7/22/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/23/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the US West (N. California) Region Starting today, the compute optimized Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in AWS US West (N. California) Region. C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors (code-named Genoa) with a maximum frequency of 3.7 GHz, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances....
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....
11/20/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Validate and enforce required tags in CloudFormation, Terraform and Pulumi with Tag Policies AWS Organizations Tag Policies announces Reporting for Required Tags, a new validation check that proactively ensures your CloudFormation, Terraform, and Pulumi deployments include the required tags critical to your business. Your infrastructure-as-code (IaC) operations can now be automatically validated against tag policies to ensure tagging consistency across your AWS environments....
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....
11/13/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 11/14/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary Building on the Hooks Invocation Summary launched in September 2025, AWS CloudFormation Hooks now supports granular invocation details. Hook authors can supplement their Hook evaluation responses with detailed findings, finding severity, and remediation advice. The Hooks console now displays these details at the individual control level within each invocation, enabling developers to quickly identify and resolve specific Hook failures....