Category: Launch

This week’s roundup covers launches across compute, networking, security, and AI. Amazon EC2 introduces new C8id, M8id, and R8id instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. AWS Network Firewall announces price reductions. Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts for improved resiliency and workload isolation.

On the security front, AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple, AWS STS adds validation for identity provider claims and Amazon CloudFront introduces mutual TLS support for origins to enforce certificate-based authentication. For AI, Claude Opus 4.6—Anthropic’s most intelligent model—is now available in Amazon Bedrock, bringing industry-leading performance for agentic tasks and complex coding projects. Amazon Bedrock also adds structured outputs for consistent, machine-readable responses that adhere to your defined JSON schemas.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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