AWS News Blog
Category: Compute
Happy New Year! AWS Weekly Roundup: 10,000 AIdeas Competition, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS Managed Instances and more (January 5, 2026)
Happy New Year! I hope the holidays gave you time to recharge and spend time with your loved ones. Like every year, I took a few weeks off after AWS re:Invent to rest and plan ahead. I used some of that downtime to plan the next cohort for Become a Solutions Architect (BeSA). BeSA is […]
Build multi-step applications and AI workflows with AWS Lambda durable functions
New Lambda capability lets you build applications that coordinate multiple steps reliably over extended periods—from seconds to up to one year—without paying for idle compute time when waiting for external events or human decisions.
Introducing Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors for memory-intensive workloads
New memory-optimized instances deliver up to 5 GHz processor speeds and 3 TiB of memory—ideal for electronic design automation workloads and memory-intensive databases requiring high single-threaded performance.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now integrates with Amazon S3 for seamless data access
Access FSx for NetApp ONTAP file data through S3 to enable AI/ML workloads and analytics—letting you use enterprise file data with Bedrock, SageMaker, and analytics services while it remains in your file system.
Amazon GuardDuty adds Extended Threat Detection for Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
Today, we’re announcing new enhancements to Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection with the addition of two attack sequence findings for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) tasks. These new findings build on the existing Extended Threat Detection capabilities, which already combine sequences involving AWS Identity and Access […]
Introducing AWS Transform custom: Crush tech debt with AI-powered code modernization
Modernize applications at scale with this new AI-powered service that learns your organization’s patterns, automates transformations across repositories, and cuts execution time by up to 80% through both pre-built and custom capabilities.
Introducing AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless simplicity with EC2 flexibility
Run Lambda functions on EC2 compute while maintaining serverless simplicity—enabling access to specialized hardware and cost optimizations through EC2 pricing models, with AWS handling all infrastructure management.
Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities for workload orchestration and cloud resource management
Streamline Kubernetes development with fully managed platform capabilities that handle workload orchestration and cloud resource management, eliminating infrastructure maintenance while providing enterprise-grade reliability and security.