Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Meta’s Muse-Glimmer-30B and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8-27B models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring specialized capabilities spanning autonomous local agentic workflows and multimodal long-horizon reasoning, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, scalable AI solutions on AWS infrastructure.
These models address different enterprise AI challenges with specialized capabilities:
Muse-Glimmer-30B is engineered for autonomous agentic tasks with multi-step reasoning, tool use, and failure recovery. This 30B-parameter dense model from Meta Superintelligence Lab combines a dedicated ~1.8B ViT-G/14 perception encoder with interleaved text and image inputs, a 131K+ context window, and selectable reasoning strength (low through extra-high). Released under Apache 2.0, it handles sequential tool calls, recovers from failures, and operates entirely without cloud infrastructure which is ideal for always-on enterprise agents.
Qwen 3.8-27B excels in coding, multi-step agentic tasks, and multimodal understanding across text, images, and video. A dense 27B-parameter native vision-language model with a 262K context window (extendable to ~1M via YaRN scaling), it delivers substantial gains over its predecessor with adjustable reasoning effort levels. Scoring 61.7 on SWE-bench Pro and running at ~17GB quantized, it carries complex multi-step tasks through to completion with greater reliability.
With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy any of these models with just a few clicks to address their specific AI use cases.
To get started with these models, navigate to the SageMaker JumpStart model catalog in the SageMaker console or use the SageMaker Python SDK to deploy the models to your AWS account. For more information about deploying and using foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart, see the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation.
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Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA’s Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These three models form the Cosmos 3 family of open, frontier omnimodal world models for physical AI, enabling customers to build robots, autonomous vehicles, and vision AI that perceive, reason, plan, and act in the physical world.
These models address different physical AI challenges with specialized capabilities:
Cosmos3-Edge is engineered for on-device robot control and real-time visual reasoning on edge hardware. This 4B-parameter omni-model (with a 2B Nemotron-based reasoner) operates at robot-control resolution (640×360), delivering real-time reasoning and generating 32 actions per inference at 15 Hz on NVIDIA Jetson Thor. It supports 256p and 480p video at 12–30 FPS, bringing frontier physical AI capabilities directly to embedded systems.
Cosmos3-Nano excels in physics-aware world generation and physical reasoning as a compact 16B-parameter omnimodal model. It processes combinations of text, image, video, audio, and action trajectories to produce corresponding outputs, enabling robots and vision AI agents to reason using prior knowledge, physics understanding, and common sense. It supports chain-of-thought reasoning over text, images, and video with resolutions up to 720p.
Cosmos3-Super provides the highest-fidelity world generation and simulation in the Cosmos 3 family at 64B parameters. It jointly processes and generates language, images, video, audio, and action sequences within a unified Mixture-of-Transformers architecture, supporting resolutions up to 720p across multiple aspect ratios. Ideal for large-scale simulation, synthetic data generation, and policy learning workflows.
With SageMaker JumpStart, customers can deploy any of these models with just a few clicks to address their specific AI use cases.
To get started with these models, navigate to the SageMaker JumpStart model catalog in the SageMaker console or use the SageMaker Python SDK to deploy the models to your AWS account. For more information about deploying and using foundation models in SageMaker JumpStart, see the Amazon SageMaker JumpStart documentation.
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Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports copying backups across AWS Regions and accounts

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service built on NetApp’s popular ONTAP file system, now supports copying backups within and across AWS Regions, and across trusted accounts in your AWS organization. You can now provide an additional layer of protection for your data by storing secondary backup copies in a different Region or account than your primary copies, making it easier to meet your business continuity, data protection, and compliance requirements.
Amazon FSx offers secure, highly durable, and incremental backups designed to support your data retention, archival, and compliance needs. Backups are point-in-time offline copies of your volumes, stored redundantly across multiple Availability Zones in the same Region as your file system. Previously, you could create and restore backups in the same Region and account as your file system. Starting today, you can copy backup data to multiple Regions and accounts for enhanced resilience, data isolation, and operational flexibility.
You can copy new and existing backups in all AWS Regions where Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is available. To learn more, visit the FSx for NetApp ONTAP user guide and the Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP product page.
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AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery introduces Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recovery

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) now offers Recovery Plans, a capability that automates the sequential launch of multi-server applications during recovery and drills. Instead of launching servers one at a time and tracking dependencies manually, you define the recovery sequence once and run it with a single action when you need it. This addresses a common challenge for customers running applications made up of databases, application tiers, and supporting services that must come up in a specific order.
Recovery Plans let you group servers into sequential steps with configurable wait times between them, so your application recovers predictably and consistently every time. You can run plans in a non-disruptive drill mode to validate your procedures, add approval steps where you want a person in the loop, and monitor progress in real time. This automation reduces recovery time and eliminates common errors that occur when coordinating server launch order during high-stress disaster scenarios.
Recovery Plans are available in all AWS Regions where AWS DRS is offered, at no additional cost beyond standard DRS usage. To learn more, visit the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery User Guide.
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Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. They deliver up to 43% higher performance, 1.5x more memory capacity (up to 6TB), and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances.    X8i instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, data analytics, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA). Compared to X2i instances, X8i instances offer up to 50% higher SAPS performance, up to 47% faster PostgreSQL performance, 88% faster Memcached performance, and 46% faster AI inference performance. X8i instances come in 14 sizes, from large to 96xlarge, including two bare metal options.    To get started, visit the AWS Management Console. X8i instances can be purchased via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit X8i instances page.
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AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region

AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that simplifies discovering, preparing, moving, and integrating data from multiple sources. AWS Glue 5.1 upgrades core engines to Apache Spark 3.5.6, Python 3.11, and Scala 2.12.18, bringing performance and security enhancements. This release also updates support for open table format libraries, including Apache Hudi 1.0.2, Apache Iceberg 1.10.0, and Delta Lake 3.3.2. Additionally, AWS Glue 5.1 introduces support for Apache Iceberg format version 3.0, adding default column values, deletion vectors for merge-on-read tables, multi-argument transforms, and row lineage tracking. This release extends AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control to write operations – both DML and DDL – for Spark DataFrames and Spark SQL. Previously, this capability was limited to read operations only. AWS Glue 5.1 also adds full-table access control in Apache Spark for Apache Hudi and Delta Lake tables, providing more comprehensive security options for your data. With this expansion, AWS Glue 5.1 is now available all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can get started with AWS Glue 5.1 using AWS APIs, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, or AWS Glue Studio. To learn more, visit the AWS Glue product page and our documentation. 
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Mountpoint for Amazon S3 adds memory usage controls

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 can now limit memory usage, either automatically based on the environment it runs in or with a limit that you define. This lets you run Mountpoint alongside memory-intensive applications, for example, in machine learning training or analytics workloads where applications share a memory budget.
Previously, Mountpoint’s memory usage could expand over time based on usage patterns, potentially causing performance or stability issues when competing with other memory-intensive applications. With this launch, you can define a memory target for Mountpoint to reserve memory for your applications. Alternatively, Mountpoint can automatically determine a safe default based on the environment it runs in. For example, when running in Amazon EKS, Mountpoint can automatically detect a container’s assigned memory budget. Under memory pressure, Mountpoint slows down operations to stay within this budget, enabling you to run Mountpoint in containers with strict memory allocations.  
Mountpoint is available in all AWS Regions. To upgrade to the latest version, visit the Mountpoint GitHub repository. To learn more about Mountpoint, see the overview page and the configuration guide in the Mountpoint GitHub repository.
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Amazon Connect Customer now supports unplanned shrinkage in agent schedules

Amazon Connect Customer now enables managers to input unplanned shrinkage in agent schedules, providing a more accurate picture of staffing due to unscheduled agent absences such as late logins or unplanned sick leave. Managers can upload unplanned shrinkage assumptions directly into agent schedules and immediately see updated scheduling metrics such as scheduled headcount, net staffing, and projected service level — each adjusted for unplanned shrinkage. For example, if 10% of the agents scheduled to work at 8 AM next Monday are expected to be unavailable due to late logins, then projected service level falls from 90% to 85% with unplanned shrinkage. This enables workforce managers to proactively address gaps in staffing that may arise due to unplanned agent unavailability, thus improving scheduling accuracy and their ability to maintain target service levels.

This feature is available in all  AWS Regions  where Amazon Connect Customer agent scheduling is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect Customer agent scheduling, click  here .
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Amazon Cognito adds admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations

Amazon Cognito now provides a new admin API operation to reset a user’s time-based one-time Password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) configuration. When users lose access to their TOTP device, administrators can remove the device association, allowing the user to enroll a new device on their next sign-in.
This removes the need to recreate accounts to recover locked-out users if they lose access to their TOTP device. Customers can maintain MFA enforcement while providing a recovery path.
This new capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Cognito is available. To get started, access the AdminDeleteSoftwareToken API using the AWS CLI, SDKs, or APIs. See the developer guide for instructions.
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Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in additional AWS Regions

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8id instances are now available in additional regions. R8id instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm).
R8id instances feature up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage, 3x more than R6id, and provide up to 3.3x higher memory bandwidth, delivering up to 43% higher performance compared to R6id instances. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads that benefit from high-performance local storage, including in-memory databases, real-time big data analytics, large in-memory caches, and data processing applications. 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.
Customers can purchase these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand instances, and Spot instances. For more information visit the Amazon EC2 R8id page.
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