Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations

Today, Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations to help you better utilize your reserved capacity and save costs. On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs) help you reserve compute capacity in a specific Availability Zone for any duration. When ODCRs are not in use, you can now make them temporarily available as interruptible ODCRs, enabling other workloads within your organization to utilize them while preserving your ability to reclaim the capacity for critical operations. By repurposing unused capacity as interruptible ODCRs, workloads suitable for flexible, fault-tolerant operations—such as batch processing, data analysis, and machine learning training can benefit from temporarily available capacity. Reservation owners can reclaim their capacity at any time, while consumers of interruptible ODCRs will receive an interruption notice before termination to allow for graceful shutdown or checkpointing before. Interruptible ODCRs are now available at no additional cost to all Capacity Reservations customers. Refer to the AWS Capabilities by Region website for the feature’s regional availability. CloudFormation support will be coming soon. For more details, please refer to the Capacity Reservations user guide.
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AWS IoT Core now supports IoT thing registry data retrieval from IoT rules

AWS IoT Core announces a new capability to dynamically retrieve IoT thing registry data using an IoT rule, enhancing your ability to filter, enrich, and route IoT messages. Using the new get_registry_data() inline rule function, you can access IoT thing registry data, such as device attributes, device type, and group membership and leverage this information directly in IoT rules. For example, your rule can filter AWS IoT Core connectivity lifecycle events and then retrieve thing attributes (such as “test” or “production” device) to inform routing of lifecycle events to different endpoints for downstream processing. You can also use this feature to enrich or route IoT messages with registry data from other devices. For instance, you can add a sensor’s threshold temperature from IoT thing registry to the messages relayed by its gateway. To get started, connect your devices to AWS IoT Core and store your IoT device data in IoT thing registry. You can then use IoT rules to retrieve your registry data. This capability is available in all AWS regions where AWS IoT Core is present. For more information refer to the developer guide and API documentation.
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AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HLS Interstitials for live streams

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Interstitials for live streams, enabling broadcasters and streaming service providers to deliver seamless, personalized ad experiences across a wide range of modern video players. This capability allows customers to insert interstitial advertisements and promotions directly into live streams using the HLS Interstitials specification (RFC 8216), which is natively supported by popular players including HLS.js, Shaka Player, Bitmovin Player, and Apple devices running iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, and later. With HLS Interstitials, MediaTailor automatically generates the necessary metadata tags (Interstitial class EXT-X-DATERANGE with X-ASSET-LIST attributes) that signal to client players when and how to play interstitial content. This approach eliminates the need for custom player-side stitching logic, reducing development complexity and ensuring consistent playback behavior. The feature integrates with MediaTailor’s existing server-side ad insertion (SSAI) capabilities, delivering frame-accurate transitions with no buffering between content and interstitials. Server-side beaconing continues to work with HLS Interstitials, ensuring ad tracking and measurement workflows remain intact. HLS Interstitials for live streams is particularly valuable for sports broadcasts, live news, and event streaming where precise ad timing and minimal latency are critical. The feature supports pre-roll and mid-roll insertion, giving customers flexibility in how they monetize their live content. This launch complements MediaTailor’s existing HLS Interstitials support for VOD, rounding out support across Linear, Live, FAST, and VOD workflows. MediaTailor makes it easy to test and deploy—customers can rapidly enable or disable HLS Interstitials with a simple query parameter on the multi-variant manifest request, providing per playback session control without changing the underlying MediaTailor configuration. AWS Elemental MediaTailor HLS Interstitials for live streams is available today in all AWS Regions where MediaTailor operates. You pay only for the features you use, with no upfront commitments. To learn more and get started, visit the AWS Elemental MediaTailor documentation and the HLS Interstitials implementation guide.
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Amazon Connect flow modules now support custom inputs, outputs, and version management

Amazon Connect flow modules now support custom inputs, outputs, and branches, along with version and alias management. With this launch, you can now define flexible parameters for your reusable flow modules to math your specific business logic. For example, you can create an authentication module that accepts a phone number and PIN as inputs, then returns the customer name and authentication status as outputs with branches such as “authenticated” or “not authenticated”. All parameters are customizable to meet your specific needs. Additionally, advanced versioning and aliasing capabilities allow you to manage module updates more seamlessly. You can create immutable version snapshots and map aliases to specific versions. When you update an alias to point to a new version, all flows using that module automatically reference the updated version. These new features make flow modules more powerful and reusable, allowing you to build and maintain flows more efficiently. To learn more about these feature, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide. This feature is available in all AWS regions that offers Amazon Connect. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website.
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Amazon U7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. U7i-6tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-6tb instances offer 448 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.
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