Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) Region. These general purpose high-frequency high-network instances are powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC (formerly code named Turin) processors and offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. M8azn instances offer up to 2x compute performance compared to previous generation M5zn instances, and up to 24% higher performance than M8a instances. M8azn instances deliver up to 4.3x higher memory bandwidth and 10x larger L3 cache compared to M5zn instances allowing latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads to achieve results faster. These instances also offer up to 2x networking throughput and up to 3x EBS throughput versus M5zn instances. Built on the AWS Nitro System using sixth generation Nitro Cards, these instances are ideal for applications such as real-time financial analytics, high-performance computing, high-frequency trading (HFT), CI/CD, intensive gaming, and simulation modeling for the automotive, aerospace, energy, and telecommunication industries. M8azn instances are available in 9 sizes ranging from 2 to 96 vCPUs with up to 384 GiB of memory, including two bare metal variants. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 M8azn instance page.
 
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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports EFA-only network interfaces

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports EFA-only network interfaces for cluster instance groups, enabling you to configure dedicated Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) devices without the traditional Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) for IP networking. SageMaker HyperPod is a purpose-built infrastructure for AI/ML model development that provides a resilient, high-performance environment with built-in fault tolerance and automated cluster recovery. Now with EFA-only, you can scale AI/ML clusters further without risking IP address exhaustion in your VPC.
When running large-scale distributed training workloads, inter-node communication bandwidth is critical to training performance. SageMaker HyperPod cluster instances support multiple EFA-capable network interfaces, but configuring them with the standard efa interface type attaches both an EFA device and an ENA device (for IP networking) to each interface — even when IP networking is only needed on a subset of interfaces within a node. The efa interface type inescapably consumes IP addresses in your subnet for each ENA device attached, which can lead to IP address exhaustion and limit the number of nodes you can deploy within a single subnet. With this launch, you can now set efa-only when configuring network interfaces for your HyperPod cluster instance groups. This option allocates the network interface exclusively for EFA traffic without attaching an ENA device, allowing you to maximize the number of EFA interfaces dedicated to low-latency, high-throughput inter-node communication. Because EFA-only interfaces do not require IP addresses, you can scale to larger clusters within the same subnets without encountering IP exhaustion. This configuration is particularly beneficial for large-scale distributed training jobs where inter-node communication bandwidth is critical and dedicated IP networking on every interface is not required.
To enable EFA-only, specify efa-only in the ClusterNetworkInterface configuration when creating or updating your HyperPod cluster via the CreateCluster/UpdateCluster API. EFA-only is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker HyperPod is supported. To learn more, see ClusterNetworkInterface in the Amazon SageMaker API Reference.
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Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers troubleshooting skills for AI coding assistants

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides troubleshooting skills that bring expert-level AI/ML cluster diagnostics directly into AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Kiro. SageMaker HyperPod is a purpose-built infrastructure for developing, training, and deploying foundation models at scale. It provides a resilient and performant environment with built-in fault tolerance, and automated cluster recovery, reducing the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing large-scale AI/ML infrastructure. HyperPod skills enable you to diagnose and resolve cluster issues through natural language, reducing the time and expertise required to troubleshoot distributed training and inference infrastructure.
Debugging GPU hardware faults, diagnosing NCCL communication failures, and identifying performance bottlenecks across large distributed clusters remains complex and time-consuming. Operators often need to manually SSM into nodes, parse logs across dozens of instances, and cross-reference documentation. The new HyperPod troubleshooting skills help with faster time to resolution with capabilities spanning cluster health validation, hardware and communication diagnostics, software version drifts, and automated diagnostic reporting. Each skill encodes AWS best practices into structured diagnostic workflows that systematically guides AI agents to collect evidence from your cluster nodes via AWS Systems Manager, analyze patterns, and provide actionable recommendations. The skills work with your existing HyperPod infrastructure — no modifications are required.
The HyperPod troubleshooting skills are open source and available today for both Slurm and Amazon EKS orchestrated HyperPod clusters via the SageMaker AI skills plugin. To get started, visit the AWSLabs github repository to install the sagemaker-ai plugin in your preferred coding assistant.
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Amazon SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom IAM permissions boundaries, so organizations that enforce Service Control Policies (SCPs) requiring permissions boundaries on all IAM roles can adopt SageMaker Unified Studio without modifying their security posture. When a user creates a project, SageMaker Unified Studio provisions three IAM roles: a project user role, an Amazon Bedrock service role, and a Bedrock Lambda execution role. With this launch, administrators can specify a permissions boundary in the Tooling blueprint configuration, and all three roles are created with that permissions boundary attached. This satisfies SCP requirements at creation time, and project provisioning succeeds without administrator intervention. The permissions boundary also limits what the provisioned roles can do, so administrators retain control over project-level permissions even as new projects are created. Because the permissions boundary is set at the blueprint level, it applies to every new project automatically. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio is available. To learn more, visit the Manage Tooling blueprint parameters documentation.
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Quick Research now supports customer managed keys

Amazon Quick Research now enables customers to encrypt their data using customer-managed keys (CMK) through AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
This enhancement allows organizations with strict security and compliance requirements to manage their own encryption keys. With customer-managed keys, you gain enhanced security control and comprehensive audit capabilities through AWS CloudTrail integration. You can encrypt your data with your own KMS keys, trace all data access for security auditing, and revoke access to compromised keys within 15 minutes during security incidents. This feature supports multiple CMKs with one default key per AWS account per region, providing the flexibility to manage encryption across different datasets while maintaining granular control over your sensitive business intelligence data.
Customer-managed keys must be created in the same AWS account and region as your Quick resources, and only symmetric AWS KMS keys are supported.
This feature is generally available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Quick is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Quick Research detail page.
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AWS Interconnect – multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier

AWS Interconnect – multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps multicloud Interconnect, making it easier to privately connect your workloads on AWS and other public clouds.
Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. With AWS Interconnect – multicloud, AWS simplified the way cloud services providers (CSPs) offer managed, highly-resilient, private connectivity for customers. The specification that powers Interconnect is open and already adopted by Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (currently in Public Preview), with Microsoft Azure coming later in 2026.
Today we are making it easier for customers to evaluate, test, and operate workloads between AWS and another CSP. The new Free Tier Interconnect gives customers a fully managed, 500 Mbps Interconnect to another CSP at no charge on the AWS side, with the same network path, facility, and device resiliency as our paid offering. The other CSP determines their pricing and charges independently of AWS for their side of the infrastructure. Please review the other CSP’s pricing before creating your Interconnect.
With a 500 Mbps Interconnect, you can transfer approximately 160 TB of data per month, enough to support significant multicloud workloads, data replication, or hybrid application architectures without incurring AWS Interconnect charges. To help customers monitor their network health and performance across clouds, each Free Tier multicloud Interconnect includes an Amazon CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor at no extra cost.
The Free Tier is limited to one local (Tier 1) Interconnect per customer, per AWS Region to each CSP that is Generally Available with AWS and is subject to the AWS Service Terms.
To get started, use the AWS Direct Connect Console and select AWS Interconnect from the navigation menu. To learn more, visit the AWS Interconnect User Guide.
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AWS End User Messaging RCS for Business now available in 20 additional countries

AWS End User Messaging now supports RCS for Business messaging in 20 additional countries, bringing the total to 22. Businesses can now send verified, branded RCS messages to customers in Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, in addition to the United States and Canada.
Customers can use the existing SendTextMessage API to send RCS messages to these countries with no application changes. Messages are delivered from a recognized business identity, and when a recipient’s device does not support RCS, they automatically fall back to SMS for reliable delivery.
RCS for Business is available in all AWS Regions where AWS End User Messaging is available. Pricing varies by destination country; see the AWS End User Messaging pricing page for details.
To learn more, see RCS for Business in the AWS End User Messaging User Guide.
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Amazon SES now offers inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring

Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) launched a new set of deliverability features that help customers get more information about their outbound sending deliverability performance and reputation. Customers can now see the percentage of messages that are placed in recipient spam folders based on samples of industry data, as well as see when their domains and IPs are listed on public email sender block lists. This makes it easier for customers to optimize their sending content to maximize customer engagement.  Previously, customers could use SES’ Virtual Deliverability Manager to visualize the full end-to-end journey of email deliverability metrics. This included delivery rates, bounce rates of various types, as well as complaint, open and click rates. Customers did not have visibility into how many emails were placed in the spam folder, making it difficult to estimate how many emails were actually seen by recipients. Now, based on representative data sampled from the industry, customers can see inbox placement rates by sending domain and campaign. Customers can also pro-actively test candidate email content to estimate inbox placement rates at top mailbox providers before sending to any of their target recipients. Finally, customers get peripheral awareness and passive monitoring of industry blocklist activity, helping to identify when a reputation change may affect their ability to send emails to mailbox providers. SES supports inbox placement rates and blocklist monitoring in all AWS commercial regions where SES is available.  For more information, see the documentation for the Virtual Deliverability Manager global deliverability.
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Amazon S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions

Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions.
Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, streamlining tabular data storage at scale. S3 Tables automatically perform continual table maintenance to optimize query efficiency and reduce storage costs as your data lake grows and evolves. Because S3 Tables support the Apache Iceberg standard, your data is easily queryable by both AWS and third-party engines. With the Intelligent-Tiering storage class, S3 Tables automatically manage costs based on access patterns with no performance impact or operational overhead.
For more information about the AWS Regions where S3 Tables are available, see S3 Tables AWS Regions and endpoints.
To learn more, see the following resources:

Amazon S3 Tables
Working with Amazon S3 Tables and table buckets
S3 Tables pricing

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Oracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS Regions

Oracle Database@AWS is now generally available in eight additional AWS Regions: EU-Central-2 (Zurich), EU-South-1 (Milan), EU-South-2 (Spain), EU-West-3 (Paris), AP-Northeast-3 (Osaka), AP-Southeast-1 (Singapore), AP-Southeast-4 (Melbourne) and SA-East-1 (Sao Paulo). Oracle Database@AWS enables customers to access Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) managed Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers. With this launch, customers in Europe, South America, and Asia Pacific with in-region data residency requirements can migrate on-premises Oracle Exadata and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) applications to AWS. With this expansion, Oracle Database@AWS services are now available in twenty Regions: US-East-1 (N. Virginia), US-West-2 (Oregon), US-East-2 (Ohio), CA-Central-1 (Canada Central), SA-East-1 (Sao Paulo), EU-Central-1 (Frankfurt), EU-West-1 (Dublin), EU-West-2 (London), EU-Central-2 (Zurich), EU-South-1 (Milan), EU-South-2 (Spain), EU-West-3 (Paris), AP-Northeast-1 (Tokyo), AP-Northeast-3 (Osaka), AP-Southeast-1 (Singapore), AP-Southeast-2 (Sydney), AP-Southeast-4 (Melbourne), AP-South-1 (Mumbai), AP-South-2 (Hyderabad), and AP-Northeast-2 (Seoul). To use Oracle Database@AWS services, request a private offer from Oracle through the AWS Marketplace, and use AWS Management Console to setup your databases. To learn more, visit Oracle Database@AWS overview and documentation.
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