7/31/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 8/3/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)
Recent Announcements
Amazon Aurora DSQL adds multi-Region cluster support in four more Regions
Starting today, Amazon Aurora DSQL supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions: Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database, with active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. Each multi-Region cluster provides a writable endpoint in both peered Regions, presenting a single logical database that remains available even if one Region becomes unavailable.\n With this launch, Aurora DSQL multi-Region clusters are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Stockholm). Aurora DSQL single-Region clusters are available in all of these Regions and in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and South America (São Paulo). Get started with Aurora DSQL for free with the AWS Free Tier. To learn more, visit the Aurora DSQL webpage and documentation.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances
Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances with up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. 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. R8i and M8i instances offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances.\n Reserved Instance benefits apply to both Multi-AZ and Single-AZ configurations. This means that customers can move freely between configurations within the same database instance class type, making them ideal for varying production workloads. Amazon RDS for Oracle Reserved Instances also provide size flexibility for the Oracle database engine under the Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licensing model. With size flexibility, the discounted rate for Reserved Instances will automatically apply to usage of any size in the same instance family. Customers can now purchase Reserved Instances for Amazon RDS for Oracle in all AWS regions where R8i and M8i instances are available except the South America (São Paulo) Region. For information on specific Oracle database editions and licensing options that support these database instance types, refer to the Amazon RDS user guide. To get started, purchase Reserved Instances through the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK. For detailed pricing information and purchase options visit Amazon RDS for Oracle Pricing.
AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023
AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), available as both managed runtimes and container base images. These new runtimes enable customers running Lambda functions on Java 8, 11, or 17 to migrate from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) to AL2023 without requiring a simultaneous Java version upgrade.\n The existing Lambda runtimes for Java 8, 11 and 17 run on AL2, which reached end of life on June 30, 2026. To maintain support coverage and SLA eligibility, customers must migrate their functions to an AL2023-based runtime. AWS recommends that customers upgrade to Java 21 or Java 25 on AL2023 as the preferred migration path. These runtimes offer the latest language features and performance improvements. For customers who are not yet ready to upgrade their Java version, the new Java 8, 11, and 17 runtimes on AL2023 provide an alternative forward path. In addition, the existing AL2-based Lambda runtimes for Java 8, 11, and 17 will remain supported and continue to receive patches for critical and selected important security issues until June 30, 2027, giving customers a full year after AL2’s end of life to complete their migration. The Java 8, 11, and 17 runtimes on AL2023 are available in all AWS Regions where Lambda is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the China Regions. To learn more about AL2023 support in Lambda, see our blog post. For customers ready to upgrade to Java 21 or Java 25, you can use AWS Transform custom to assist with the migration. To learn more about Lambda runtimes, visit the Lambda runtimes documentation.
Amazon Location Service adds Search Nearby support for GrabMaps in Southeast Asia
Amazon Location Service now supports proximity-based point of interest discovery with GrabMaps data in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) AWS Regions. Builders creating local discovery, delivery, and mobility applications in Southeast Asia can surface relevant nearby places using hyperlocal data validated by millions of daily Grab journeys.\n SearchNearby returns places within a specified radius of a user’s location, ranked by distance. Developers can filter results by category (such as fuel stations, hospitals, or restaurants) to narrow responses to what their application needs. This enables a delivery platform to find the closest pickup points, a ride-hailing app to show nearby dining options, or a travel app to locate services within range. GrabMaps delivers hyperlocal mapping data purpose-built for Southeast Asia. Millions of daily journeys across the Grab platform continuously validate road networks, addresses, and points of interest, capturing changes in real time. GrabMaps covers detailed back alleys, narrow side streets, and motorcycle-accessible routes across more than 500 cities in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Myanmar, and Cambodia. To get started, see the Search Nearby Developer Guide, API reference, and the GrabMaps Overview page.
Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors
Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from your AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors — enabling you to monitor Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon MSK, and Amazon OpenSearch Service workloads without deploying or managing any agents.\n Previously, getting Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch required deploying, scaling, and maintaining a self-managed OpenTelemetry Collector. Managed Prometheus collectors eliminate that overhead. You provide a scrape configuration and a connection to your resources, and CloudWatch handles provisioning, scaling, and collection automatically. Metrics are delivered in OpenTelemetry format and can be queried alongside your AWS vended metrics using PromQL — providing unified alarming, dashboarding, and cross-service correlation in a single view.
Managed collectors support Kubernetes service discovery (EKS), DNS-based service discovery via AWS Cloud Map (ECS), direct instance scraping (EC2), and open monitoring endpoints (MSK, OpenSearch). Metrics for EKS, MSK and Open Search can be visualized in automatic dashboards, queried with PromQL and used in CloudWatch alarms.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions where the CloudWatch OTLP endpoint is available, except Asia Pacific (New Zealand). Managed Prometheus collectors are charged by the hour and standard CloudWatch OpenTelemetry metric ingestion pricing applies. To get started, see the documentation.
AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises servers, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon ECS services. Customers in these newly added regions can now access CodeDeploy locally, enabling lower latency and supporting data residency requirements.\n With AWS CodeDeploy, developers and DevOps engineers can rapidly release new features while avoiding downtime during application deployments. The service eliminates error-prone manual deployment operations and scales seamlessly from a single instance to thousands, making it ideal for teams managing complex deployment pipelines across EC2 fleets, serverless Lambda functions, or containerized ECS workloads.
AWS CodeDeploy is now available across 34 AWS commercial regions, as well as AWS GovCloud (US) and the AWS China Regions.
To learn more, visit the AWS CodeDeploy product page.
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.\n C7i-flex instances are the easiest way for you to get price performance benefits for a majority of compute intensive workloads, and deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i. C7i-flex instances 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. With C7i-flex instances, you can seamlessly run web and application servers, databases, caches, Apache Kafka, and Elasticsearch, and more. To learn more, visit the EC2 C7i-flex instances page.
Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in additional regions
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 Europe (Milan) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers.\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. To learn more, visit the EC2 C7i instances Page.
AWS Blogs
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AWS Big Data Blog
Artificial Intelligence
- Announcing the Agentic Catalog Experience in Amazon Quick
- Optimizing production agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability