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Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This new Local Zone is one of the first AWS Local Zones in the Asia Pacific with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking, and other select services, closer to metropolitan areas worldwide. AWS Local Zones help you achieve single-digit millisecond latency for end-user workloads, meet data residency requirements, support AI/ML inference workloads, and accelerate migration and modernization of legacy applications to the cloud, all while maintaining consistent AWS APIs, tools, and services as AWS Regions. AWS Local Zones are available in more than 30 metropo

Today, Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces support for multilocation canaries, allowing developers and site reliability engineers to run the same canary across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single point of management. Previously, monitoring application availability from multiple geographic locations required creating and managing separate canaries in each Region, adding operational overhead and increasing the risk of configuration drift. With multilocation canaries, you create and manage a canary in one primary Region, and CloudWatch Synthetics automatically replicates it to the additional Regions you choose, consolidating all run data, metrics, and artifacts in the primary Region. Multilocation canaries help you ensure consistent user experience worldwide, identify region-specific performance bottlenecks, and validate that third-party dependencies like CDNs and payment processors work across all locations. Replica canaries run independently, giving you resil

Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on all existing clusters, at no additional cost. Previously available only on newly created clusters, Intelligent Rebalancing is now available on all MSK Provisioned clusters running Express brokers, making it effortless for customers to benefit from automatic partition balancing when scaling their Express-based clusters up or down. Intelligent Rebalancing maximizes the capacity utilization of MSK Express-based clusters by optimally rebalancing Kafka resources for better performance, eliminating the need for customers to manage partitions themselves or via third-party tools. Intelligent Rebalancing performs these operations up to 180 times faster compared to Standard brokers. Clusters are continuously monitored for resource imbalance or overload based on intelligent Amazon MSK defaults to maximize cluster performance. When required, brokers are efficiently scaled without affecting cluste

Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. In AWS benchmarking tests, time to trigger scale-out improved from 363 seconds to 86 seconds (76% faster, 4.2x), and total time to scale and provision new tasks improved from 386 seconds to 109 seconds (72% faster, 3.5x). Faster service auto scaling also enables you to reduce baseline capacity and lower compute costs while maintaining service reliability and performance as workload demand fluctuates. Amazon ECS service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics. With today's launch, targ

Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. G7 instances deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6. You can use G7 instances for AI inference workloads such as language translation, video and image analysis, speech recognition, and recommender systems. Additionally, G7 instances also accelerate graphics workloads such as creating and rendering real-time, cinematic-quality graphics, and game streaming, as well as data analytics workloads such as large-scale data processing pipelines. G7 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with 32 GB of memory per GPU, custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, and up to 700 Gbps of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking bandwidth. You can start using Amazon EC2 G7 instances today in two AWS Regions: US East (Ohio) and US West (O

Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking, enabling your brokers to connect to private resources in your VPC without exposing those resources publicly.. This helps you meet your security and compliance requirements when your brokers need to reach private identity providers (such as LDAP and OAuth 2.0), other Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers, or self-hosted RabbitMQ brokers. Previously, this connectivity for RabbitMQ Federation, Shovel, or authentication required Network Load Balancer and NAT Gateway workarounds. Amazon MQ establishes this connectivity using Amazon VPC Lattice, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), and AWS PrivateLink, and manages the underlying infrastructure on your behalf. To get started, create a VPC Lattice resource gateway, package your resource configurations into an AWS RAM resource share, and associate it with your broker. Private networking is available only for Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers, in all

Starting today, Nested virtualization is now available on additional Intel platforms and additional Regions. Nested virtualization is now available on C7i,R7i, M7i, C7id,R7id, M7id, C7i-flex,R7i-flex, M7i-flex, I7i, C8i-flex,R8i-flex, M8i-flex,and X8i, in addition to already available support on C8i, M8i and R8i instances. This capability is also now available in US GovCloud (US-East) and US GovCloud (US-West), in addition to existing support in all commercial regions. With nested virtualization capabilities, customers can create nested environments by running KVM or Hyper-V on virtual EC2 instances. Customers can leverage this capability for use cases such as running emulators for mobile applications, simulating in-vehicle hardware for automobiles, and running Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations. To learn more see documentation .

Amazon Connect Customer now supports the ability to interrupt an agent with a contact, overriding their usual routing configuration in case of urgent or time-sensitive work. For example, an agent may be waiting for a time-sensitive callback on their personal extension, while taking customer service calls in the meantime. When that urgent call comes in, it can now ring the agent even if the agent is currently already on another call, so the agent can decide whether to put the first caller on hold to pick up the callback as well. You can also use this feature to directly assign certain contacts to a specific agent even though that agent has set themselves to a custom status where they normally could not be offered queued contacts. For example, you may want to ensure that a specific agent cannot take customer service calls while in “Back Office Work” but still allow calls to their personal extension to ring through, improving efficiency for urgent contacts. This f

Today, AWS announced the availability of Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. This model from Mistral AI delivers frontier-class multimodal capabilities in a compact 14B-parameter architecture optimized for edge deployment, enabling customers to build advanced AI assistants, agentic systems, and vision-enabled applications on AWS infrastructure. Ministral-3-14B-Instruct excels at analyzing images and providing insights based on visual content in addition to text, agentic capabilities with native function calling and JSON output, and multilingual understanding across dozens of languages including English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.  With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy this model with just a few clicks to address their specific AI use cases. To get started with this model, navigate to the Models section of SageMaker Studi

AWS Compute Optimizer now includes improved visibility into IOPS and throughput spikes when deliverings Amazon EBS volume rightsizing recommendations. Compute Optimizer analyzes two additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics, VolumeIOPSExceededCheck and VolumeThroughputExceededCheck, which report whether your workload consistently attempted to drive IOPS or throughput beyond your volume's provisioned performance in any given minute. By factoring in these signals, Compute Optimizer helps you make rightsizing decisions to balance cost with performance for workloads that experience bursts of high IOPS or throughput. This enhancement is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Compute Optimizer is available, except the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and the China Regions. The underlying CloudWatch metrics are available at no additional charge for all EBS volumes attached to Nitro-based EC2 instances, excluding standard and Multi-Attach enabled volumes. To get started, go to AWS Compute Opti