2025-12-19  [draft]

12/19/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/22/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Application Recovery Controller region switch now supports three new capabilities Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to switch your multi-Region applications to operate out of another AWS Region and achieve a bounded recovery time in the event of a Regional impairment to your applications. Region switch saves hours of engineering effort and eliminates the operational overhead previously required to complete failover steps, create custom dashboards, and manually gather evidence of a successful recovery for applications across your organization and hosted in multiple AWS accounts....

December 19, 2025

2025-12-17

12/17/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances....

December 17, 2025

2025-11-21

11/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview) Amazon EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview). With Spark 4.0.1, you can build and maintain data pipelines more easily with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types, strengthen compliance and governance frameworks with Apache Iceberg v3 table format, and deploy new real-time applications faster with enhanced streaming capabilities. This enables your teams to reduce technical debt and iterate more quickly, while ensuring data accuracy and consistency....

November 21, 2025

2025-11-19

11/19/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/20/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for voice and chat bots Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for end-customer self-service interactions across voice and digital channels, helping you better understand and improve your customers’ self-service experiences. This includes across PSTN/telephony, in-app and web-calling, web and mobile chat, SMS, WhatsApp Business messaging, and Apple Messages for Business. \n With this launch, Connect now provides rich conversational analytics across both human-agent interactions and end-customer self-service interactions....

November 19, 2025

2025-11-17

11/17/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Route 53 DNS Firewall adds protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks Starting today, you can enable Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Advanced to monitor and block queries associated with Dictionary-based Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) attacks, that generate domain names by pseudo-randomly concatenating words from a predefined dictionary, creating human-readable strings to evade detection.\n Route 53 DNS Firewall Advanced is an offering on Route 53 DNS Firewall that enables you to enforce protections to monitor and block your DNS traffic in real-time based on anomalies identified in the domain names being queried from your VPCs....

November 17, 2025