6/27/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 6/30/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Q Developer Java upgrade transformation CLI is now generally available

We would like to announce the general availability of Amazon Q Developer Java upgrade transformation CLI (command line interface). Using the CLI, customers can invoke Q Developer’s transformation capabilities from the command line and perform Java upgrades at scale.\n The following capabilities are available:

Java application upgrades from source versions 8, 11, 17, or 21 to target versions 17 or 21 (now available in CLI in addition to IDE)

Selective transformation with options to choose steps from transformation plans, and libraries and versions to upgrade

The ability to convert embedded SQL to complete Oracle-to-PostgreSQL database migration with AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

With this launch, the capabilities are now available in the AWS Regions US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt). They can be accessed in the command line, on Linux and Mac OS. For more details, please visit the documentation page.

Research and Engineering Studio on AWS Version 2025.06 now available

Today we announce Research and Engineering Studio (RES) on AWS Version 2025.06, which introduces significant improvements to instance bootstrapping, security configurations, and logging capabilities. This release streamlines the RES deployment process, enhances security controls for infrastructure hosts, adds Amazon CloudWatch logging for virtual desktop instances (VDI), and provides new customization options.\n RES 2025.06 features a streamlined bootstrapping process that accelerates infrastructure and VDI launch times. The improved process also enables customers to create RES-ready Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) without requiring an active RES deployment, making it easier to apply patches and customizations. Enhanced security configurations for infrastructure hosts now have more granular permissions, helping reduce security risks from compromised hosts. Additionally, a new Amazon CloudWatch Logs integration, enabled by default, centralizes VDI logs to simplify troubleshooting and monitoring. RES 2025.06 adds support for Amazon Linux 2023 for both infrastructure hosts and VDIs, while also introducing support for Rocky Linux 9 for VDIs. Customers can now specify prefixes on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles used by RES, providing greater control over IAM resource naming conventions. The release also introduces the ability to delete or remove mounted file systems directly from the RES user interface, simplifying storage management. Furthermore, RES 2025.06 expands regional availability to include AWS GovCloud (US-East), offering an additional deployment option for government customers. To learn more about RES 2025.06, including detailed release notes and deployment instructions, visit the Research and Engineering Studio documentation. You can also consult the RES GitHub repository for additional technical information.

AWS Firewall Manager provides support for AWS WAF L7 DDOS managed rules

AWS Firewall Manager announces security policy support for enhanced application layer (L7) DDoS protection within AWS WAF. The application layer (L7) DDoS protection is an AWS Managed Rule group that automatically detects and mitigates DDoS events of any applications on Amazon CloudFront, Application Load Balancer (ALB) and other AWS services supported by WAF. AWS Firewall Manager helps cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers protect applications while reducing the operational overhead of manually configuring and managing rules.\n Working with AWS Firewall Manager, customers can provide defense in depth policies to address the full range of web site protections from the newly released AWS WAF (L7) DDoS protections to non-HTTP based threats to web site infrastructure. By looking at the totality of a web-sites’ technology stack, customers can define and deploy all the needed protections. AWS Firewall Manager support for application layer (L7) DDoS protection can be enabled for all AWS WAF and AWS Shield users. Customers can add this specialized Amazon Managed Rule set to a new or existing AWS Firewall Manager policy. AWS Firewall Manager supports this Amazon Managed Rule set in all regions where WAF offers the feature which means all Advanced subscribers in all supported AWS Regions, except Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and China (Beijing and Ningxia). You can deploy this AWS Managed Rule group for your Amazon CloudFront, ALB, and other supported AWS resources. To learn more about how AWS Firewall Manager works with WAF’s new Managed Rules, see the AWS Firewall Manager documentation for more details and the AWS Region Table for the list of regions where AWS Firewall Manager is currently available. To learn more about AWS Firewall Manager, its features, and its pricing, visit the AWS Firewall Manager website.

Amazon Route 53 launches capacity utilization metric for Resolver endpoints

Starting today, you can enable Amazon CloudWatch metric (ResolverEndpointCapacityStatus) to monitor the status of the query capacity for Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs) associated with your Route 53 Resolver endpoint in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The new metric enables you to quickly view whether the Resolver endpoint is at the risk of meeting the service limit for query capacity, and take remediation steps like instantiating additional ENIs to meet the capacity needs.\n Before today, you could enable CloudWatch to monitor the number of DNS queries that were forwarded by Route 53 Resolver endpoints, over a default five-minute interval, and make further estimations on when your endpoints will meet the query limits. With this launch, you can now enable the new metric to get direct alerts on the current status of your Resolver endpoint capacity, without requiring you to make additional estimations for calculating capacity of each endpoint. The status is reported for each Resolver endpoint, indicating whether the endpoint is operating within the normal capacity limit (0 - OK), has at least one ENI exceeding 50% capacity utilization (1 - Warning), or has at least one ENI exceeding 75% capacity utilization (2 - Critical). The new metric simplifies capacity management for Route 53 Resolver endpoints by providing clear, actionable signals for scaling decisions, without requiring additional analysis on the query volume. To learn more about the launch, read the documentation or visit the Route 53 Resolver page. There is no charge for the metric, although you will incur charges for usage of Resolver endpoints.

Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in additional AWS regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I7ie instances in the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, these new instances are powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances.\n I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density—the highest available in the cloud for storage optimized instances—and deliver up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, these instances achieve up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to existing I3en instances. Additionally, the 16KB torn write prevention feature, enables customers to eliminate performance bottlenecks for database workloads. I7ie instances are high-density storage-optimized instances, for workloads that demand rapid local storage with high random read/write performance and consistently low latency for accessing large data sets. These instances are offered in eleven different sizes including 2 metal sizes, providing flexibility for customers computational needs. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of network performance bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), ensuring fast and efficient data transfer for applications. To learn more, visit the I7ie instances page.

Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. C7i instances are supported by custom Intel processors, available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.\n C7i instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are a great choice for all compute-intensive workloads, such as batch processing, distributed analytics, ad-serving, and video encoding. C7i instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge, and two bare metal sizes (metal-24xl, metal-48xl). These bare-metal sizes support built-in Intel accelerators: Data Streaming Accelerator, In-Memory Analytics Accelerator, and QuickAssist Technology that are used to facilitate efficient offload and acceleration of data operations and optimize performance for workloads. C7i instances support new Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) that accelerate matrix multiplication operations for applications such as CPU-based ML. Customers can attach up to 128 EBS volumes to a C7i instance vs. up to 28 EBS volumes to a C6i instance. This allows processing of larger amounts of data, scale workloads, and improved performance over C6i instances. To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 C7i Instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

AWS HealthOmics announces automatic input parameter interpolation for Nextflow workflows

Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces automatic interpolation of input parameters for Nextflow private workflows, eliminating the need for manual parameter template creation. This enhancement intelligently identifies and extracts both required and optional input parameters directly from workflow definitions, along with their descriptions. 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.\n With this new feature, customers can launch bioinformatics workflows more quickly since they no longer need to manually identify, define, and validate each workflow parameter. This also helps reduce configuration errors that can occur when parameters are incorrectly specified or omitted. For specialized requirements, customers can still provide custom parameter templates to override the automatically generated configurations. Input parameter interpolation for Nextflow workflows is now supported in all regions where AWS HealthOmics is available: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Israel (Tel Aviv). Automatic parameter interpolation is already supported for WDL and CWL workflows today. To learn more about automatic parameter interpolation and how to build private workflows, see the AWS HealthOmics documentation.

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