commercial regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about Service Quo

Today, we’re announcing the integration of Amazon Neptune Analytics with GraphStorm, a scalable, open-source graph machine learning (ML) library built for enterprise-scale applications. This integration brings together Neptune’s high-performance graph analytics engine and GraphStorm’s flexible ML pipeline, making it easier for customers to build intelligent applications powered by graph-based insights. With this launch, customers can train graph neural networks (GNNs) using GraphStorm and bring their learned representations—such as node embeddings, classifications, and link predictions—into Neptune Analytics. Once loaded, these enriched graphs can be queried interactively and analyzed using built-in algorithms like community detection or similarity search, enabling a powerful feedback loop between ML and human analysis. This integration supports a wide range of use cases, from detecting fraud and recommending content, to improving supply chain intelligence, unders

AWS Step Functions now offers TestState in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. This expansion allows customers operating in these regions to test individual states of their workflows without creating or updating existing state machines, helping to enhance the development and troubleshooting process for their applications. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that enables customers to build distributed applications, automate IT and business processes, and build data and machine learning pipelines using AWS services. TestState allows developers to validate a state's input and output processing, test AWS service integrations, and verify HTTP task requests and responses. With TestState now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, customers can test and validate individual workflow steps. TestState supports various state types including Task, Pass, Wait, Choice,

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) 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 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 R7g