Amazon Web Services

Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers support for Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS on Elastic fleets, enabling Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and central IT organizations to stream Ubuntu desktop applications to users while leveraging the flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of the AWS Cloud. Amazon…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports dual-stack connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6) for new connectors on Amazon MSK Connect. This capability enables customers to create connectors on MSK Connect using both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, in addition…

Starting today, the compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8a instances are available in the Europe (Spain) region. C8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, delivering up to 30%…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only…

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports IPv6 for WorkSpaces domains and external endpoints, enabling users to connect through an IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack configuration from compatible clients (excluding SAML authentication). This helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements and eliminates the need for costly networking…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 3.9 for Express Brokers. This release introduces support for KRaft (Kafka Raft), Apache Kafka's new consensus protocol that eliminates the dependency on Apache ZooKeeper for metadata management. KRaft…