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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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Amazon EC2 C8g, M8g, R8g instances now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g and M8g instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and R8g and M8g instances are available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. They are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon C8g, M8g and R8g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. C8g and R8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 C8g Instances, Amazon EC2 M8g Instances, and Amazon EC2 R8g Instances. To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton. To get started, see the AWS GovCloud (US) Console.
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Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in Europe (Zurich)

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances are built for compute-intensive workloads, such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, which offloads CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software to enhance the performance and security of your workloads. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy efficiency for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2. These instances offer larger instance sizes with up to 3x more vCPUs and memory compared to Graviton3-based Amazon C7g instances. AWS Graviton4 processors are up to 40% faster for databases, 30% faster for web applications, and 45% faster for large Java applications than AWS Graviton3 processors. C8g instances are available in 12 different instance sizes, including two bare metal sizes. They offer up to 50 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). To learn more, see Amazon EC2 C8g Instances. To get started, see the AWS Management Console.
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Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database preview environment

Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL version 18.1 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate PostgreSQL 18.1 on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 18.1 was released by the PostgreSQL community on September 9, 2025.  PostgreSQL 18.1 includes “skip scan” support for multicolumn B-tree indexes and improves WHERE clause handling for OR and IN conditions. It introduces parallel GIN index builds and updates join operations. Observability improvements show buffer usage counts and index lookups during query execution, along with a per-connection I/O utilization metric. To learn more about PostgreSQL 18.1, read here.   Database instances in the RDS Database Preview Environment allow testing of a new database engine without the hassle of having to self-install, provision, and manage a preview version of the Aurora PostgreSQL database software. Clusters are retained for a maximum period of 60 days and are automatically deleted after this retention period. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are priced the same as production Aurora instances created in the US East (Ohio) Region.   Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page.
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AWS Databases are now available on the Vercel Marketplace

Today, AWS Databases including Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB are generally available on the Vercel Marketplace, enabling you to create and connect to an AWS database directly from Vercel in seconds. To get started, you can create a new AWS Account from Vercel that includes access to the three databases and $100 USD in credits. These credits can be used with any of these database option for up to six months. Once your account is set up, you can have a production-ready Aurora database or DynamoDB table powering your Vercel projects within seconds. You can also manage your plan, add payment information, and view usage details anytime by visiting the AWS settings portal from the Vercel dashboard. To learn more, visit the AWS landing page on the Vercel Marketplace. The integration includes serverless options for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora DSQL, and Amazon DynamoDB to simplify your application needs and reduce costs by scaling to zero when not in use. You can create a database in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) with more Regions coming soon. AWS Databases deliver security, reliability, and price performance without the operational overhead, whether you’re prototyping your next big idea or running production AI and data driven applications. For more information, visit the AWS Databases webpage.
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