Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now offers reservations-then-balanced, a new Availability Zone (AZ) distribution strategy that prioritizes launching instances into your capacity reservations before distributing remaining capacity evenly across Availability Zones. This enables you to maximize utilization of pre-purchased capacity such…

AWS CloudFormation and CDK express mode reduces deployment time by up to 4x for developers and AI agents building infrastructure, based on internal benchmarks. Express mode completes stack operations when CloudFormation confirms resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for…

Amazon GameLift Servers now offers DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity, helping game developers protect session-based multiplayer games against denial-of-service and distributed denial-of-service attacks. This feature co-locates a relay network directly alongside your game servers and uses access…

Today, AWS Security Hub CSPM announces the AI Security Best Practices standard, a set of 31 automated security controls that detect when your deployed AI resources do not align with security best practices. Developed by AWS security experts, this standard…

Amazon ElastiCache now supports T4g node types in the following AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Osaka), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West). T4g nodes are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and provide a baseline…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers dynamic connection scaling for IAM database authentication, allowing connection rates to scale with instance resources. IAM database authentication performance now scales with available instance resources, enabling enterprise workloads to leverage IAM authentication…