4/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon RDS Proxy is now available in 3 additional AWS regions

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy is now available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central) Regions. RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for RDS and Amazon Aurora databases. RDS Proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security.\n Many applications, including those built on modern architectures capable of horizontal scaling based on ebb and flow of active users, can open a large number of database connections or open and close connections frequently. This can stress the database’s memory and compute, leading to slower performance and limited application scalability. Amazon RDS Proxy sits between your application and database to pool and share established database connections, improving database efficiency and application scalability. In case of a failure, Amazon RDS Proxy automatically connects to a standby database instance within a region. With Amazon RDS Proxy, database credentials and access can be managed through AWS Secrets Manager and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), eliminating the need to embed database credentials in application code. For information on supported database engine versions and regional availability of RDS Proxy, refer to the RDS Proxy RDS and Aurora documentation.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams increases default shard limits to up to 20,000 per AWS account

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now offers significantly higher default shard limits for data streams in Provisioned capacity mode, increasing from 500 to 20,000 shards per AWS account in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland) regions. You can also see an account’s utilization of the shards limit in any region via the AWS Service Quotas console, so you can grow streaming workloads easily and quickly to bring real-time insights to more use cases.\n Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless data streaming service that allows customers to build de-coupled applications that publish and consume real-time data streams at any scale. A data stream is composed of shards, and each shard provides 1 MB/sec ingress and 2 MB/sec egress throughput capacity. You can easily change a stream’s throughput capacity by specifying its number of shards via the console, an API call, or the CLI. With the increased limits, customers using Provisioned mode can now process up to 10 GB/sec of ingress and 20 GB/sec of egress per account by default, and they can always request further increases to this limit. The default shard limits have also been increased from 200 to 1,000 shards or 6,000 shards per account for all other regions. You can view the new defaults for all regions and request further increases via the Service Quotas console. For more information about how shard limits affect your data streams, see the Quotas and Limits documentation.

Amazon SQS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Amazon SQS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for API requests enabling you to communicate with Amazon SQS using Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), or dual stack clients using public endpoints.\n Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of distributed systems, microservices, and serverless applications. The addition of IPv6 support provides customers with a vastly expanded address space, eliminating concerns about address exhaustion and simplifying network architecture for IPv6-native applications. With simultaneous support for both IPv4 and IPv6 clients on SQS public endpoints, customers can gradually transition from IPv4 to IPv6-based systems and applications without needing to switch all systems at once. This enhancement is particularly valuable for modern cloud-native applications and organizations transitioning to IPv6 as part of their modernization efforts. To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. This feature is now available in all AWS commercial Regions, including AWS China Regions, and can be used at no additional cost. See here for a full listing of our Regions. To learn more about Amazon SQS, please refer to our Developer Guide.

Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 3.9

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.9, which allows users to retain tiered data when disabling Tiered Storage at the topic level. Consumer applications can continue to read historical data from the remote log start offset (Rx) while maintaining continuous log offsets across both local and remote storage.\n Along with this feature, Apache Kafka version 3.9 includes various bug fixes and improvements. For more details, please refer to the Apache Kafka release notes for version 3.9. Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easier for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch. With Amazon MSK, you can spend more time innovating on streaming applications and less time managing Apache Kafka clusters. To learn how to get started, see the Amazon MSK Developer Guide. Support for Apache Kafka version 3.9 is available in all AWS regions where Amazon MSK is available.

Introducing Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances

AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, Amazon EC2 M8gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage.\n Each instance is available in 12 different sizes. They provide up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Additionally, customers can now adjust the network and Amazon EBS bandwidth on these instances by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration, providing greater flexibility with the allocation of bandwidth resources to better optimize workloads. These instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes. All of these instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon). To learn more, see Amazon C8gd instances, Amazon M8gd Instances, and Amazon R8gd Instances. To learn how to migrate your workloads to AWS Graviton-based instances, see the Getting started with Graviton.

Amazon Q Developer releases state of the art agent for feature development

Today, AWS announces the update of Amazon Q Developer’s software development agent. This new agent achieves state-of-the-art performance on industry benchmark SWTBench Verified (49%) and sits among the top ranking models on SWEBench Verified (66%). The agent has access to tools for planning and reasoning that use the capacity of advanced models to their fullest. By running in a dedicated environment with built-in access to all the functionalities of a modern IDE, the agent is now able to generate multiple candidate solutions for a given problem, select the most promising one, and return higher quality code to the developer.\n With this new agent, developers can further accelerate their development team velocity. The update to the agent translates to more reliable suggestions and reduced debugging time for developers. This allows developers to focus on higher-level design and innovation, while the agent handles more routine coding tasks with increased accuracy. The new software development agent for Amazon Q Developer is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q is supported. Getting started with the software development agent is simple. Developers can begin using it immediately by typing ‘/dev’ in the Q chat window in Visual Studio Code or JetBrains integrated development environment (IDE) where the Amazon Q Developer plugin is installed. To learn more about Amazon Q, visit the Amazon Q product page or refer to the agent documentation.

Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Europe (Paris) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.\n C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances for better overall performance and security. Customers can take advantage of access to high-speed, low-latency local storage to scale performance of applications such data logging, distributed web-scale in-memory caches, in-memory databases, and real-time big data analytics. These instances are generally available today in the US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Mexico (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Thailand, Seoul, Malaysia, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney), Europe (Paris, Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. Customers can purchase the new instances via Savings Plans, Reserved, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, visit our product page for Amazon C6id instances. To get started, visit AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs.

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