Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, for 2x more network bandwidth over comparable fifth-generation instances. Customers can use M6in and M6idn instances to scale their performance and throughput of network-intensive workloads such as high-performance file systems, distributed web scale in-memory caches, caching fleets, real-time big data analytics, and Telco applications such as 5G User Plane Function. M6in and M6idn instances are available in 10 different instance sizes including metal, offering up to 128 vCPUs and 512 GiB of memory. They deliver up to 100Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth, and up to 400K IOPS. M6in and M6idn instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking support on 32xlarge and metal sizes. M6idn instances offer up to 7.6 TB of high-speed, low-latency instance storage. With this regional expansion, M6in and M6idn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (N. California, Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, Spain, Stockholm, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Seoul), Canada (Central), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). Customers can purchase the new instances through Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances. To learn more, see M6in and M6idn instances page. 
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Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Spain) region

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS Europe (Spain) region. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access the small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). Additionally, torn write prevention feature support up to 16KB block sizes, enabling customers to eliminate database performance bottlenecks. I7i instances are available in eleven sizes – nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare metal sizes – delivering up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth. To learn more, visit the I7i instances page.
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AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Kansas City, MO

Today, AWS announced the expansion of 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps dedicated connections with MACsec encryption capabilities at the existing AWS Direct Connect location in the Netrality KC1 data center near Kansas City, MO. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones from this location. The Direct Connect service enables you to establish a private, physical network connection between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment. These private connections can provide a more consistent network experience than those made over the public internet.  For more information on the over 146 Direct Connect locations worldwide, visit the locations section of the Direct Connect product detail pages. Or, visit our getting started page to learn more about how to purchase and deploy Direct Connect.
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Introducing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic AI-powered workspace

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Quick Suite—a new set of agentic teammate that helps you get the answers you need using all of your business data and move instantly from insights to action. Quick Suite retrieves insights across the public internet and all your documents, including information in Slack, Salesforce, Snowflake, databases, and other places your company keeps important data. Whether you need a single data point, a PhD-level research project, an entire strategy tailored to your context, or anything in between, Quick Suite quickly gets you all the relevant information.
Quick Suite helps you seamlessly transition from getting answers to taking action in popular applications (like creating or updating Salesforce opportunities, Jira tickets, or ServiceNow incidents). Quick Suite can also help you automate tasks—from routine, daily tasks like responding to RFPs and preparing for customer meetings to automating the most complex business processes such as invoice processing and account reconciliation. All of your data is safe and private. Your queries and data are never used to train models, and you can tailor the Quick Suite experience to you. Your AWS administrator can turn on Quick Suite in only a few steps, and your new agentic teammate will be ready to go. New Quick Suite customers receive a 30-day free trial for up to 25 users. 
You can experience the full breadth of Quick Suite capabilities for chat, research, business intelligence, and automation in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Europe (Ireland)., and we’ll expand availability to additional AWS Regions over the coming months.
To learn more about Quick Suite and its capabilities, read our deep-dive blog.
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Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Malaysia), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage. Each instance is available in 12 different sizes. They provide up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Additionally, customers can now adjust the network and Amazon EBS bandwidth on these instances by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration, providing greater flexibility with the allocation of bandwidth resources to better optimize workloads. These instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes. To learn more, see Amazon R8gd Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.
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Amazon EC2 M8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney, Malaysia), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage. Each instance is available in 12 different sizes. They provide up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Additionally, customers can now adjust the network and Amazon EBS bandwidth on these instances by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration, providing greater flexibility with the allocation of bandwidth resources to better optimize workloads. These instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes. To learn more, see Amazon M8gd Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.
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Amazon Q Developer now help customers understand service prices and estimate workload costs

Today, AWS announces a new pricing and cost estimation capability in Amazon Q Developer. Amazon Q Developer is the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development. With this launch, customers can now use Amazon Q Developer to get information about AWS product and service pricing, availability, and attributes, helping them select the right resources and estimate workload costs using natural language. When architecting new workloads on AWS, customers need to estimate costs so they can evaluate cost/performance tradeoffs, set budgets, and plan future spending. Customers can now use Amazon Q Developer to retrieve detailed product attribute and pricing information using natural language, making it easier to estimate the cost of new workloads without having to review multiple pricing pages or specify detailed API request parameters. Customers can now ask questions about service pricing (e.g., “How much does RDS extended support cost?”), the cost of a planned workload (e.g., “I need to send 1 million notifications per month to email, and 1 million to HTTP/S endpoints. Estimate the monthly cost using SNS.”), or the relative costs of different resources (e.g., “What is the cost difference between an Application Load Balancer and a Network Load Balancer?”). To answer these questions, Amazon Q Developer retrieves information from the AWS Price List APIs. To learn more, see Managing your costs using generative AI with Amazon Q Developer. To get started, open the Amazon Q chat panel in the AWS Management Console and ask a question about pricing.
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Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS South America (São Paulo)

AWS is announcing Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region. Designed for large storage I/O intensive workloads, I7ie instances are powered by 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances. I7ie instances offer up to 120TB local NVMe storage density (highest in the cloud) for storage optimized instances and offer up to twice as many vCPUs and memory compared to prior generation instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7ie instances deliver up to 65% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and 65% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I3en instances. I7ie are high density storage optimized instances, ideal for workloads requiring fast local storage with high random read/write performance at very low latency consistency to access large data sets. These instances are available in 9 different virtual sizes and deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). To learn more, visit the I7ie instances page.
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New General Purpose Amazon EC2 M8a Instances

AWS announces the general availability of new general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances.
M8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth compared to M7a instances, making these instances ideal for even latency sensitive workloads. M8a instances deliver even higher performance gains for specific workloads. M8a instances are 60% faster for GroovyJVM benchmark, and up to 39% faster for Cassandra benchmark compared to Amazon EC2 M7a instances. M8a instances are SAP-certified and offer 12 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes. This range of instance sizes allows customers to precisely match their workload requirements.
M8a instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and ideal for applications that benefit from high performance and high throughput such as financial applications, gaming, rendering, application servers, simulation modeling, mid-size data stores, application development environments, and caching fleets.
M8a instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Spain). 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 M8a instance page or the AWS News blog.
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AWS Marketplace expands Japan consumption tax support for Channel Partner Private Offers

Starting today, AWS Marketplace expands its Japan consumption tax (JCT) support for Channel Partner Private Offers (CPPOs), enhancing the tax experience for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Channel Partners. For transactions where Japan ISVs authorize Japan Channel Partners to resell to Japan addressed buyers, AWS Japan G.K. (“AWS Japan”) will now collect the 10% JCT for the first leg of the transaction between ISVs and Channel Partners, issue a tax qualified invoice (TQI) to the Channel Partners and disburse the JCT to ISVs. AWS Japan will continue to collect the 10% JCT for the second leg of the transaction between Japan Channel Partners and Japan buyers and issue a TQI to the buyers, as previously established under the Japan Marketplace Facilitator rule. This launch unifies the compliance across both transactions, creating a seamless tax experience. This feature is applicable for Japan ISVs and Japan Channel Partners when transacting via the AWS Japan Marketplace Operator. To learn more, please visit the AWS Japan FAQ or AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.
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