AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ Announcements, Updates, and Launches Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:00:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/twenty-years-of-amazon-s3-and-building-whats-next/ <![CDATA[Sébastien Stormacq]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:58:39 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)]]> <![CDATA[News]]> a3996fe388d2e78fc44dd4af61d511e4558c30b7 Some reflections on 20 years of innovations in Amazon S3 including S3 Tables, S3 Vectors and S3 Metadata. <p>Twenty years ago today, on March 14, 2006, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)</a> quietly launched with a modest one-paragraph announcement on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2006/03/announcing-amazon-s3---simple-storage-service/">What’s New page</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.</p> </blockquote> <p>Even <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon_s3/">Jeff Barr’s blog post</a> was only a few paragraphs, written before catching a plane to a developer event in California. No code examples. No demo. Very low fanfare. Nobody knew at the time that this launch would shape our entire industry.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>The early days: Building blocks that just work</strong></span><br> At its core, S3 introduced two straightforward primitives: PUT to store an object and GET to retrieve it later. But the real innovation was the philosophy behind it: create building blocks that handle the undifferentiated heavy lifting, which freed developers to focus on higher-level work.</p> <p>From day one, S3 was guided by five fundamentals that remain unchanged today.</p> <p><strong>Security</strong> means your data is protected by default. <strong>Durability</strong> is designed for 11 nines (99.999999999%), and we operate S3 to be lossless. <strong>Availability</strong> is designed into every layer, with the assumption that failure is always present and must be handled. <strong>Performance</strong> is optimized to store virtually any amount of data without degradation. <strong>Elasticity</strong> means the system automatically grows and shrinks as you add and remove data, with no manual intervention required.</p> <p>When we get these things right, the service becomes so straightforward that most of you never have to think about how complex these concepts are.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>S3 today: Scale beyond imagination</strong></span><br> Throughout 20 years, S3 has remained committed to its core fundamentals even as it’s grown to a scale that’s hard to comprehend.</p> <p>When S3 first launched, it offered approximately one petabyte of total storage capacity across about 400 storage nodes in 15 racks spanning three data centers, with 15 Gbps of total bandwidth. We designed the system to store tens of billions of objects, with a maximum object size of 5 GB. The initial price was 15 cents per gigabyte.</p> <p><a href="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/10/s3-illustration-2.png"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-103329" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/10/s3-illustration-2-1024x538.png" alt="S3 key metrics illustration" width="1024" height="538"></a></p> <p>Today, S3 stores more than 500 trillion objects and serves more than 200 million requests per second globally across hundreds of exabytes of data in 123 Availability Zones in 39 AWS Regions, for millions of customers. The <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-s3-maximum-object-size-50-tb/">maximum object size has grown from 5 GB to 50 TB</a>, a 10,000 fold increase. If you stacked all of the tens of millions S3 hard drives on top of each other, they would reach the International Space Station and almost back.</p> <p>Even as S3 has grown to support this incredible scale, the price you pay has dropped. Today, AWS charges slightly over <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/">2 cents per gigabyte</a>. That’s a price reduction of approximately 85% since launch in 2006. In parallel, we’ve continued to introduce ways to further optimize storage spend with storage tiers. For example, our customers have collectively saved more than $6 billion in storage costs by using <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/intelligent-tiering/">Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering</a> as compared to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/">Amazon S3 Standard</a>.</p> <p>Over the past two decades, the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html">S3 API</a> has been adopted and used as a reference point across the storage industry. Multiple vendors now offer S3 compatible storage tools and systems, implementing the same API patterns and conventions. This means skills and tools developed for S3 often transfer to other storage systems, making the broader storage landscape more accessible.</p> <p>Despite all of this growth and industry adoption, perhaps the most remarkable achievement is this: the code you wrote for S3 in 2006 still works today, unchanged. Your data went through 20 years of innovation and technical advances. We migrated the infrastructure through multiple generations of disks and storage systems. All the code to handle a request has been rewritten. But the data you stored 20 years ago is still available today, and we’ve maintained complete API backward compatibility. That’s our commitment to delivering a service that continually “just works.”</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>The engineering behind the scale</strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong><br> </strong></span>What makes S3 possible at this scale? Continuous innovation in engineering.</p> <p>Much of what follows is drawn from a conversation between Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, VP of Data and Analytics at AWS, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gergelyorosz/">Gergely Orosz</a> of <a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/podcast">The Pragmatic Engineer</a>. The <a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-aws-s3-is-built">in-depth interview</a> goes further into the technical details for those who want to go deeper. In the following paragraphs, I share some examples:</p> <p>At the heart of S3 durability is a system of microservices that continuously inspect every single byte across the entire fleet. These auditor services examine data and automatically trigger repair systems the moment they detect signs of degradation. S3 is designed to be lossless: the 11 nines design goal reflects how the replication factor and re-replication fleet are sized, but the system is built so that objects aren’t lost.</p> <p>S3 engineers use <a href="https://www.amazon.science/publications/using-lightweight-formal-methods-to-validate-a-key-value-storage-node-in-amazon-s3">formal methods and automated reasoning</a> in production to mathematically prove correctness. When engineers check in code to the index subsystem, automated proofs verify that consistency hasn’t regressed. This same approach proves correctness in <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/replication.html">cross-Region replication</a> or for <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/protect-sensitive-data-in-the-cloud-with-automated-reasoning-zelkova/">access policies</a>.</p> <p>Over the past 8 years, AWS has been progressively rewriting performance-critical code in the S3 request path in Rust. Blob movement and disk storage have been rewritten, and work is actively ongoing across other components. Beyond raw performance, Rust’s type system and memory safety guarantees eliminate entire classes of bugs at compile time. This is an essential property when operating at S3 scale and correctness requirements.</p> <p>S3 is built on a design philosophy: “Scale is to your advantage.” Engineers design systems so that increased scale improves attributes for all users. The larger S3 gets, the more de-correlated workloads become, which improves reliability for everyone.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Looking forward</strong></span><br> The vision for S3 extends beyond being a storage service to becoming the universal foundation for all data and AI workloads. Our vision is simple: you store any type of data one time in S3, and you work with it directly, without moving data between specialized systems. This approach reduces costs, eliminates complexity, and removes the need for multiple copies of the same data.</p> <p>Here are a few standout launches from recent years:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-s3-tables-storage-optimized-for-analytics-workloads/">S3 Tables</a> – Fully managed Apache Iceberg tables with automated maintenance that optimize query efficiency and reduce storage cost over time.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-vectors-now-generally-available-with-increased-scale-and-performance/">S3 Vectors</a> – Native vector storage for semantic search and RAG, supporting up to 2 billion vectors per index with sub-100ms query latency. In only 5 months (July–December 2025), you created more than 250,000 indices, ingested more than 40 billion vectors, and performed more than 1 billion queries.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-metadata-now-supports-metadata-for-all-your-s3-objects/">S3 Metadata</a> – Centralized metadata for instant data discovery, removing the need to recursively list large buckets for cataloging and significantly reducing time-to-insight for large data lakes.</li> </ul> <p>Each of these capabilities operates at S3 cost structure. You can handle multiple data types that traditionally required expensive databases or specialized systems but are now economically feasible at scale.</p> <p>From 1 petabyte to hundreds of exabytes. From 15 cents to 2 cents per gigabyte. From simple object storage to the foundation for AI and analytics. Through it all, our five fundamentals–security, durability, availability, performance, and elasticity–remain unchanged, and your code from 2006 still works today.</p> <p>Here’s to the next 20 years of innovation on <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon S3</a>.</p> <a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a> Introducing account regional namespaces for Amazon S3 general purpose buckets https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-account-regional-namespaces-for-amazon-s3-general-purpose-buckets/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:18:55 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Storage]]> 196b4cd5ec90a1f18c700e9852ebae62a5bd105d AWS launches a new feature of Amazon S3 that lets you create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as your data storage needs grow in size and scope. <p>Today, we’re announcing a new feature of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)</a> you can use to create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace simplifying bucket creation and management as your data storage needs grow in size and scope. You can create general purpose bucket names across multiple AWS Regions with assurance that your desired bucket names will always be available for you to use.</p> <p>With this feature, you can predictably name and create general purpose buckets in your own account regional namespace by appending your account’s unique suffix in your requested bucket name. For example, I can create the bucket <code>mybucket-123456789012-us-east-1-an</code> in my account regional namespace. <code>mybucket</code> is the bucket name prefix that I specified, then I add my account regional suffix to the requested bucket name: <code>-123456789012-us-east-1-an</code>. If another account tries to create buckets using my account’s suffix, their requests will be automatically rejected.</p> <p>Your security teams can use <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)</a> policies and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Organizations</a> service control policies to enforce that your employees only create buckets in their account regional namespace using the new <code>s3:x-amz-bucket-namespace</code> condition key, helping teams adopt the account regional namespace across your organization.</p> <p><strong><u>Create your S3 bucket with account regional namespace in action</u></strong><br> To get started, choose <strong>Create bucket</strong> in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon S3 console</a>. To create your bucket in your account regional namespace, choose <strong>Account regional namespace</strong>. If you choose this option, you can create your bucket with any name that is unique to your account and region.</p> <p>This configuration supports all of the same features as general purpose buckets in the global namespace. The only difference is that only your account can use bucket names with your account’s suffix. The bucket name prefix and the account regional suffix combined must be between 3 and 63 characters long.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102981" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/12/2026-s3-bucket-account-regional-namespace.png" alt="" width="2098" height="2381"></p> <p>Using the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)</a>, you can create a bucket with account regional namespace by specifying the <code>x-amz-bucket-namespace:account-regional</code> request header and providing a compatible bucket name.</p> <pre><code class="lang-bash">$ aws s3api create-bucket --bucket mybucket-123456789012-us-east-1-an \ --bucket-namespace account-regional \ --region us-east-1</code></pre> <p>You can use the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-python/">AWS SDK for Python (Boto3)</a> to create a bucket with account regional namespace using <code>CreateBucket</code> API request.</p> <pre><code class="lang-python">import boto3 class AccountRegionalBucketCreator: """Creates S3 buckets using account-regional namespace feature.""" ACCOUNT_REGIONAL_SUFFIX = "-an" def __init__(self, s3_client, sts_client): self.s3_client = s3_client self.sts_client = sts_client def create_account_regional_bucket(self, prefix): """ Creates an account-regional S3 bucket with the specified prefix. Resolves caller AWS account ID using the STS GetCallerIdentity API. Format: ---an """ account_id = self.sts_client.get_caller_identity()['Account'] region = self.s3_client.meta.region_name bucket_name = self._generate_account_regional_bucket_name( prefix, account_id, region ) params = { "Bucket": bucket_name, "BucketNamespace": "account-regional" } if region != "us-east-1": params["CreateBucketConfiguration"] = { "LocationConstraint": region } return self.s3_client.create_bucket(**params) def _generate_account_regional_bucket_name(self, prefix, account_id, region): return f"{prefix}-{account_id}-{region}{self.ACCOUNT_REGIONAL_SUFFIX}" if __name__ == '__main__': s3_client = boto3.client('s3') sts_client = boto3.client('sts') creator = AccountRegionalBucketCreator(s3_client, sts_client) response = creator.create_account_regional_bucket('test-python-sdk') print(f"Bucket created: {response}")</code></pre> <p>You can update your infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, such as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS CloudFormation</a>, to simplify creating buckets in your account regional namespace. AWS CloudFormation offers the pseudo parameters, <code>AWS::AccountId</code> and <code>AWS::Region</code>, making it easy to build <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/TemplateReference/aws-resource-s3-bucket.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">CloudFormation templates</a> that create account regional namespace buckets.</p> <p>The following example demonstrates how you can update your existing CloudFormation templates to start creating buckets in your account regional namespace:</p> <pre><code class="lang-json">BucketName: !Sub "amzn-s3-demo-bucket-${AWS::AccountId}-${AWS::Region}-an" BucketNamespace: "account-regional"</code></pre> <p>Alternatively, you can also use the <code>BucketNamePrefix</code> property to update your CloudFormation template. By using the <code>BucketNamePrefix</code>, you can provide only the customer defined portion of the bucket name and then it automatically adds the account regional namespace suffix based on the requesting AWS account and Region specified.</p> <pre><code class="lang-json">BucketNamePrefix: 'amzn-s3-demo-bucket' BucketNamespace: "account-regional" </code></pre> <p>Using these options, you can build a custom CloudFormation template to easily create general purpose buckets in your account regional namespace.</p> <p><strong>Things to know</strong><br> You can’t rename your existing global buckets to bucket names with account regional namespace, but you can create new general purpose buckets in your account regional namespace. Also, the account regional namespace is only supported for general purpose buckets. S3 table buckets and vector buckets already exist in an account-level namespace and S3 directory buckets exist in a zonal namespace.</p> <p>To learn more, visit&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/gpbucketnamespaces.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Namespaces for general purpose buckets</a> in the Amazon S3 User Guide.</p> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> Creating general purpose buckets in your account regional namespace in Amazon S3 is now available in 37 AWS Regions including the AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can create general purpose buckets in your account regional namespace at no additional cost.</p> <p>Give it a try in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon S3 console</a> today and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TADSTjraA0Q4-a1dxk6eUYaw/amazon-simple-storage-service?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for Amazon S3</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Connect Health, Bedrock AgentCore Policy, GameDay Europe, and more (March 9, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-connect-health-bedrock-agentcore-policy-gameday-europe-and-more-march-9-2026/ <![CDATA[Sébastien Stormacq]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:15:35 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock AgentCore]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Connect]]> <![CDATA[Amazon GameLift]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Lightsail]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Neptune Analytics]]> <![CDATA[Amazon OpenSearch Service]]> <![CDATA[Amazon VPC]]> <![CDATA[AWS Elastic Beanstalk]]> <![CDATA[AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)]]> <![CDATA[AWS Lambda]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> 2e3bcb2496b0ca6aecf399255da4d2d96829fd6e Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya! Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at Meru University of Science and Technology, with keynotes from my colleagues Veliswa and Tiffany, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and […] <p>Fiti AWS Student Community Kenya!</p> <p>Last week was an incredible whirlwind: a round of meetups, hands-on workshops, and career discussions across Kenya that culminated with the AWS Student Community Day at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/meru-university-of-science-and-technology-must/">Meru University of Science and Technology</a>, with keynotes from my colleagues <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/veliswa-boya/">Veliswa</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiffanysouterre/">Tiffany</a>, and sessions on everything from GitOps to cloud-native engineering, and a whole lot of AI agent building.</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103322 size-large" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/09/1772482486843-1-1024x500.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="500"></td> <td><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103323 size-large" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/09/2026-jaws-days-1-1024x500.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="500"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a href="https://jawsdays2026.jaws-ug.jp/floormap/">JAWS Days 2026</a> is the largest AWS Community Day in the world, with over 1,500 attendees on March 7th. This event started with a keynote speech on building an AI-driven development team by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffbarr/">Jeff Barr</a>, and included over 100 technical and community experience sessions, lightning talks, and workshops such as Game Days, Builders Card Challenges, and networking parties.</p> <p>Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS news…</p> <p><strong>Last week’s launches</strong><br> Here are some launches and updates from this past week that caught my attention:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-connect-health-agentic-ai-healthcare/">Introducing Amazon Connect Health, Agentic AI Built for Healthcare</a> — Amazon Connect Health is now generally available with five purpose-built AI agents for healthcare: patient verification, appointment management, patient insights, ambient documentation, and medical coding. All features are HIPAA-eligible and deployable within existing clinical workflows in days.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/policy-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-generally-available/">Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available</a> — You can now use centralized, fine-grained controls for agent-tool interactions that operate outside your agent code. Security and compliance teams can define tool access and input validation rules using natural language that automatically converts to Cedar, the AWS open-source policy language.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-openclaw-on-amazon-lightsail-to-run-your-autonomous-private-ai-agents/">Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents</a> — You can deploy a private AI assistant on your own cloud infrastructure with built-in security controls, sandboxed agent sessions, one-click HTTPS, and device pairing authentication. Amazon Bedrock serves as the default model provider, and you can connect to Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/vpc-encryption-controls-pricing/">AWS announces pricing for VPC Encryption Controls</a> — Starting March 1, 2026, VPC Encryption Controls transitions from free preview to a paid feature. You can audit and enforce encryption-in-transit of all traffic flows within and across VPCs in a region, with monitor mode to detect unencrypted traffic and enforce mode to prevent it.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/dbsp-opensearch-service-neptune-analytics/">Database Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics</a> — You can save up to 35% on eligible serverless and provisioned instance usage with a one-year commitment. Savings Plans automatically apply regardless of engine, instance family, size, or AWS Region.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/elastic-beanstalk-ai-analysis/">AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis</a> — When your environment health is degraded, Elastic Beanstalk can now collect recent events, instance health, and logs and send them to Amazon Bedrock for analysis, providing step-by-step troubleshooting recommendations tailored to your environment’s current state.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-simplifies-iam-role-creation-and-setup/">AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows</a> — You can now create and configure IAM roles directly within service workflows through a new in-console panel, without switching to the IAM console. The feature supports Amazon EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECS, Glue, CloudFormation, and more.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/lambda-durable-kiro-power/">Accelerate Lambda durable functions development with new Kiro power</a> — You can now build resilient, long-running multi-step applications and AI workflows faster with AI agent-assisted development in Kiro. The power dynamically loads guidance on replay models, step and wait operations, concurrent execution patterns, error handling, and deployment best practices.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-gamelift-servers-ddos-protection/">Amazon GameLift Servers launches DDoS Protection</a> — You can now protect session-based multiplayer games against DDoS attacks with a co-located relay network that authenticates client traffic using access tokens and enforces per-player traffic limits, at no additional cost to GameLift Servers customers.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS</a> page.</p> <p><strong>From AWS community</strong><br> Here are my personal favorite posts from AWS community and my colleagues:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://builder.aws.com/content/3AhVKdfIvhOgaTT8Eu1PXzzLxRm/i-built-a-portable-ai-memory-layer-with-mcp-aws-bedrock-and-a-chrome-extension">I Built a Portable AI Memory Layer with MCP, AWS Bedrock, and a Chrome Extension</a> — Learn how to build a persistent memory layer for AI agents using MCP and Amazon Bedrock, packaged as a Chrome extension that carries context across sessions and applications.</li> <li><a href="https://dev.to/aws/when-the-model-is-the-machine-25g4">When the Model Is the Machine</a> — Mike Chambers built an experimental app where an AI agent generates a complete, interactive web application at runtime from a single prompt — no codebase, no framework, no persistent state. A thought-provoking exploration of what happens when the model becomes the runtime.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Upcoming AWS events</strong><br> Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://builder.aws.com/content/39zVQT5ykq9bhnngp3kPeQNqjOc/aws-community-gameday-europe-on-the-1703-think-you-know-aws-come-prove-it">AWS Community GameDay Europe</a> — Think you know AWS? Prove it at the AWS Community GameDay Europe on March 17, a gamified learning event where teams compete to solve real-world technical challenges using AWS services.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-at-nvidia-gtc26/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2026</a> — Join us at our AWS sessions, booths, demos, and ancillary events in NVIDIA GTC 2026 on March 16 – 19, 2026 in San Jose. You can receive 20% off event passes through AWS and request a 1:1 meeting at GTC.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Summits</a> — Join AWS Summits in 2026: free in-person events where you can explore emerging cloud and AI technologies, learn best practices, and network with industry peers and experts. Upcoming Summits include <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/paris/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Paris</a> (April 1), <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/london/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">London</a> (April 22), and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Bengaluru</a> (April 23–24).</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/community-day/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Community Days</a> — Community-led conferences where content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders. Upcoming events include <a href="https://www.awscommunityday.sk/">Slovakia</a> (March 11), <a href="https://www.awsugpune.in/">Pune</a> (March 21), and the AWSome Women Summit LATAM in <a href="https://www.awswomensummitlatam.com/home.html">Mexico City</a> (March 28)</li> </ul> <p>Browse here for upcoming <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS led in-person and virtual events</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/startups/events?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">startup events</a>, and <a href="https://builder.aws.com/connect/events?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">developer-focused events</a>.</p> <p>That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tag/week-in-review/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Weekly Roundup</a>!</p> <a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a> Introducing OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run your autonomous private AI agents https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-openclaw-on-amazon-lightsail-to-run-your-autonomous-private-ai-agents/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:04:16 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Lightsail]]> <![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]> <![CDATA[Compute]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> ff8c0ff873d5871b8812a5d9f4162a7af1b9648a AWS launches OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to run OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock for starting with your AI assistant immediately — no additional configuration required. <p>Today, we’re announcing the general availability of <a href="https://openclaw.ai">OpenClaw</a> on <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Lightsail</a> to launch OpenClaw instance, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw instance is pre-configured with <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock">Amazon Bedrock</a> as the default AI model provider. Once you complete setup, you can start chatting with your AI assistant immediately — no additional configuration required.</p> <p>OpenClaw is an open-source self-hosted autonomous private AI agent that acts as a personal digital assistant by running directly on your computer. You can run AI agents on OpenClaw through your browser to connect to messaging apps like WhatsApp, Discord, or Telegram to perform tasks such as managing emails, browsing the web, and organizing files, rather than just answering questions.</p> <p>AWS customers have asked if they can run OpenClaw on AWS. Some of them blogged about running OpenClaw on <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2</a> instances. As someone who has experienced installing OpenClaw directly on my home device, I learned that this is not easy and that there are many security considerations.</p> <p>So, let me introduce how to launch a pre-configured OpenClaw instance on Amazon Lightsail more easily and run it securely.</p> <p><strong><u>OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail in action</u></strong><br> To get started, go to the <a href="https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/webapp/home?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Lightsail console</a> and choose <strong>Create instance</strong> on the<strong> Instances</strong> section. After choosing your preferred AWS Region and Availability Zone, Linux/Unix platform to run your instance, choose OpenClaw under <strong>Select a blueprint</strong>.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103267 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/04/2026-openclaw-lightsail-1.png" alt="" width="2138" height="1366"></p> <p>You can choose your instance plan (4 GB memory plan is recommended for optimal performance) and enter a name for your instance. Finally choose <strong>Create instance</strong>. Your instance will be in a <strong>Running</strong> state in a few minutes.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103269 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/04/2026-openclaw-lightsail-2-1.png" alt="" width="2148" height="1673"></p> <p>Before you can use the OpenClaw dashboard, you should pair your browser with OpenClaw. This creates a secure connection between your browser session and OpenClaw. To pair your browser with OpenClaw, choose <strong>Connect using SSH</strong> in the <strong>Getting started</strong> tab.</p> <p>When a browser-based SSH terminal opens, you can see the dashboard URL, security credentials displayed in the welcome message. Copy them and open the dashboard in a new browser tab. In the OpenClaw dashboard, you can paste the copied access token into the Gateway Token field in the OpenClaw dashboard.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103287 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/04/2026-openclaw-lightsail-4.png" alt="" width="2046" height="1740"></p> <p>When prompted, press <code>y</code> to continue and <code>a</code> to approve with device pairing in the SSH terminal. When pairing is complete, you can see the <strong>OK</strong> status in the OpenClaw dashboard and your browser is now connected to your OpenClaw instance.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103271 size-full" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/04/2026-openclaw-lightsail-5.png" alt="" width="2148" height="1526"></p> <p>Your OpenClaw instance on Lightsail is configured to use Amazon Bedrock to power its AI assistant. To enable Bedrock API access, copy the script in the <strong>Getting started</strong> tab and run copied script into the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudshell/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS CloudShell</a> terminal.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103272 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/04/2026-openclaw-lightsail-3.png" alt="" width="2005" height="676"></p> <p>Once the script is complete, go to <strong>Chat</strong> in the OpenClaw dashboard to start using your AI assistant!</p> <p>You can set up OpenClaw to work with messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp for interacting with your AI assistant directly from your phone or messaging client. To learn more, visit <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/latest/userguide/amazon-lightsail-quick-start-guide-openclaw.html#amazon-lightsail-openclaw-connect-messaging?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Get started with OpenClaw on Lightsail</a> in the Amazon Lightsail User Guide.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-103279" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/04/2026-openclaw-lightsail-7-1024x413.png" alt="" width="1024" height="413"></p> <p><strong>Things to know</strong><br> Here are key considerations to know about this feature:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Permission</strong> — You can customize AWS IAM permissions granted to your OpenClaw instance. The setup script creates an IAM role with a policy that grants access to Amazon Bedrock. You can customize this policy at any time. But, you should be careful when modifying permissions because it may prevent OpenClaw from generating AI responses. To learn more, visit <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS IAM policies</a> in the AWS documentation.</li> <li><strong>Cost</strong> — You pay for the instance plan you selected on an on-demand hourly rate only for what you use. Every message sent to and received from the OpenClaw assistant is processed through Amazon Bedrock using a token-based pricing model. If you select a third-party model distributed through <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Marketplace</a> such as Anthropic Claude or Cohere, there may be additional software fees on top of the per-token cost.</li> <li><strong>Security</strong> — Running a personal AI agent on OpenClaw is powerful, but it may cause security threat if you are careless. I recommend to hide your OpenClaw gateway never to expose it to open internet. The gateway auth token is your password, so rotate it often and store it in your environment file not hardcoded in config file. To learn more about security tips, visit <a href="https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/security">Security on OpenClaw gateway</a>.</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail is now available in all AWS commercial Regions where <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lightsail/latest/userguide/understanding-regions-and-availability-zones-in-amazon-lightsail.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Lightsail is available</a>. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, visit the <a class="c-link" href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://builder.aws.com/capabilities/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">AWS Capabilities by Region</a>.</p> <p>Give a try in the <a href="https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/webapp/home?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Lightsail console</a> and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAG40l8mpESXKixja2uhSvgQ/amazon-lightsail?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for Amazon Lightsail</a> or through your usual AWS support contacts.</p> <p>– <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy">Channy</a></p> AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI partnership, AWS Elemental Inference, Strands Labs, and more (March 2, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-openai-partnership-aws-elemental-inference-strands-labs-and-more-march-2-2026/ <![CDATA[Micah Walter]]> Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:05:12 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Location]]> <![CDATA[AWS Backup]]> <![CDATA[AWS Elemental MediaConvert]]> <![CDATA[AWS Security Hub]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> 595bd63f0f5be1cbe5cb787f309334947e9402c1 This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through a structured framework that helps organizations identify, prioritize, and implement AI use cases that deliver measurable business value. AI-DLC is […] <p>This past week, I’ve been deep in the trenches helping customers transform their businesses through AI-DLC (AI-Driven Lifecycle) workshops. Throughout 2026, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating these sessions for numerous customers, guiding them through a structured framework that helps organizations identify, prioritize, and implement AI use cases that deliver measurable business value.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-103232" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/01/Screenshot-2026-03-01-at-11.34.10 AM-1024x622.png" alt="Screenshot of GenAI Developer Hour" width="1024" height="622"></p> <p>AI-DLC is a methodology that takes companies from AI experimentation to production-ready solutions by aligning technical capabilities with business outcomes. If you’re interested in learning more, check out <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/ai-driven-development-life-cycle/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">this blog post</a> that dives deeper into the framework, or watch as <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/riyadani/">Riya Dani</a> teaches me all about AI-DLC on our recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kUb_IZdlB8">GenAI Developer Hour livestream</a>!</p> <p>Now, let’s get into this week’s AWS news…</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-103235 alignright" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/02/2026-amazon-openai.png" alt="" width="150" height="130"><a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-open-ai-strategic-partnership-investment?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">OpenAI and Amazon announced a multi-year strategic partnership</a> to accelerate AI innovation for enterprises, startups, and end consumers around the world. Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with an initial $15 billion investment and followed by another $35 billion in the coming months when certain conditions are met. AWS and OpenAI are co-creating a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI models, available through <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/">Amazon Bedrock</a>, which allows developers to keep context, remember prior work, work across software tools and data sources, and access compute.</p> <p>AWS will serve as the exclusive third-party cloud distribution provider for <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-frontier/">OpenAI Frontier</a>, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents. OpenAI and AWS are expanding their existing $38 billion multi-year agreement by $100 billion over 8 years, with OpenAI committing to consume approximately 2 gigawatts of Trainium capacity, spanning both Trainium3 and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">next-generation Trainium4 chips</a>.</p> <p><strong>Last week’s launches</strong><br> Here are some launches and updates from this past week that caught my attention:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-security-hub-extended-offers-full-stack-enterprise-security-with-curated-partner-solutions/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions</a> — AWS launched Security Hub Extended, a plan that simplifies procurement, deployment, and integration of full-stack enterprise security solutions including 7AI, Britive, CrowdStrike, Cyera, Island, Noma, Okta, Oligo, Opti, Proofpoint, SailPoint, Splunk, Upwind, and Zscaler. With AWS as the seller of record, customers benefit from pre-negotiated pay-as-you-go pricing, a single bill, no long-term commitments, unified security operations within Security Hub, and unified Level 1 support for AWS Enterprise Support customers.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/transform-live-video-for-mobile-audiences-with-aws-elemental-inference/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference</a> — AWS launched Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video for mobile and social platforms in real time. The service uses AI-powered cropping to create vertical formats optimized for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and automatically extracts highlight clips with 6-10 second latency. Beta testing showed large media companies achieved 34% or more savings on AI-powered live video workflows.&nbsp;Deep dive into the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/media/how-aws-built-a-live-ai-powered-vertical-video-capability-for-fox-sports-with-aws-elemental-inference/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Fox Sports implementation</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-mediaconvert-introduces-video-probe/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">MediaConvert introduces new video probe API</a> — AWS Elemental MediaConvert introduced a free Probe API for quick metadata analysis of media files, reading header metadata to return codec specifications, pixel formats, and color space details without processing video content.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-bedrock-projects-api-mantle-inference-engine/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">OpenAI-compatible Projects API in Amazon Bedrock</a> — Projects API provides application-level isolation for your generative AI workloads using OpenAI-compatible APIs in the Mantle inference engine in Amazon Bedrock. You can organize and manage your AI applications with improved access control, cost tracking, and observability across your organization.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-location-service-introduces-kiro-power-claude-skill-llm-context/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Location Service introduces LLM Context</a> — Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as a Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and agent skill in the open Agent Skills format, improving code accuracy and accelerating feature implementation for location-based capabilities.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-eks-node-monitoring-agent-open-source/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now open source</a> — The Amazon EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now open source on GitHub, allowing visibility into implementation, customization, and community contributions.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-appconfig-new-relic-for-automated-rollback/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS AppConfig integrates with New Relic</a> — AWS AppConfig launched integration with New Relic Workflow Automation for automated, intelligent rollbacks during feature flag deployments, reducing detection-to-remediation time from minutes to seconds.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS</a> page.</p> <p><strong>Other AWS news</strong><br> Here are some additional posts and resources that you might find interesting:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-strands-labs-get-hands-on-today-with-state-of-the-art-experimental-approaches-to-agentic-development/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Introducing Strands Labs</a> — We created Strands Labs as a separate Git organization to support experimental agentic AI projects and push the frontier of agentic development. At launch, we’re making Strands Labs available with three projects. The first is&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/strands-labs/robots">Robots</a>, the second is&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/strands-labs/robots-sim">Robots Sim</a>&nbsp;and the third is&nbsp;<a href="https://github.com/strands-labs/ai-functions">AI Functions</a>.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/6000-aws-accounts-three-people-one-platform-lessons-learned/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">6,000 AWS accounts, three people, one platform: Lessons learned</a> — Architecture blog post on managing massive multi-account environments. Learn how ProGlove implemented a large-scale account-per-tenant model on AWS and how that model shifts complexity from service code to platform operations.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/building-intelligent-event-agents-using-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-and-amazon-bedrock-knowledge-bases/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Building intelligent event agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases</a> — Practical guide to building event-driven agents. Check out how you can use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore components to rapidly productionize an event assistant—taking it from prototype to enterprise-ready deployment at scale.</li> </ul> <p><strong>From AWS community</strong><br> Here are my personal favorite posts from AWS community:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://builder.aws.com/content/3AFEHrVf0iugHBclfZGPGDGAfm0/how-to-run-a-kiro-ai-coding-workshop-that-actually-works?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">How to Run a Kiro AI Coding Workshop That Actually Works</a> — Running a Kiro workshop at your company or user group? Here is the full step-by-step facilitator guide, resources, and references.</li> <li><a href="https://builder.aws.com/content/3AAxqZdFuNaiEWCZIiVYlpbt3ml/rag-vs-graphrag-when-agents-hallucinate-answers?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">RAG vs GraphRAG: When Agents Hallucinate Answers</a> — This demo builds a travel booking agent with Strands Agents and compares RAG (FAISS) vs GraphRAG (Neo4j) to measure which approach reduces hallucinations when answering queries</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/announcing-new-output-formats-in-aws-cli-v2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">New output formats in AWS CLI v2</a> — You can now use two new features for the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) v2: structured error output and the “off” output format.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Upcoming AWS events</strong><br> Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-at-nvidia-gtc26/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS at NVIDIA GTC 2026</a> — Join us at our AWS sessions, booths, demos, ancillary events in NVIDIA GTC 2026 on March 16 – 19, 2026 in San Jose. You can receive 20% off event passes through AWS and request a 1:1 meeting at GTC.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Summits</a> — Join AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person events where you can explore emerging cloud and AI technologies, learn best practices, and network with industry peers and experts. Upcoming Summits include <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/paris/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Paris</a> (April 1), <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/london/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">London</a> (April 22), and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Bengaluru</a> (April 23–24).</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/community-day/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Community Days</a> — Community-led conferences where content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders. Upcoming events include <a href="https://jawsdays2026.jaws-ug.jp/">JAWS Days in Tokyo</a> (March 7), <a href="https://www.acdchennai.com/">Chennai</a> (March 7), <a href="https://www.awscommunityday.sk/">Slovakia</a> (March 11), and <a href="https://www.awsugpune.in/">Pune</a> (March 21).</li> </ul> <p>Browse here for upcoming <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS led in-person and virtual events</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/startups/events?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">startup events</a>, and <a href="https://builder.aws.com/connect/events?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">developer-focused events</a>.</p> <p>That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tag/week-in-review/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Weekly Roundup</a>!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> AWS Security Hub Extended offers full-stack enterprise security with curated partner solutions https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-security-hub-extended-offers-full-stack-enterprise-security-with-curated-partner-solutions/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:52:06 +0000 <![CDATA[AWS Partner Network]]> <![CDATA[AWS Security Hub]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Partner solutions]]> <![CDATA[Security, Identity, & Compliance]]> 15cc3cae26064f5c35be57a2eb7412b2fc4e2b5b AWS announces the general availability of AWS Security Hub Extended, a unified, full-stack enterprise security solution. It brings together AWS detection services and curated partner solutions through a single, simplified experience. <p>At re:Invent 2025, we <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-security-hub-now-generally-available-with-near-real-time-analytics-and-risk-prioritization/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">introduced</a> a completely re-imagined <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Security Hub</a> that unifies AWS security services, including <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/guardduty/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon GuardDuty</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Inspector</a> into a single experience. This unified experience automatically and continuously analyzes security findings in combination to help you prioritize and respond to your critical security risks.</p> <p class="jss271" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Today, we’re announcing <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Security Hub Extended</a>, a plan of Security Hub that simplifies how you procure, deploy, and integrate a full-stack enterprise security solution across endpoint, identity, email, network, data, browser, cloud, AI, and security operations. With the Extended plan, you can expand your security portfolio beyond AWS to help protect your enterprise estate through a curated selection of AWS Partner solutions, including 7AI, Britive, CrowdStrike, Cyera, Island, Noma, Okta, Oligo, Opti, Proofpoint, SailPoint, Splunk, a Cisco company, Upwind, and Zscaler.</p> <p>With AWS as the seller of record, you benefit from pre-negotiated pay-as-you-go pricing, a single bill, and no long-term commitments. You can also get unified security operations experience within Security Hub and unified Level 1 support for <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/enterprise/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Enterprise Support customers</a>. You told us that managing multiple procurement cycles and vendor negotiations was creating unnecessary complexity, costing you time and resources. In response, we’ve curated these partner offerings for you to establish more comprehensive protection across your entire technology stack through a single, simplified experience.</p> <p>Security findings from all participating solutions are emitted in the <a href="https://github.com/ocsf">Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF)</a> schema and automatically aggregated in AWS Security Hub. With the Extended plan, you can combine AWS and partner security solutions to quickly identify and respond to risks that span boundaries.</p> <p><strong><u>The Security Hub Extended plan in action</u></strong><br> You can access the partner solutions directly within the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/v2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Security Hub console</a> by selecting <strong>Extended plan</strong> under the <strong>Management</strong> menu. From there, you can review and deploy any combination of curated and partner offerings.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103190 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/26/2026-security-hub-extended-plan1.jpg" alt="" width="1800" height="1033"></p> <p>You can review details of each partner offering directly in the Security Hub console and subscribe. When you subscribe, you’ll be directed to an automated on-boarding experience from each partner. Once onboarded, consumption-based metering is automatic and you are billed monthly as part of your Security Hub bill.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103178 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/26/2026-security-hub-extended-plan2.jpg" alt="" width="2406" height="1156"></p> <p>Security findings from all solutions are automatically consolidated in AWS Security Hub. This gives you immediate and direct access to all security findings in normalized OCSF schema.</p> <p>To learn more about how to enhance your security posture with these integrations for AWS Security Hub, visit the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/what-are-securityhub-services.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Security Hub User Guide</a>.</p> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> The AWS Security Hub Extended plan is now generally available in all AWS commercial Regions where Security Hub is available. You can use flexible pay-as-you-go or flat-rate pricing—no upfront investments or long-term commitments required. For more information about pricing, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/security-hub/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Security Hub pricing page</a>.</p> <p>Give it a try today in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/v2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Security Hub console</a> and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAFZPV4oyuS6-TWxLQfz5qSQ?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for Security Hub</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/transform-live-video-for-mobile-audiences-with-aws-elemental-inference/ <![CDATA[Micah Walter]]> Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:55:11 +0000 <![CDATA[AWS Elemental MediaLive]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[Media & Entertainment]]> <![CDATA[Media Services]]> <![CDATA[News]]> 3d1501d68824887d13ac59ef7b25076c2858c571 AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time, enabling broadcasters to reach audiences on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts without manual editing or AI expertise. <p>Today, we’re announcing <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/elemental-inference/">AWS Elemental Inference</a>, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms and maximizes live and on-demand video broadcasts to engage audiences at scale. At launch, you’ll be able to use AWS Elemental Inference to adapt video content into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time.</p> <p>With AWS Elemental Inference, broadcasters and streamers can reach audiences on social and mobile platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts without manual postproduction work or AI expertise.</p> <p>Today’s viewers consume content differently than they did even a few years ago. However, most broadcasts are produced in landscape format for traditional viewing. Converting these broadcasts into vertical formats for mobile platforms typically requires time-consuming manual editing that causes broadcasters and streamers to miss viral moments and lose audiences to mobile-first destinations.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Let’s try it out<br> </strong></span>AWS Elemental Inference offers flexible deployment options to fit your existing workflow. You can choose to create a feed through the standalone console or configure AWS Elemental Inference through the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/medialive/">AWS Elemental MediaLive</a> console.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-103082" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/17/elemental-01-1024x557.png" alt="AWS Elemental Inference console" width="1024" height="557"></p> <p>To get started with AWS Elemental Inference, navigate to the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/console/">AWS Management Console</a> and choose <strong>AWS Elemental Inference</strong>. From the dashboard, choose <strong>Create feed</strong> to establish your top-level resource for AI-powered video processing. A feed contains your feature configurations and begins in CREATING state before transitioning to AVAILABLE when ready.</p> <p><a href="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/02/2026-03-02_10-44-27-1.png"><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone wp-image-103255 size-large" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/03/02/2026-03-02_10-44-27-1-1024x825.png" alt="" width="1024" height="825"></a></p> <p>After creating your feed, you can configure outputs for either vertical video cropping or clip generation. For cropping, you can start with an empty feed. The service automatically manages cropping parameters based on your video specifications. For clip generation, choose <strong>Add output</strong>, provide a name (such as “highlight-clips”), select <strong>Clipping</strong> as the output type, and set the status to <strong>ENABLED</strong>.</p> <p>This standalone interface provides a streamlined experience for configuring and managing your AI-powered video transformations, making it straightforward to get started with vertical video creation and clip generation.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-103084" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/17/medialive-01-1024x448.png" alt="AWS MediaLive inference" width="1024" height="448"></p> <p>Alternatively, you can enable AWS Elemental Inference directly within your AWS Elemental MediaLive channel configuration. You can use this integrated approach to add AI capabilities to your existing live video workflows without modifying your architecture. Enable the features you need as part of your channel setup, and AWS Elemental Inference will work in parallel with your video encoding.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-103085" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/17/medialive-03-1024x736.png" alt="AWS MediaLive inference console" width="1024" height="736"></p> <p>After it’s enabled, you can configure <strong>Smart Crop</strong> with outputs for different resolution specifications within an <strong>Output group</strong>.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-103086" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/17/medialive-05-1024x790.png" alt="AWS MediaLive inference console" width="1024" height="790"></p> <p>AWS Elemental MediaLive now includes a dedicated AWS Elemental Inference tab on the channel details page, providing a centralized view of your AI-powered video transformation configuration. The tab displays the service <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html">Amazon Resource Name (ARN)</a>, data endpoints, and feed output details, including which features, such as Smart Crop, are enabled and their current operational status.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>How AWS Elemental Inference works<br> </strong></span>The service uses an agentic AI application that analyses video in real time and automatically applies the right optimizations at the right moments. Detection of vertical video cropping and clip generation happens independently, executing multistep transformations that require no human intervention to extract value.</p> <p>AWS Elemental Inference analyzes video and automatically applies AI capabilities with no human-in-the-loop prompting required. While you focus on quality video production, the service autonomously optimizes content to create personalized content experiences for your audience.</p> <p>AWS Elemental Inference applies AI capabilities in parallel with live video, achieving 6–10 second latency compared to minutes for traditional postprocessing approaches. This “process once, optimize everywhere” method runs multiple AI features simultaneously on the same video stream, eliminating the need to reprocess content for each capability.</p> <p>The service integrates seamlessly with AWS Elemental MediaLive, so you can enable AI features without modifying your existing video architecture. AWS Elemental Inference uses fully managed <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/foundation-models/">foundation models (FMs)</a> that are automatically updated and optimized, so you don’t need dedicated AI teams or specialized expertise.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Key features at launch<br> </strong></span>Enjoy the following key features when AWS Elemental Inference launches:</p> <ul> <li>Vertical video creation – AI-powered cropping intelligently transforms landscape broadcasts into vertical formats (9:16 aspect ratio) optimized for social and mobile platforms. The service tracks subjects and keeps key action visible, maintaining broadcast quality while automatically reformatting content for mobile viewing.</li> <li>Clip generation with advanced metadata analysis – Automatically detects and extracts clips from live content, highlighting moments for real-time distribution. For live broadcasts, this means identifying game-winning plays in soccer and basketball—reducing manual editing from hours to minutes.</li> </ul> <p>Keep an eye on this space as more features and capabilities will be introduced throughout this year, including tighter integration with core <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/media-services/elemental/">AWS Elemental</a> services and features to help customers monetize their video content.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Now available<br> </strong></span>AWS Elemental Inference is available today in 4 <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/">AWS Regions</a>: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). You can enable AWS Elemental Inference through the AWS Elemental MediaLive console or integrate it into your workflows using the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/medialive/latest/apireference/what-is.html">AWS Elemental MediaLive APIs</a>.</p> <p>With consumption-based pricing, you pay only for the features you use and the video you process, with no upfront costs or commitments. This means you can scale during peak events and optimize costs during quieter periods.</p> <p>To learn more about AWS Elemental Inference, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/elemental-inference">AWS Elemental Inference product page</a>. For technical implementation details, see the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elemental-inference/latest/userguide/what-is.html">AWS Elemental Inference documentation</a>.</p> <p><strong>Updated on February 24th</strong> —&nbsp;Fixed broken link in AWS Elemental Inference documentation.</p> <p><strong>Updated on March 2nd</strong>— Replaced second image.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-claude-sonnet-4-6-in-amazon-bedrock-kiro-in-govcloud-regions-new-agent-plugins-and-more-february-23-2026/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:56:24 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Aurora]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock]]> <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Nova]]> <![CDATA[Amazon SageMaker]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> 8076896a67485875ab923b0479f65e4976d7c7c5 Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Kiro. Other colleagues, Du’An Lightfoot, Elizabeth Fuentes, Laura Salinas, and Sandhya Subramani spoke about building and […] <p>Last week, my team met many developers at <a href="https://www.developerweek.com/">Developer Week</a> in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using <a href="https://kiro.dev/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Kiro</a>. Other colleagues, Du’An Lightfoot, Elizabeth Fuentes, Laura Salinas, and Sandhya Subramani spoke about building and deploying production-ready AI agents. Everyone stayed to ask and hear the questions related to agent memory, multi-agent patterns, meta-tooling and hooks. It was interesting how many developers were actually building agents.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-103102" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/20/2026-developer-week-conference.jpg" alt="" width="1800" height="594"></p> <p>We are continuing to meet developers and hear their feedback at third-party developer conferences. You can meet us at the <a href="https://devnexus.com/">dev/nexus</a>, the largest and longest-running Java ecosystem conference on March 4-6 in Atlanta. My colleague, <a href="https://devnexus.com/speakers/james-ward">James Ward</a> will speak about building AI Agents with Spring and MCP, and <a href="https://devnexus.com/speakers/vinicius-senger">Vinicius Senger</a> and <a href="https://devnexus.com/speakers/jonathan-vogel">Jonathan Vogel</a> will speak about 10 tools and tips to upgrade your Java code with AI. I’ll keep sharing places for you to connect with us.</p> <p><strong>Last week’s launches</strong><br> Here are some of the other announcements from last week:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/claude-sonnet-4.6-available-in-amazon-bedrock/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Claude Sonnet 4.6 model in Amazon Bedrock</a> – You can now use Claude Sonnet 4.6 which offers frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale. Claude Sonnet 4.6 approaches Opus 4.6 intelligence at a lower cost. It enables faster, high-quality task completion, making it ideal for high-volume coding and knowledge work use cases.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-hpc8a-instances-powered-by-5th-gen-amd-epyc-processors-are-now-available/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors</a> – You can use new Hpc8a instances delivering up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking. You can accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering workloads, and tightly coupled HPC applications.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-sagemaker-inference-for-custom-amazon-nova-models/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models</a> – You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments with Amazon SageMaker Inference to best meet your needs.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-ec2-nested-virtualization-on-virtual/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances</a> – You can create nested virtual machines by running KVM or Hyper-V on virtual EC2 instances. You can leverage this capability for use cases such as running emulators for mobile applications, simulating in-vehicle hardware for automobiles, and running Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-aurora-server-side-encryption-at-rest/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Server-Side Encryption by default in Amazon Aurora</a> – Amazon Aurora further strengthens your security posture by automatically applying server-side encryption by default to all new databases clusters using AWS-owned keys. This encryption is fully managed, transparent to users, and with no cost or performance impact.</li> <li><a href="https://kiro.dev/blog/introducing-govcloud/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions</a> – You can use Kiro for the development teams behind government missions. Developers in regulated environments can now leverage Kiro’s agentic AI tool with the rigorous security controls required.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS</a> page.</p> <p><strong>Additional updates</strong><br> Here are some additional news items that you might find interesting:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/introducing-agent-plugins-for-aws/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS</a> – You can see how new open-source Agent Plugins for AWS extend coding agents with skills for deploying applications to AWS. Using the <code>deploy-on-aws</code> plugin, you can generate architecture recommendations, cost estimates, and infrastructure-as-code directly from your coding agent.</li> <li><a href="https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/02/a-chat-with-byron-cook-on-automated-reasoning-and-trust-in-ai-systems.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">A chat with Byron Cook on automated reasoning and trust in AI systems</a> – You can hear how to verify AI systems doing the right thing using automated reasoning when they generate code or manage critical decisions. Byron Cook’s team has spent a decade proving correctness in AWS and apply those techniques to agentic systems.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/best-practices-for-deploying-aws-devops-agent-in-production/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Best practices for deploying AWS DevOps Agent in production</a> – You can read best practices for setting up DevOps Agent Spaces that balance investigation capability with operational efficiency. According to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/swaminathansivasubramanian_what-happens-when-an-application-goes-down-activity-7429241370197880832-hDHh?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAABGHXYBf20AS88WHERjRIUKOnefBR3chJA">Swami Sivasubramanian</a>, AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, has handled thousands of escalations, with an estimated root cause identification rate of over 86% within Amazon.</li> </ul> <p><strong>From AWS community</strong><br> Here are my personal favorite posts from AWS community:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://dev.to/aws/everything-you-need-to-know-about-aws-for-your-first-developer-job-52o2">Everything You Need to Know About AWS for Your First Developer Job</a> – Your first week as a developer will not look like the tutorials you followed previous. Read Ifeanyi Otuonye’s real-world AWS guide for your first job.</li> <li><a href="https://builder.aws.com/content/39P4kYpFQyYBeumcrXQp6IGhhDc/let-an-ai-agent-do-your-job-searching?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Let an AI Agent Do Your Job Searching</a> – Still manually checking career pages during a job search? AWS Hero Danielle H. built an AI agent that does the work for you.</li> <li><a href="https://builder.aws.com/content/3A1s1pHJUvbDQW227CLmcKw17OQ/building-the-aws-serverless-power-for-kiro?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Building the AWS Serverless Power for Kiro</a> – A former AWS Serverless Hero, Gunnar Grosch built a Kiro Power to integrate 25 MCP tools, ten steering guides, and structured decision guidance for the full development lifecycle.</li> </ul> <p>Join the <a href="https://builder.aws.com/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Builder Center</a> to connect with community, share knowledge, and access content that supports your development.</p> <p><strong>Upcoming AWS events</strong><br> Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Summits</a> – Join AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person events where you can explore emerging cloud and AI technologies, learn best practices, and network with industry peers and experts. Upcoming Summits include <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/paris/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Paris</a> (April 1), <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/london/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">London</a> (April 22), and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Bengaluru</a> (April 23–24).</li> <li><a href="https://builder.aws.com/content/38zSJWK4FkDqvJDwnQ0n9nqKvSx/announcing-amazon-nova-ai-hackathon-turn-your-ideas-into-reality?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Nova AI Hackathon</a> – Join developers worldwide to build innovative generative AI solutions using frontier foundation models and compete for $40,000 in prizes across five categories including agentic AI, multimodal understanding, UI automation, and voice experiences during this six-week challenge from February 2nd to March 16th, 2026.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/community-day/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Community Days</a> – Community-led conferences where content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders, featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming events include <a href="https://awsahmedabad.community/">Ahmedabad</a> (February 28), <a href="https://jawsdays2026.jaws-ug.jp/">JAWS Days in Tokyo</a> (March 7), <a href="https://www.acdchennai.com/">Chennai</a> (March 7), <a href="https://www.awscommunityday.sk/">Slovakia</a> (March 11), and <a href="https://www.awsugpune.in/">Pune</a> (March 21).</li> </ul> <p>Browse here for upcoming <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/explore-aws-events/?refid=e61dee65-4ce8-4738-84db-75305c9cd4fe">AWS led in-person and virtual events</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/startups/events?tab=upcoming">startup events</a>, and <a href="https://builder.aws.com/connect/events?trk=e61dee65-4ce8-4738-84db-75305c9cd4fe&amp;sc_channel=el">developer-focused events</a>.</p> <p>That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tag/week-in-review/?trk=39d9c26c-b157-46ae-bde6-9cf598f5c9e0&amp;sc_channel=el">Weekly Roundup</a>!</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-hpc8a-instances-powered-by-5th-gen-amd-epyc-processors-are-now-available/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:12:37 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Compute]]> <![CDATA[Featured]]> <![CDATA[High Performance Computing]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> e90f55f1621e490a1cef452882ef1fdd8abdb955 Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking, helping customers accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering workloads, and tightly coupled HPC applications. <p>Today, we’re announcing the general availability of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance type powered by latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These instances are ideal for compute-intensive tightly coupled HPC workloads, including computational fluid dynamics, simulations for faster design iterations, high-resolution weather modeling within tight operational windows, and complex crash simulations that require rapid time-to-results.</p> <p>The new Hpc8a instances deliver up to 40% higher performance, 42% greater memory bandwidth, and up to 25% better price-performance compared to previous generation <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-hpc7a-instances-powered-by-4th-gen-amd-epyc-processors-optimized-for-high-performance-computing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Hpc7a instances</a>. Customers benefit from the high core density, memory bandwidth, and low-latency networking that helped them scale efficiently and reduce job completion times for their compute-intensive simulation workloads.</p> <p><strong><u>Hpc8a instances</u></strong><br> Hpc8a instances are available with 192 cores, 768 GiB memory, and 300 Gbps <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/efa/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)</a> networking to run applications requiring high levels of inter node communications at scale.</p> <table style="border: 2px solid black;border-collapse: collapse;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto"> <tbody> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black;background-color: #e0e0e0"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>Instance Name</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>Physical Cores</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>Memory (Gib)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>EFA Network Bandwidth (Gbps)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>Network Bandwidth (Gbps)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>Attached Storage</strong></td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>Hpc8a.96xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">192</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">768</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">Up to 300</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">75</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">EBS Only</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Hpc8a instances are available in a single <strong>96xlarge</strong> size with a 1:4 core-to-memory ratio. You will have the capability to right size based on HPC workload requirements by customizing the number of cores needed at launch instances. These instances also use sixth-generation <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Nitro</a> cards, which offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, enhancing performance and security for your workloads.</p> <p>You can use Hpc8a instances with <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/parallelcluster/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS ParallelCluster</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/pcs/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS)</a> to simplify workload submission and cluster creation and <span class="rgqa_8711ccd9 rgqa_98b54368 rgqa_14dafab9 rgqa_275611e5" data-rg-n="BodyText"><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/lustre/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon FSx for Lustre</a> for sub-millisecond latencies and up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput for storage. To achieve the best performance for HPC workloads, these instances have Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) disabled.</span></p> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Stockholm) <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Regions</a>. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the <strong>CloudFormation</strong> resources tab of <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?tab=cfn-resources&amp;trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Capabilities by Region</a>.</p> <p>You can purchase these instances as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">On-Demand Instances</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Savings Plan</a>.&nbsp;To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 Pricing page</a>.</p> <p>Give Hpc8a instances a try in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 console</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/hpc8a/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances page</a> and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAO-wqN9fYRoyrpdULLa5y7g/amazon-ec-2?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for EC2</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-sagemaker-inference-for-custom-amazon-nova-models/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:25:23 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Nova]]> <![CDATA[Amazon SageMaker AI]]> <![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence]]> <![CDATA[Featured]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> 9998b159c2b1e9f133518cb56b6e3cf3fb7b4b33 AWS launches Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models. You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments to best meet their needs. <p>Since we launched <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-nova-customization-in-amazon-sagemaker-ai/">Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI</a> at AWS NY Summit 2025, customers have been asking for the same capabilities with <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/nova/">Amazon Nova</a> as they do when they customize open weights models in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/ai/deploy/">Amazon SageMaker Inference</a>. They also wanted have more control and flexibility in custom model inference over instance types, auto-scaling policies, context length, and concurrency settings that production workloads demand.</p> <p>Today, we’re announcing the general availability of custom Nova model support in Amazon SageMaker Inference, a production-grade, configurable, and cost-efficient managed inference service to deploy and scale full-rank customized Nova models. You can now experience an end-to-end customization journey to train Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova 2 Lite models with reasoning capabilities using <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/ai/train/">Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs</a> or <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/ai/hyperpod/">Amazon HyperPod</a> and seamlessly deploy them with managed inference infrastructure of Amazon SageMaker AI.</p> <p>With Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Nova models, you can reduce inference cost through optimized GPU utilization using <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g5/">G5</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g6/">G6</a> instances over <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p5/">P5 instances</a>, auto-scaling based on 5-minute usage patterns, and configurable inference parameters. This feature enables deployment of customized Nova models with continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, or reinforcement fine-tuning for your use cases. You can also set advanced configurations about context length, concurrency, and batch size for optimizing the latency-cost-accuracy tradeoff for your specific workloads.</p> <p>Let’s see how to deploy customized Nova models on SageMaker AI real-time endpoints, configure inference parameters, and invoke your models for testing.</p> <p><strong><u>Deploy custom Nova models in SageMaker Inference</u></strong><br> At AWS re:Invent 2025, we introduced <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-serverless-customization-in-amazon-sagemaker-ai-accelerates-model-fine-tuning/">new serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI</a> for popular AI models including Nova models. With a few clicks, you can seamlessly select a model and customization technique, and handle model evaluation and deployment. If you already have a trained custom Nova model artifact, you can deploy the models on SageMaker Inference through the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">SageMaker Studio</a> or <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/api-and-sdk-reference-overview.html">SageMaker AI SDK</a>.</p> <p>In the SageMaker Studio, choose a trained Nova model in Models in your models in the <strong>Models</strong> menu. You can deploy the model by choosing <strong>Deploy</strong> button, <strong>SageMaker AI</strong> and <strong>Create new endpoint</strong>.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102959" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/11/2026-sagemaker-ai-custom-nova-1-deploy.jpg" alt="" width="2380" height="1282"></p> <p>Choose the endpoint name, instance type, and advanced options such as instance count, max instance count, permission and networking, and <strong>Deploy</strong> button. At GA launch, you can use <code>g5.12xlarge</code>, <code>g5.24xlarge</code>, <code>g5.48xlarge</code>, <code>g6.12xlarge</code>, <code>g6.24xlarge</code>, <code>g6.48xlarge</code>, and <code>p5.48xlarge</code> instance types for the Nova Micro model, <code>g5.48xlarge</code>, <code>g6.48xlarge</code>, and <code>p5.48xlarge</code> for the Nova Lite model, and <code>p5.48xlarge</code> for the Nova 2 Lite model.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102961" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/11/2026-sagemaker-ai-custom-nova-2-deploy.jpg" alt="" width="2348" height="1466"></p> <p>Creating your endpoint requires time to provision the infrastructure, download your model artifacts, and initialize the inference container.</p> <p>After model deployment completes and the endpoint status shows<strong> InService</strong>, you can perform real-time inference using the new endpoint. To test the model, choose&nbsp;the <strong>Playground</strong> tab and input your prompt in the <strong>Chat</strong> mode.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-103015 size-full" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/16/2026-sagemaker-ai-custom-nova-3-deploy-1.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1950"></p> <p>You can also use the SageMaker AI SDK to create two resources: a SageMaker AI model object that references your Nova model artifacts, and an endpoint configuration that defines how the model will be deployed.</p> <p>The following code sample creates a SageMaker AI model that references your Nova model artifacts. For supported container images by Region, refer <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/nova2-userguide/nova-model-sagemaker-inference.html#nova-sagemaker-inference-container-images">table lists the container image URIs</a>:</p> <pre><code class="lang-python"># Create a SageMaker AI model model_response = sagemaker.create_model( ModelName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge', PrimaryContainer={ 'Image': '708977205387.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/nova-inference-repo:v1.0.0', 'ModelDataSource': { 'S3DataSource': { 'S3Uri': 's3://your-bucket-name/path/to/model/artifacts/', 'S3DataType': 'S3Prefix', 'CompressionType': 'None' } }, # Model Parameters 'Environment': { 'CONTEXT_LENGTH': 8000, 'MAX_CONCURRENCY': 16, 'DEFAULT_TEMPERATURE': 0.0, 'DEFAULT_TOP_P': 1.0 } }, ExecutionRoleArn=SAGEMAKER_EXECUTION_ROLE_ARN, EnableNetworkIsolation=True ) print("Model created successfully!")</code></pre> <p>Next, create an endpoint configuration that defines your deployment infrastructure and deploy your Nova model by creating a SageMaker AI real-time endpoint. This endpoint will host your model and provide a secure HTTPS endpoint for making inference requests.</p> <pre><code class="lang-python"># Create Endpoint Configuration production_variant = { 'VariantName': 'primary', 'ModelName': 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge', 'InitialInstanceCount': 1, 'InstanceType': 'ml.g5.12xlarge', } config_response = sagemaker.create_endpoint_config( EndpointConfigName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge-Config', ProductionVariants= production_variant ) print("Endpoint configuration created successfully!") # Deploy your Noval model endpoint_response = sagemaker.create_endpoint( EndpointName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge-endpoint', EndpointConfigName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge-Config' ) print("Endpoint creation initiated successfully!") </code></pre> <p>After the endpoint is created, you can send inference requests to generate predictions from your custom Nova model. Amazon SageMaker AI supports synchronous endpoints for real-time with streaming/non-streaming modes and asynchronous endpoints for batch processing.</p> <p>For example, the following code creates streaming completion format for text generation:</p> <pre><code class="lang-python"># Streaming chat request with comprehensive parameters streaming_request = { "messages": [ {"role": "user", "content": "Compare our Q4 2025 actual spend against budget across all departments and highlight variances exceeding 10%"} ], "max_tokens": 512, "stream": True, "temperature": 0.7, "top_p": 0.95, "top_k": 40, "logprobs": True, "top_logprobs": 2, "reasoning_effort": "low", # Options: "low", "high" "stream_options": {"include_usage": True} } invoke_nova_endpoint(streaming_request) def invoke_nova_endpoint(request_body): """ Invoke Nova endpoint with automatic streaming detection. Args: request_body (dict): Request payload containing prompt and parameters Returns: dict: Response from the model (for non-streaming requests) None: For streaming requests (prints output directly) """ body = json.dumps(request_body) is_streaming = request_body.get("stream", False) try: print(f"Invoking endpoint ({'streaming' if is_streaming else 'non-streaming'})...") if is_streaming: response = runtime_client.invoke_endpoint_with_response_stream( EndpointName=ENDPOINT_NAME, ContentType='application/json', Body=body ) event_stream = response['Body'] for event in event_stream: if 'PayloadPart' in event: chunk = event['PayloadPart'] if 'Bytes' in chunk: data = chunk['Bytes'].decode() print("Chunk:", data) else: # Non-streaming inference response = runtime_client.invoke_endpoint( EndpointName=ENDPOINT_NAME, ContentType='application/json', Accept='application/json', Body=body ) response_body = response['Body'].read().decode('utf-8') result = json.loads(response_body) print("✅ Response received successfully") return result except ClientError as e: error_code = e.response['Error']['Code'] error_message = e.response['Error']['Message'] print(f"❌ AWS Error: {error_code} - {error_message}") except Exception as e: print(f"❌ Unexpected error: {str(e)}")</code></pre> <p>To use full code examples, visit <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/nova/latest/nova2-userguide/nova-sagemaker-inference-getting-started.html">Getting started with customizing Nova models on SageMaker AI</a>. To learn more about best practices on deploying and managing models, visit <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/best-practices.html">Best practices for SageMaker AI</a>.</p> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Nova models is available today in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, visit the <a class="c-link" href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://builder.aws.com/capabilities/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">AWS Capabilities by Region</a>.</p> <p>The feature supports Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova 2 Lite models with reasoning capabilities, running on EC2 G5, G6, and P5 instances with auto-scaling support. You pay only for the compute instances you use, with per-hour billing and no minimum commitments. For more information, visit <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/ai/pricing/">Amazon SageMaker AI Pricing page</a>.</p> <p>Give it a try in <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon SageMaker AI console</a> and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAT80swPyVRPKPcA0rsJYPuA/amazon-sagemaker?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for SageMaker</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy">Channy</a></p> AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, new open weights models in Amazon Bedrock, and more (February 16, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-ec2-m8azn-instances-new-open-weights-models-in-amazon-bedrock-and-more-february-16-2026/ <![CDATA[Esra Kayabali]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:28:52 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service]]> <![CDATA[Amazon OpenSearch Service]]> <![CDATA[Amazon RDS]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> 9efc70ca45be3bf713fe326ea103242dc87aa7f8 I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new instance type landing that pushes performance boundaries further. As of […] <p>I joined AWS in 2021, and since then I’ve watched the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> instance family grow at a pace that still surprises me. From AWS Graviton-powered instances to specialized accelerated computing options, it feels like every few months there’s a new instance type landing that pushes performance boundaries further. As of February 2026, AWS offers over 1,160 Amazon EC2 instance types, and that number keeps climbing.</p> <p>This week’s opening news is a good example: The general availability of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-m8azn-instances-generally-available/">Amazon EC2 M8azn instances</a>. These are general purpose, high-frequency, high-network instances powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC processors, offering the highest maximum CPU frequency in the cloud at 5 GHz. Compared to the previous generation M5zn instances, M8azn instances deliver up to 2x compute performance, 4.3x higher memory bandwidth, and a 10x larger L3 cache. They also provide up to 2x networking throughput and up to 3x <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a> throughput compared with M5zn.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-103010" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/15/wir-feb16-2026-v3.png" alt="" width="3024" height="1692"></p> <p>Built on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/">AWS Nitro System</a> using sixth generation Nitro Cards, M8azn instances target workloads such as real-time financial analytics, high-performance computing, high-frequency trading, CI/CD pipelines, gaming, and simulation modeling across automotive, aerospace, energy, and telecommunications. The instances feature a 4:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and are available in 9 sizes ranging from 2 to 96 vCPUs with up to 384 GiB of memory, including two bare metal variants. For more information visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m8a">Amazon EC2 M8azn instance page</a>.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Last week’s launches</strong></span><br> Here are some of the other announcements from last week:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-bedrock-adds-support-six-open-weights-models/">Amazon Bedrock adds support for six fully managed open weights models</a> – Amazon Bedrock now supports DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Flash, Kimi K2.5, and Qwen3 Coder Next. These models span frontier reasoning and agentic coding workloads. DeepSeek V3.2 and Kimi K2.5 target reasoning and agentic intelligence, GLM 4.7 and MiniMax M2.1 support autonomous coding with large output windows, and Qwen3 Coder Next and GLM 4.7 Flash provide cost-efficient alternatives for production deployment. These models are powered by Project Mantle and provide out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specifications.&nbsp;With the launch, you can also use new open weight models–<a href="https://kiro.dev/blog/open-weight-models/">DeepSeek v3.2 , MiniMax 2.1, and Qwen3 Coder Next in Kiro</a>, a spec-driven AI development tool.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-bedrock-expands-aws-privatelink-support-openai-api-endpoints/">Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink</a> – Amazon Bedrock now supports AWS PrivateLink for the <code>bedrock-mantle</code> endpoint, in addition to existing support for the <code>bedrock-runtime</code> endpoint. The bedrock-mantle endpoint is powered by Project Mantle, a distributed inference engine for large-scale machine learning model serving on Amazon Bedrock. Project Mantle provides serverless inference with quality of service controls, higher default customer quotas with automated capacity management, and out-of-the-box compatibility with OpenAI API specifications. AWS PrivateLink support for OpenAI API-compatible endpoints is available in 14 AWS Regions. To get started, visit the Amazon Bedrock console or the OpenAI API compatibility documentation.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-eks-auto-mode-enhanced-logging/">Amazon EKS Auto Mode announces enhanced logging for managed Kubernetes capabilities</a> – You can now configure log delivery sources using Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs in Amazon EKS Auto Mode. This helps you collect logs from Auto Mode’s managed Kubernetes capabilities for compute autoscaling, block storage, load balancing, and pod networking. Each Auto Mode capability can be configured as a CloudWatch Vended Logs delivery source with built-in AWS authentication and authorization at a reduced price compared to standard CloudWatch Logs. You can deliver logs to CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, or Amazon Data Firehose destinations. This feature is available in all Regions where EKS Auto Mode is available.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-opensearch-serverless-supports-collection-groups/">Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups</a> – You can use new Collection Groups to share OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) across collections with different AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys. Collection Groups reduce overall OCU costs through a shared compute model while maintaining collection-level security and access controls. They also introduce the ability to specify minimum OCU allocations alongside maximum OCU limits, providing guaranteed baseline capacity at startup for latency-sensitive applications. Collection Groups are available in all Regions where Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is currently available.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/rds-aurora-backup-configuration-restoring-snapshots/">Amazon RDS now supports backup configuration when restoring snapshots</a> – You can view and modify the backup retention period and preferred backup window before and during snapshot restore operations. Previously, restored database instances and clusters inherited backup parameter values from snapshot metadata and could only be modified after restore was complete. You can now view backup settings as part of automated backups and snapshots, and specify or modify these values when restoring, eliminating the need for post-restoration modifications. This is available for all Amazon RDS database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and Db2) and Amazon Aurora (MySQL-Compatible and PostgreSQL-Compatible editions) in all AWS commercial Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions at no additional cost.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS</a> page.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Upcoming AWS events</strong></span><br> Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:</p> <p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/?trk=ep_card_event_page&amp;awsf.location=*all&amp;refid=ep_card_event_page">AWS Summits</a> – Join AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person events where you can explore emerging cloud and AI technologies, learn best practices, and network with industry peers and experts. Upcoming Summits include <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/paris/">Paris</a> (April 1), <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/london/">London</a> (April 22), and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/summits/">Bengaluru</a> (April 23–24).</p> <p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/uki/cloud-services/aws-events/ai-and-data-conference-2026/">AWS AI and Data Conference 2026</a> – A free, single-day in-person event on March 12 at the Lyrath Convention Centre in Ireland. The conference covers designing, training, and deploying agents with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and QuickSight, integrating them with AWS data services, and applying governance practices to operate them at scale. The agenda includes strategic guidance and hands-on labs for architects, developers, and business leaders.</p> <p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/community-day/">AWS Community Days</a> – Community-led conferences where content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders, featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming events include <a href="https://awsahmedabad.community/">Ahmedabad</a> (February 28), <a href="https://www.awscommunityday.sk/">Slovakia</a> (March 11), and <a href="https://www.awsugpune.in/">Pune</a> (March 21).</p> <p>Join the <a href="https://builder.aws.com/?trk=e61dee65-4ce8-4738-84db-75305c9cd4fe&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Builder Center</a> to connect with builders, share solutions, and access content that supports your development. Browse here for upcoming <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/explore-aws-events/?refid=e61dee65-4ce8-4738-84db-75305c9cd4fe">AWS led in-person and virtual events</a> and <a href="https://builder.aws.com/connect/events?trk=e61dee65-4ce8-4738-84db-75305c9cd4fe&amp;sc_channel=el">developer-focused events</a>.</p> <p>That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!</p> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/esrakayabali/">— Esra</a> <p><em>This post is part of our&nbsp;Weekly Roundup&nbsp;series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-claude-opus-4-6-in-amazon-bedrock-aws-builder-id-sign-in-with-apple-and-more-february-9-2026/ <![CDATA[Sébastien Stormacq]]> Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:42:04 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock]]> <![CDATA[Amazon CloudFront]]> <![CDATA[Amazon DynamoDB]]> <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Elastic Container Service]]> <![CDATA[Amazon RDS]]> <![CDATA[Announcements]]> <![CDATA[AWS Config]]> <![CDATA[AWS Management Console]]> <![CDATA[AWS Network Firewall]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> ae73b944ee10c1c12da18f16573cbacff7a6697e Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS. Last week’s launches Here are the launches that got my attention this week. Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure: Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances: These new Amazon EC2 […] <p>Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS.</p> <p><strong><u>Last week’s launches</u></strong><br> Here are the launches that got my attention this week.</p> <p>Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-ec2-c8id-m8id-r8id-instances/">Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances: </a>These new Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. These instances offer up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation instances.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-network-firewall-new-price-reduction/">AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions: </a>The service has added the hourly and data processing discounts on NAT Gateways that are service-chained with Network Firewall secondary endpoints. Additionally, AWS Network Firewall has removed additional data processing charges for Advanced Inspection, which enables Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection of encrypted network traffic.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-ecs-nlb-linear-canary-deployments/">Amazon ECS adds Network Load Balancer support for Linear and Canary deployments: </a>Applications that commonly use NLB, such as those requiring TCP/UDP-based connections, low latency, long-lived connections, or static IP addresses, can take advantage of managed, incremental traffic shifting natively from ECS when rolling out updates.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-config-new-resource-types/">AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types: </a>These range&nbsp;across key services including Amazon EKS, Amazon Q, and AWS IoT. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/dynamodb-gt-multi-account/">Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts: </a>DynamoDB global tables are a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database. With this new capability, you can replicate tables across AWS accounts and Regions to improve resiliency, isolate workloads at the account level, and apply distinct security and governance controls.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/amazon-rds-provides-enhanced-console-experience/">Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database: </a>The new console experience provides ready-made code snippets for Java, Python, Node.js, and other programming languages as well as tools like the <code>psql</code> command line utility. These code snippets are automatically adjusted based on your database’s authentication settings. For example, if your cluster uses IAM authentication, the generated code snippets will use token-based authentication to connect to the database. The console experience also includes integrated CloudShell access, offering the ability to connect to your databases directly from within the RDS console.</li> </ul> <p>Then, I noticed three news items related to security and how you authenticate on AWS:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/aws-builder-id-sign-in-apple/">AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple: </a>AWS Builder ID, your profile for accessing AWS applications including AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, AWS re:Post, AWS Startups, and Kiro, now supports sign-in with Apple as a social login provider. This expansion of sign-in options builds on the existing sign-in with Google capability, providing Apple users with a streamlined way to access AWS resources without managing separate credentials on AWS.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/aws-sts-supports-validation-identity-provider-claims/">AWS STS now supports validation of select identity provider specific claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI and OCI: </a>You can reference these custom claims as condition keys in IAM role trust policies and resource control policies, expanding your ability to implement fine-grained access control for federated identities and help you establish your data perimeters. This enhancement builds upon IAM’s existing OIDC federation capabilities, which allow you to grant temporary AWS credentials to users authenticated through external OIDC-compatible identity providers.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/02/console-displays-account-name-on-nav-bar/">AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar for easier account identification: </a>You now have an easy way to identify your accounts at a glance. You can now quickly distinguish between accounts visually using the account name that appears in the navigation bar for all authorized users in that account.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-cloudfront-mutual-tls-for-origins/">Amazon CloudFront announces mutual TLS support for origins: </a>Now with origin mTLS support, you can implement a standardized, certificate-based authentication approach that eliminates operational burden. This enables organizations to enforce strict authentication for their proprietary content, ensuring that only verified CloudFront distributions can establish connections to backend infrastructure ranging from AWS origins and on-premises servers to third-party cloud providers and external CDNs.</li> </ul> <p>Finally, there is not a single week without news around AI :</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/2/claude-opus-4.6-available-amazon-bedrock/">Claude Opus 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock: </a>Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date and a premier model for coding, enterprise agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.6 brings advanced capabilities to Amazon Bedrock customers, including industry-leading performance for agentic tasks, complex coding projects, and enterprise-grade workflows that require deep reasoning and reliability.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/2/claude-opus-4.6-available-amazon-bedrock/">Structured outputs now available in Amazon Bedrock: </a>Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs, a capability that provides consistent, machine-readable responses from foundation models that adhere to your defined JSON schemas. Instead of prompting for valid JSON and adding extra checks in your application, you can specify the format you want and receive responses that match it—making production workflows more predictable and resilient.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS?</a> page.</p> <p><strong><u>Upcoming AWS events</u></strong><br> Check your calendars so that you can sign up for this upcoming event:</p> <p><a href="https://aws-community.ro/">AWS Community Day Romania (April 23–24, 2026): </a>This community-led AWS event brings together developers, architects, entrepreneurs, and students for more than 10 professional sessions delivered by AWS Heroes, Solutions Architects, and industry experts. Attendees can expect expert-led technical talks, insights from speakers with global conference experience, and opportunities to connect during dedicated networking breaks, all hosted at a premium venue designed to support collaboration and community engagement.</p> <p>If you’re looking for more ways to stay connected beyond this event, join the <a href="https://builder.aws.com/?trk=e61dee65-4ce8-4738-84db-75305c9cd4fe&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Builder Center</a> to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community.</p> <p>Check back next Monday for another <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tag/week-in-review/?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">Weekly Roundup</a>.</p> <a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a> Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-c8id-m8id-and-r8id-instances-with-up-to-22-8-tb-local-nvme-storage-are-generally-available/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:31:56 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Compute]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> b98e2f9e64d4562c5bd45bcddca59dab3374ea0b AWS launches Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offer 3 times more vCPUs, memory, and local storage with up to 22.8TB of local NVMe-backed SSD block-level storage. <p>Last year, we launched the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-new-compute-optimized-amazon-ec2-c8i-and-c8i-flex-instances/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">C8i instances</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-general-purpose-amazon-ec2-m8i-and-m8i-flex-instances-are-now-available/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">M8i instances</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/best-performance-and-fastest-memory-with-the-new-amazon-ec2-r8i-and-r8i-flex-instances/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">R8i instances</a> powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency. They deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.</p> <p>Today we’re announcing new Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by up to 22.8TB of NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offer 3 times more vCPUs, memory and local storage compared to previous sixth-generation instances.</p> <p>These instances deliver up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3 times more memory bandwidth compared to previous sixth-generation instances. They also deliver up to 46% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 30% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics compared to previous sixth generation instances.</p> <ul> <li><strong>C8id instances</strong> are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, including those that need access to high-speed, low-latency local storage like video encoding, image manipulation, and other forms of media processing.</li> <li><strong>M8id instances</strong> are best for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low-latency local block storage, including data logging, media processing, and medium-sized data stores.</li> <li><strong>R8id instances</strong> are designed for memory-intensive workloads such as large-scale SQL and NoSQL databases, in-memory databases, large-scale data analytics, and AI inference.</li> </ul> <p>C8id, M8id, and R8id instances now scale up to <strong>96xlarge</strong> (versus <strong>32xlarge</strong> sizes in the sixth generation) with up to 384 vCPUs, 3TiB of memory, and 22.8TB of local storage that make it easier to scale up applications and drive greater efficiencies. These instances also offer two bare metal sizes (<strong>metal-48xl</strong> and <strong>metal-96xl</strong>), allowing you to right size your instances and deploy your most performance sensitive workloads that benefit from direct access to physical resources.</p> <p>The instances are available in 11 sizes per family, as well as two bare metal configurations each:</p> <table style="border: 2px solid black;border-collapse: collapse;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;height: 67px"> <thead> <tr style="border: 1px solid black;background-color: #e0e0e0"> <th style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">Instance Name</th> <th style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">vCPUs</th> <th style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">Memory (GiB) (C/M/R)</th> <th style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">Local NVMe storage (GB)</th> <th style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">Network bandwidth (Gbps)</th> <th style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px">EBS bandwidth (Gbps)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>large</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">2</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">4/8/16*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1 x 118</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 12.5</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">4</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">8/16/32*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1 x 237</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 12.5</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>2xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">8</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">16/32/64*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1 x 474</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 15</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>4xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">16</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">32/64/128*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1 x 950</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 15</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>8xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">32</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">64/128/256*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1 x 1,900</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">15</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>12xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">48</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">96/192/384*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1 x 2,850</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">22.5</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">15</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>16xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">64</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">128/256/512*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1 x 3,800</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">30</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">20</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>24xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">96</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">192/384/768*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">2 x 2,850</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">40</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">30</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>32xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">128</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">256/512/1024*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">2 x 3,800</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">50</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">40</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>48xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">192</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">384/768/1536*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">3 x 3,800</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">75</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">60</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>96xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">384</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">768/1536/3072*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">6 x 3,800</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">100</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">80</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>metal-48xl</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">192</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">384/768/1536*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">3 x 3,800</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">75</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">60</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>metal-96xl</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">384</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">768/1536/3072*</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">6 x 3,800</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">100</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">80</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p style="text-align: left"><em>*Memory values are for C8id/M8id/R8id respectively.</em></p> <p>These instances support the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/instance-bandwidth-configuration.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Instance Bandwidth Configuration (IBC)</a> feature like other eighth-generation instance types, offering flexibility to allocate resources between network and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a> bandwidth. You can scale network or EBS bandwidth by 25%, allocating resources optimally for each workload. These instances also use sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards offloading CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, enhancing performance and security for your workloads.</p> <p>You can use any <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AMIs.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)</a> that include drivers for the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/enhanced-networking-ena.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)</a> and NVMe to fully utilize the performance and capabilities. All current generation AWS Windows and Linux AMIs come with the AWS NVMe driver installed by default.&nbsp;If you use an AMI that does not have the AWS NVMe driver, you can manually install <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/aws-nvme-drivers.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS NVMe drivers</a>.</p> <p>As I noted in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-ec2-m6id-and-c6id-instances-with-up-to-7-6-tb-local-nvme-storage/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">my previous blog post</a>, here are a couple of things to remind you about the local NVMe storage on these instances:</p> <ul> <li>You don’t have to specify a block device mapping in your AMI or during the instance launch; the local storage will show up as one or more devices (<code>/dev/nvme[0-26]n1</code> on Linux) after the guest operating system has booted.</li> <li>Each local NVMe device is hardware encrypted using the <code>XTS-AES-256</code> block cipher and a unique key. Each key is destroyed when the instance is stopped or terminated.</li> <li>Local NVMe devices have the same lifetime as the instance they are attached to and do not persist after the instance has been stopped or terminated.</li> </ul> <p>To learn more, visit <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/nvme-ebs-volumes.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EBS volumes and NVMe</a> in the Amazon EBS User Guide.</p> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id and R8id instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Regions</a>. R8id instances are additionally available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the <strong>CloudFormation</strong> resources tab of <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?tab=cfn-resources&amp;trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Capabilities by Region</a>.</p> <p>You can purchase these instances as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">On-Demand Instances</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Savings Plans</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/?trk=trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Spot Instances</a>. These instances are also available as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/dedicated-instances/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Dedicated Instances</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Dedicated Hosts</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 Pricing page</a>.</p> <p>Give C8id, M8id, and R8id instances a try in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 console</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c8i/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">EC2 C8i instances</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/m8i/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">M8i instances</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/r8i/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">R8i instances</a> page and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAO-wqN9fYRoyrpdULLa5y7g/amazon-ec-2?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for EC2</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iam-identity-center-now-supports-multi-region-replication-for-aws-account-access-and-application-use/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:13:34 +0000 <![CDATA[AWS IAM Identity Center]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Security, Identity, & Compliance]]> c503f9714eaa85d97d5a22a56056ced551fa05a0 AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication of workforce identities and permission sets, enabling improved resiliency for AWS account access and allowing applications to be deployed closer to users while meeting data residency requirements. <p>Today, we’re announcing the general availability of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/identity-center/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS IAM Identity Center</a> multi-Region support to enable <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/manage-your-accounts.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS account access</a> and <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/awsapps.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">managed application use</a> in additional <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Regions</a>.</p> <p>With this feature, you can replicate your workforce identities, permission sets, and other metadata in your organization instance of IAM Identity Center connected to an external identity provider (IdP), such as Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, from its current primary Region to additional Regions for improved resiliency of AWS account access.</p> <p>You can also deploy AWS managed applications in your preferred Regions, close to application users and datasets for improved user experience or to meet data residency requirements. Your applications deployed in additional Regions access replicated workforce identities locally for optimal performance and reliability.</p> <p>When you replicate your workforce identities to an additional Region, your workforce gets an active AWS access portal endpoint in that Region. This means that in the unlikely event of an IAM Identity Center service disruption in its primary Region, your workforce can still access their AWS accounts through the AWS access portal in an additional Region using already provisioned permissions. You can continue to manage IAM Identity Center configurations from the primary Region, maintaining centralized control.</p> <p><strong><u>Enable IAM Identity Center in multiple Regions</u></strong><br> To get started, you should confirm that the AWS managed applications you’re currently using support <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kms/latest/cryptographic-details/basic-concepts.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">customer managed AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key</a> enabled in AWS Identity Center. When we introduced <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iam-identity-center-now-supports-customer-managed-kms-keys-for-encryption-at-rest/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">this feature</a> in October 2025, Seb recommended using multi-Region AWS KMS keys unless your company policies restrict you to single-Region keys. Multi-Region keys provide consistent key material across Regions while maintaining independent key infrastructure in each Region.</p> <p>Before replicating IAM Identity Center to an additional Region, you must first replicate the customer managed AWS KMS key to that Region and configure the replica key with the permissions required for IAM Identity Center operations. For instructions on creating multi-Region replica keys, refer to <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/identity-center-customer-managed-keys.html#replicate-kms-key?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Create multi-Region replica keys</a> in the AWS KMS Developer Guide.</p> <p>Go to the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">IAM Identity Center console</a> in the primary Region, for example, US East (N. Virginia), choose <strong>Settings</strong> in the left-navigation pane, and select the <strong>Management</strong> tab. Confirm that your configured encryption key is a multi-Region customer managed AWS KMS key. To add more Regions, choose <strong>Add Region</strong>.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-102879 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/29/2026-idc-multiRegion-1.png" alt="" width="1382" height="628"></p> <p>You can choose additional Regions to replicate the IAM Identity Center in a list of the available Regions. When choosing an additional Region, consider your intended use cases, for example, data compliance or user experience.</p> <p>If you want to run AWS managed applications that access datasets limited to a specific Region for compliance reasons, choose the Region where the datasets reside. If you plan to use the additional Region to deploy AWS applications, verify that the required <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/awsapps-that-work-with-identity-center.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">applications support</a> your chosen Region and deployment in additional Regions.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102821" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/16/2026-idc-multiRegion-2.png" alt="" width="1350" height="742"></p> <p>Choose <strong>Add Region</strong>. This starts the initial replication whose duration depends on the size of your Identity Center instance.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-102880 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/29/2026-idc-multiRegion-3.png" alt="" width="1140" height="271"></p> <p>After the replication is completed, your users can access their AWS accounts and applications in this new Region. When you choose <strong>View ACS URLs</strong>, you can view <a href="https://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/Post2.0/sstc-saml-tech-overview-2.0.html">SAML</a> information, such as an Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL, about the primary and additional Regions.</p> <p><strong><u>How your workforce can use an additional Region</u></strong><br> AWS Identity Center supports SAML single sign-on with external IdPs, such as Microsoft Entra ID and Okta. Upon authentication in the IdP, the user is redirected to the AWS access portal. To enable the user to be redirected to the AWS access portal in the newly added Region, you need to add the additional Region’s ACS URL to the IdP configuration.</p> <p>The following screenshots show you how to do this in the Okta admin console:</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-102925 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/02/05/2026-idc-multiRegion-4-1.png" alt="" width="2132" height="1406"></p> <p>Then, you can create a bookmark application in your identity provider for users to discover the additional Region. This bookmark app functions like a browser bookmark and contains only the URL to the AWS access portal in the additional Region.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-102860 size-full" style="border: solid 1px #ccc" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/22/2026-idc-multiRegion-4-1-1.png" alt="" width="1970" height="888"></p> <p>You can also deploy AWS managed applications in additional Regions using your existing deployment workflows. Your users can&nbsp;access applications or accounts using the existing access methods, such as the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/multi-region-workforce-access.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS access portal</a>, an application link, or through the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)</a>.</p> <p>To learn more about which AWS managed applications support deployment in additional Regions, visit the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/awsapps-that-work-with-identity-center.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">IAM Identity Center User Guide</a>.</p> <p><strong><u>Things to know</u></strong><br> Here are key considerations to know about this feature:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Consideration</strong> – To take advantage of this feature at launch, you must be using an organization instance of IAM Identity Center connected to an external IdP. Also, the primary and additional Regions must be enabled by default in an AWS account. Account instances of IAM Identity Center, and the other two identity sources (Microsoft Active Directory and IAM Identity Center directory) are presently not supported.</li> <li><strong>Operation</strong> – The primary Region remains the central place for managing workforce identities, account access permissions, external IdP, and other configurations. You can use the IAM Identity Center console in additional Regions with a limited feature set. Most operations are read-only, except for application management and user session revocation.</li> <li><strong>Monitoring</strong> – All workforce actions are emitted in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS CloudTrail</a> in the Region where the action was performed. This feature enhances account access continuity. You can set up <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/organizing-your-aws-environment/break-glass-access.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">break-glass access</a> for privileged users to access AWS if the external IdP has a service disruption.</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>Now available<br> </u></strong>AWS IAM Identity Center multi-Region support is now available in the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/accounts/latest/reference/manage-acct-regions.html#manage-acct-regions-regional-availability?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">17 enabled-by-default commercial AWS Regions</a>. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, visit the <a class="c-link" href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://builder.aws.com/capabilities/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">AWS Capabilities by Region</a>. You can use this feature at no additional cost. Standard <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/kms/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS KMS charges</a> apply for storing and using customer managed keys.</p> <p>Give it a try in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Identity Center console</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/singlesignon/latest/userguide/multi-region-iam-identity-center.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">IAM Identity Center User Guide</a>&nbsp;and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAJNFEvp8UQUaLplKZtOsAaw/aws-iam-identity-center?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for Identity Center</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> <p><strong>Updated on February 5th</strong> — Fixed the Okta admin console screenshot.</p> AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock agent workflows, Amazon SageMaker private connectivity, and more (February 2, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-bedrock-agent-workflows-amazon-sagemaker-private-connectivity-and-more-february-2-2026/ <![CDATA[Betty Zheng (郑予彬)]]> Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:19:48 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock]]> <![CDATA[Amazon DynamoDB]]> <![CDATA[Amazon EventBridge]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)]]> <![CDATA[Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)]]> <![CDATA[AWS CloudFormation]]> <![CDATA[AWS Lambda]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> 34bdfbe23b069a6b72296b430171b5fbb7bcb696 Over the past week, we passed Laba festival, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in China, it’s a moment associated with reflection and preparation, wrapping up what the year has carried, and turning attention toward what lies ahead. Looking forward, […] <p><a href="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/31/Screenshot-2026-01-31-at-19.17.02.png"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-102903 size-medium alignright" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/31/Screenshot-2026-01-31-at-19.17.02-300x213.png" alt="" width="300" height="213"></a>Over the past week, we passed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laba_Festival">Laba festival</a>, a traditional marker in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in China, it’s a moment associated with reflection and preparation, wrapping up what the year has carried, and turning attention toward what lies ahead.</p> <p>Looking forward, next week also brings <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichun">Lichun</a>, the beginning of spring and the first of the 24 solar terms. In Chinese tradition, spring is often seen as the season when growth begins and new cycles take shape. There’s a common saying that “a year’s plans begin in spring,” capturing the idea that this is a time to set one’s direction and start fresh.</p> <p><strong><u>Last week’s launches</u></strong><br> Here are the launches that got my attention this week:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/">Amazon Bedrock</a> enhances support for agent workflows with server-side tools and extended prompt caching – Amazon Bedrock introduced two updates that improve how developers build and operate AI agents. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-bedrock-server-side-custom-tools-responses-api/">The Responses API now supports server-side tool use</a>, so agents can perform actions such as web search, code execution, and database updates within AWS security boundaries. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-bedrock-one-hour-duration-prompt-caching/">Bedrock also adds a 1-hour time-to-live (TTL) option for prompt caching</a>, which helps improve performance and reduce the cost for long-running, multi-turn agent workflows. Server-side tools are available with OpenAI GPT OSS 20B and 120B models, and the 1-hour prompt caching TTL is generally available for select Claude models by Anthropic in Amazon Bedrock.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-sagemaker-unified-studio-aws-privatelink/">Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds private VPC connectivity with AWS PrivateLink</a> – <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/unified-studio/">Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio</a> now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing private connectivity between your VPC and SageMaker Unified Studio without routing customer data over the public internet. With SageMaker service endpoints onboarded into a VPC, data traffic remains within the AWS network and is governed by IAM policies, supporting stricter security and compliance requirements.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/change-the-server-side-encryption-type-of-s3-objects/">Amazon S3 adds support for changing object encryption without data movement</a> – <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon S3</a> now supports changing the server-side encryption type of existing encrypted objects without moving or re-uploading data. Using the <code>UpdateObjectEncryption</code> API, you can switch from SSE-S3 to SSE-KMS, rotate customer -managed AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys, or standardize encryption across buckets at scale with S3 Batch Operations while preserving object properties and lifecycle eligibility.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-pre-warming-for-amazon-keyspaces-tables/">Amazon Keyspaces introduces table pre-warming for predictable high-throughput workloads</a> – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports table pre-warming, which helps you proactively set warm throughput levels so tables can handle high read and write traffic instantly without cold-start delays. Pre-warming helps reduce throttling during sudden traffic spikes, such as product launches or sales events, and works with both on-demand and provisioned capacity modes, including multi-Region tables. The feature supports consistent, low-latency performance while giving you more control over throughput readiness.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-dynamodb-global-tables-with-mrsc-fis/">Amazon DynamoDB MRSC global tables integrate with AWS Fault Injection Service</a> – <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">Amazon DynamoDB</a> multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) global tables now integrate with AWS Fault Injection Service. With this integration, you can simulate Regional failures, test replication behavior, and validate application resiliency for strongly consistent, multi-Region workloads.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/cloudwatch-application-signals-kiro-powers/">Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals integration with Kiro powers</a> – You can investigate application health issues faster with AI agent-assisted workflows in Kiro. This Kiro power packages the Application Signals MCP server with targeted observability guidance, giving the Kiro agent instant context for service health monitoring, SLO compliance, and investigation workflows.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS?</a> page.</p> <p><strong><u>Additional updates</u></strong><br> Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that I found interesting:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery/building-zero-trust-access-across-multi-account-aws-environments/">Building zero-trust access across multi-account AWS environments with AWS Verified Access</a> – This post walks through how to implement AWS Verified Access in a centralized, shared-services architecture. It shows how to integrate with AWS IAM Identity Center and AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) to apply zero trust access controls at the application layer and reduce operational overhead across multi-account AWS environments.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-eventbridge-increases-event-payload-size-256-kb-1-mb/">Amazon EventBridge increases event payload size to 1 MB</a> – Amazon EventBridge now supports event payloads up to 1 MB, an increase from the previous 256 KB limit. This update helps event-driven architectures carry richer context in a single event, including complex JSON structures, telemetry data, and machine learning (ML) or generative AI outputs, without splitting payloads or relying on external storage.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/01/aws-announces-deployment-agent-sops-in-aws-mcp-server-preview/">AWS MCP Server adds deployment agent SOPs (preview)</a> – AWS introduced deployment standard operating procedures (SOPs) that AI agents can deploy web applications to AWS from a single natural language prompt in MCP -compatible integrated development environments (IDEs) and command line interfaces (CLIs) such as Kiro, Cursor, and Claude Code. The agent generates AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) infrastructure, deploys AWS CloudFormation stacks, and sets up continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows following AWS best practices. The preview supports frameworks including React, Vue.js, Angular, and Next.js.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/aws-network-firewall-web-category-based-filtering/">AWS Network Firewall adds generation AI traffic visibility with web category filtering</a> – AWS Network Firewall now provides visibility into generative AI application traffic through predefined web categories. You can use these categories directly in firewall rules to govern access to generative AI tools and other web services. When combined with TLS inspection, category-based filtering can be applied at the full URL level.</li> <li>A<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/aws-Lambda-observability-for-kafka-esm/">WS Lambda adds enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings</a> – <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/">AWS Lambda</a> introduced enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings, providing Amazon CloudWatch Logs and metrics to monitor event polling configuration, scaling behavior, and event processing state. The update improves visibility into Kafka-based Lambda workloads, helping teams diagnose configuration issues, permission errors, and function failures more efficiently. The capability supports both Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and self-managed Apache Kafka event sources.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/aws-cloudformation-2025-year-in-review/">AWS CloudFormation 2025 year in review</a> – This year-in-review post highlights CloudFormation updates delivered throughout 2025, with a focus on early validation, safer deployments, and improved developer workflows. It covers enhancements such as improved troubleshooting, drift-aware change sets, stack refactoring, StackSets updates, and new -IDE and AI -assisted tooling, including the CloudFormation language server and the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) MCP server.</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>Upcoming AWS events</u></strong><br> Check your calendars so that you can sign up for this upcoming event:</p> <p><a href="https://aws-community.ro/">AWS Community Day Romania (April 23–24, 2026)</a> – This community-led AWS event brings together developers, architects, entrepreneurs, and students for more than 10 professional sessions delivered by AWS Heroes, Solutions Architects, and industry experts. Attendees can expect expert-led technical talks, insights from speakers with global conference experience, and opportunities to connect during dedicated networking breaks, all hosted at a premium venue designed to support collaboration and community engagement.</p> <p>If you’re looking for more ways to stay connected beyond this event, join the <a href="https://builder.aws.com/?trk=e61dee65-4ce8-4738-84db-75305c9cd4fe&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Builder Center</a> to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community.</p> <p>Check back next Monday for another <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tag/week-in-review/?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">Weekly Roundup</a>.</p> <p>–<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/zhengyubin714">betty</a></p> AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2 G7e instances, Amazon Corretto updates, and more (January 26, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-ec2-g7e-instances-with-nvidia-blackwell-gpus-january-26-2026/ <![CDATA[Micah Walter]]> Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:25:46 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon CloudWatch]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Connect]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Corretto]]> <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Elastic Container Registry]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> 62a75d97616b2ccfdd8b491bef0d4af55506b04f Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still flowing! This week brings exciting news for customers running GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our newest graphics and AI inference […] <p>Hey! It’s my first post for 2026, and I’m writing to you while watching our driveway getting dug out. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data is still flowing!</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-102867" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/26/IMG_0652-1024x676.jpg" alt="Our driveway getting snow plowed" width="1024" height="676"></p> <p>This week brings exciting news for customers running GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our newest graphics and AI inference instances powered by NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell architecture. Along with several service enhancements and regional expansions, this week’s updates continue to expand the capabilities available to AWS customers.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Last week’s launches<br> </strong></span>I thought these projects, blog posts, and news items were also interesting:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-ec2-g7e-instances-accelerated-by-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-server-edition-gpus/">Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now generally available</a> — The new G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs deliver up to 2.3 times better inference performance compared to G6e instances. With two times the GPU memory and support for up to 8 GPUs providing 768 GB of total GPU memory, these instances enable running medium-sized models of up to 70B parameters with FP8 precision on a single GPU. G7e instances are ideal for generative AI inference, spatial computing, and scientific computing workloads. Available now in US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio).</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-corretto-january-2026-quarterly-updates/">Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates</a> — AWS released quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 25.0.2, 21.0.10, 17.0.18, 11.0.30, and 8u482 are now available, ensuring Java developers have access to the latest security patches and performance improvements.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-ecr-cross-repository-layer-sharing/">Amazon ECR now supports cross-repository layer sharing</a> — Amazon Elastic Container Registry now enables you to share common image layers across repositories through blob mounting. This feature helps you achieve faster image pushes by reusing existing layers and reduce storage costs by storing common layers once and referencing them across repositories.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-cloudwatch-database-insights-on-demand-analysis-available-additional-regions/">Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights expands to four additional regions</a> — CloudWatch Database Insights on-demand analysis is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Mexico (Central). This feature uses machine learning to help identify performance bottlenecks and provides specific remediation advice.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/01/amazon-connect-conditional-logic-real-time-updates-step-by-step-guides/">Amazon Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides</a> — Amazon Connect Step-by-Step Guides now enables managers to build dynamic guided experiences that adapt based on user interactions. Managers can configure conditional user interfaces with dropdown menus that show or hide fields, change default values, or adjust required fields based on prior inputs. The feature also supports automatic data refresh from Connect resources, ensuring agents always work with current information.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS?</a> page.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Upcoming AWS events<br> </strong></span>Keep a look out and be sure to sign up for these upcoming events:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/best-of-reinvent/">Best of AWS re:Invent</a> (January 28-29, Virtual) — Join us for this free virtual event bringing you the most impactful announcements and top sessions from AWS re:Invent. AWS VP and Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr will share highlights during the opening session. Sessions run January 28 at 9:00 AM PT for AMER, and January 29 at 9:00 AM SGT for APJ and 9:00 AM CET for EMEA. Register to access curated technical learning, strategic insights from AWS leaders, and live Q&amp;A with AWS experts.</li> <li><a href="https://awsahmedabad.community/">AWS Community Day Ahmedabad</a> (February 28, 2026, Ahmedabad, India) — The 11th edition of this community-driven AWS conference brings together cloud professionals, developers, architects, and students for expert-led technical sessions, real-world use cases, tech expo booths with live demos, and networking opportunities. This free event includes breakfast, lunch, and exclusive swag.</li> </ul> <p>Join the <a href="https://builder.aws.com">AWS Builder Center</a> to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community. Browse for upcoming in-person and virtual developer-focused events in your area.</p> <hr> <p>That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!</p> <p>~ micah</p> Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-ec2-g7e-instances-accelerated-by-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-server-edition-gpus/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:22:56 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Compute]]> <![CDATA[Featured]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> 1ad1dbb8cc525e38c4f8db3888f7833adedf8d4d AWS introduces Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 2.3 times inference performance. G7e instances deliver cost-effective performance for generative AI inference workloads and the highest performance for graphics workloads. <p>Today, we’re announcing the general availability of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> G7e instances that deliver cost-effective performance for generative AI inference workloads and the highest performance for graphics workloads.</p> <p>G7e instances are accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and are well suited for a broad range of GPU-enabled workloads including spatial computing and scientific computing workloads. G7e instances deliver up to 2.3 times inference performance compared to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g6e/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">G6e instances</a>.</p> <p>Improvements made compared to predecessors:</p> <ul> <li><strong>NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs</strong> — NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs offer two times the GPU memory and 1.85 times the GPU memory bandwidth compared to G6e instances. By using the higher GPU memory offered by G7e instances, you can run medium-sized models of up to 70B parameters with FP8 precision on a single GPU.</li> <li><strong>NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P</strong> — For models that are too large to fit into the memory of a single GPU, you can split the model or computations across multiple GPUs. G7e instances reduce the latency of your multi-GPU workloads with support for NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P, which enables direct communication between GPUs over PCIe interconnect. These instances offer the lowest peer to peer latency for GPUs on the same PCIe switch. Additionally, G7e instances offer up to four times the inter-GPU bandwidth compared to L40s GPUs featured in G6e instances, boosting the performance of multi-GPU workloads. These improvements mean you can run inference for larger models across multiple GPUs offering up to 768 GB of GPU memory in a single node.</li> <li><strong>Networking</strong> — G7e instances offer four times the networking bandwidth compared to G6e instances, which means you can use the instance for small-scale multi-node workloads. Additionally, multi-GPU G7e instances support NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with&nbsp;<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/efa/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)</a>, which reduces the latency of remote GPU-to-GPU communication for multi-node workloads. These instance sizes also support NVIDIA GPUDirectStorage with <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/lustre/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon FSx for Lustre</a>, which increases throughput by up to 1.2 Tbps to the instances compared to G6e instances, which means you can quickly load your models.</li> </ul> <p><strong><u>EC2 G7e specifications</u></strong><br> G7e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 768 GB of total GPU memory (96 GB of memory per GPU) and Intel Emerald Rapids processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 1,600 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 2,048 GiB of system memory, and up to 15.2 TB of local NVMe SSD storage.</p> <p>Here are the specs:</p> <table style="border: 2px solid black;border-collapse: collapse;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto"> <tbody> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black;background-color: #e0e0e0"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>Instance name<br> </strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>&nbsp;GPUs</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>GPU memory (GB)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>vCPUs</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>Memory (GiB)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>Storage (TB)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>EBS bandwidth (Gbps)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>Network bandwidth (Gbps)</strong></td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>g7e.2xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">96</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">8</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">64</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1.9 x 1</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 5</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">50</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>g7e.4xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">96</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">16</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">128</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1.9 x 1</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">8</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">50</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>g7e.8xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">96</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">32</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">256</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1.9 x 1</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">16</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">100</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>g7e.12xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">2</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">192</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">48</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">512</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">3.8 x 1</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">25</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">400</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>g7e.24xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">4</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">384</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">96</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1024</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">3.8 x 2</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">50</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">800</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px"><strong>g7e.48xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">8</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">768</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">192</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">2048</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">3.8 x 4</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">100</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1600</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>To get started with G7e instances, you can use the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/amis/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Deep Learning AMIs (DLAMI)</a> for your machine learning (ML) workloads. To run instances, you can use <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Management Console</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)</a> or <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/EC2.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS SDKs</a>. For a managed experience, you can use G7e instances with <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/eks/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/pcs/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS)</a>. Support for <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker-ai/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon SageMaker AI</a> is also coming soon.</p> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> Amazon EC2 G7e instances are available today in the US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio) <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Regions</a>. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the <strong>CloudFormation</strong> resources tab of <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?tab=cfn-resources&amp;trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Capabilities by Region</a>.</p> <p>The instances can be purchased as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">On-Demand Instances</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/?trk=cc9e0036-98c5-4fa8-8df0-5281f75284ca&amp;sc_channel=el">Savings Plan</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Spot Instances</a>. G7e instances are also available in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/dedicated-instances/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Dedicated Instances</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Dedicated Hosts</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing">Amazon EC2 Pricing page</a>.</p> <p>Give G7e instances a try in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 console</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/g7e/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 G7e instances page</a> and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAO-wqN9fYRoyrpdULLa5y7g/amazon-ec-2?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for EC2</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-kiro-cli-latest-features-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-ec2-x8i-instances-and-more-january-19-2026/ <![CDATA[Veliswa Boya]]> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:24:38 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon Bedrock]]> <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Amazon Quick Suite]]> <![CDATA[Kiro]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Regions]]> <![CDATA[Week in Review]]> fd1b1f3da784a7a03ba882d59be2254da06df180 At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 which also happens to be my last post for the AWS News Blog (more on this later). The AWS community is starting the […] <p>At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 which also happens to be my last post for the AWS News Blog (more on this later).</p> <p>The AWS community is starting the year strong with various AWS re:invent re:Caps being hosted around the globe, with some communities already hosting their <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/events/community-day/?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Community Day events</a>, the <a href="https://luma.com/gr8eck5u">AWS Community Day Tel Aviv 2026</a> was hosted last week.</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td width="50%"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-102837" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/19/IMG-20260116-WA0007-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="682"></td> <td><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-102838" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/19/IMG-20260116-WA0006-1024x682.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="682"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Last week’s launches</strong></span><br> Here are last week’s launches that caught my attention:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://kiro.dev/changelog/cli/1-24/?sc_channel=sm&amp;sc_publisher=LINKEDIN&amp;sc_country=global&amp;sc_geo=GLOBAL&amp;sc_outcome=awareness">Kiro CLI latest features</a> – Kiro CLI now has granular controls for web fetch URLs, keyboard shortcuts for your custom agents, enhanced diff views, and much more. With these enhancements, you can now use allowlists or blocklists to restrict which URLs the agent can access, ensure a frictionless experience when working with multiple specialized agents in a single session, to name a few.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> – Following <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">an announcement in 2023 of plans to build a new, independent cloud infrastructure</a>, last week we announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to all customers. The cloud is ready to meet the most stringent sovereignty requirements of European customers with a comprehensive set of AWS services.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-x8i-instances-powered-by-custom-intel-xeon-6-processors-are-generally-available-for-memory-intensive-workloads/">Amazon EC2 X8i instances</a> – <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-ec2-x8i-instances-preview/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Previously launched in preview at AWS re:Invent 2025</a>, last week we announced the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz, available only on AWS. These SAP certified instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.</li> </ul> <p>For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/new/?trk=769a1a2b-8c19-4976-9c45-b6b1226c7d20&amp;sc_channel=el">What’s New with AWS?</a> page.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Additional updates</strong></span><br> These projects, blog posts, and news articles also caught my attention:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7416901230293102592/">5 core features in Amazon Quick Suite</a> – AWS VP Agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian talks about how he uses Amazon Quick Suite for just about everything. In October 2025 we <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/reimagine-the-way-you-work-with-ai-agents-in-amazon-quick-suite/">announced Amazon Quick Suite</a>, a new agentic teammate that quickly answers your questions at work and turns insights into actions for you. Amazon Quick Suite has become one of my favorite productivity tools, helping me with my research on various topics in addition to providing me with multiple perspectives on a topic.</li> <li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/deploy-ai-agents-on-amazon-bedrock-agentcore-using-github-actions/">Deploy AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore using GitHub Actions</a> – Last year we announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a flexible service that helps you seamlessly create and manage AI agents across different frameworks and models, whether hosted on Amazon Bedrock or other environments. Learn how to use a GitHub Actions workflow to automate the deployment of AI agents on AgentCore Runtime. This approach delivers a scalable solution with enterprise-level security controls, providing complete continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automation.</li> </ul> <p><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-102839" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2026/01/19/ml-19418-image-1-1.png" alt="" width="730" height="403"></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Upcoming AWS events</strong></span><br> Join us January 28 or 29 (depending on your time zone) for <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/best-of-reinvent/">Best of AWS re:Invent</a>, a free virtual event where we bring you the most impactful announcements and top sessions from AWS re:Invent. Jeff Barr, AWS VP and Chief Evangelist, will share his highlights during the opening session.</p> <p>There is still time until January 21 to compete for $250,000 in prizes and AWS credits in the <a href="https://builder.aws.com/connect/events/10000aideas?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">Global 10,000 AIdeas Competition</a> (yes, the second letter is an I as in Idea, not an L as in like). No code required yet: simply submit your idea, and if you’re selected as a semifinalist, you’ll build your app using <a href="https://kiro.dev/?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">Kiro</a> within <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/free?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Free Tier</a> limits. Beyond the cash prizes and potential featured placement at <a href="https://reinvent.awsevents.com/?trk=39d9c26c-b157-46ae-bde6-9cf598f5c9e0&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Invent 2026</a>, you’ll gain hands-on experience with next-generation AI tools and connect with innovators globally.</p> <p>Earlier this month, <a href="https://builder.aws.com/community/community-builders/?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">the 2026 application for the Community Builders program launched</a>. The application is open until January 21st, midnight PST so here’s your last chance to ensure that you don’t miss out.</p> <p>If you’re interested in these opportunities, join the <a href="https://builder.aws.com/?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Builder Center</a> to learn with builders in the AWS community.</p> <p>With that, I close one of my most meaningful chapters here at AWS. It’s been an absolute pleasure to write for you and I thank you for taking the time to read the work that my team and I pour our absolute hearts into. I’ve grown from the close collaborations with the launch teams and the feedback from all of you. The Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) community has grown significantly, and I want to dedicate more time focused on this community, I’m still at AWS and I look forward to meeting at an event near you!</p> <p>Check back next Monday for another <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/tag/week-in-review/?trk=e82bba63-d46d-4435-acd0-7531b14ad817&amp;sc_channel=el">Weekly Roundup</a>!</p> <p>– <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/veliswa-boya">Veliswa Boya</a></p> Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally available for memory-intensive workloads https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-x8i-instances-powered-by-custom-intel-xeon-6-processors-are-generally-available-for-memory-intensive-workloads/ <![CDATA[Channy Yun (윤석찬)]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:52:17 +0000 <![CDATA[Amazon EC2]]> <![CDATA[Compute]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> 9d5747d03fb65882ca42ed2b72d28f4f86fd3e5d AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 X8i instances, next-generation memory optimized instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. <p>Since a <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-ec2-x8i-instances-preview/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">preview launch</a> at AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re announcing the general availability of new memory-optimized <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> X8i instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz, available only on AWS. These SAP certified instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.</p> <p>X8i instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads including in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, traditional large-scale databases, data analytics, and electronic design automation (EDA), which require high compute performance and a large memory footprint.</p> <p>These instances provide 1.5 times more memory capacity (up to 6 TB), and 3.3 times more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ko/ec2/instance-types/x2i/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">X2i instances</a>. These instances offer up to 43% higher performance compared to X2i instances, with higher gains on some of the real-world workloads. They deliver up to 50% higher SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) performance, up to 47% faster PostgreSQL performance, up to 88% faster Memcached performance, and up to 46% faster AI inference performance.</p> <p>During the preview, customers like <a href="https://www.sap.com/products/erp/rise.html">RISE with SAP</a> utilized up to 6 TB of memory capacity with 50% higher compute performance compared to X2i instances. This enabled faster transaction processing and improved query response times for SAP HANA workloads. <a href="https://orion.com/">Orion</a> reduced the number of active cores on X8i instances compared to X2idn instances while maintaining performance thresholds, cutting SQL Server licensing costs by 50%.</p> <p><strong><u>X8i instances</u></strong><br> X8i instances are available in 14 sizes including three larger instance sizes (<strong>48xlarge</strong>, <strong>64xlarge</strong>, and <strong>96xlarge</strong>), so you can choose the right size for your application to scale up, and two bare metal sizes (<strong>metal-48xl</strong> and <strong>metal-96xl</strong>) to deploy workloads that benefit from direct access to physical resources. X8i instances feature up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth with support for the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/efa/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA)</a> and up to 80 Gbps of throughput to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a>.</p> <p>Here are the specs for X8i instances:</p> <table style="border: 2px solid black;border-collapse: collapse;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto"> <tbody> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black;background-color: #e0e0e0"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>Instance name</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>vCPUs</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>Memory<br> </strong><strong>(GiB)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>Network bandwidth (Gbps)</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>EBS bandwidth (Gbps)</strong></td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.large</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">2</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">32</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 12.5</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">4</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">64</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 12.5</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.2xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">8</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">128</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 15</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.4xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">16</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">256</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 15</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">Up to 10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.8xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">32</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">512</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">15</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">10</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.12xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">48</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">768</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">22.5</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">15</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.16xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">64</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1,024</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">30</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">20</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.24xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">96</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">1,536</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">40</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">30</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.32xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">128</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">2,048</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">50</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">40</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.48xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">192</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">3,072</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">75</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">60</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.64xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">256</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">4,096</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">80</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">70</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.96xlarge</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">384</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">6,144</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">100</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">80</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.metal-48xl</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">192</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">3,072</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">75</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">60</td> </tr> <tr style="border-bottom: 1px solid black"> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center"><strong>x8i.metal-96xl</strong></td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">384</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">6,144</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">100</td> <td style="border-right: 1px solid black;padding: 4px;text-align: center">80</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>X8i instances support the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ebs/latest/userguide/instance-bandwidth-configuration.html?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">instance bandwidth configuration (IBC)</a> feature like other eighth-generation instance types, offering flexibility to allocate resources between network and EBS bandwidth. You can scale network or EBS bandwidth by up to 25%, improving database performance, query processing speeds, and logging efficiency. These instances also use sixth-generation <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Nitro</a> cards, which offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, enhancing performance and security for your workloads.</p> <p><strong><u>Now available</u></strong><br> Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Regions</a>. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the <strong>CloudFormation</strong> resources tab of <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?tab=cfn-resources&amp;trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS Capabilities by Region</a>.</p> <p>You can purchase these instances as <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">On-Demand Instances</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/savingsplans/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Savings Plan</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/pricing/?trk=trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Spot Instances</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 Pricing page</a>.</p> <p>Give X8i instances a try in the <a href="https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 console</a>. To learn more, visit the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x8i/?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">Amazon EC2 X8i instances page</a> and send feedback to <a href="https://repost.aws/tags/TAO-wqN9fYRoyrpdULLa5y7g/amazon-ec-2?trk=d8ec3b19-0f37-4f8c-8c12-189f913e205c&amp;sc_channel=el">AWS re:Post for EC2</a> or through your usual AWS Support contacts.</p> <p>— <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/channy/">Channy</a></p> <p><strong>Updated on January 21, 2026</strong>&nbsp;– Fixed to 3.3 times memory bandwidth from 3.4.</p> Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/ <![CDATA[Sébastien Stormacq]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:12:54 +0000 <![CDATA[Announcements]]> <![CDATA[Featured]]> <![CDATA[Launch]]> <![CDATA[News]]> <![CDATA[Regions]]> 68621d92a4c32246108da514cf9a079085b28866 Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Italiano As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regulated industries. Today, I’m delighted to share that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available to all customers. We first announced our plans to […] <p style="text-align: center"><a href="#german">Deutsch</a> | English | <a href="#spanish">Español</a> | <a href="#french">Français</a> | <a href="#italian">Italiano</a></p> <p>As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regulated industries. Today, I’m delighted to share that the <a href="https://aws.eu/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> is now generally available to all customers. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">We first announced our plans to build this new independent cloud infrastructure in 2023</a>, and today it’s ready to meet the most stringent sovereignty requirements of European customers <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-initial-services-available-in-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-backed-by-the-full-power-of-aws/">with a comprehensive set of AWS services</a>.</p> <div id="attachment_102650" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102650" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-102650" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211-1024x341.jpeg" alt="Brandenburg Gate" width="1024" height="341"></a> <p id="caption-attachment-102650" class="wp-caption-text">Berlin, Brandenburg Gate at sunset</p> </div> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Meeting European sovereignty requirements<br> </strong></span>Organizations across Europe face increasingly complex regulatory requirements around data residency, operational control, and governance independence. Too often today, European organisations with the highest sovereignty requirements are stuck in legacy on-premises environments or offerings with reduced services and functionality. In response to this critical need, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is the only fully featured and independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections. Public sector entities and businesses in highly regulated industries need cloud infrastructure that provides enhanced sovereignty controls that maintain the innovation, security, and reliability they expect from modern cloud services. These organisations require assurance that their data and operations remain under European jurisdiction, with clear governance structures and operational autonomy within the European Union (EU).</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>A new independent cloud infrastructure for Europe</strong></span><br> The AWS European Sovereign Cloud represents a physically and logically separate cloud infrastructure, with all components located entirely within the EU. The first <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region">AWS Region</a> in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, and is generally available today. This Region operates independently from existing AWS Regions. The infrastructure features multiple Availability Zones with redundant power and networking, designed to operate continuously even if connectivity with the rest of the world is interrupted.</p> <p>We plan to extend the AWS European Sovereign Cloud footprint from Germany across the EU to support stringent isolation, in-country data residency, and low latency requirements. This will start with new sovereign <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/what-is-aws-local-zones.html">Local Zones</a> located in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal. In addition, you will be able to extend the AWS European Sovereign Cloud infrastructure with <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dedicatedlocalzones/">AWS Dedicated Local Zones</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ai-factories/">AWS AI Factories</a>, or <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/">AWS Outposts</a> in locations you select, including your own on-premises data centres.</p> <p>The AWS European Sovereign Cloud and its Local Zones provide enhanced sovereign controls through its unique operational model. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be operated exclusively by EU residents located in the EU. This covers activities such as day-to-day operations, technical support, and customer service. We’re gradually transitioning the AWS European Sovereign Cloud <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens">to be operated exclusively by EU citizens located in the EU</a>. During this transition period, we will continue to work with a blended team of EU residents and EU citizens located in the EU.</p> <p>The infrastructure is managed through dedicated European legal entities established under German law. In October 2025, AWS appointed <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/stephane-israel-appointed-to-lead-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud">Stéphane Israël</a>, an EU citizen residing in the EU, as managing director. Stéphane will be responsible for the management and operations of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, including infrastructure, technology, and services, as well as leading AWS broader digital sovereignty efforts. In January 2026, AWS also appointed <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanhoechbaue">Stefan Hoechbauer</a> (Vice President, Germany and Central Europe, AWS) as a managing director of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. He will work alongside Stéphane Israel to lead the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>An advisory board comprised exclusively of EU citizens, and including two independent third-party representatives, provides additional oversight and expertise on sovereignty matters.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Enhanced data residency and control</strong></span><br> The AWS European Sovereign Cloud provides comprehensive data residency assurances so you can meet the most stringent data residency requirements. As with our existing AWS Regions around the world, all your content remains within the Region you select unless you choose otherwise. Beyond content, customer-created metadata including roles, permissions, resource labels, and configurations also stays within the EU. The infrastructure features its own dedicated <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/">AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)</a> and billing system, all operating independently within European borders.</p> <p>Technical controls built into the infrastructure <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/design-goals.html">prevent access to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud from outside the EU</a>. The infrastructure includes <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/establishing-a-european-trust-service-provider-for-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">a dedicated European trust service provider for certificate authority operations</a> and uses dedicated <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/route53/">Amazon Route 53</a> name servers. These servers will only use<a href="https://aws.eu/faq/#operational-autonomy"> European Top-Level Domains (TLDs) for their own names</a>. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud has no critical dependencies on non-EU personnel or infrastructure.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Security and compliance framework<br> </strong></span>The AWS European Sovereign Cloud maintains the same core security capabilities you expect from AWS, including encryption, key management, access governance, and the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/">AWS Nitro System</a> for compute isolation. This means your EC2 instances benefit from cryptographically verified platform integrity and hardware-enforced boundaries that prevent unauthorized access to your data without compromising on performance, giving you both the sovereignty controls and the computational power your workloads require. The infrastructure undergoes <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-independent-affirmation-of-its-confidential-compute-capabilities/">independent third-party audits</a>, with compliance programs including ISO/IEC 27001:2013, SOC 1/2/3 reports, and <a href="https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html">Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)</a> C5 attestation.</p> <p>The <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/exploring-the-new-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-sovereign-reference-framework/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework</a> defines the specific sovereignty controls across governance independence, operational control, data residency, and technical isolation. This framework is available in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/">AWS Artifact</a> and provides end-to-end visibility through SOC 2 attestation.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Comprehensive service availability<br> </strong></span>You can access a broad range of AWS services in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud from launch, including <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/">Amazon SageMaker</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/">Amazon Bedrock</a> for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads. For compute, you can use <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/">AWS Lambda</a>. Container orchestration is available through <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/eks/">Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/">Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)</a>. Database services include <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/">Amazon Aurora</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">Amazon DynamoDB</a>, and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/">Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)</a>. Storage options include <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a>, with networking through <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/">Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)</a> and security services including <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/kms/">AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)</a> and <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/private-ca/">AWS Private Certificate Authority</a>. For an up-to-date list of services, refer to the <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?f=eJyrVipOzUlNLklNCUpNz8zPK1ayUoqOUUotLU7WTUnVTU0sLtE1jFGKVdKBK3QsS8zMSUzKzMksqQSqdsyrVEARqgUA4l8dog&amp;tab=service-feature">AWS Capabilities matrix</a> recently published on the AWS Builder Center.</p> <p>The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is&nbsp;<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/range-of-aws-partner-solutions-set-to-launch-on-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">supported by AWS Partners</a> who are committed to helping you meet your sovereignty requirements. Partners including Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro, and Wiz are making their solutions available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, providing you with the tools and services you need across security, data analytics, application development, and industry-specific workloads. This broad partner support helps you build sovereign solutions that combine AWS services with trusted partner technologies.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Significant investment in European infrastructure<br> </strong></span>The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is backed by a €7.8 billion investment in infrastructure, jobs creation, and skills development. This investment is expected to contribute €17.2 billion to the European economy through 2040 and support roughly 2,800 full-time equivalent jobs annually in local businesses.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Some technical details<br> </strong></span>The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is available to all customers, regardless of where they are located. You can access the infrastructure using the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html">partition</a> name <code>aws-eusc</code> and the Region name <code>eusc-de-east-1</code>. A partition is a group of AWS Regions. Each AWS account is scoped to one partition.</p> <p>The infrastructure supports all standard AWS access methods including the <a href="https://console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/">AWS Management Console</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/tools/">AWS SDKs</a>, and the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/">AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)</a>, making it straightforward to integrate into your existing workflows and automation. After having created a new root account for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud partition, you start by creating new IAM identities and roles specific to this infrastructure, giving you complete control over access management within the European sovereign environment.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Getting started<br> </strong></span>The AWS European Sovereign Cloud provides European organisations with enhanced sovereignty controls whilst maintaining access to AWS innovation and capabilities. You can contract for services through Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, with pricing in EUR and billing in any of <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/legal/aws-emea/">the eight currencies we support today</a>. The infrastructure uses familiar AWS architecture, service portfolio, and APIs, making it straightforward to build and migrate applications.</p> <p>The<a href="https://aws.eu/de/esca"> AWS European Sovereign Cloud addendum</a> contains the additional contractual commitments for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>For me as a European, this launch represents the AWS commitment to meeting the specific needs of our continent and providing the cloud capabilities that drive innovation across industries. I invite you to find out more about the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and how it can help your organisation meet its sovereignty requirements. Read <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/introduction.html">Overview of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> to learn more about the design goals and approach, <a href="https://eusc-de-east-1.signin.amazonaws-eusc.eu/signup?request_type=register">sign up for a new account</a>, and plan for the deployment of your first workload today.</p> <a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a> <hr id="german"> <h4 style="color: #808080">German version</h4> <p><strong>Start der AWS European Sovereign Cloud</strong></p> <p>Als Bürger Europas weiß ich aus eigener Erfahrung, wie wichtig digitale Souveränität ist, insbesondere für unsere öffentlichen Einrichtungen und stark regulierten Branchen. Ich freue mich, Ihnen heute mitteilen zu können, dass die <a href="https://aws.eu/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> nun für alle Kunden allgemein verfügbar ist. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">Wir haben unsere Pläne zum Aufbau dieser neuen unabhängigen Cloud-Infrastruktur erstmals im Jahr 2023 vorgestellt</a>. Heute ist diese Infrastruktur bereit, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-initial-services-available-in-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-backed-by-the-full-power-of-aws/">mit einem umfassenden Angebot an AWS-Services</a> die strengsten Souveränitätsanforderungen europäischer Kunden zu erfüllen.</p> <div id="attachment_102650" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102650" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-102650" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211-1024x341.jpeg" alt="Brandenburg Gate" width="1024" height="341"></a> <p id="caption-attachment-102650" class="wp-caption-text">Berlin, Brandenburger Tor bei Sonnenuntergang</p> </div> <p><strong><u>Erfüllung europäischer Souveränitätsanforderungen<br> </u></strong>Organisationen in ganz Europa sehen sich mit zunehmend komplexen regulatorischen Anforderungen in Bezug auf Datenresidenz, operative Kontrolle und Unabhängigkeit der Governance konfrontiert. Europäische Organisationen mit höchsten Souveränitätsanforderungen sind heutzutage allzu oft in veralteten lokalen Umgebungen oder Angeboten mit eingeschränkten Services und Funktionen gefangen. Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud ist die Antwort auf diesen dringenden Bedarf. Sie ist die einzige unabhängig betriebene souveräne Cloud mit vollem Funktionsumfang, die durch strenge technische Kontrollen, Souveränitätszusicherungen und rechtlichen Schutz abgesichert ist. Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Sektors und Unternehmen in stark regulierten Branchen benötigen eine Cloud-Infrastruktur, die erweiterte Souveränitätskontrollen bietet und gleichzeitig die von modernen Cloud-Services erwartete Innovation, Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit gewährleistet. Diese Organisationen benötigen die Zusicherung, dass ihre Daten und Aktivitäten unter europäischer Zuständigkeit bleiben, mit klaren Governance-Strukturen und operativer Autonomie innerhalb der Europäischen Union (EU).</p> <p><strong><u>Eine neue unabhängige Cloud-Infrastruktur für Europa</u></strong><br> Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud ist eine physisch und logisch getrennte Cloud-Infrastruktur, deren Komponenten sich vollständig innerhalb der EU befinden. Die erste <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region">AWS-Region</a> in der AWS European Sovereign Cloud befindet sich im deutschen Bundesland Brandenburg und ist ab heute allgemein verfügbar. Diese Region arbeitet unabhängig von bestehenden AWS-Regionen. Die Infrastruktur umfasst mehrere Availability Zones mit redundanter Stromversorgung und Netzwerkverbindung, die auch bei einer Unterbrechung der Verbindung zum Rest der Welt einen kontinuierlichen Betrieb gewährleisten.</p> <p>Wir beabsichtigen, die Präsenz der AWS European Sovereign Cloud von Deutschland aus EU-weit auszuweiten, um strenge Anforderungen hinsichtlich Isolierung, Datenresidenz innerhalb einzelner Länder und geringer Latenz zu erfüllen. Dies beginnt mit neuen souveränen <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/what-is-aws-local-zones.html">Local Zones</a> in Belgien, den Niederlanden und Portugal. Darüber hinaus können Sie die Infrastruktur der AWS European Sovereign Cloud mit <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dedicatedlocalzones/">dedizierten AWS Local Zones</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ai-factories/">AWS AI Factories</a> oder <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/">AWS Outposts</a> an Standorten Ihrer Wahl, einschließlich Ihrer eigenen lokalen Rechenzentren, erweitern.</p> <p>Dank ihres einzigartigen Betriebsmodells bieten die AWS European Sovereign Cloud und ihre Local Zones erweiterte Souveränitätskontrollen. Der Betrieb der AWS European Sovereign Cloud wird ausschließlich von EU-Bürgern mit Wohnsitz in der EU sichergestellt. Dies umfasst Aktivitäten wie den täglichen Betrieb, den technischen Support und den Kundenservice. Wir stellen die AWS European Sovereign Cloud schrittweise so um, dass <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens">als Betriebspersonal ausschließlich EU-Bürger mit Wohnsitz in der EU zum Einsatz kommen</a>. Während dieser Übergangsphase werden wir weiterhin mit einem gemischten Team aus in der EU ansässigen Personen und in der EU lebenden EU-Bürgern arbeiten.</p> <p>Die Infrastruktur wird durch spezielle europäische juristische Personen nach deutschem Recht verwaltet. Im Oktober&nbsp;2025 berief AWS <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/stephane-israel-appointed-to-lead-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud">Stéphane Israël</a>, einen in der EU ansässigen EU-Bürger, zum Geschäftsführer. Stéphane wird für das Management und den Betrieb der AWS European Sovereign Cloud verantwortlich zeichnen. Dies umfasst die Bereiche Infrastruktur, Technologie und Services sowie die Federführung bei den breit angelegten Initiativen von AWS auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Souveränität. Im Januar&nbsp;2026 ernannte AWS zudem <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanhoechbaue">Stefan Hoechbauer</a> (Vice President, Germany and Central Europe, AWS) zum Geschäftsführer der AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Er wird gemeinsam mit Stéphane Israel die Leitung der AWS European Sovereign Cloud innehaben.</p> <p>Ein Beirat, dem ausschließlich EU-Bürger, einschließlich zwei unabhängigen externen Vertretern, angehören, fungiert als zusätzliche Kontrollinstanz und bringt Fachwissen in Fragen der Souveränität ein.</p> <p><strong><u>Verbesserte Datenresidenz und -kontrolle </u></strong><br> Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud bietet umfassende Garantien hinsichtlich der Datenresidenz, sodass Sie selbst die strengsten Anforderungen in diesem Bereich erfüllen können. Wie auch bei unseren bestehenden AWS-Regionen weltweit verbleiben alle Ihre Inhalte in der von Ihnen ausgewählten Region, sofern Sie keine anderen Einstellungen vornehmen. Neben den Inhalten verbleiben auch die vom Kunden erstellten Metadaten, einschließlich Rollen, Berechtigungen, Ressourcenbezeichnungen und Konfigurationen, innerhalb der EU. Die Infrastruktur verfügt über ein eigenes <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/">AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)</a> und ein eigenes Abrechnungssystem – beides wird innerhalb der europäischen Grenzen unabhängig betrieben.</p> <p>In die Infrastruktur integrierte technische Kontrollen <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/design-goals.html">verhindern den Zugriff auf die AWS European Sovereign Cloud von außerhalb der EU</a>. Die Infrastruktur umfasst <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/establishing-a-european-trust-service-provider-for-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">einen dedizierten europäischen Trust Service Provider</a> für Zertifizierungsstellen und nutzt dedizierte <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/route53/">Amazon-Route-53</a>-Namenserver. Diese Server verwenden ausschließlich<a href="https://aws.eu/faq/#operational-autonomy"> europäische Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) für ihre eigenen Namen</a>. Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud unterliegt keinen kritischen Abhängigkeiten hinsichtlich Personal oder Infrastruktur außerhalb der EU.</p> <p><strong><u>Sicherheits- und Compliance-Framework<br> </u></strong>Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud bietet dieselben zentralen Sicherheitsfunktionen, die Sie von AWS erwarten. Dazu gehören Verschlüsselung, Schlüsselverwaltung, Zugriffskontrolle und das <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/">AWS Nitro System</a> für die Isolierung von Rechenressourcen. Dies bedeutet, dass Ihre EC2-Instanzen von einer kryptografisch verifizierten Plattformintegrität und hardwaregestützten Grenzen profitieren, die unbefugten Zugriff auf Ihre Daten verhindern, ohne die Leistung zu beeinträchtigen. So erhalten Sie sowohl die Souveränitätskontrollen als auch die Rechenleistung, die Ihre Workloads erfordern. Die Infrastruktur wird <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-independent-affirmation-of-its-confidential-compute-capabilities/">unabhängigen Audits durch Dritt</a>e unterzogen. Die Compliance-Programme umfassen ISO/IEC 27001:2013, SOC-1/2/3-Berichte und das C5-Zertifikat des <a href="https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html">Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)</a>.</p> <p>Das <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/exploring-the-new-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-sovereign-reference-framework/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework</a> definiert spezifische Souveränitätskontrollen in den Bereichen Governance-Unabhängigkeit, operative Kontrolle, Datenresidenz und technische Isolierung. Dieses Framework ist in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/">AWS Artifact</a> verfügbar und bietet durch SOC-2-Zertifizierung durchgängige Transparenz.</p> <p><strong><u>Umfassende Serviceverfügbarkeit<br> </u></strong>Von Beginn an steht Ihnen in der AWS European Sovereign Cloud eine breite Palette von AWS-Services zur Verfügung – darunter <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/">Amazon SageMaker</a> und <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/">Amazon Bedrock</a> für Workloads im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz und Machine Learning (KI/ML). Für die Rechenleistung stehen Ihnen <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> und <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/">AWS Lambda</a> zur Verfügung. Die Container-Orchestrierung ist über den <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/eks/">Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)</a> und den <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/">Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)</a> verfügbar. Zu den Datenbank-Services gehören <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/">Amazon Aurora</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">Amazon DynamoDB</a> und <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/">Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)</a>. Die Speicheroptionen umfassen <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)</a> und <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a> mit Vernetzung über <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/">Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)</a> und Sicherheits-Services wie <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/kms/">AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)</a> und <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/private-ca/">AWS Private Certificate Authority</a>. Eine aktuelle Liste der Services finden Sie in der <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?f=eJyrVipOzUlNLklNCUpNz8zPK1ayUoqOUUotLU7WTUnVTU0sLtE1jFGKVdKBK3QsS8zMSUzKzMksqQSqdsyrVEARqgUA4l8dog&amp;tab=service-feature">AWS-Funktionsmatrix</a>, die kürzlich im AWS Builder Center veröffentlicht wurde.</p> <p>Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud wird von <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/range-of-aws-partner-solutions-set-to-launch-on-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">AWS-Partnern unterstützt</a>, die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht haben, Ihnen bei der Erfüllung Ihrer Souveränitätsanforderungen zur Seite zu stehen. Partner wie Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro und Wiz stellen ihre Lösungen in der AWS European Sovereign Cloud zur Verfügung und bieten Ihnen die Tools und Services, die Sie in den Bereichen Sicherheit, Datenanalyse, Entwicklung von Anwendungen und branchenspezifische Workloads benötigen. Dank dieser umfassenden Unterstützung durch Partner können Sie eigenständige Lösungen, die AWS-Services mit bewährten Partnertechnologien kombinieren, entwickeln.</p> <p><strong><u>Erhebliche Investitionen in die europäische Infrastruktur<br> </u></strong>Hinter der AWS European Sovereign Cloud steht eine Investition in Höhe von 7,8&nbsp;Milliarden Euro in Infrastruktur, die Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen und die Entwicklung von Kompetenzen. Diese Investition wird bis 2040 voraussichtlich 17,2&nbsp;Milliarden Euro zur europäischen Wirtschaftsleistung beitragen und jährlich rund 2&nbsp;800 Vollzeitstellen in lokalen Unternehmen sichern.</p> <p><strong><u>Einige technische Details<br> </u></strong>Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud steht allen Kunden zur Verfügung, unabhängig davon, wo sie sich befinden. Sie können mit dem <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html">Partitionsnamen</a> aws-eusc und dem Regionsnamen eusc-de-east-1 auf die Infrastruktur zugreifen. Eine Partition ist eine Gruppe von AWS-Regionen. Jedes AWS-Konto ist auf eine Partition beschränkt.</p> <p>Die Infrastruktur unterstützt alle gängigen AWS-Zugriffsmethoden, einschließlich der <a href="https://console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/">AWS Management Console</a>,<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/tools/"> AWS SDKs</a> und der <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/">AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)</a>, sodass sie sich problemlos in Ihre bestehenden Workflows und Automatisierungsprozesse integrieren lässt. Nachdem Sie ein neues Root-Konto für die Partition der AWS European Sovereign Cloud erstellt haben, beginnen Sie mit der Erstellung neuer IAM-Identitäten und -Rollen, die speziell für diese Infrastruktur vorgesehen sind. Dadurch erhalten Sie die vollständige Kontrolle über die Zugriffsverwaltung innerhalb der europäischen souveränen Umgebung.</p> <p><strong><u>Erste Schritte<br> </u></strong>Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud bietet europäischen Organisationen erweiterte Souveränitätskontrollen und gewährleistet gleichzeitig den Zugriff auf die Innovationen und Funktionen von AWS. Sie können Services über Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL in Auftrag geben. Die Preise werden in Euro angegeben und die Abrechnung erfolgt in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/legal/aws-emea/">einer der acht Währungen, die wir derzeit unterstützen</a>. Die Infrastruktur basiert auf der bekannten AWS-Architektur, dem AWS-Serviceportfolio und den AWS-APIs, wodurch die Entwicklung und Migration von Anwendungen vereinfacht wird.</p> <p>Der <a href="https://aws.eu/de/esca">AWS European Sovereign Cloud Addendum</a> enthält die zusätzlichen vertraglichen Verpflichtungen für die AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>Für mich als Europäer symbolisiert dieser Launch das Engagement von AWS, den spezifischen Anforderungen unseres Kontinents gerecht zu werden und Cloud-Funktionen bereitzustellen, die Innovationen in allen Branchen vorantreiben. Ich lade Sie ein, mehr über die AWS European Sovereign Cloud zu erfahren und zu entdecken, wie sie Ihrer Organisation dabei helfen kann, ihre Souveränitätsanforderungen zu erfüllen. Lesen Sie die <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/introduction.html">Übersicht über die AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> und erfahren Sie mehr über die Designziele und den Ansatz. <a href="https://eusc-de-east-1.signin.amazonaws-eusc.eu/signup?request_type=register">Registrieren Sie sich für ein neues Konto</a> und planen Sie noch heute die Bereitstellung Ihrer ersten Workload.</p> <p><a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a></p> <hr id="french"> <h4 style="color: #808080">French version</h4> <p><strong>Ouverture de l’AWS European Souvereign Cloud</strong></p> <p>En tant que citoyen européen, je mesure personnellement l’importance de la souveraineté numérique, en particulier pour nos organisations du secteur public et les industries fortement réglementées. Aujourd’hui, j’ai le plaisir d’annoncer que l’<a href="https://aws.eu/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> est désormais disponible pour l’ensemble de nos clients. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">Nous avions annoncé pour la première fois notre projet de construction de cette nouvelle infrastructure cloud indépendante en 2023</a>, et elle est aujourd’hui prête à répondre aux exigences de souveraineté les plus strictes des clients européens, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-initial-services-available-in-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-backed-by-the-full-power-of-aws/">avec un large ensemble de services AWS</a>.</p> <div id="attachment_102650" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102650" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-102650" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211-1024x341.jpeg" alt="Brandenburg Gate" width="1024" height="341"></a> <p id="caption-attachment-102650" class="wp-caption-text">Berlin, porte de Brandebourg au coucher du soleil</p> </div> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Répondre aux exigences européennes en matière de souveraineté<br> </strong></span>Partout en Europe, les organisations sont confrontées à des exigences réglementaires de plus en plus complexes en matière de résidence des données, de contrôle opérationnel et d’indépendance de la gouvernance. Trop souvent aujourd’hui, les organisations européennes ayant les besoins de souveraineté les plus élevés se retrouvent contraintes de rester sur des environnements sur site, ou de recourir à des offres cloud aux services et fonctionnalités limités. Pour répondre à cet enjeu critique, l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est le seul cloud souverain entièrement fonctionnel, exploité de manière indépendante, et reposant sur des contrôles techniques robustes, des garanties de souveraineté et des protections juridiques solides. Les acteurs du secteur public et les entreprises des secteurs fortement réglementés ont besoin d’une infrastructure cloud offrant des contrôles de souveraineté renforcés, sans renoncer à l’innovation, à la sécurité et à la fiabilité attendues des services cloud modernes. Ces organisations doivent avoir l’assurance que leurs données et leurs opérations restent sous juridiction européenne, avec des structures de gouvernance claires et une autonomie opérationnelle au sein de l’Union européenne (UE).</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Une nouvelle infrastructure cloud indépendante pour l’Europe</strong></span><br> L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud repose sur une infrastructure cloud physiquement et logiquement distincte, dont l’ensemble des composants est situé exclusivement au sein de l’UE. La première <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region">région AWS</a> de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est implantée dans le Land de Brandebourg, en Allemagne, et est disponible dès aujourd’hui. Cette région fonctionne de façon indépendante par rapport aux autres régions AWS existantes. L’infrastructure comprend plusieurs zones de disponibilité, avec des systèmes redondants d’alimentation et de réseau, conçus pour fonctionner en continu même en cas d’interruption de la connectivité avec le reste du monde.</p> <p>Nous prévoyons d’étendre l’empreinte de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud depuis l’Allemagne à l’ensemble de l’UE, afin de répondre aux exigences strictes d’isolation, de résidence des données dans certains pays et de faible latence. Cette extension débutera avec de nouvelles <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/what-is-aws-local-zones.html">Local Zones</a> souveraines situées en Belgique, aux Pays-Bas et au Portugal. En complément, vous pourrez étendre l’infrastructure de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud à l’aide des <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dedicatedlocalzones/">AWS Dedicated Local Zones</a>, des <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ai-factories/">AWS AI Factories</a> ou d’<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/">AWS Outposts</a>, dans les sites de votre choix, y compris au sein de vos propres centres de données sur site.</p> <p>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud et ses Local Zones offrent des contrôles de souveraineté renforcés grâce à un modèle opérationnel unique. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est exploité exclusivement par des résidents de l’UE basés dans l’UE. Cela couvre notamment les opérations quotidiennes, le support technique et le service client. Nous sommes en train d’opérer une transition progressive afin que l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud soit <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens">exploité exclusivement par des citoyens de l’UE résidant dans l’UE</a>. Durant cette période de transition, nous continuons de travailler avec une équipe mixte composée de résidents de l’UE et de citoyens de l’UE basés dans l’UE.</p> <p>L’infrastructure est gérée par des entités juridiques européennes dédiées, établies conformément au droit allemand. En octobre 2025, AWS a nommé <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/stephane-israel-appointed-to-lead-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud">Stéphane Israël</a>, citoyen de l’UE résidant dans l’UE, au poste de directeur général. Stéphane est responsable de la gestion et de l’exploitation de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, couvrant l’infrastructure, la technologie et les services, ainsi que de la direction des initiatives plus larges d’AWS en matière de souveraineté numérique. En janvier 2026, AWS a également nommé <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanhoechbaue">Stefan Hoechbauer</a> (Vice-président, Allemagne et Europe centrale, AWS) comme directeur général de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Il travaillera aux côtés de Stéphane Israël pour piloter l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>Un conseil consultatif, composé exclusivement de citoyens de l’UE et incluant deux représentants indépendants, apporte un niveau supplémentaire de supervision et d’expertise sur les questions de souveraineté.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Résidence des données et contrôle renforcés</strong></span><br> L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud fournit des garanties complètes en matière de résidence des données afin de répondre aux exigences les plus strictes. Comme dans les régions AWS existantes à travers le monde, l’ensemble de vos contenus reste dans la région que vous sélectionnez, sauf indication contraire de votre part. Au-delà des contenus, les métadonnées créées par les clients — telles que les rôles, les autorisations, les étiquettes de ressources et les configurations — restent également au sein de l’UE. L’infrastructure dispose de son propre système dédié de <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/">AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)</a> et de facturation, opérant de manière totalement indépendante à l’intérieur des frontières européennes.</p> <p>Des contrôles techniques intégrés à l’infrastructure <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/design-goals.html">empêchent tout accès à l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud depuis l’extérieur de l’UE</a>. L’infrastructure comprend <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/establishing-a-european-trust-service-provider-for-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">un prestataire européen de services de confiance dédié pour les opérations d’autorité de certification</a> et utilise des serveurs de noms <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/route53/">Amazon Route 53</a> dédiés. Ces serveurs n’utilisent <a href="https://aws.eu/faq/#operational-autonomy">que des domaines de premier niveau (TLD) européens pour leurs propres noms</a>. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud ne présente aucune dépendance critique vis-à-vis de personnels ou d’infrastructures situés en dehors de l’UE.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Cadre de sécurité et de conformité<br> </strong></span>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud conserve les capacités de sécurité fondamentales attendues d’AWS, notamment le chiffrement, la gestion des clés, la gouvernance des accès et le <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/">système AWS Nitro</a> pour l’isolation des charges de calcul. Concrètement, vos instances EC2 bénéficient d’une intégrité de plateforme vérifiée cryptographiquement et de frontières matérielles, empêchant tout accès non autorisé à vos données sans compromis sur les performances. Vous bénéficiez ainsi à la fois des contrôles de souveraineté et de la puissance de calcul nécessaires à vos charges de travail. L’infrastructure fait l’objet <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-independent-affirmation-of-its-confidential-compute-capabilities/">d’audits indépendants réalisés par des tiers</a>, et s’inscrit dans des programmes de conformité incluant ISO/IEC 27001:2013, les rapports SOC 1/2/3, ainsi que l’attestation C5 de l’<a href="https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html">Office fédéral allemand pour la sécurité de l’information (BSI)</a>.</p> <p>Le <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/exploring-the-new-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-sovereign-reference-framework/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework</a> définit précisément les contrôles de souveraineté couvrant l’indépendance de la gouvernance, le contrôle opérationnel, la résidence des données et l’isolation technique. Ce cadre est disponible dans <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/">AWS Artifact</a> et offre une visibilité de bout en bout via une attestation SOC 2.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Disponibilité étendue des services<br> </strong></span>Dès son lancement, l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud donne accès à un large éventail de services AWS, notamment <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/">Amazon SageMaker</a> et <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/">Amazon Bedrock</a> pour les charges de travail d’intelligence artificielle et de machine learning (IA/ML). Pour le calcul, vous pouvez utiliser <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> et <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/">AWS Lambda</a>. L’orchestration de conteneurs est disponible via <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/eks/">Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)</a> et <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/">Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)</a>. Les services de bases de données incluent <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/">Amazon Aurora</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">Amazon DynamoDB</a> et <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/">Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)</a>. Les options de stockage comprennent <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)</a> et <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a>, avec des capacités réseau via <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/">Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)</a> et des services de sécurité tels que <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/kms/">AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)</a> et <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/private-ca/">AWS Private Certificate Authority</a>. Pour obtenir la liste la plus à jour des services disponibles, consultez la <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?f=eJyrVipOzUlNLklNCUpNz8zPK1ayUoqOUUotLU7WTUnVTU0sLtE1jFGKVdKBK3QsS8zMSUzKzMksqQSqdsyrVEARqgUA4l8dog&amp;tab=service-feature">matrice des capacités AWS</a> récemment publiée sur l’AWS Builder Center.</p> <p>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/range-of-aws-partner-solutions-set-to-launch-on-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">supporté par de nombreux partenaires AWS</a> engagés à vous aider à répondre à vos exigences de souveraineté. Des partenaires tels qu’Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro et Wiz rendent leurs solutions disponibles sur l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, vous offrant ainsi les outils et services nécessaires dans les domaines de la sécurité, de l’analyse de données, du développement applicatif et des charges de travail spécifiques à certains secteurs industriels. Cet ensemble de partenaires vous permet de construire des solutions souveraines combinant les services AWS et des technologies de partenaires de confiance.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Un investissement majeur dans l’infrastructure européenne<br> </strong></span>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud s’appuie sur un investissement de 7,8 milliards d’euros dans l’infrastructure, la création d’emplois et le développement des compétences. Cet investissement devrait contribuer à hauteur de 17,2 milliards d’euros à l’économie européenne d’ici 2040 et soutenir environ 2.800 emplois équivalent temps plein par an au sein des entreprises locales.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Quelques détails techniques<br> </strong></span>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est accessible à tous les clients, quel que soit leur lieu d’implantation. Vous pouvez accéder à l’infrastructure en utilisant le nom de <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html">partition</a> <code>aws-eusc</code> et le nom de région <code>eusc-de-east-1</code>. Une partition correspond à un ensemble de régions AWS. Chaque compte AWS est rattaché à une seule partition.</p> <p>L’infrastructure prend en charge toutes les méthodes d’accès AWS standards, y compris la <a href="https://console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/">console de gestion AWS</a>, les <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/tools/">AWS SDKs</a> et la <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/">AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)</a>, ce qui facilite son intégration dans vos flux de travail et vos automatisations existants. Après avoir créé un nouveau compte racine pour la partition AWS European Sovereign Cloud, vous commencez par définir de nouvelles identités et rôles IAM spécifiques à cette infrastructure, vous donnant un contrôle total sur la gestion des accès au sein de l’environnement souverain européen.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Pour commencer<br> </strong></span>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud offre aux organisations européennes des contrôles de souveraineté renforcés tout en leur permettant de continuer à bénéficier de l’innovation et des capacités d’AWS. Vous pouvez contractualiser les services via Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, avec une tarification en euros et une facturation possible dans l’une des <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/legal/aws-emea/">huit devises que nous prenons en charge aujourd’hui</a>. L’infrastructure repose sur une architecture, un portefeuille de services et des API AWS familiers, ce qui simplifie le développement et la migration des applications.</p> <p>L’<a href="https://aws.eu/de/esca">avenant AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> précise les engagements contractuels supplémentaires propres à l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>En tant qu’Européen, ce lancement illustre l’engagement d’AWS à répondre aux besoins spécifiques de notre continent et à fournir les capacités cloud qui stimulent l’innovation dans tous les secteurs. Je vous invite à découvrir l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud et à comprendre comment il peut aider votre organisation à satisfaire ses exigences de souveraineté. Consultez <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/introduction.html">Overview of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> (en anglais) pour en savoir plus sur les objectifs de conception et l’approche retenue, <a href="https://eusc-de-east-1.signin.amazonaws-eusc.eu/signup?request_type=register">créez un nouveau compte</a> et planifiez dès aujourd’hui le déploiement de votre première charge de travail.</p> <a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a> <hr id="italian"> <h4 style="color: #808080">Italian version</h4> <p><strong>Lancio di AWS European Sovereign Cloud</strong></p> <p>Come cittadino europeo, conosco benissimo l’importanza della sovranità digitale, in particolare per le nostre organizzazioni del settore pubblico e dei settori altamente regolamentati. Oggi sono lieto di annunciare che <a href="https://aws.eu/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> è ora generalmente disponibile per tutti i clienti. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">Abbiamo annunciato per la prima volta i nostri piani per la creazione di questa nuova infrastruttura cloud indipendente nel 2023.</a> Finalmente oggi è pronta a soddisfare i più rigorosi requisiti di sovranità dei clienti europei <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-initial-services-available-in-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-backed-by-the-full-power-of-aws/">con un set completo di servizi AWS</a>.</p> <div id="attachment_102650" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"> <a href="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211.jpeg"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-102650" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-102650" src="https://d2908q01vomqb2.cloudfront.net/da4b9237bacccdf19c0760cab7aec4a8359010b0/2025/12/13/AdobeStock_426378211-1024x341.jpeg" alt="Brandenburg Gate" width="1024" height="341"></a> <p id="caption-attachment-102650" class="wp-caption-text">Berlino, Porta di Brandeburgo al tramonto</p> </div> <p><strong><u>Soddisfare i requisiti di sovranità europea<br> </u></strong>Le organizzazioni di tutta Europa devono far fronte a requisiti normativi sempre più complessi in materia di residenza dei dati, controllo operativo e indipendenza della governance. Troppo spesso, le organizzazioni europee con i più elevati requisiti di sovranità sono bloccate a causa di offerte o ambienti on-premises legacy con funzionalità e servizi ridotti. In risposta a questa esigenza fondamentale, l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud rappresenta l’unico cloud sovrano con funzionalità complete e a gestione autonoma. supportato da solidi controlli tecnici, garanzie di sovranità e protezioni legali. Gli enti pubblici e le aziende di settori altamente regolamentati necessitano di un’infrastruttura cloud che fornisca controlli di sovranità avanzati che garantiscano l’innovazione, la sicurezza e l’affidabilità che si aspettano dai moderni servizi cloud. Queste organizzazioni devono essere certe che i propri dati e le proprie operazioni restino sotto la giurisdizione europea, con chiare strutture di governance e autonomia operativa nell’ambito dell’Unione europea (UE).</p> <p><strong><u>Una nuova infrastruttura cloud indipendente per l’Europa</u></strong><br> L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud rappresenta un’infrastruttura cloud separata fisicamente e logicamente, con tutti i componenti situati interamente all’interno dell’UE. La prima <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region">Regione AWS</a> nell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, situata nello stato di Brandeburgo (Germania) e ora disponibile a livello generale, opera indipendentemente dalle Regioni AWS esistenti. L’infrastruttura presenta diverse zone di disponibilità con risorse di alimentazione e rete ridondanti, progettate per funzionare continuamente anche in caso di interruzione della connettività con il resto del mondo.</p> <p>Abbiamo intenzione di estendere la presenza dell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud dalla Germania all’intera UE per supportare i rigorosi requisiti di isolamento, residenza dei dati all’interno di un determinato Paese e bassa latenza. Inizieremo con nuove <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/what-is-aws-local-zones.html">zone locali</a> sovrane situate in Belgio, nei Paesi Bassi e in Portogallo. Inoltre, sarà possibile estendere l’infrastruttura AWS European Sovereign Cloud con <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dedicatedlocalzones/">Zone locali AWS dedicate</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ai-factories/">AWS AI Factories</a> o <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/">AWS Outposts</a> in posizioni selezionate, inclusi i data center on-premises.</p> <p>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud e le relative zone locali forniscono controlli sovrani avanzati tramite un modello operativo esclusivo. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud sarà gestito esclusivamente da residenti UE che si trovano nell’UE. Ciò copre attività come operazioni quotidiane, supporto tecnico e servizio clienti. Stiamo gradualmente trasformando l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens">in modo che sia gestito esclusivamente da cittadini UE che si trovano nell’UE</a>. Durante questo periodo di transizione, continueremo a lavorare con un team misto di residenti e cittadini comunitari che si trovano nell’UE.</p> <p>L’infrastruttura è gestita da entità giuridiche europee dedicate, costituite secondo il diritto tedesco. Nell’ottobre 2025, AWS ha assegnato l’incarico di managing director a <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/stephane-israel-appointed-to-lead-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud">Stéphane Israël</a>, cittadino comunitario residente nell’UE. Sarà responsabile della gestione e delle operazioni dell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, inclusi infrastruttura, tecnologia e servizi, oltre a guidare le più ampie iniziative di sovranità digitale di AWS. Nel gennaio 2026, AWS ha inoltre nominato managing director dell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanhoechbaue">Stefan Höchbauer</a> (vicepresidente, Germania ed Europa centrale, AWS). Collaborerà con Stéphane Israël per guidare l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>Un comitato consultivo composto esclusivamente da cittadini comunitari, inclusi due rappresentanti terzi indipendenti, fornirà ulteriore supervisione e competenza in materia di sovranità.</p> <p><strong><u>Ottimizzazione del controllo e della residenza dei dati</u></strong><br> L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud offre garanzie complete sulla residenza dei dati in modo da poter soddisfare i requisiti più rigorosi in materia. Come per le nostre Regioni AWS esistenti a livello mondiale, tutti i contenuti restano all’interno della Regione selezionata, a meno che non si scelga diversamente. Oltre ai contenuti, anche i metadati creati dai clienti, tra cui ruoli, autorizzazioni, etichette delle risorse e configurazioni, restano nell’ambito dell’UE. L’infrastruttura è dotata di un proprio sistema <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/">AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)</a> e di fatturazione dedicato, completamente gestito in modo indipendente all’interno dei confini europei.</p> <p>I controlli tecnici integrati nell’infrastruttura <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/design-goals.html">impediscono l’accesso all’AWS European Sovereign Cloud dall’esterno dell’UE</a>. L’infrastruttura include <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/establishing-a-european-trust-service-provider-for-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">un provider di servizi fiduciari europeo dedicato per le operazioni delle autorità di certificazione</a> e utilizza nameserver <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/route53/">Amazon Route 53</a> dedicati. Questi server utilizzeranno solo <a href="https://aws.eu/faq/#operational-autonomy">domini di primo livello (TLD) europei per i propri nomi</a>. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud non ha dipendenze fondamentali da personale o infrastrutture non UE.</p> <p><strong><u>Framework di sicurezza e conformità<br> </u></strong>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud mantiene le stesse funzionalità di sicurezza di base di AWS, tra cui crittografia, gestione delle chiavi, governance degli accessi e <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/">AWS Nitro System</a> per l’isolamento computazionale. Ciò significa che le istanze EC2 beneficiano dell’integrità della piattaforma verificata a livello di crittografia e dei limiti imposti dall’hardware che impediscono l’accesso non autorizzato ai dati senza compromettere le prestazioni, offrendo i controlli di sovranità e la potenza di calcolo richiesti dai carichi di lavoro. L’infrastruttura è sottoposta ad <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-independent-affirmation-of-its-confidential-compute-capabilities/">audit di terze parti indipendenti</a>, con programmi di conformità che includono ISO/IEC 27001:2013, report SOC 1/2/3 e attestazione C5 dell’<a href="https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html">Ufficio Federale per la Sicurezza Informatica (BSI)</a>.</p> <p>L’<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/exploring-the-new-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-sovereign-reference-framework/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework</a> definisce i controlli di sovranità specifici in termini di indipendenza della governance, controllo operativo, residenza dei dati e isolamento tecnico. Questo framework è disponibile in <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/">AWS Artifact</a> e fornisce visibilità end-to-end tramite l’attestazione SOC 2.</p> <p><strong><u>Disponibilità completa del servizio<br> </u></strong>Dal momento del lancio, sarà possibile accedere a un’ampia gamma di servizi AWS nell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, tra cui <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/">Amazon SageMaker</a> e <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/">Amazon Bedrock</a> per carichi di lavoro di intelligenza artificiale e machine learning (IA/ML). Per i calcoli, è possibile utilizzare <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> e <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/">AWS Lambda</a>. L’orchestrazione di container è disponibile tramite <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/eks/">Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)</a> e <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/">Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)</a>. I servizi di database includono <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/">Amazon Aurora</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">Amazon DynamoDB</a> e <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/">Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)</a>. Le opzioni di storage includono <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)</a> e <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a>, con connessione in rete tramite <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/">Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)</a> e servizi di sicurezza tra cui <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/kms/">Servizio AWS di gestione delle chiavi (AWS KMS)</a> e <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/private-ca/">Autorità di certificazione privata AWS (AWS Private CA)</a>. Per un elenco aggiornato dei servizi, è possibile consultare l’<a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?f=eJyrVipOzUlNLklNCUpNz8zPK1ayUoqOUUotLU7WTUnVTU0sLtE1jFGKVdKBK3QsS8zMSUzKzMksqQSqdsyrVEARqgUA4l8dog&amp;tab=service-feature">elenco delle funzionalità AWS</a> pubblicato di recente su AWS Builder Center.</p> <p>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud è <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/range-of-aws-partner-solutions-set-to-launch-on-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">supportato dai partner AWS</a>, che aiutano a soddisfare i propri requisiti di sovranità. Partner come Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro e Wiz stanno rendendo disponibili le loro soluzioni nell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, fornendo gli strumenti e i servizi necessari per la sicurezza, l’analisi dei dati, lo sviluppo di applicazioni e i carichi di lavoro specifici del settore. Questo ampio supporto dei partner aiuta a creare soluzioni sovrane che combinano i servizi AWS con tecnologie di partner affidabili.</p> <p><strong><u>Investimenti significativi nelle infrastrutture europee<br> </u></strong>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud è sostenuto da un investimento di 7,8 miliardi di euro destinati a infrastrutture, creazione di posti di lavoro e sviluppo delle competenze. Si prevede che questo investimento contribuirà con 17,2 miliardi di euro all’economia europea fino al 2040 e sosterrà circa 2.800 posti di lavoro equivalenti a tempo pieno all’anno nelle aziende locali.</p> <p><strong><u>Alcuni dettagli tecnici<br> </u></strong>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud è disponibile per tutti i clienti, indipendentemente da dove si trovino. È possibile accedere all’infrastruttura utilizzando il nome della <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html">partizione</a> aws-eusc e il nome della Regione eusc-de-east-1. Una partizione è un gruppo di Regioni AWS. Ogni account AWS è associato a una partizione.</p> <p>L’infrastruttura supporta tutti i metodi di accesso AWS standard, tra cui la <a href="https://console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/">Console di gestione AWS</a>, gli <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/tools/">SDK AWS</a> e l’<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/">interfaccia della linea di comando AWS (AWS CLI)</a>, semplificando l’integrazione nell’automazione e nei flussi di lavoro esistenti. Dopo aver creato un nuovo account root per la partizione Di AWS European Sovereign Cloud, si inizia creando nuove identità e ruoli IAM specifici per questa infrastruttura, che consentiranno di avere il controllo completo sulla gestione degli accessi all’interno dell’ambiente sovrano europeo.</p> <p><strong><u>Nozioni di base<br> </u></strong>L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud fornisce alle organizzazioni europee controlli di sovranità avanzati pur mantenendo l’accesso all’innovazione e alle funzionalità di AWS. È possibile contrattare servizi tramite Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, con prezzi in EUR e fatturazione in una <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/legal/aws-emea/">delle otto valute supportate oggi</a>. L’infrastruttura utilizza l’architettura AWS, il portafoglio di servizi e le API tradizionali, semplificando la creazione e la migrazione delle applicazioni.</p> <p>L’<a href="https://aws.eu/de/esca">addendum di AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> include gli impegni contrattuali aggiuntivi per l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>Per me come europeo, questo lancio rappresenta l’impegno di AWS per soddisfare le esigenze specifiche del nostro continente e fornire le funzionalità cloud che guidano l’innovazione in tutti i settori. Invito tutti a scoprire di più sull’AWS European Sovereign Cloud e su come può aiutare le organizzazioni a soddisfare i requisiti di sovranità. Nella <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/introduction.html">Panoramica di AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> sono disponibili maggiori informazioni sugli obiettivi e sull’approccio di progettazione, <a href="https://eusc-de-east-1.signin.amazonaws-eusc.eu/signup?request_type=register">creare un nuovo account </a>&nbsp;e pianificare l’implementazione del primo carico di lavoro oggi stesso.</p> <p><a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a></p> <hr id="spanish"> <h4 style="color: #808080">Spanish version</h4> <p><strong>Apertura de AWS&nbsp;European Sovereign Cloud</strong></p> <p>Como ciudadano europeo, comprendo de primera mano la importancia de la soberanía digital, especialmente para las organizaciones de nuestro sector público y las industrias altamente reguladas. Hoy me complace anunciar que la <a href="https://aws.eu/">AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> ya está disponible de forma generalizada para todos los clientes. <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">Anunciamos por primera vez nuestros planes de crear esta nueva infraestructura de nube independiente en 2023</a>, y hoy está lista para cumplir los requisitos de soberanía más estrictos de los clientes europeos <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/announcing-initial-services-available-in-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-backed-by-the-full-power-of-aws/">con un exhaustivo conjunto de servicios de AWS</a>.</p> <p>Berlín, Puerta de Brandeburgo al atardecer</p> <p><strong><u>Cumplimiento de los requisitos de soberanía europeos<br> </u></strong>Las organizaciones de toda Europa se enfrentan a unos requisitos normativos cada vez más complejos en relación con la residencia de los datos, el control operativo y la independencia de la gobernanza. Hoy en día, con demasiada frecuencia, las organizaciones europeas con los requisitos de soberanía más estrictos se ven atrapadas en entornos locales heredados u ofertas con servicios y funcionalidades reducidos. En respuesta a esta necesidad crítica, la AWS European Sovereign Cloud es la única nube soberana independiente con todas las características que está respaldada por sólidos controles técnicos, garantías de soberanía y protecciones legales. Las entidades del sector público y las empresas de industrias altamente reguladas necesitan una infraestructura en la nube que proporcione controles de soberanía mejorados que mantengan la innovación, la seguridad y la fiabilidad que se esperan de los servicios modernos en la nube. Estas organizaciones necesitan la garantía de que sus datos y operaciones permanecen bajo la jurisdicción europea, con estructuras de gobernanza claras y autonomía operativa dentro de la Unión Europea (UE).</p> <p><strong><u>Una nueva infraestructura de nube independiente para Europa</u></strong><br> La AWS European Sovereign Cloud es una infraestructura de nube separada de manera física y lógica, en la que todos los componentes están ubicados íntegramente dentro de la UE. La primera <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glossary/latest/reference/glos-chap.html#region">región de AWS</a> de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud se encuentra en el estado de Brandeburgo (Alemania) y ya está disponible para el público en general. Esta región opera de forma independiente de las regiones de AWS existentes. La infraestructura cuenta con varias zonas de disponibilidad con fuentes de alimenacion y redes redundantes, diseñadas para funcionar de forma continua incluso si se interrumpe la conectividad con el resto del mundo.</p> <p>Tenemos previsto ampliar la presencia de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud de Alemania a toda la UE para cumplir los requisitos de aismlamiento estrictos, residencia de los datos dentro del país y baja latencia. Esto comenzará con nuevas <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/local-zones/latest/ug/what-is-aws-local-zones.html">zonas locales</a> soberanas ubicadas en Bélgica, los Países Bajos y Portugal. Además, podrá ampliar la infraestructura de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud con <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dedicatedlocalzones/">zonas locales dedicadas de AWS</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ai-factories/">AWS AI Factories</a> o <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/">AWS Outposts</a> en las ubicaciones que elija, incluidos sus propios centros de datos locales.</p> <p>La AWS European Sovereign Cloud y sus zonas locales proporcionan controles soberanos mejorados a través de su modelo operativo único. La AWS European Sovereign Cloud será operada exclusivamente por residentes de la UE ubicados en la UE. Abarca actividades como las operaciones diarias, la asistencia técnica y el servicio de atención al cliente. Estamos realizando una transición gradual de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud para que <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-european-sovereign-cloud-to-be-operated-by-eu-citizens">se opere exclusivamente por ciudadanos de la UE ubicados en la UE</a>. Durante este período de transición, seguiremos trabajando con un equipo mixto de residentes de la UE y ciudadanos de la UE ubicados en la UE.</p> <p>La infraestructura se administra a través de entidades jurídicas europeas especializadas constituidas en el marco de la legislación alemana. En octubre de 2025, AWS nombró director general a <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/stephane-israel-appointed-to-lead-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud">Stéphane Israël</a>, ciudadano de la UE que reside en la UE. Stéphane será responsable de la administración y las operaciones de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud, lo que incluye la infraestructura, la tecnología y los servicios, además de liderar los esfuerzos más amplios de AWS en materia de soberanía digital. En enero de 2026, AWS también nombró a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanhoechbaue">Stefan Hoechbauer</a> (vicepresidente de AWS para Alemania y Europa Central) director general de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Stefan dirigirá la AWS European Sovereign Cloud junto con Stéphane Israël.</p> <p>Un consejo consultivo compuesto exclusivamente por ciudadanos de la UE, que incluye a dos representantes independientes externos, proporciona supervisión y experiencia adicional en materia de soberanía.</p> <p><strong><u>Mejor control y residencia de datos</u></strong><br> La AWS European Sovereign Cloud ofrece amplias garantías de residencia de datos para que pueda cumplir los requisitos más estrictos en materia de residencia de datos. Al igual que ocurre con nuestras regiones de AWS existentes en todo el mundo, todo el contenido permanece dentro la región que elija, a menos que decida lo contrario. Además del contenido, los metadatos creados por los clientes, incluidos los roles, los permisos, las etiquetas de recursos y las configuraciones, también permanecen dentro de la UE. La infraestructura cuenta con su propio sistema dedicado de <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/iam/">AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)</a> y facturación, que funciona de forma independiente dentro de las fronteras europeas.</p> <p>Los controles técnicos integrados en la infraestructura <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/design-goals.html">impiden el acceso a la AWS European Sovereign Cloud desde fuera de la UE</a>. La infraestructura incluye <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/establishing-a-european-trust-service-provider-for-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">un proveedor de servicios de confianza europeo dedicado para las operaciones de las autoridades de certificación</a> y utiliza servidores de nombres de <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/route53/">Amazon Route 53</a> dedicados. Estos servidores solo usarán<a href="https://aws.eu/faq/#operational-autonomy"> dominios de nivel superior europeos para sus propios nombres</a>. La AWS European Sovereign Cloud no tiene dependencias críticas de personal o infraestructura fuera de la UE.</p> <p><strong><u>Marco de seguridad y cumplimiento<br> </u></strong>La AWS European Sovereign Cloud mantiene las mismas capacidades de seguridad básicas que cabe esperar de AWS, como el cifrado, la administración de claves, la gobernanza del acceso y <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/">AWS Nitro System</a> para el aislamiento de la computación. Esto significa que sus instancias de EC2 se benefician de la integridad de la plataforma verificada criptográficamente y de los límites impuestos por el hardware que impiden el acceso no autorizado a sus datos sin comprometer el rendimiento, lo que le proporciona tanto los controles de soberanía como la potencia computacional que requieren sus cargas de trabajo. La infraestructura se somete a <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/aws-nitro-system-gets-independent-affirmation-of-its-confidential-compute-capabilities/">auditorías independientes externas</a>, con programas de cumplimiento que incluyen la norma ISO/IEC 27001:2013, informes SOC 1/2/3 y la certificación C5 de la <a href="https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Home/home_node.html">Oficina Federal de Seguridad de la Información</a>.</p> <p>El <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/exploring-the-new-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-sovereign-reference-framework/">marco de referencia de soberanía de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> define los controles de soberanía específicos en relación con la independencia de la gobernanza, el control operativo, la residencia de datos y el aislamiento técnico. Este marco está disponible en <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/artifact/">AWS Artifact</a> y proporciona visibilidad total a través de la certificación SOC 2.</p> <p><strong><u>Disponibilidad total del servicio<br> </u></strong>Puede acceder a una amplia variedad de servicios de AWS en la AWS European Sovereign Cloud desde su lanzamiento, incluidos <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/">Amazon SageMaker</a> y <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/">Amazon Bedrock</a> para cargas de trabajo de inteligencia artificial y machine learning. Para el procesamiento, puede usar <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)</a> y <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/">AWS Lambda</a>. La orquestación de contenedores está disponible a través de <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/eks/">Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)</a> y <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/">Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)</a>. Los servicios de bases de datos incluyen <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/">Amazon Aurora</a>, <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/">Amazon DynamoDB</a> y <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rds/">Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)</a>. Dispone de opciones de almacenamiento como <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)</a> y <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/">Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)</a>, con redes a través de <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/">Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)</a> y servicios de seguridad como <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/kms/">AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)</a> y <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/private-ca/">AWS Private Certificate Authority</a>. Para obtener una lista actualizada de los servicios, consulte la <a href="https://builder.aws.com/build/capabilities/explore?f=eJyrVipOzUlNLklNCUpNz8zPK1ayUoqOUUotLU7WTUnVTU0sLtE1jFGKVdKBK3QsS8zMSUzKzMksqQSqdsyrVEARqgUA4l8dog&amp;tab=service-feature">matriz de capacidades de AWS</a> que se ha publicado recientemente en AWS Builder Center.</p> <p>La AWS European Sovereign Cloud <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/range-of-aws-partner-solutions-set-to-launch-on-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/">cuenta con el respaldo de los socios de AWS</a>, que se comprometen a ayudarle a cumplir sus requisitos de soberanía. Socios como Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro y Wiz ofrecen sus soluciones en la AWS European Sovereign Cloud, lo que le proporciona las herramientas y los servicios que necesita en materia de seguridad, análisis de datos, desarrollo de aplicaciones y cargas de trabajo específicas del sector. Este amplio apoyo de los socios le ayuda a crear soluciones soberanas que combinan los servicios de AWS con tecnologías de socios de confianza.</p> <p><strong><u>Inversión importante. en la infraestructura europea<br> </u></strong>La AWS European Sovereign Cloud está respaldada por una inversión de 7.800 millones de EUR en infraestructura, creación de empleo y desarrollo de habilidades. Se espera que esta inversión aporte 17.200 millones de EUR a la economía europea para 2040 y ayude a crear el equivalente a aproximadamente 2.800 puestos de trabajo a tiempo completo por año en empresas locales.</p> <p><strong><u>Algunos detalles técnicos<br> </u></strong>La AWS European Sovereign Cloud está disponible para todos los clientes, independientemente de dónde se encuentren. Puede acceder a la infraestructura utilizando el nombre de <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/reference-arns.html">partición</a> aws-eusc y el nombre de región eusc-de-east-1. Una partición es un grupo de regiones de AWS. Cada cuenta de AWS tiene limitado su alcance a una sola partición.</p> <p>La infraestructura admite todos los métodos de acceso estándar de AWS, como la <a href="https://console.amazonaws-eusc.eu/">Consola de administración de AWS</a>, los <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/tools/">AWS SDK</a> y la <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/cli/">Interfaz de la línea de comandos de AWS (AWS CLI)</a>, lo que facilita la integración en sus flujos de trabajo y automatización existentes. Tras crear una nueva cuenta raíz para la partición de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud, primero deberá crear nuevas identidades y roles de IAM específicos para esta infraestructura, lo que le permitirá tener un control total sobre la administración del acceso en el entorno soberano europeo.</p> <p><strong><u>Cómo empezar<br> </u></strong>La AWS European Sovereign Cloud proporciona a las organizaciones europeas controles de soberanía mejorados, al tiempo que mantiene el acceso a la innovación y las capacidades de AWS. Puede contratar los servicios a través de Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, con precios en EUR y facturación en cualquiera de <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/legal/aws-emea/">las ocho divisas que admitimos actualmente</a>. La infraestructura utiliza la arquitectura, la cartera de servicios y las API habituales de AWS, lo que facilita la creación y la migración de aplicaciones.</p> <p>La <a href="https://aws.eu/de/esca">adenda de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> contiene los compromisos contractuales adicionales para la AWS European Sovereign Cloud.</p> <p>Para mí, como europeo, este lanzamiento representa el compromiso de AWS de satisfacer las necesidades específicas de nuestro continente y proporcionar las capacidades en la nube que impulsan la innovación en todos los sectores. Le invito a descubrir más sobre la AWS European Sovereign Cloud y cómo puede ayudar a su organización a cumplir sus requisitos de soberanía. Lea la <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/overview-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/introduction.html">descripción general de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud</a> para obtener más información sobre los objetivos y el enfoque del diseño, <a href="https://eusc-de-east-1.signin.amazonaws-eusc.eu/signup?request_type=register">regístrese para obtener una nueva cuenta</a> y planifique hoy mismo el despliegue de su primera carga de trabajo.</p> <p><a href="https://linktr.ee/sebsto">— seb</a></p>