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Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning (ML) use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and personalization. G6 instances are also well-suited for graphics workloads, such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics and game streaming. G6 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs with 24 GB of memory per GPU and third generation AMD EPYC processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and up to 7.52 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. In addition to AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), Amazon EC2 G6 instances are available today in the AWS US East (N. Virginia and Ohio), US West (O

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances. X8i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Compared to X2i instances, X8i instances offer up to 50% higher SAPS performance, up to 47% faster PostgreSQL performance, 88% faster Memcached performance, and 46% faster AI inference performance. X8i instances come in 14 sizes, from large to 96xlarge, including two bare metal options. To get sta

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio announces new administration features that give administrators more control over identity configuration and user management for both IAM and Identity Center domain types. In SageMaker IAM domains, administrators can now onboard users through single sign-on by configuring AWS IAM Identity Center. After configuration, administrators can add IAM roles, IAM users, IAM Identity Center users, and IAM Identity Center groups as project members. Teams can collaborate on project data and resources regardless of how individual members authenticate. Administrators can set up IAM Identity Center integration in the SageMaker Unified Studio admin portal. A new domain user management page for SageMaker IAM domains gives administrators a consolidated view of all users active in the domain, where they can manage access and update permissions from a single screen. In SageMaker Identity Center domains, users can now access the SageMaker Unified Studio p

Starting today, Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in Europe (London) region. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs), agentic AI models, multimodal generative AI models, and physical AI models. G7e instances offer the highest performance for spatial computing workloads as well as workloads that require both graphics and AI processing capabilities. G7e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, with 96 GB of memory per GPU, and 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors. They support up to 192 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) and up to 1600 Gbps of networking bandwidth. G7e instances support NVIDIA GPUDirect Peer to Peer (P2P) that boosts performance for multi-GPU workloads. Multi-GPU G7e instances also support NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with EFA in EC2 UltraClust

Today, AWS announces availability notifications for AWS Capabilities by Region in AWS Builder Center, a new subscription-based system that automatically alerts builders when an AWS service(s) and/or features(s) become available in their target Regions. Availability notifications make it easy for builders to track availability of 1,500+ services and features across 37 AWS Regions, accelerating infrastructure planning and deployment decisions. With availability notifications, builders can subscribe at the service level through AWS Builder Center UI, and the subscription automatically covers all underlying features across selected Regions, so there's no need to track each feature individually. Notifications are delivered through two channels: instantaneous in-app alerts within AWS Builder Center, and a consolidated weekly email digest. Subscriptions

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports monetization functions, a new capability that lets customers customize how MediaTailor builds ad decision server (ADS) requests and manages session data during ad-personalized playback. With monetization functions, customers can call external APIs and run inline data transformations at defined points in the playback session — eliminating the need to build and operate middleware between the player and the ADS. Common use cases include resolving hashed email addresses into privacy-compliant identity envelopes through providers such as LiveRamp, appending contextual metadata from a content management system to every ad request through providers like GraceNote, activate header bidding workflows through providers like The Trade Desk and running A/B tests across multiple ad decision servers. Monetization functions are fail-open by design

The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides column-level client-side encryption through its KMS Encryption plugin. The wrapper provides advanced capabilities such as failover handling, AWS authentication integration, and enhanced monitoring for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS open source databases. It enables Java applications to encrypt sensitive data before it reaches the database without changing application code. Database encryption at rest and TLS in transit are foundational security controls. However, with these controls decrypt the data within the database engine. A compromised credential, overprivileged administrator, or SQL injection attack can expose sensitive data in plaintext, creating compliance risk under PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR. The KMS Encryption plugin closes this gap by working at the JDBC driver level. When your application writes to an encrypted column, the plugin encrypts the value before it reaches the database. When reading, it decrypts the value before

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based configuration that provisions Slurm cluster nodes with the software and configurations needed for a production-ready environment to run AI/ML training workloads. This removes the need to download, configure, or upload lifecycle configuration scripts to Amazon S3. With fewer operational steps to prepare a cluster and no lifecycle configuration scripts executing during node provisioning, cluster creation time is significantly reduced, so you can start running jobs sooner. AMI-based configuration includes required software such as Docker, Enroot, and Pyxis, and configurations such as Slurm accounting, SSH key generation, Slurm log rotation and user home directory setup. To enable AMI-based configuration, omit the LifeCycleConfig block from the instance group configuration when creating clusters using the CreateCluster API, or when using the SageMaker AI console, select "None" under Lifecycle scripts in Custom setup. For additiona

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances are available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors, and feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards. M8gn instances offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. M8gb offer up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth to provide higher EBS performance compared to same-sized equivalent Graviton4-based instances. M8gn are ideal for network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function (UPF). M8gb are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance such as high performance databases and NoSQL databases. M8gn instances offer instance sizes up

Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now detects customer time zones using all phone numbers and addresses on a customer profile, not just the primary contact fields. Previously, time zone detection used only the primary phone number, which could miss customers who span multiple time zones. When a profile's contact information spans multiple time zones, the system delivers only during hours that fall within your configured window in every detected time zone, and skips profiles when no overlap exists. For example, if a customer has a mobile number with an Eastern time area code and a business number with a Pacific time area code, and your campaign is configured for 9am–5pm delivery, messages will only be sent between 12pm–5pm ET (9am–2pm PT), when both time zones fall within the allowed window.  This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns is offered at no additional&n