2026-02-11

2/11/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 2/12/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements AWS Payment Cryptography Achieves Cartes Bancaires Approval Today, AWS Payment Cryptography has become one of the first cloud-based payment cryptography services to obtain approval from Groupement des Cartes Bancaires (CB), France’s national card payment network. This CB approval, combined with existing compliance credentials, enables customers to run payment workloads in AWS while helping customers maintain CB compliance.\n Organizations such as acquirers, payment facilitators, networks, switches, processors, and issuing banks that are moving workloads to the cloud can rely on AWS Payment Cryptography’s CB approval as part of their compliance frameworks....

February 11, 2026

2026-01-28

1/28/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/29/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 R7gd instances are now available in Europe (Paris) Region Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7gd instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are available in Europe (Paris) Region.\n R7gd are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors with DDR5 memory are built on the AWS Nitro System. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data analytics and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage, including those that need temporary storage of data for scratch space, temporary files, and caches....

January 28, 2026

2026-01-13

1/13/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 1/14/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon Neptune Database now supports R7g and R8g instances in 5 additional regions Amazon Neptune Database now supports Graviton3-based R7g and Graviton4-based R8g instances for Amazon Neptune engine versions 1.4.5 or above, in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Canada (Central) and US West (N. California). R7g and R8g instances are priced -16% vs R6g.\n Graviton3-based R7g are the first AWS database instances to feature the latest DDR5 memory, enabling high-speed access to data in memory....

January 13, 2026

2025-12-23

12/23/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/24/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Oracle Database@AWS is now available in three additional AWS Regions Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in three additional AWS Regions - US-East-2 (Ohio), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), and AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo). Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to access database services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) managed Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers. With this launch, customers in the EU and Japan with in-region data residency requirements can easily migrate on-premises Oracle Exadata applications to AWS....

December 23, 2025

2025-12-18

12/18/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/19/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter, enabling you to create and manage resources such as instances, volumes, and subnets using consistent zone identifiers. AZ IDs are consistent and static identifiers that represent the same physical location across all AWS accounts, helping you optimize resource placement.\n Prior to this launch, you had to use an AZ name while creating a resource, but these names could map to different physical locations....

December 18, 2025