Monat: März 2026

Amazon Inspector expands agentless EC2 scanning and introduces Windows KB-based findings

Amazon Inspector now offers expanded agentless EC2 scanning with enhanced detection coverage, including new support for Windows operating system vulnerability scanning without requiring an agent. Security teams and IT administrators can now detect vulnerabilities across a broader range of software and applications on their EC2 instances — including WordPress, Apache HTTP Server, Python packages, and Ruby gems — as well as Windows OS vulnerabilities, all through agentless scanning. Customers automatically receive findings for newly supported software and applications with no configuration changes required.
Amazon Inspector is also introducing Windows Knowledge Base (KB)-based findings for Windows OS vulnerabilities. Rather than receiving a separate finding for each CVE addressed by a single Microsoft patch, customers now receive a single consolidated KB finding that groups all related CVEs together. Each KB finding surfaces the highest CVSS score, EPSS score, and exploit availability from its constituent CVEs, and includes a direct link to the relevant Microsoft KB article — making it straightforward to understand exactly which patch to apply and why. All existing CVE-based Windows OS findings will automatically transition to KB-based findings. All existing CVE-based Windows OS findings will automatically transition to KB-based findings, and customers do not need to take any additional action.
Both capabilities are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Inspector is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Inspector product page and the Amazon Inspector documentation. 
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Amazon EC2 C8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region

Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. C8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, delivering up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price-performance compared to C7a instances. C8a instances deliver 33% more memory bandwidth compared to C7a instances, making these instances ideal for latency sensitive workloads. Compared to Amazon EC2 C7a instances, they are up to 57% faster for GroovyJVM allowing better response times for Java-based applications. C8a instances offer 12 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes. This range of instance sizes allows customers to precisely match their workload requirements. C8a instances are built on AWS Nitro System and are ideal for high performance, compute-intensive workloads such as batch processing, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), ad serving, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and video encoding. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 C8a instance page.
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Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

You can now create Amazon S3 Access Grants in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region.
Amazon S3 Access Grants map identities in directories such as Microsoft Entra ID, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to datasets in S3. This helps you manage data permissions at scale by automatically granting S3 access to end users based on their corporate identity.
Visit the AWS Region Table for complete regional availability information. To learn more about Amazon S3 Access Grants, visit our product page.
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Amazon ECR now supports pull through cache for Chainguard

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) pull through cache now supports Chainguard’s registry as an upstream source. With today’s release, customers now benefit from the security and availability of Amazon ECR for private Chainguard images. As customers continue to scale their use of Chainguard images, keeping them synchronized with Chainguard’s registry becomes increasingly important. With ECR’s pull through cache feature, customers can keep Chainguard images in sync without additional workflows or tools to manage. Amazon ECR’s pull through cache supports frequent registry syncs, helping to keep container images sourced from Chainguard up to date. Later, customers can apply ECR features such as image scanning and lifecycle policies to their cached Chainguard images. The pull through cache for Chainguard is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon ECR pull through cache is supported. To get started, review our documentation.
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Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 6TB of memory (u7i-6tb.112xlarge) are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia). U7i instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-6tb instances offer 6TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment.
U7i-6tb instances deliver 448 vCPUs with up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and 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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