10/17/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 10/20/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm v25.05

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Slurm v25.05. You can now create AWS PCS clusters running the newer Slurm v25.05.\n 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 documentation and AWS Region Table.

CloudWatch Database Insights now supports tag based access control

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.\n 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 Aurora documentation to get started with defining IAM policies with tag-based access control on database and per-query metrics. This feature is available in all AWS regions where CloudWatch Database Insights is available. CloudWatch Database Insights delivers database health monitoring aggregated at the fleet level, as well as instance-level dashboards for detailed database and SQL query analysis. It offers vCPU-based pricing – see the pricing page for details. For further information, visit the Database Insights User Guide.

Announcing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager

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.\n 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 existing systems. EC2 Capacity Manager is available in all commercial AWS Regions enabled by default at no additional cost. To learn more, visit the EC2 Capacity Manager user guide, read the AWS News Blog, or get started using EC2 Capacity Manager in the AWS console.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Graviton4 based (c8g,m8g,r8g and r8gd) instances

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. \n 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 all OpenSearch versions, and Elasticsearch (open source) versions 7.9 and 7.10. One or more than one Graviton4 instance types are now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service across 23 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Spain), Europe (Stockholm), South America(Sao Paulo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). For region specific availability & pricing, visit our pricing page. To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service and its capabilities, visit our product page.

Customer managed KMS keys now available for Automated Reasoning checks

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.\n 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 Reasoning policy, you can now select a customer managed KMS key to encrypt your content rather than using the default key. Customer managed KMS key support for Automated Reasoning checks is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Bedrock Guardrails is offered: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and Europe (Paris). To get started, see the following resources:

Automated Reasoning checks user guide

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails product page

AWS Key Management Service developer guide

Create an Automated Reasoning policy in the Bedrock console

Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions

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.\n 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 offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon C7g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. C8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 C8g Instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager launches security updates notification for Windows

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.\n 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 settings to maintain existing compliance reporting if preferred. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Systems Manager is available. To get started with security updates notification for Windows patching compliance, visit the AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager console. For more information about this feature, refer to our user documentation or update your patch baseline with the details here. There are no additional charges for using this feature beyond standard AWS Systems Manager pricing.

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