AWS Outposts now provides self-service capabilities for configuration, quoting, ordering, subscription management, renewal, and decommissioning directly from the AWS Management Console, CLI, and API. Previously, customers relied on AWS teams for managing their Outposts lifecycle, from evaluation through end of…

AWS introduces Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that provides VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume speeds, and state preservation for executing user or AI-generated code. You can now give each user or job their own compute environment to…

AWS Batch now offers the Best Fit Progressive Ordered (BFPO) and Spot Capacity Optimized Prioritized (SCOP) allocation strategies, giving you more control over instance type prioritization in your compute environments. BFPO and SCOP enable you to manually define instance type…

AWS Network Firewall now uses "Application drop established (server-directed only)" as the default stateful action for all newly created firewall policies, replacing the previous default of "Application drop established (bidirectional)" (formerly named "Application layer drop established"). No action is required…

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports separate quotas for the number of AWS accounts and applications that can be configured in an IAM Identity Center instance. By default, you can configure up to 7,000 AWS accounts and up to 7,000…

AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling customers to run large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters. You can reserve UltraServers through EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, associate…