5/26/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/27/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now use ENA Express for replication traffic between Availability Zones. ENA Express uses AWS’s Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to optimize network performance by delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth for cross-AZ replication traffic leveraging advanced congestion control and multi-pathing capabilities, and reducing latency variability for Multi-AZ deployments.\n RDS Multi-AZ instances replicate data synchronously to a standby in a different Availability Zone to provide high availability and automatic failover. AWS SRD, used by ENA Express, improves replication by dynamically distributing traffic across multiple network paths and adapting to congestion in real time. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with ENA Express delivers increased write throughput and lower write latencies for write-intensive database workloads. ENA Express for Amazon RDS is available at no additional charge for Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS for Db2, and Amazon RDS for Oracle. It is supported in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, Mumbai, New Zealand, Osaka, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Thailand, Tokyo), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Milan, Paris, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To enable this on your existing Amazon RDS instances, perform a start-stop or scale compute action. For a list of supported instance types on ENA Express, refer the user guide.

Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) 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. The M8i and M8i-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% better performance than M7i and M7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The M8i and M8i-flex instances are up to 30% faster for PostgreSQL databases, up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, and up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models compared to M7i and M7i-flex instances.\n M8i-flex are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose workloads like web and application servers, microservices, small and medium data stores, virtual desktops, 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. M8i instances are a great choice for all general purpose workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. The SAP-certified M8i 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. For more information about the new instances, visit the M8i and M8i-flex instance page or visit the AWS News blog.

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) 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. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver 20% higher performance than R7i instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. They are up to 30% faster for PostgreSQL databases, up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, and up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models compared to R7i.\n R8i-flex, our first memory-optimized Flex instances, are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of memory-intensive workloads. 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. R8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. R8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. R8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver 142,100 aSAPS, delivering exceptional performance for mission-critical SAP workloads. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. For more information about the R8i and R8i-flex instances visit the AWS News blog.

Amazon VPC IPAM now supports tags on IPAM pool allocations

Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports tags on IPAM pool allocations, enabling customers to organize, govern, and control access to individual IP address allocations using the same tagging workflows they use across other AWS resources.\n Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) helps customers plan, track, and monitor IP addresses across their AWS environments. With this launch, customers can tag allocations at creation time or add tags to existing allocations. These tags can be referenced in AWS Identity and Access Management and Service Control Policies, enabling centralized governance over IP address usage at scale. For example, a network administrator can tag allocations by environment and enforce an IAM policy that allows only the production networking role to allocate from the pool, while development teams are restricted to development pools. Customers can also search and filter allocations by tag across all IPAM pools, making it faster to locate specific IP address ranges in large, multi-account environments.

This feature is available in all AWS Regions where IPAM is available at no additional cost. To learn more, see the IPAM User Guide. To get started with IPAM, visit the IPAM console.

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup supports Amazon S3 continuous backups

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available for Amazon S3 continuous backups. You can now scan your S3 continuous backups for malware and identify clean points in time across your entire backup timeline for safe recovery.\n You can enable full or incremental malware scans for S3 continuous backups within your backup plan, and run on-demand scans up to any restorable point in time. You can now query the malware scan status at any point in time within your continuous backup using the new GetPITRMalwareScanResults API, allowing you to verify whether a specific recovery time is clean before initiating a restore.

Support for S3 continuous backups is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is supported. You can get started using the AWS Backup console, API, or CLI. To learn more, visit the AWS Backup documentation and Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection documentation.

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