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Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are now generally available

Amazon Quick announces the general availability of Microsoft 365 extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook. These extensions enable Quick to perform tasks directly within users’ M365 environments, using AI to handle complex local tasks such as redlining documents, building financial models, creating presentation-ready decks, and managing Outlook inboxes.
The Excel extension helps with complex spreadsheet analysis, creating pivot tables and charts, and importing and cleaning data. The PowerPoint extension helps you create and refine presentations from Quick data using organization-defined templates. The Word extension generates formatted documents with Word primitives, makes sweeping edits with track changes enabled, and participates as a reviewer in comments. The Outlook extension performs inbox and calendaring tasks such as prioritizing emails, organizing your inbox, scheduling meetings, and drafting replies using your Quick data and entire inbox context.
These extensions transform daily work across teams. Finance teams can build complex models by describing what they need. Sales teams can draft proposals that automatically pull from CRM data. Marketing teams can create branded presentations without manual formatting. Legal teams can streamline contract reviews. Operations teams can manage email workflows and schedule meetings intelligently, and IT teams can automate routine data analysis that previously required manual effort.
Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are available in US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Europe (Frankfurt). To learn more, see Amazon Quick for Microsoft 365: Agentic AI where you work, and download extensions on the Quick download page.
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Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Canada West (Calgary) region. 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 EC2 Auto Scaling now supports batch instance termination

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports batch instance termination in a single API call. You can now pass up to 100 instance IDs to the TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup API to terminate them as a batch, reducing the number of API calls needed to scale down your Auto Scaling groups.
Batch termination is designed for workloads that need to rapidly scale down, such as AI/ML training jobs, container orchestrators, or event-driven architectures that spin up large fleets temporarily. All instances in a batch are validated atomically before termination begins, and existing Auto Scaling behaviors such as lifecycle hooks and load balancer connection draining are preserved for each instance in the batch.
This feature is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost.
To learn more, visit Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling API Reference Guide.
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