AWS Backup extends delegated administrator support to 17 additional AWS Regions

You can now designate delegated administrators for AWS Backup in 17 additional AWS Regions, enabling assigned users in member accounts to perform most administrative tasks.
Delegated administrators are now supported in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Malaysia, Melbourne, New Zealand, Taipei, Thailand), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan, Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). Delegated administration enables organizations to designate a central AWS account to manage backup operations across multiple member accounts, streamlining governance and reducing administrative overhead. Additionally, you can now use AWS Backup Audit Manager cross-Region and cross-account delegated administrator functionality in these Regions, empowering delegated administrators to create audit reports for jobs and compliance for backup plans that span these Regions.
For more information on the AWS Backup features available across AWS Regions, see AWS Backup documentation. To get started, visit the AWS Backup console.
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Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports Resolver query logging configurations

Today, AWS announced support for Resolver query logging configurations in Amazon Route 53 Profiles, allowing you to manage Resolver query logging configuration and apply it to multiple VPCs and AWS accounts within your organization. With this enhancement, Amazon Route 53 Profiles simplifies the management of Resolver query logging by streamlining the process of associating logging configurations with VPCs, and without requiring you to manually associate them with each VPC. Route 53 Profiles allows you to create and share Route 53 configurations (private hosted zones, DNS Firewall rule groups, Resolver rules) across multiple VPCs and AWS accounts. Previously, Resolver query logging required you to manually set it up for each VPC in every AWS account. Now, with Route 53 Profiles you can manage your Resolver query logging configurations for your VPCs and AWS accounts, using a single Profile configuration. Profiles support for Resolver query logging configurations reduces the management overhead for network security teams and simplifies compliance auditing by providing consistent DNS query logs across all accounts and VPCs. Route 53 Profiles support for Resolver query logging is now available in the AWS Regions mentioned here. To learn more about this capability and how it can benefit your organization, visit the Amazon Route 53 documentation. You can get started by accessing the Amazon Route 53 console in your AWS Management Console or through the AWS CLI. To learn more about Route 53 Profiles pricing, see here. 
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Amazon U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances with 12TB of memory (u7i-12tb.224xlarge) are now available in the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region. U7i-12tb instances are part of AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7i-12tb instances offer 12TB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i-12tb instances offer 896 vCPUs, support up to 100Gbps Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for faster data loading and backups, deliver up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth, and support ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers using mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.. To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.
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Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) 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 M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They deliver up to 20% better performance than M7i and M7i-flex instances, with even higher gains for specific workloads. The M8i and M8i-flex instances 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 M7i and M7i-flex instances. M8i-flex are the easiest way to get price performance benefits for a majority of general-purpose workloads like web and application servers, microservices, small and medium data stores, virtual desktops, and enterprise applications. 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. M8i instances are a great choice for all general purpose workloads, especially for workloads that need the largest instance sizes or continuous high CPU usage. The SAP-certified M8i instances offer 13 sizes including 2 bare metal sizes and the new 96xlarge size for the largest applications. To get started, sign in to the AWS Management Console. For more information about the new instances, visit the M8i and M8i-flex page or visit the AWS News blog.
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Amazon Redshift now supports writing to Apache Iceberg tables

Amazon Redshift today announces the general availability of write capability to Apache Iceberg tables, enabling users to run analytics read and write queries for append-only workloads on Apache Iceberg tables within Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a petabyte-scale, enterprise-grade cloud data warehouse service used by tens of thousands of customers. Whether your data is stored in operational data stores, data lakes, streaming engines or within your data warehouse, Amazon Redshift helps you quickly ingest, securely share data, and achieve the best performance at the best price. The Apache Iceberg open table format has been used by many customers to simplify data processing on rapidly expanding and evolving tables stored in data lakes. Customers have been using Amazon Redshift to run queries on data lake tables in various file and table formats, achieving a wide range of scalability across data warehouse and data lake workloads. Data lake use cases continue to evolve and become increasingly sophisticated, and require capabilities like transactional consistency for record-level updates and deletes while having seamless schema and partition evolution support. With this milestone Amazon Redshift now supports SQL DDL (data definition language) operations to CREATE an Apache Iceberg table, SHOW the table definition SQL, DROP the table and perform DML (data manipulation language) operations such as INSERT. You can continue to use Amazon Redshift to read from your Apache Iceberg tables in AWS Glue Data Catalog and perform write operations on those Apache Iceberg tables while other users or applications can safely run DML operations on your tables. Apache Iceberg support in Amazon Redshift is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Redshift is available. To get started, visit the documentation page for Amazon Redshift Management Guide.
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