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

2025-12-09

12/9/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/10/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS US East (Ohio) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn 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 9, 2025

2025-12-02

12/2/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 12/3/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC) Recent Announcements Announcing Amazon EC2 General purpose M8azn instances (Preview) Starting today, new general purpose high-frequency high-network Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8azn instances are available for preview. These instances are powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC (formerly code named Turin) processors, offering the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. The M8azn instances offer up to 2x compute performance versus previous generation M5zn instances....

December 2, 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