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Amazon Corretto 25, a Long Term Support (LTS) version, is now generally available. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. You can download Corretto 25 for Linux, Windows, and macOS from our downloads page. Amazon Corretto 25 new features include: Two features that were initially released as experimental in JDK 24 are now LTS production-ready in JDK 25: Compact Object Headers: designed to lower heap memory usage by shrinking object headers from 96-128 bits down to 64 bits. Generational Shenandoah GC: engineered to provide sustainable throughput and lower p99 pa

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) storage optimized I8ge instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation Graviton2-based storage optimized Amazon EC2 instances. I8ge instances use the latest third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage that deliver up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB while offering up to 60% lower storage I/O latency and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to previous generation Im4gn instances. At 120 TB, I8ge instances have the highest storage density among AWS Graviton-based storage optimized Amazon EC2 instances. 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. I8ge instances

Amazon EventBridge now extends AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer managed key support to event bus rule filter patterns and input transformers. This capability enables you to use your own encryption keys to protect sensitive information in your event filtering and transformation logic to meet stringent security and compliance requirements while maintaining full control over your encryption keys. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event router that enables you to create scalable event-driven applications by routing events between your applications, third-party SaaS applications, and AWS services. Filter patterns determine which events match your rules, while input transformers allow you to customize the event data before sending it to targets. By encrypting these components with customer managed keys, you can help meet your organization's compliance and governance requirements and use AWS CloudTrail to a

Today AWS announced custom time periods for AWS Budgets, a new capability that lets you create budgets with flexible start and end dates. This enhancement allows you to define budget periods that align with your organization's specific needs, moving beyond traditional calendar-based periods like monthly, quarterly, or annual budgets. Custom time periods help you accurately monitor costs for projects with specific duration and funding limits. For example, if you have a three-month development project starting mid-month, you can create a single budget for that exact time frame and receive alerts when spending approaches your thresholds. This eliminates the need to calculate and split your project budget across multiple calendar months or maintain separate spreadsheets to track time-bound initiatives. Custom time periods in AWS Budgets is available today in all AWS commercial Regions, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. To learn more a

Today, AWS End User Messaging SMS announces support for AWS CloudFormation, enabling customers to deploy and manage SMS resources using AWS CloudFormation templates. Using AWS CloudFormation, customers can standardize how they setup and manage their SMS resources along side their other AWS resources in the development environment simplifying deployments and delivery pipelines. SMS resources supported via CloudFormation include phone numbers, sender IDs, configuration sets, protection configurations, opt-out lists, resource policies, and phone pools. AWS End User Messaging provides developers with a scalable and cost-effective messaging infrastructure without compromising the safety, security, or results of their communications. Developers can integrate messaging to support uses cases such as one-time passcodes (OTP) at sign-ups, account updates, appointment reminders, delivery notifications, promotions and more.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20250818. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your MySQL databases on Aurora and RDS after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your MySQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to thre

Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announced a new catalog of community add-ons that includes metrics-server, kube-state-metrics, cert-manager, prometheus-node-exporter, fluent-bit, and external-dns. This enables you to easily find, select, configure, and manage popular open-source Kubernetes add-ons directly through EKS. Each add-on has been packaged, scanned, and validated for compatibility by EKS, with container images securely hosted in an EKS-owned private Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repository. To make Kubernetes clusters production-ready, you need to integrate various operational tools and add-ons. These add-ons can come from various sources including AWS and open-source community repositories. Now, EKS makes it easy for you to access a broader selection of add-ons, providing a unified management experience for

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS South America (São Paulo), Canada West (Calgary) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access the small to medium size datasets (multi-

Today, Amazon EBS announced a new latency injection action in AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments. You can now use this action to inject I/O latency on your volumes as part of a controlled testing experiment to understand how your mission-critical applications respond to storage faults. With the new fault action, you can test your architecture against elevated storage latency, allowing you to observe application behavior and fine-tune your monitoring and recovery processes to ensure high availability. EBS volumes are designed to meet the needs of highly available, latency-sensitive applications such as Oracle, SAP HANA, and Microsoft SQL Server. The latency injection action simulates degraded I/O performance on your volume to replicate the real-world signals, such as Amazon CloudWatch alarms and operating system timeouts, that occur during storage performance issues. Using this action, you can build confidence t

Amazon Lex now allows you to leverage large language models (LLMs) to improve the natural language understanding of your deterministic conversational AI bots in eight new languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, and German. With this capability, your voice- and chat-bots can better handle complex utterances, maintain accuracy despite spelling errors, and extract key information from verbose inputs to fulfill the customer’s request. For example, a customer could say ‘Hi I want to book a flight for my wife, my two kids and myself’, and the LLM will properly identify to book flight tickets for four people. This feature is available in 10 commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available: Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central). To learn more about this feature, visit