1/22/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/23/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in AWS Europe (London) region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances are available in the Europe (London) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The C8i are up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35% faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i.\n
C8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. C8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information about the new C8i instances visit the AWS News blog.

Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Europe (Frankfurt) regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Frankfurt) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% higher performance than C7i and C7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The C8i and C8i-flex are up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models, and 35% faster for Memcached stores compared to C7i and C7i-flex.\n C8i-flex are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads like web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, Elasticsearch, and enterprise applications. They offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. C8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. C8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information about the new C8i and C8i-flex instances visit the AWS News blog.

AWS Config launches 13 new managed rules

AWS Config announces launch of an additional 13 managed Config rules for various use cases such as security, durability, and operations. You can now search, discover, enable and manage these additional rules directly from AWS Config and govern more use cases for your AWS environment.\n With this launch, you can now enable these controls across your account or across your organization. For example, you can assess your security posture across Amazon Cognito User pools, Amazon EBS Snapshots, AWS Cloudformation Stacks and more. Additionally, you can leverage Conformance Packs to group these new controls and deploy across an account or across organization, streamlining your multi-account governance. For the full list of recently released rules, visit the AWS Config developer guide. For description of each rule and the AWS Regions in which it is available, please refer our Config managed rules documentation. To start using Config rules, please refer our documentation. New Rules Launched:

AURORA_GLOBAL_DATABASE_ENCRYPTION_AT_REST

CLOUDFORMATION_STACK_SERVICE_ROLE_CHECK

CLOUDFORMATION_TERMINATION_PROTECTION_CHECK

CLOUDFRONT_DISTRIBUTION_KEY_GROUP_ENABLED

COGNITO_USER_POOL_DELETE_PROTECTION_ENABLED

COGNITO_USER_POOL_MFA_ENABLED

COGNITO_USERPOOL_CUST_AUTH_THREAT_FULL_CHECK

EBS_SNAPSHOT_BLOCK_PUBLIC_ACCESS

ECS_CAPACITY_PROVIDER_TERMINATION_CHECK

ECS_TASK_DEFINITION_EFS_ENCRYPTION_ENABLED

ECS_TASK_DEFINITION_LINUX_USER_NON_ROOT

ECS_TASK_DEFINITION_WINDOWS_USER_NON_ADMIN

SES_SENDING_TLS_REQUIRED

Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in 7 additional regions

Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo) regions. You can now create and manage Neptune Analytics graphs in these new regions and run advanced graph analytics.\n Amazon Neptune is a serverless graph database for connected data, improves the accuracy of AI applications, and lowers operational burden and costs. Neptune instantly scales graph workloads removing the need to manage capacity. By modeling data as a graph, Neptune captures context that improves accuracy and explainability of generative AI applications. To make AI application development easier, Neptune offers fully managed GraphRAG with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and integrations with Strands AI Agents SDK and popular agentic memory tools. It also easily analyzes tens of billions of relationships across structured and unstructured data within seconds delivering strategic insights. Neptune is the only database and analytics engine that gives you the power of connected data with the enterprise capabilities and value of AWS. To get started, you can create a new Neptune Analytics graphs using the AWS Management Console, or AWS CLI. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the Neptune pricing page and AWS Region Table.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom Chrome browser extensions, enabling automation for complex workflows that standard browser automation cannot handle alone. This enhancement builds upon AgentCore’s existing secure browser features, allowing users to upload Chrome-compatible extensions to S3 and automatically install them during browser sessions. The feature serves enterprise developers, automation engineers, and organizations across industries requiring specialized browser functionality within a secure environment.\n This new feature enables powerful use cases including custom authentication flows, automated testing, and improved web navigation with performance optimization through ad blocking. Organizations gain the ability to integrate third-party tools that operate as browser extensions, eliminating manual processes while maintaining security within the AgentCore Browser environment. This feature is available in all nine AWS Regions where Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser is available: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (Ireland). To learn more about implementing custom browser extensions in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, visit the Browser documentation.

AWS expands Resource Control Policies support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs

AWS Resource Control Policies (RCPs) now provide support for Amazon Cognito and Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Resource control policies (RCPs) are a type of organization policy that you can use to manage permissions in your organization. RCPs offer central control over the maximum available permissions for resources in your organization.\n With this expansion, you can now use RCPs to manage permissions for Amazon Cognito and Amazon CloudWatch Logs resources. For example, you can create policies that prevent identities outside your organization from accessing these resources, helping you build a data perimeter and enforce baseline security standards across your AWS environment. RCPs are available in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about RCPs and view the full list of supported AWS services, visit the Resource control policies (RCPs) documentation in the AWS Organizations User Guide.

Microsoft Office, Visio and Project 2024 Apps now on Amazon WorkSpaces

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core announce the availability of new Microsoft productivity applications for WorkSpaces instances, including Microsoft Office LTSC Professional Plus 2024, Microsoft Office LTSC Standard 2024, Microsoft Visio LTSC Professional 2024, Microsoft Visio LTSC Standard 2024, Microsoft Project Professional 2024 and Microsoft Project Standard 2024.\n Microsoft Office 2024, Visio 2024 and Project 2024 applications are now part of Amazon WorkSpaces’ managed applications catalog and can be added to eligible new or existing WorkSpaces using your existing Manage application workflow. This helps you standardize on a modern, secure, productivity-focused desktop experience without changing your current bundles.

These applications are available in all AWS Regions that support Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core. You will be charged the applications you choose for your WorkSpaces instances. For more details on pricing, refer to Amazon WorkSpaces Pricing. To get started, refer to Administer your WorkSpaces and Manage applications for Amazon WorkSpaces.

Now available: 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized Amazon EC2 instances

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the Amazon Elastic Block Storage (Amazon EBS) optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gb, M8gb, and R8gb instances in 48xlarge sizes. We are also offering C8gb and R8gb in metal-48xl sizes. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. At up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, these instances offer the highest EBS performance among non-accelerated compute EC2 instances. Take advantage of the higher block storage performance offered by these new EBS optimized EC2 instances to scale the performance and throughput of a wide variety of workloads.\n For increased scalability, these instances offer sizes up to 48xlarge, including two metal sizes (C8gb and R8gb only), 3 varieties of memory to vCPUs ratios, up to 300 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, up to 400 Gbps of networking bandwidth. Offering up to 1440K IOPS, these instances have the highest Amazon EBS IOPS performance in Amazon EC2. These new instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking, which enables lower latency and improved cluster performance for workloads deployed on tightly coupled clusters.

The new instance sizes are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Metal sizes are only available in US East (N. Virginia) region.

To learn more, see Amazon C8gb, M8gb, and R8gb Instances. To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page. To get started, see AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), and AWS SDKs.

Announcing availability of AWS Outposts racks in Rwanda

AWS Outposts racks can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Rwanda.\n AWS Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts racks allow customers to run workloads that need low latency access to on-premises systems locally while connecting back to a home Region for application management. Customers can also use Outposts racks to manage and process data that needs to remain on-premises to meet data residency requirements. To learn more about Outposts racks, read the product overview and user guide. For the most updated list of countries and territories and the AWS Regions where Outposts racks are supported, check out the Outposts rack FAQs page.

Amazon MQ now supports Java Messaging Service (JMS) specification for RabbitMQ brokers

Amazon MQ now supports the ability for RabbitMQ 4 brokers to connect to JMS applications through the RabbitMQ JMS Topic Exchange plugin and JMS client. The JMS topic exchange plugin is enabled by default on all RabbitMQ 4 brokers, allowing you to use the JMS client to run your JMS 1.1, JMS 2.0, and JMS 3.1 applications on RabbitMQ. You can also use the RabbitMQ JMS client to send JMS messages to an AMQP exchange and consume messages from an AMQP queue to interoperate or migrate JMS workloads to AMQP workloads.\n To start using your JMS applications on RabbitMQ, simply select RabbitMQ 4.2 when creating a new broker using the M7g instance type through the AWS Management console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, and then use the RabbitMQ JMS client to connect your applications. To learn more about the plugin, see the Amazon MQ release notes and the Amazon MQ developer guide. This plugin is available in all regions where Amazon MQ RabbitMQ 4 instances are available today.

AWS Blogs

AWS Japan Blog (Japanese)

AWS Big Data Blog

Containers

AWS Database Blog

Desktop and Application Streaming

Artificial Intelligence

AWS for M&E Blog

Open Source Project

AWS CLI

Amplify for JavaScript

Karpenter