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Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports registration and management of ten new top-level domains (TLDs): .ai, .nz, .shop, .bot, .moi, .spot, .free, .deal, .now, and .hot. This expansion enhances Route 53's capabilities as a domain registration and DNS management service, offering customers more options to establish their online presence. With these additions, businesses and individuals can now leverage domain names tailored to specific industries, regions, or purposes directly through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The new TLDs cater to various use cases. To name a few, the .ai domain, originally for Anguilla, has become popular among artificial intelligence companies. E-commerce sites can utilize .shop for their online storefronts. The .bot domain suits chatbot and AI-related services. The .now domain works well for time-sensitive services and instant delivery platforms. Users can register these domains through the Route 53 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs, enjoying integrated DNS manag

EC2 Auto Scaling is introducing a new policy condition key autoscaling:ForceDelete. This condition key is used with the DeleteAutoScalingGroup action to control whether the ForceDelete parameter can be used during deletion, which determines if an Auto Scaling group (ASG) can be deleted while it still contains running instances. You can use this condition key in IAM policies to restrict deletion permissions. This provides a safety measure to prevent accidental deletion of ASGs that still have running instances. Furthermore, EC2 Auto Scaling now offers deletion protection at the group level. The new deletion-protection configuration can be set either when you create your ASGs or update them. This new feature lets you set enhanced controls based on your workload's criticality, with multiple protection levels available

Today, we're announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) now supports the ability to deploy multiple VMware NSX Tier-0 Gateways within VMware Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC), enabling enhanced network segmentation and more flexible routing configurations. Multiple NSX Tier-0 Gateways allow for better performance and scale by distributing network traffic across multiple NSX Edge Clusters. This latest enhancement enables improved network segmentation, allowing you to isolate different workload environments and maintain distinct security policies for each gateway. You can also use multiple gateways to create separate test environments for validating network configurations and performing gateway upgrades with minimal impact to production workloads. This architecture flexibility helps you align your network topology with specific business requirements while maintaining operational efficiency in running your VMware workloads on AWS with Amazon EVS. 

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports database replicas for instances set up in Oracle multi-tenant configuration. Oracle multi-tenant configuration allows customers to host multiple, isolated pluggable databases in a single container database, which allows for cost reduction through consolidation and easier management. With support for replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration, customers can now distribute read workloads to a replica to scale workloads, or setup cross-Region replicas. In disaster recovery situations, customers can promote replicas to serve as a new standalone database, or execute a switchover to reverse roles between the primary database and the replica for a quick recovery. To set up replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration, customers can create a replica in either mounted or read-only mode using the AWS management console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. Once a replica is set up, Amazon RDS for Oracle manages asynchronous physical replication between primary a

Amazon Web Services announces general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances, powered by the latest Mac Studio hardware. Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances are the next-generation EC2 Mac instances, that enable Apple developers to migrate their most demanding build and test workloads onto AWS. These instances are ideal for building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari. Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances offer up to 25% better application build performance compared to Amazon EC2 M1 Ultra Mac instances. M4 Max Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System, providing up to 10 Gbps network bandwidth and 8 Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage bandwidth. These instances are built on Apple M4 Max Mac Studio computers featuring a 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, and 128GB of unified memory.  Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances are available in US East (N. Virgi

Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides now enables managers to build more dynamic and responsive guided experiences. Managers can create conditional user interfaces that adapt based on user interactions, making workflows more efficient. For example, managers can configure dropdown menus to show or hide fields, change default values, or adjust required fields based on the input in prior fields, creating tailored experiences for different scenarios. In addition, Step-by-Step Guides can now automatically refresh data from Connect resources such as flow modules at specified intervals, ensuring agents always work with the most current information. Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides is available in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (S

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances are available in the Europe (London) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The C8i are up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35% faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i. C8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. C8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i and C7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The C8i and C8i-flex are up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35% faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i and C7i-flex. C8i-flex are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads like web and application servers, databa

AWS Config announces launch of an additional 13 managed Config rules for various use cases such as security, durability, and operations. You can now search, discover, enable and manage these additional rules directly from AWS Config and govern more use cases for your AWS environment. With this launch, you can now enable these controls across your account or across your organization. For example, you can assess your security posture across Amazon Cognito User pools, Amazon EBS Snapshots, AWS Cloudformation Stacks and more. Additionally, you can leverage Conformance Packs to group these new controls and deploy across an account or across organization, streamlining your multi-account governance. For the full list of recently released rules, visit the AWS Config developer guide. For description of each rule and the AWS Regions in which it is available, please refer our 

Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo) regions. You can now create and manage Neptune Analytics graphs in these new regions and run advanced graph analytics. Amazon Neptune is a serverless graph database for connected data, improves the accuracy of AI applications, and lowers operational burden and costs. Neptune instantly scales graph workloads removing the need to manage capacity. By modeling data as a graph, Neptune captures context that improves accuracy and explainability of generative AI applications. To make AI application development easier, Neptune offers fully managed GraphRAG with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and integrations with Strands AI Agents SDK and popular agentic m