Amazon Web Services

AWS Backup support for Amazon Aurora Point-in-time Recovery (PITR) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Thailand, Taipei, New Zealand), Canada West (Calgary) and Mexico (Central). This expansion brings policy-based data protection and recovery with support…

AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) now supports Slurm version 25.11, with support for a Prometheus-compatible OpenMetrics endpoint, and introduces new log types including scheduler audit logs. This release of Slurm 25.11 introduces expedited re-queue, which can automatically reschedule jobs…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8g instances are available in Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better performance than AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 X2gd instances. X8g instances…

Amazon Athena now offers managed connectors for 12 data sources, including Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Snowflake. Managed connectors are AWS Glue Data Catalog federated connectors that Athena creates and manages on your behalf, so you can query data outside…

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports serverless notebooks with a built-in data agent for AWS IAM Identity Center (IdC) domains. Previously, the notebook experience and data agent were available only in IAM domains. With this launch, customers who use IdC…

Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney) and Europe (Paris) Regions. Outposts racks extend AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises data center or colocation space for a truly…