7/28/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/29/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane now delivers faster pod autoscaling

Amazon EKS now delivers faster pod autoscaling across all Provisioned Control Plane clusters by increasing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) sync concurrency to up to 40 times the default Kubernetes value. This reduces the time it takes for HPA-driven workloads to scale in response to increased load, enabling faster responsiveness to demand.\n The Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) continuously monitors workload metrics and adjusts pod counts to match demand. In clusters running hundreds or thousands of HPA objects, the speed at which the Kubernetes control plane processes these objects determines how quickly workloads scale in response to changing demand. The HPA sync concurrency setting controls how many HPA objects the control plane evaluates in parallel. By increasing this value, Provisioned Control Plane clusters now process more HPA objects simultaneously, reducing the time between detecting increased load and scaling out pods. This enhancement is available to all customers using EKS Provisioned Control Plane and requires no configuration changes. To learn more about this enhancement, see EKS Provisioned Control Plane in the EKS User Guide.

AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region

AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, allowing customers to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their Console Home dashboard.\n With the Cost and Usage widget, customers can track month-to-date and forecasted costs, identify savings opportunities, and see how their spend breaks down by service over time.

To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console, select Add widgets, and drag the Cost and Usage widget onto your Console Home dashboard. To learn more, see Working with widgets in AWS Console Home documentation.

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. 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.\n Organizations from startups to enterprises and the public sector in and outside of India can now order their Outposts racks connected to this new supported region, optimizing for their latency and data residency needs. Outposts allows customers to run workloads that need low latency access to on-premises systems locally while connecting back to their home Region for application management. Customers can also use Outposts and AWS services to manage and process data that needs to remain on-premises to meet data residency requirements. This regional expansion provides additional flexibility in the AWS Regions that customers’ Outposts can connect to. To learn more about second-generation Outposts racks, read this blog post and user guide. For the most updated list of countries and territories and the AWS Regions where second-generation Outposts racks are supported, check out the Outposts rack FAQs page.

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations.\n AWS DataSync is a secure, high-speed data transfer service that simplifies moving data over a network. Enhanced mode processes data in parallel, removes file count limitations, and provides detailed transfer metrics. Previously, customers who wanted to move data to or from EFS or FSx for Lustre were limited to Basic mode. Now customers can use Enhanced mode for these locations, simplifying workflows for large-scale migrations, agentic AI and machine learning training, high-performance computing, genomics processing, and media rendering.

This capability is available in all AWS Regions where AWS DataSync is offered. To get started, visit the AWS DataSync console. For more information, see the AWS DataSync documentation.

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and object storage locations with Hyper-V agent support

AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports agent-based data transfers with Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage. Additionally, Enhanced mode agents can now be deployed on Microsoft Hyper-V. Using a DataSync agent, customers can transfer data to and from these locations with the parallelism, unlimited file counts, and detailed metrics that Enhanced mode provides.\n Enhanced mode HDFS support includes multiple NameNode configurations for high availability and Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Kerberos authentication, enabling organizations in regulated industries to securely migrate petabyte-scale encrypted Hadoop data without sacrificing availability.

This capability is available in all AWS Regions where AWS DataSync is offered. To get started, visit the AWS DataSync console. For more information, see the AWS DataSync documentation.

Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3

Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type as defined in the Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) specification. You can now write semi-structured data like JSON directly to S3 Tables without defining a fixed schema in advance, allowing you to land data faster while still getting efficient analytical query performance.\n With the Variant data type, Apache Iceberg V3-compatible engines shred your semi-structured data into hidden columns as you write it, generating Parquet column statistics that query engines use for optimizations like file pruning, which reduces the data your analytical queries scan. S3 Tables also provide ongoing table maintenance, including compaction, for Variant columns, so you can consolidate data from small files into large files that Iceberg engines can read. Variant support in S3 Tables is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), and South America (São Paulo). To learn more, see Amazon S3 Tables and the AWS Prescriptive Guidance for working with Iceberg table format specification version 3.

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