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AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm v25.05. You can now create AWS PCS clusters running the newer Slurm v25.05. The release of Slurm v25.05 in PCS provides new Slurm functionalities including enhanced multi-cluster sackd configuration and improved requeue behavior for instance launch failures. With this release, login nodes can now control multiple clusters without requiring sackd reconfiguration or restart. This enables administrators to pre-configure access to multiple clusters for their users. The new requeue behavior enables more resilient job scheduling by automatically retrying failed instance launches during capacity shortages, thus increasing overall cluster reliability. AWS PCS is a managed service that makes it easier for you to run and scale your high performance computing (HPC) workloads on AWS using Slurm. To learn more about PCS, refer to the service do

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports tag-based access control for database and per-query metrics powered by RDS Performance Insights. You can implement access controls across a logical grouping of database resources without managing individual resource-level permissions. Previously, tags defined on RDS and Aurora instances did not apply to metrics powered by Performance Insights, creating significant overhead in manually configuring metric-related permissions at the database resource level. With this launch, those instance tags are now automatically evaluated to authorize metrics powered by Performance Insights. This allows you to define IAM policies using tag-based access conditions, resulting in improved governance and security consistency. Please refer to RDS and

Today, AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, a new capability that enables customers to monitor, analyze, and manage EC2 capacity across all of their accounts and regions. This new capability simplifies resource management using a single interface. EC2 Capacity Manager offers customers a comprehensive view of On-Demand, Spot, and Capacity Reservation usage across their accounts and Regions. The new service features dashboards and charts that present high-level insights while allowing customers to drill down into specific details where needed. These details include historical usage trends to help customers gain a better understanding of their capacity patterns over time, as well as optimization opportunities to guide informed capacity decisions, complete with workflows for implementing these insights. In addition to the updated user interface and APIs, EC2 Capacity Manager allows customers to export data, enabling integration with their e

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports latest generation Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instance families. These new instance types are compute optimized (C8g), general purpose (M8g), and memory optimized (R8g, R8gd) instances. AWS Graviton4 processors provide up to 30% better performance than AWS Graviton3 processors with c8g, m8g and r8g & r8gd offering the best price performance for compute-intensive, general purpose, and memory-intensive workloads respectively. To learn more about Graviton4 improvements, please see the blog on r8g instances and the blog on c8g & m8g instances. Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton4 instances are supported on a

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Milan), and AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Osaka, Melbourne) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances

AWS announces support for customer managed AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys in Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. This enhancement enables you to use your own encryption keys to protect policy content and tests, giving you full control over key management. Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails is the first and only generative AI safeguard that helps correct factual errors from hallucinations using logically accurate and verifiable reasoning that explains why responses are correct. This feature enables organizations in regulated industries like healthcare, financial services, and government to adopt Automated Reasoning checks while meeting compliance requirements for customer-owned encryption keys. For example, a financial institution can now use Automated Reasoning checks to validate loan processing guidelines while maintaining full control over the encryption keys protecting their policy content. When creating an Automated Reaso

AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of security updates notification for Windows patching compliance, which helps customers identify security updates that are available but not approved by their patch baseline configuration. This feature introduces a new patch state called "AvailableSecurityUpdate" that reports security patches of all severity levels that are available to install on Windows instances but do not meet the approval rules in your patch baseline. As organizations grow, administrators need to maintain secure systems while controlling when patches are applied. The security updates notification helps prevent situations where customers could unintentionally leave instances unpatched when using features like ApprovalDelay with large values. By default, instances with available security updates are marked as Non-Compliant, providing a clear signal that security patches require attention. Customers can also configure this behavior through their patch baseline sett

AWS Marketplace now supports purchase order line numbers for AWS Marketplace purchases, simplifying cost-allocation and payment processing. This launch makes it easier for customers to process and pay invoices. AWS purchase order support allows customers to provide purchase orders per transaction, which reflect on invoices related to that purchase. Now, customers can associate transaction charges not only to purchase orders, but also to a specific PO line number for AWS Marketplace purchases. This capability is supported during procurement and, for future charges, post-procurement in the AWS Marketplace console. You can also view the purchase order and purchase order line number associated to an AWS invoice in the AWS Billing and Cost Management console. Streamline your invoice processing by accurately matching AWS invoices with your purchase order and purchase order line number. This capability is available today in all

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers support for InfluxDB 3. Now application developers and DevOps teams can run InfluxDB 3 databases as a managed service. InfluxDB 3 uses a new architecture for the InfluxDB database engine, built on Apache Arrow for in-memory data processing, Apache DataFusion for query execution, and columnar Parquet storage format with data persistence in Amazon S3 to deliver fast performance for high-cardinality data and large scale data processing for large analytical workloads. With Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3, customers can leverage improved query performance and resource utilization for data-intensive use cases while benefiting from virtually unlimited storage capacity through S3-based object storage. The service is available in two editions: Core, the open source version of InfluxDB 3, for near real-time workloads focused on recent data, and Enterprise for production workloads requiring high availability, multi-node deployments, and essen

Today, AWS announced enhanced map styling features for Amazon Location Service, enabling users to further customize maps with terrain visualization, contour lines, real-time traffic data, and transportation-specific routing information. Developers can create more detailed and informative maps tailored for various use cases, such as outdoor navigation, logistics planning, and traffic management, by leveraging parameters like terrain, contour-density, traffic, and travel-mode through the GetStyleDescriptor API. With these styling capabilities, users can overlay real-time traffic conditions, visualize transportation-specific routing information such as transit and trucks, and display topographic features through elevation shading. For instance, developers can display current traffic conditions for optimized route planning, show truck-specific routing restrictions for logistics applications, or create maps that highlight physical terrain details for hiking and outdoor activitie