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7/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/25/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Announcing readme file support for AWS HealthOmics workflows Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces enhanced workflow documentation capabilities with the addition of readme file support. This new feature allows bioinformaticians and researchers to attach comprehensive documentation, implementation details, and diagrams directly to their bioinformatics workflows and workflow versions. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows....

7/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 now supports skipping the operating system shutdown when stopping or terminating instances Starting today, Amazon EC2 gives customers the option to skip the graceful operating system (OS) shutdown during an instance stop or terminate. Previously, customers waited by default for a graceful OS shutdown attempt when stopping or terminating their instances. Customers can now skip the graceful operating system shutdown attempt during stop or terminate for a faster application recovery when instance data preservation is not critical....

7/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports 24xlarge memory-optimized instances Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers 24xlarge memory-optimized instances, providing enhanced performance for demanding time-series workloads. This new instance type is generally available for both Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments, as well as Multi-AZ Read Replica clusters, enabling customers to scale their time-series database solutions.\n The 24xlarge instance delivers 96 vCPU, 768 GiB of memory, and up to 40 Gbps of enhanced network bandwidth....

7/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon SQS introduces fair queues for multi-tenant workloads Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now offers fair queues, a new feature that mitigates noisy neighbor impact in multi-tenant standard queues. When one tenant (such as a customer, client application, or request type) sends too many messages or has messages that require longer processing time, fair queues help keep other tenants’ messages flowing without long delays....

7/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to VPC endpoints in AWS commercial Regions Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) through AWS PrivateLink with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. This launch extends IPv6 compatibility, previously available only for public endpoints, to VPC endpoints across all AWS commercial Regions.\n Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of distributed systems, microservices, and serverless applications....