Kategorie: Amazon AWS

Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID across its APIs

Amazon EC2 now supports Availability Zone ID (AZ ID) parameter, enabling you to create and manage resources such as instances, volumes, and subnets using consistent zone identifiers. AZ IDs are consistent and static identifiers that represent the same physical location across all AWS accounts, helping you optimize resource placement. Prior to this launch, you had to use an AZ name while creating a resource, but these names could map to different physical locations. This mapping made it difficult to ensure resources were always co-located especially when operating with multiple accounts. Now, you can specify the AZ ID parameter directly in your EC2 APIs to guarantee consistent placement of resources. AZ IDs always refer to the same physical location across all accounts, which means you no longer need to manually map AZ names across your accounts or deal with the complexity of tracking and aligning zones. This capability is now available for resources including instances, launch templates, hosts, reserved instances, fleet, spot instances, volumes, capacity reservations, network insights, VPC endpoints and subnets, network interfaces, fast snapshot restore, and instance connect. This feature is available in all AWS regions including China and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more about Availability Zone IDs, visit the documentation.
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Amazon MSK introduces KRaft support for Express Brokers with Apache Kafka v3.9

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.9 for Express Brokers. This release introduces support for KRaft (Kafka Raft), Apache Kafka’s new consensus protocol that eliminates the dependency on Apache ZooKeeper for metadata management. KRaft shifts metadata management in Kafka clusters from external Apache ZooKeeper nodes to a group of controllers within Kafka. This change allows metadata to be stored and replicated as topics within Kafka brokers, resulting in faster propagation of metadata.
New Express Broker clusters created using Kafka v3.9 will automatically use KRaft as the metadata management mode, giving you the benefits of this modern architecture from the start. The ability to upgrade existing clusters to v3.9 will be available in a future release.
Amazon MSK Express Brokers with Kafka v3.9 are available in all AWS regions where MSK Express is supported. To get started, create a new Express Broker cluster and select Kafka version 3.9 in the AWS Management Console or via the AWS CLI or AWS SDKs.
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Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region

Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region on engine versions 1.4.5.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2iedn, T4g, and T3 instance types in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a service that makes it easy to build and run applications work with highly connected datasets. You can build applications using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin or openCypher on the Property Graph model, or using the SPARQL query language on W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF). Neptune also offers enterprise features such as high availability, automated backups, and network isolation to help customers quickly deploy applications to production. To get started, you can create a new Neptune cluster using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or a quickstart AWS CloudFormation template. For more information on pricing and region availability, refer to the Neptune pricing page and AWS Region Table.
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Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver 20% higher performance than R7i instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. They are up to 30% faster for PostgreSQL databases, up to 60% faster for NGINX web applications, and up to 40% faster for AI deep learning recommendation models compared to R7i. R8i-flex, our first memory-optimized Flex instances, are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of memory-intensive workloads. They offer the most common sizes, from large to 16xlarge, and are a great first choice for applications that don’t fully utilize all compute resources. R8i instances are a great choice for all memory-intensive workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. R8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. R8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver 142,100 aSAPS, the highest among all comparable machines in on-premises and cloud environments, delivering exceptional performance for mission-critical SAP workloads. 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 about the new R8i and R8i-flex instances visit the AWS News blog.
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Amazon WorkSpaces now supports IPv6

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports IPv6 for WorkSpaces domains and external endpoints, enabling users to connect through an IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack configuration from compatible clients (excluding SAML authentication). This helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements and eliminates the need for costly networking equipment to handle address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. Dual-stack support for WorkSpaces addresses the Internet’s growing demand for IP addresses by offering a vastly larger address space than IPv4. This eliminates the need to manage overlapping address ranges within your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Customers can deploy WorkSpaces through dual-stack that supports both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols while maintaining backward compatibility with existing IPv4 systems. Customers can also connect to their WorkSpaces through PrivateLink VPC endpoints over IPv6, enabling them to access the service privately without routing traffic over the public internet. Connecting to Amazon WorkSpaces over IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack configuration is supported in all AWS Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces is available, including the AWS GovCloud (US East & US West) Regions. There is no additional cost for this feature. To enable IPv6, you must use the latest WorkSpaces client application for Windows, macOS, Linux, PCoIP zero clients, or web access. To learn more about IPv6 support on Amazon WorkSpaces, refer to the Amazon WorkSpaces administration guide.
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Amazon MSK Connect now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for new connectors

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for new connectors on Amazon MSK Connect. This capability enables customers to create connectors on MSK Connect using both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, in addition to the existing IPv4-only option. It helps customers modernize applications for IPv6 environments while maintaining IPv4 compatibility, making it easier to meet compliance requirements and prepare for future network architectures. Amazon MSK Connect is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy and operate Apache Kafka Connect connectors in a fully managed environment. Previously, connectors on MSK Connect only supported IPv4 addressing for all connectivity options. With this new capability, customers can now enable dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) on new connectors using the Amazon MSK Console, AWS CLI, SDK, or CloudFormation by setting the Network Type parameter during connector creation. All connectors on MSK Connect will by default use IPv4-only connectivity unless explicitly opted-in for dual-stack while creating new connectors. Existing connectors will continue using IPv4 connectivity. To change that you will need to delete and recreate the connector. Dual-stack connectivity for new connectors on MSK Connect is now available in all AWS Regions where Amazon MSK Connect is available, at no additional cost. To learn more about Amazon MSK dual-stack support, refer to the Amazon MSK developer guide.
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AWS announces enhanced custom line item controls for AWS Billing Conductor

Starting today, AWS Billing Conductor customers gain greater flexibility when using custom line items. Customers can now create service-specific custom line items scoped at either one AWS service or to a set of selected AWS service and can choose how these line items are presented in the pro forma billing artifacts, such as Bills Page, Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Records. These enhancements enable customers to create more precise and tailored charge-back and re-billing strategies that better reflect their pricing structures and improve the traceability experience for pro forma users. Customers can use this functionality to apply percentage discounts on Saving Plans fees or allocate shared flat support charges under AWS Support service. Service specific custom line items are available for standard billing group regardless of the type of pricing plan selected, and for billing-transfer billing groups exclusively when customer-managed pricing plans are selected. To start, use AWS Billing Conductor console or APIs, create a custom line item and specify the cost reference value (one or multiple AWS services) and the display setting options (itemized or consolidated under your service of choice). To learn more about custom line items visit AWS Billing Conductor documentation. This feature is available now in all AWS commercial Regions, excluding AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announces additional health and performance metrics

Today, Amazon WorkSpaces Applications announced a new set of Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring the health and performance of fleets, sessions, instances, and users. Administrators and support operations personnel can conveniently enable monitoring across fleets from the Amazon CloudWatch console. These metrics simplify troubleshooting and dynamically update to reflect the latest state of important performance metrics. Users can make informed decisions on sizing and end users’ streaming instances by setting performance thresholds on available metrics to meet performance and budgeting criteria. They can view instance and session performance metrics to troubleshoot end user streaming session related issues. To enable this feature for your fleet instancess, you must use a WorkSpaces Applications image that uses latest agent released on or after December 06, 2025 or has been updated using Managed WorkSpaces Applications image updates released on or after December 05, 2025.
These CloudWatch metrics are available in all the AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is currently available. To get started or learn more, you can visit Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Metrics and Dimensions documentation. 
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Now generally available: Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances

Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8gn and M8gb instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors to deliver up to 30% better compute performance than AWS Graviton3 processors. M8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances. M8gb offer up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth to provide higher EBS performance compared to same-sized equivalent Graviton4-based instances. M8gn are ideal for 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 (UPF). M8gb are ideal for workloads requiring high block storage performance such as high performance databases and NoSQL databases.
M8gn instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 768 GiB of memory, up to 600 Gbps of networking bandwidth, and up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). They also support EFA networking on the 16xlarge, 24xlarge, and 48xlarge sizes. M8gb instances offer sizes up to 24xlarge, up to 768 GiB of memory, up to 150 Gbps of EBS bandwidth, and up to 200 Gbps of networking bandwidth. They support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on the 16xlarge and 24xlarge sizes, which enables lower latency and improved cluster performance for workloads deployed on tightly coupled clusters.
The new instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb Instances. To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page.
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Amazon OpenSearch Service announces new OI2 instances

Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces OI2 instances, expanding the OpenSearch Optimized Instance family. The new OI2 instances delivers up to 9% higher indexing throughput compared to OR2 instances and up to 33% over I8g instances in our internal benchmarks.
The new OI2 OpenSearch Optimized instances use the same architecture as the OR2 instances, leveraging best-in-class cloud technologies like Amazon S3, to provide high durability, and improved price-performance for higher indexing throughput better for indexing heavy workload. Each OpenSearch Optimized instance is provisioned with compute, 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs for caching, and remote Amazon S3-based managed storage. OI2 offers pay-as-you-go pricing and reserved instances, with a simple hourly rate for the instance including the NVMe storage, as well as managed storage provisioned. OI2 instances come in sizes ‘large’ through ‘24xlarge’, and offer compute, memory, and up to 22.5 TB storage. Please refer to the Amazon OpenSearch Service pricing page for pricing details. OI2 instance family is now available on Amazon OpenSearch Service across 12 regions globally: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Spain).
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