9/30/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/1/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions.\n Amazon SageMaker managed MLflow streamlines AI experimentation and accelerates your GenAI journey from idea to production. MLflow is a popular open-source tool that helps customers manage experiment tracking to providing end-to-end observability, reducing time-to-market for generative AI development. To learn more, visit the Amazon SageMaker developer guide.

Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service expand region support for integrated analytics experience

Amazon CloudWatch and OpenSearch Service integrated analytics experience is now available in 5 additional commercial regions: Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), and US West (N. California).\n With this integration, CloudWatch Logs customers have two more query languages for log analytics, in addition to CloudWatch Logs Insights QL. Customers can use SQL to analyze data, correlate logs using JOIN, sub-queries, and use SQL functions, namely, JSON, mathematical, datetime, and string functions for intuitive log analytics. They can also use the OpenSearch PPL to filter, aggregate and analyze their data. With a few clicks, CloudWatch Logs customers can create OpenSearch dashboards for VPC, WAF, and CloudTrail logs to monitor, analyze, and troubleshoot using visualizations derived from the logs. OpenSearch customers no longer have to copy logs from CloudWatch for analysis, or create ETL pipelines. Now, they can use OpenSearch Discover to analyze CloudWatch logs in-place, and build indexes and dashboards on CloudWatch Logs. With this launch the integrated experience is now generally available in Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), and US West (N. California) along with regions where OpenSearch Service direct query is available. Please read pricing and free tier details on Amazon CloudWatch Pricing, and OpenSearch Service Pricing. To get started, please refer to Amazon CloudWatch Logs vended dashboard and Amazon OpenSearch Service Developer Guide.

AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Madrid, Spain

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty MAD3 data center near Madrid, Spain. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. This site is the third site in Madrid and the fourth AWS Direct Connect location within Spain. This Direct Connect location offers dedicated 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps connections with MACsec encryption available.\n The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.  For more information on the over 146 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Bogota, Colombia

Today, AWS announced the expansion of 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections with MACsec encryption capabilities at the existing AWS Direct Connect location in the Equinix BG1 data center near Bogota, Colombia. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location.\n The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.  For more information on the over 146 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.

Amazon SNS expands IPv6 support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The new endpoints have also been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program.\n Amazon SNS is a fully managed messaging service that enables publish/subscribe messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications. With this update, customers have the option of using either IPv6 or IPv4 when sending requests over dual-stack public or VPC endpoints.  SNS now supports IPv6 in all Regions where the service is available, including AWS Commercial, AWS GovCloud (US), and China Regions. For more information on using IPv6 with Amazon SNS, please refer to our developer guide.

Amazon SNS expands support for FIPS 140-3 endpoints

Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports additional endpoints that have been validated under the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 program in AWS Regions in the United States and Canada.\n FIPS compliant endpoints help companies contracting with the US federal government meet the FIPS security requirement to encrypt sensitive data in supported regions. With this expansion, you can use Amazon SNS for workloads that require a FIPS 140-3 validated cryptographic module when sending requests over dual-stack public or VPC endpoints. Amazon SNS FIPS compliant endpoints are now available in the following regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary) and AWS GovCloud (US). To learn more about FIPS 140-3 at AWS, visit FIPS 140-3 Compliance.

AWS Transform now enables Terraform for VMware network automation

AWS Transform now offers Terraform as an additional option to generate network infrastructure code automatically from VMware environments. The service converts your source network definitions into reusable Terraform modules, complementing current AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) support.\n AWS Transform for VMware is an agentic AI service that automates the discovery, planning, and migration of VMware workloads, accelerating infrastructure modernization with increased speed and confidence. These migrations require recreating network configurations while maintaining operational consistency. The service now generates Terraform modules alongside CDK and AWS CloudFormation templates. This addition enables organizations to maintain existing deployment pipelines while using preferred tools for modular, customizable network configurations.

The Terraform module generation capability is available in all AWS Regions where the service is offered.

To learn more, visit the AWS Transform for VMware product page, read the user guide, or get started in the AWS Transform web experience.

AWS Transfer Family adds support for additional IAM condition keys

AWS Transfer Family now supports four new service-specific condition keys for Identity and Access Management (IAM). With this feature, administrators can create more granular IAM policies and service control policies (SCPs) to restrict configurations for Transfer Family resources, enhancing security controls and compliance management. \n IAM condition keys allow you to author policies that enforce access control based on API request context. With these new condition keys, you can now author policies based on Transfer Family context to control which protocols, endpoint types, and storage domains can be configured through policy conditions. For example, you can use transfer:RequestServerEndpointType to prevent the creation of public servers, or transfer:RequestServerProtocols to ensure only SFTP servers can be created, enabling you to define additional permission guardrails for Transfer Family actions.  The new IAM condition keys are available in all AWS Regions where AWS Transfer Family is available. To learn more, visit the IAM Service Authorization Reference and Transfer Family User Guide. To learn more about how to manage permissions within your organization through SCPs, visit the AWS Organizations User Guide.

Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions

Today, we’re announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) is now available in all availability zones in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions. This expansion provides more options to leverage AWS scale and flexibility for running your VMware workloads in the cloud.\n Amazon EVS lets you run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on EC2 bare-metal instances, powered by AWS Nitro. Using either our step-by-step configuration workflow or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) with automated deployment capabilities, you can set up a complete VCF environment in just a few hours. This rapid deployment enables faster workload migration to AWS, helping you eliminate aging infrastructure, reduce operational risks, and meet critical timelines for exiting your data center. The added availability in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (London) Regions gives your VMware workloads lower latency through closer proximity to your end users, compliance with data residency or sovereignty requirements, and additional high availability and resiliency options for your enhanced redundancy strategy. To get started, visit the Amazon EVS product detail page and user guide.

AWS Firewall Manager launches in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region

AWS Firewall Manager announces that it is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. 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 AWS security services for customers hosting their applications and workloads in AWS Taipei. Customers wishing to establish secured assets using AWS WAF can create and maintain security policies with AWS Firewall Manager. To learn more about how AWS Firewall Manager works, 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.

AWS Outposts now supports external block volumes from Dell and HPE storage arrays

Starting today, customers can use boot and data volumes backed by Dell PowerStore and HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 storage arrays with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on AWS Outposts, including authenticated and encrypted volumes. This enhancement extends our existing support for boot and data volumes to include Dell and HPE storage arrays, alongside our current support for NetApp® on-premises enterprise storage arrays and Pure Storage® FlashArray™. Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience.\n With Outposts, customers can maximize the value of their on-premises storage investments by leveraging their existing enterprise storage arrays for both boot and data volumes, complementing managed Amazon EBS and Local Instance Store options. This provides significant operational benefits, including streamlined operating system (OS) management via centralized boot volumes and advanced data management features through high-performance data volumes. By integrating their own storage, organizations can also satisfy data residency requirements and benefit from a consistent cloud operational model for their hybrid environments. To simplify the process, AWS offers automation scripts through AWS Samples to help customers easily set up and use external block volumes with EC2 instances on Outposts. Customers can use the AWS Management Console or CLI to utilize third-party block volumes with EC2 instances on Outposts. Third-party storage integration for Outposts with all compatible storage vendors is available on Outposts 2U servers and Outposts racks at no additional charge in all AWS Regions where Outposts is supported. See the FAQs for Outposts servers and Outposts racks for the latest list of supported Regions. To learn more about implementation details and best practices, check out this blog post or visit our technical documentation for Outposts servers, second-generation Outposts racks, and first-generation Outposts racks.

AWS Storage Gateway now supports VPC endpoint policies

AWS Storage Gateway now supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint policies for your VPC endpoints. With this feature, administrators can attach endpoint policies to VPC endpoints, allowing granular access control over Storage Gateway direct APIs for improved data protection and security posture.\n AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up and archiving data to AWS, providing on-premises file shares backed by cloud storage, and providing on-premises applications low latency access to data in the cloud. AWS Storage Gateway support for VPC endpoint policies is available in all AWS Regions where Storage Gateway is available. To learn more, visit our documentation.

AWS Step Functions now supports Service Quotas

Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Service Quotas integration with AWS Step Functions, enabling customers to monitor and manage their Step Functions quotas directly from the Service Quotas console. AWS Service Quotas is a service that helps you view and manage your AWS service quotas from a central location.AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that helps customers orchestrate AWS services, automate business processes, and build serverless applications. This integration improves service quota visibility and management for AWS Step Functions users.\n With this launch, you can now view your AWS Step Functions account-level quota values through the Service Quotas console and monitor quota utilization through Amazon CloudWatch metrics. This enhanced visibility is particularly valuable for customers running high-volume workflow operations at scale, helping them proactively monitor resource usage and avoid potential service disruptions. Additionally, you can now request quota increases directly from the Service Quotas console. For eligible requests, quota changes are automatically updated without manual intervention, streamlining the quota management process. Service Quotas console integration for AWS Step Functions is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where AWS Step Functions is available. To learn more about managing AWS Step Functions quotas, visit the AWS Step Functions documentation. You can access this feature through the Service Quotas console or through the CLI.

Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances

Today, AWS announces the launch of Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances, a new fully managed compute option designed to eliminate infrastructure management overhead while giving you access to the full capabilities of Amazon EC2. By offloading infrastructure operations to AWS, ECS Managed Instances helps you quickly launch and scale your workloads, while enhancing performance and reducing your total cost of ownership.\n With ECS Managed Instances, you get the application performance you want and the simplicity you need. Simply define your task requirements such as the number of vCPUs, memory size, and CPU architecture, and Amazon ECS automatically provisions, configures and operates most optimal EC2 instances within your AWS account using AWS-controlled access. You can also specify desired instance types in Managed Instances Capacity Provider configuration, including GPU-accelerated, network-optimized, and burstable performance, to run your workloads on the instance families you prefer. ECS Managed Instances dynamically scales EC2 instances to match your workload requirements and continuously optimizes task placement to reduce infrastructure costs. It also enhances your security posture through regular security patching initiated every 14 days. You can use EC2 event windows to schedule patching to occur within weekly maintenance windows, minimizing the risk of interruptions during critical hours. ECS Managed Instances is now available in six AWS regions: US East (North Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Dublin), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). To get started with ECS Managed Instances, use the AWS Console, Amazon ECS MCP Server, or your favorite infrastructure-as-code tooling to enable it in a new or existing Amazon ECS cluster. You will be charged for the management of compute provisioned, in addition to your regular Amazon EC2 costs. To learn more about ECS Managed Instances, visit the feature page, documentation, and AWS News launch blog.

AWS IAM Identity Center is available in Asia Pacific (Bangkok) and Mexico Central (Querétaro) AWS Regions

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in 36 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok) and Mexico Central (Querétaro).\n IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications. It enables you to connect your existing source of workforce identities to AWS once and offer your users single sign on experience across AWS. It powers the personalized experiences offered by AWS applications, such as Amazon Q, and the ability to define and audit user-aware access to data in AWS services, such as Amazon Redshift. It can also help you manage access to multiple AWS accounts from a central place. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these AWS Regions.

To learn more about IAM Identity Center, visit the product detail page. To get started, see the IAM Identity Center User Guide.

AWS ParallelCluster 3.14 adds P6e-GB200 and P6-B200 instance types

AWS ParallelCluster 3.14 is now generally available. This release includes P6e-GB200 and P6-B200 instance types, prioritized allocation strategies for optimized instance placement, and NICE DCV support for Amazon Linux 2023. Other features included in this release are support for chef-client log visibility in instance console inside the instance’s system log and Amazon Linux 2023 with kernel 6.12. To get started using P6e-GB200 instances with ParallelCluster, follow the tutorial in the ParallelCluster User Guide - Using Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 UltraServers in AWS ParallelCluster.\n For more details on the release, review the AWS ParallelCluster 3.14.0 release notes. ParallelCluster is a fully-supported and maintained open-source cluster management tool that enables R&D customers and their IT administrators to operate high-performance computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. ParallelCluster is designed to automatically and securely provision cloud resources into elastically-scaling HPC clusters capable of running scientific and engineering workloads at scale on AWS. ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge in the AWS Regions listed here, and you pay only for the AWS resources needed to run your applications. To learn more about launching HPC clusters on AWS, visit the ParallelCluster User Guide. To start using ParallelCluster, see the installation instructions for ParallelCluster UI and CLI.

Second-generation Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in four additional AWS Regions

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP second-generation file systems are now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Europe (Spain, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Canada (Central).\n Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich high-performance file systems in the cloud. Second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems give you more performance scalability and flexibility over first-generation file systems by allowing you to create or expand file systems with up to 12 highly-available (HA) pairs of file servers, providing your workloads with up to 72 GBps of throughput and 1 PiB of provisioned SSD storage. With this regional expansion, second-generation FSx for ONTAP file systems are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo). You can create second-generation Multi-AZ file systems with a single HA pair, and Single-AZ file systems with up to 12 HA pairs. To learn more, visit the FSx for ONTAP user guide.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for access to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems.\n More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can now access their file systems using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients without the need for complex infrastructure to handle IPv6 to IPv4 address translation. IPv6 support for new FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems is now available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where Amazon FSx is available, with IPv6 support for existing FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems coming in an upcoming weekly maintenance window. To learn more, visit the Amazon FSx user guide.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Amazon FSx now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for access to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file systems.\n More and more customers are adopting IPv6 to mitigate IPv4 address exhaustion in their private networks or to satisfy government mandates such as the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-21-07 memorandum. With this launch, customers can now access their file systems using IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack clients without the need for complex infrastructure to handle IPv6 to IPv4 address translation. IPv6 support for new FSx for Windows File Server file systems is now available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) regions where Amazon FSx is available, with IPv6 support for existing FSx for Windows File Server file systems coming in an upcoming weekly maintenance window. To learn more, visit the Amazon FSx user guide.

AWS Transfer Family now supports VPC endpoint policies and FIPS VPC endpoints

AWS Transfer Family now supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoint policies for your VPC endpoints. With this feature, administrators can attach an endpoint policy to an interface VPC endpoint, allowing granular access control over Transfer Family APIs for improved data protection and security posture. Additionally, Transfer Family now supports Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 enabled VPC endpoints. \n Previously, customers had full access to Transfer Family APIs through an interface VPC endpoint, powered by AWS PrivateLink. With this launch, you can now manage which Transfer Family API actions (CreateServer, StartServer, DeleteServer, etc) can be performed, which principals can perform them, and which resources they can act upon. These policies work with existing IAM user and role policies and organizational service control policies.  VPC endpoint policy support is available in all AWS Regions where the service is available. To learn more, visit the Transfer Family User Guide.

AWS B2B Data Interchange introduces new transformation status reporting

AWS B2B Data Interchange introduces new transformation status reporting in the AWS Console, enabling you to monitor and troubleshoot your Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) files processing in a single simple user interface.\n AWS B2B Data Interchange automates validation, transformation, and generation of EDI files such as ANSI X12 documents to and from JSON and XML data formats. With this launch, you can now track and review the status of the most recently performed EDI transformations directly in the AWS Console. For each partnership, AWS B2B Data Interchange now automatically presents information about the transformation status, timelines, and validation results for up to 10,000 most recently processed input-output pairs. This information enables you to easily track the status of your EDI exchanges with trading partners and troubleshoot issues, all in a single interface without needing to manually review log entries. Support for transformation status reporting is available in all AWS Regions where the AWS B2B Data Interchange service is available. To get started with monitoring your EDI transformations, visit the AWS B2B Data Interchange user guide or take our self-paced workshop.

Amazon FSx for Lustre is now available in the AWS US West (Phoenix) Local Zone

Customers can now create Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems in the AWS US West (Phoenix) Local Zone.\n Amazon FSx makes it easier and more cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud. It supports a wide range of workloads with its reliability, security, scalability, and broad set of capabilities. Amazon FSx for Lustre provides fully managed shared storage built on the world’s most popular high-performance file system, designed for fast processing of workloads such as machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), video processing, financial modeling, and electronic design automation (EDA). To learn more about Amazon FSx for Lustre, visit our product page, and see the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information.

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