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Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion brings the power and simplicity of Lightsail to customers across new geographies in Asia, South America, and Europe. With this launch, customers in these geographical regions can now enjoy lower latency and better performance for their applications while meeting local data residency requirements. The new Regions provide access to Lightsail's full range of features including instances that meet your compute needs, from general purpose to compute-optimized and memory-optimized bundles, as well as managed databases, container services, load balancers, and more, all with the same simple, predictable pricing that Lightsail customers love. Startups, small businesses, and developers in these regions can now run their a

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano model using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). This is a popular open-weight model from NVIDIA with 30B total parameters. In addition to deploying this model on SageMaker AI, you can now adapt it to your specific domains and workflows. Model customization enables you to tailor foundation models with your proprietary data, whether that's improving accuracy on domain-specific tasks, aligning outputs with your organization's tone, or enhancing performance on new tasks using your labeled data. With serverless customization, SageMaker AI handles all infrastructure provisioning and training orchestration, so you can focus on your data and evaluation rather than cluster management, and only pay for what you use. Serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano on SageMaker AI is available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific

AWS is announcing the availability of high performance Storage optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in AWS Europe (Paris) region. Powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon 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 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. Additionally, torn write prevention feature support up to 16KB block sizes, enabling custo

Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East), enabling government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads. EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML allows you to reserve GPU instances in advance for a defined duration, giving you assured access to accelerated compute for short-duration pre-training, fine-tuning, rapid prototyping, and inference demand surges. Capacity Blocks deliver low-latency, high-throughput connectivity through colocation in Amazon EC2 UltraClusters. You can reserve capacity up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to 6 months, in cluster sizes of one to 64 instances. Capacity Blocks can also be shared across multiple accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), helping organizations coordinate ML infrastructure investments and keep reserved capacity in continuous use across workloads. In AWS GovCloud (US), EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances (u7i-8tb.112xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-8TB instances offer 8 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i instances offer up to 45% better price performance over existing U-1 instances. U7i-8TB instances deliver 448 vCPUs and support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers running mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.

Amazon Quick now integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling teams to query their Snowflake data and documents using natural language, and automate multi-step workflows directly within their Quick workspace. After setting up the connection using Snowflake's managed MCP server with OAuth authentication, you can ask questions across structured data through Cortex Analyst and retrieve insights from unstructured documents through Cortex Search. With this integration, you can build Flows in Quick that orchestrate Snowflake Cortex Agents to execute repeatable, governed workflows with consistent structured output. This is ideal for any multi-step process that spans structured data and unstructured documents. The same MCP connection is also accessible from Quick Chat and other Quick features. For example, users can ask ad-hoc follow-up questions or explore their Snowflake data conversationally alongside their automated flows. Quick intellig

Today, AWS is expanding support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) local clusters on AWS Outposts to first-generation and second-generation AWS Outposts racks running Amazon EC2 instances that boot from Amazon EC2 instance store. AWS Outposts offers static stability for Amazon EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store, and AWS is now extending that benefit to Amazon EKS local clusters customers. With local clusters, the entire Kubernetes control plane runs on AWS Outposts, supporting advanced data residency requirements and mitigating the risk of impact from temporary network disconnects to the cloud. Amazon EKS local clusters on AWS Outposts backed by Amazon EC2 instance store use an updated architecture that brings greater operational and feature-level parity with Amazon EKS clusters in the cloud. The Kubernetes control plane on your Outpost

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces service health ranking on the application map and new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page. These capabilities let operators triage unhealthy services and inspect the underlying compute environment, log snippets, and trace details in one place, making it easier to find root causes without switching tools. Customers use Application Signals to monitor the health of distributed applications, but identifying why a service was unhealthy often required leaving CloudWatch to correlate infrastructure data across separate tools. The application map now ranks services by health and shows runtime indicators on service nodes for Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EC2, along with a new infrastructure tab that surfaces the compute and runtime environment, its components, and curated default metrics with deep links to the relevant monitoring tools. In addition, the service overview page provides the infr

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, starting with version 18.3. This release brings community improvements to query performance and database management, and introduces support for pg_roaringbitmap, a new extension that performs fast, memory-efficient set operations on large collections of integers. This enables use cases such as audience segmentation, tag-based filtering, and permission checks directly in the database without application-layer processing. PostgreSQL 18 introduces B-tree skip scans, which improve query performance, and reduce index storage and maintenance overhead. Major version upgrades now retain optimizer statistics, ensuring consistent query performance immediately after upgrading without waiting for statistics to be regenerated. Logical replication can now stream large transactions in parallel, reducing replication lag and keeping downstream systems more c

Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless now supports workflow and task state change events to Amazon EventBridge, enabling data engineering and platform teams to build event-driven automation for their Apache Airflow workflows. Previously, monitoring workflow execution required custom polling logic or manual observation. With this launch, MWAA Serverless can emit events when workflows transition between states, including started, running, succeeded, or failed, and when individual tasks change state, such as scheduled, succeeded, failed, or up for retry. With this feature, you can further automate your existing workflows - for example, using EventBridge notifications to trigger alerts when a production workflow fails, automatically restart dependent pipelines when an upstream workflow succeeds, or log state transitions to Amazon S3 for compliance and auditing. This feature is available in all AWS