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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