12/11/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/12/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports cluster creation in seconds

Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports faster cluster creation, reducing setup time from minutes to seconds.\n With cluster creation now in seconds, developers can instantly provision Aurora DSQL databases to rapidly prototype new ideas. Developers can use the integrated query editor in the AWS console to immediately start building without needing to configure external clients or connect through the Aurora DSQL Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to enable AI-powered development tools. Whether prototyping or running production workloads, Aurora DSQL delivers virtually unlimited scalability, active-active high availability, zero infrastructure management, and pay-for-what-you-use pricing, ensuring your database effortlessly scales alongside your application needs. This enhancement is available in all Regions where Aurora DSQL is offered. Get started with Aurora DSQL for free with the AWS Free Tier. To learn more, visit the Aurora DSQL webpage and documentation.

Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser introduces Web Content Filtering

Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser now includes Web Content Filtering, a comprehensive security and compliance feature that enables organizations to control and monitor web content access. This new capability allows administrators to define granular access policies, block specific URLs or entire domain categories using 25+ predefined categories, and seamlessly integrate with Session Logger for enhanced monitoring and compliance reporting.\n While existing Chrome policies for domain control remain supported, Web Content Filtering provides a more comprehensive way to control web access through category-based filtering and improved logging capabilities. Organizations can better manage their remote work security and compliance requirements through centralized policy management that scales across the enterprise. IT security teams can implement default-deny policies for high-security environments, while compliance officers benefit from detailed logging and monitoring capabilities. The feature maintains flexibility by allowing customized policies and exceptions based on specific business needs. This feature is available at no additional cost in 10 AWS Regions, including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt, London, Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo, Mumbai, Sydney, Singapore). WorkSpaces Secure Browser offers pay-as-you go pricing. To get started with WorkSpaces Secure Browser, see Getting Started with Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. You can enable this feature in your AWS console and automatically migrate any browser policies for URL Blocklists or URL Allowlists. To learn more about the feature, please refer to the feature documentation.

Amazon Cognito identity pools now support private connectivity with AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Cognito identity pools now support AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to securely exchange federated identities for AWS credentials through private connectivity between your virtual private cloud (VPC) and Cognito. This eliminates the need to route authentication traffic over the public internet, providing enhanced security for your workloads. Identity pools map authenticated and guest identities to your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and provide temporary AWS credentials, with this new feature, through a secure and private connection.\n You can use PrivateLink connections in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito identity pools are available, except AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Creating VPC endpoints on AWS PrivateLink will incur additional charges; refer to AWS PrivateLink pricing page for details. You can get started by creating an AWS PrivateLink VPC interface endpoint for Amazon Cognito identity pools using the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs), AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), or AWS CloudFormation. To learn more, refer to the documentation on creating a VPC interface endpoint and Amazon Cognito’s developer guide.

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports integration with Kiro powers

Today, AWS announces Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition integration with Kiro powers, enabling developers to build Aurora PostgreSQL backed applications faster with AI agent-assisted development using Kiro. Kiro powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks validated by Kiro partners to accelerate specialized software development and deployment use cases. Kiro power for Aurora PostgreSQL packages the MCP server with targeted database development guidance, giving the Kiro agent instant expertise in Aurora PostgreSQL operations and schema design.\n Kiro power for Aurora PostgreSQL bundles direct database connectivity through the Aurora PostgreSQL MCP server for data plane operations (queries, table creation, schema management), and control plane operations (cluster creation) and the steering file with Aurora PostgreSQL–specific best practices. When developers work on database tasks, the power dynamically loads relevant guidance – whether creating new Aurora clusters, designing schemas, or optimizing queries – so AI agents receive only the context needed for the specific task at hand. Aurora PostgreSQL power is available within Kiro IDE and Kiro powers webpage for one-click installation and can create and manage Aurora PostgreSQL clusters in all AWS Regions. For more information about development use cases, read this blog post. To learn more about Aurora PostgreSQL MCP server, visit our documentation. Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, and automated multi-Region replication. To get started with Amazon Aurora, visit our getting started page.

AWS Application Migration Service supports IPv6

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for both service communication and application migrations. Organizations can migrate applications that use IPv6 addressing, enabling transitions to modern network infrastructures.\n You can connect to AWS MGN using new dual-stack service endpoints that support both IPv4 and IPv6 communications. When migrating applications, you can transfer replication data using IPv4 or IPv6 while maintaining network connections and security. Then, during testing and cutover phases, you can use your chosen network configuration (IPv4, IPv6, or dual-stack) to launch servers in your target environment. This feature is available in every AWS Region that supports AWS MGN and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) dual-stack endpoints. For supported regions, see the AWS MGN Supported AWS Regions and Amazon EC2 Endpoints documentation. To learn more about AWS MGN, visit our product page or documentation. To get started, sign in to the AWS Application Migration Service Console.

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 24TB of memory (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt), U7i instances with 16TB of memory (u7in-16tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7in-24tb instances offer 24TiB of DDR5 memory, U7in-16tb instances offer 16TiB of DDR5 memory, and U7i-6tb instances offer 6TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment.\n U7i-6tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7in-16tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7in-24tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.

Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore, Jakarta), Europe (Stockholm) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances.\n I7i instances are ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). I7i instances support torn write prevention feature with up to 16KB block sizes, enabling customers to eliminate database performance bottlenecks. I7i instances are available in eleven sizes - nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare metal sizes - delivering up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth. To learn more, visit the I7i instances page.

Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) 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 Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. C7i instances are supported by custom Intel processors, available only on AWS.\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.

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