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Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes
AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating the previous multi-step process of taking snapshots and creating volumes from them.
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords.
Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
AWS has launched new EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances based on Apple M4 Mac mini, offering improved performance over previous generations and featuring up to 48GB memory and 2TB storage for iOS/macOS development workloads.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2, Amazon Q Developer, IPv6 updates, and more (September 1, 2025)
My LinkedIn feed was absolutely packed this week with pictures from the AWS Heroes Summit event in Seattle. It was heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and new Heroes coming together. For those not familiar with the AWS Heroes program, it’s a global community recognition initiative that honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to […]
Celebrating 10 years of Amazon Aurora innovation
Amazon Aurora is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a livestream event on August 21, 2025, highlighting a decade of database innovation since its groundbreaking architecture that decoupled storage from compute.
Introducing Amazon Application Recovery Controller Region switch: A multi-Region application recovery service
This new feature helps organizations confidently plan, practice, and orchestrate failover operations between AWS Regions for critical applications through automated workflows and continuous validation.
Amazon S3 Metadata now supports metadata for all your S3 objects
Amazon S3 Metadata now provides comprehensive visibility into all objects in S3 buckets through live inventory and journal tables, enabling SQL-based analysis of both existing and new objects with automatic updates within an hour of changes.
New: Improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 with sort and z-order compaction
Amazon S3 now enables improved Apache Iceberg query performance through two new compaction strategies—sort and z-order—available for both S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets, helping organize data more efficiently by clustering similar values together and reducing file scanning during queries.