AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in the AWS US West (N. California) region. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features…

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports up to 5x more partitions per Express Broker, improving price-performance by up to 50% for partition-bound workloads. Express Brokers are a broker type in Amazon MSK that provide up to…

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) now allows customers to make API requests over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) through AWS PrivateLink with Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints. This launch extends IPv6 compatibility, previously available only for public endpoints, to…

Today, we are announcing enhanced Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance for Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances. This improvement delivers increased storage performance for memory-intensive workloads such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server databases. With the latest…

AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now enables you to issue up to 100 million certificates per certificate authority (CA), an increase from the previous default limit of 1 million certificates. This limit increase allows you to optimize your…

AWS Firewall Manager announces security policy support for AWS Private Link. Customers have come to rely on AWS Private Link for secure communications, and AWS Firewall Manager to configure security services for their asset’s protection. Customers can now access and…