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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 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 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

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

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

AWS Resource Control Policies (RCPs) now provide support for Amazon Cognito and Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Resource control policies (RCPs) are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage permissions in your organization. RCPs offer central control over the maximum available permissions for resources in your organization. With this expansion, you can now use RCPs to manage permissions f

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom Chrome browser extensions, enabling automation for complex workflows that standard browser automation cannot handle alone. This enhancement builds upon AgentCore’s existing secure browser features, allowing users to upload Chrome-compatible extensions to S3 and automatically install them during browser sessions. The feature serves enterprise developers, automation engineers, and organizations across industries requiring specialized browser functionality within a secure environment. This new feature enables powerful use cases including custom authentication flows, automated testing, and improved web navigation with performance optimization through ad blocking. Organizations gain the ability to integrate third-party tools that operate as browser extensions, eliminating manual processes while maintaining security within the AgentCore Browser environment. This feature is available in all nine

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core announce the availability of new Microsoft productivity applications for WorkSpaces instances, including Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024, Microsoft Office LTSC Standard 2024, Microsoft Visio LTSC Professional 2024, Microsoft Visio LTSC Standard 2024, Microsoft Project Professional 2024 and Microsoft Project Standard 2024. Microsoft Office 2024, Visio 2024 and Project 2024 applications are now part of Amazon WorkSpaces’ managed applications catalog and can be added to eligible new or existing WorkSpaces using your existing Manage application workflow. This helps you standardize on a modern, secure, productivity-focused desktop experience without changing your current bundles. These applications are available in all AWS Regions that support Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core. You will be charged the applications you choose for your WorkSpaces instances. For more details on pricing, ref