2026-04-27

4/27/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/28/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroups Amazon Redshift Serverless now makes AI-driven scaling and optimization the default for all new workgroups. AI-driven scaling uses machine learning to predict compute needs and automatically adjust resources before queries queue, delivering better price-performance without manual tuning. This release also expands support to workloads with a Base RPU range of 8–512 RPU, up from the previous 32–512 RPU, reducing the entry cost for AI-driven scaling....

April 27, 2026

2026-04-13

4/13/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/14/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Derived Source for storage optimization Amazon OpenSearch Serverless introduces support for Derived Source, a new feature that can help reduce the amount of storage required for your OpenSearch Service collections. With derived source support, you can skip storing source fields and dynamically derive them when required. \n With Derived Source, OpenSearch Serverless reconstructs the _source field on the fly using the values already stored in the index, eliminating the need to maintain a separate copy of the original document....

April 13, 2026

2026-04-10

4/10/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/13/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in Europe (Paris) Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1....

April 10, 2026

2026-04-06

4/6/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 4/7/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Verified Permissions now supports policy store aliases and named policies and policy templates Today, AWS announces support for policy store aliases and named policies and policy templates in Amazon Verified Permissions, simplifying multi-tenant deployments and day-to-day policy management. Amazon Verified Permissions is a fine-grained authorization service that helps you manage and enforce permissions across your applications using Cedar policies. These new capabilities eliminate the need to maintain separate mapping tables for associating tenant identifiers with policy store IDs or tracking individual policy and template IDs....

April 6, 2026

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