Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS in additional AWS Regions

Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) Regions can now send text messages (SMS) to subscribers in more than 200 countries and territories.
Amazon SNS is a fully managed pub/sub messaging service that enables message delivery to multiple endpoints including AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon Data Firehose, mobile devices, and email. With this launch, customers using SNS in these Regions can send SMS messages via AWS End User Messaging. Amazon SNS now supports the ability to send SMS in 32 AWS Regions. More information:

To learn more about sending SMS messages with SNS, visit Mobile text messaging with Amazon SNS.
For the list of supported countries and regions, visit Supported countries and regions.

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Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.19

Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.19, which introduces several improvements and fixes compared to the previous version of ActiveMQ supported by Amazon MQ. Amazon MQ manages the patch version upgrades for your brokers. All brokers on ActiveMQ version 5.19 will be automatically upgraded to the next compatible and secure patch version in your scheduled maintenance window.
If you are utilizing prior versions of ActiveMQ, such as 5.18, we strongly recommend you to upgrade to ActiveMQ 5.19. You can easily perform this upgrade with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. To learn more about upgrading, consult the ActiveMQ Version Management section in the Amazon MQ Developer Guide. To learn more about the changes in ActiveMQ 5.19, see the Amazon MQ release notes. This version is available across all AWS Regions where Amazon MQ is available.
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Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in  Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e.
Customers can use G7e instances to deploy large language models (LLMs), agentic AI models, multimodal generative AI models, and physical AI models. G7e instances offer the highest performance for spatial computing workloads as well as workloads that require both graphics and AI processing capabilities. G7e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, with 96 GB of memory per GPU, and 5th Generation Intel Xeon processors. They support up to 192 virtual CPUs (vCPUs) and up to 1600 Gbps of networking bandwidth. G7e instances support NVIDIA GPUDirect Peer to Peer (P2P) that boosts performance for multi-GPU workloads. Multi-GPU G7e instances also support NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with EFA in EC2 UltraClusters, reducing latency for small-scale multi-node workloads.
You can use G7e instances for Amazon EC2 in the following AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). You can purchase G7e instances as On-Demand Instances, Spot Instances, or as part of Savings Plans.
To get started, visit the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs. To learn more, visit G7e instances.
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AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region

You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in 38 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (New Zealand). IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing workforce access to AWS applications. It enables you to connect your existing source of workforce identities to AWS once and offer your users single sign on experience across AWS. It powers the personalized experiences offered by AWS applications, such as Amazon Q, and the ability to define and audit user-aware access to data in AWS services, such as Amazon Redshift. It can also help you manage access to multiple AWS accounts from a central place. IAM Identity Center is available at no additional cost in these AWS Regions. To learn more about IAM Identity Center, visit the product detail page. To get started, see the IAM Identity Center user guide.
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