AWS News Blog
Category: Launch
A New AWS Region Opens in Switzerland
Update December 8, 2022 – we have added AWS Organizations in the list of services. I am pleased to announce today the opening of our 28th AWS Region: Europe (Zurich), also known by its API name: eu-central-2. An AWS Region allows you to deploy your most demanding workloads and replicate your applications and data across […]
AWS Week in Review – November 7, 2022
With three weeks to go until AWS re:Invent opens in Las Vegas, the AWS News Blog Team is hard at work creating blog posts to share the latest launches and previews with you. As usual, we have a strong mix of new services, new features, and a surprise or two. Last Week’s Launches Here are […]
Introducing Amazon Neptune Serverless – A Fully Managed Graph Database that Adjusts Capacity for Your Workloads
March 2, 2023: Post updated because Amazon Neptune Serverless now scales down to 1 NCU to save costs. Amazon Neptune is a fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. With Neptune, you can use open and popular graph query languages to execute […]
AWS Batch for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service
Today I’m pleased to announce AWS Batch for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). AWS Batch for Amazon EKS is ideal for customers who no longer want to shoulder the burden of configuring, fine-tuning, and managing Kubernetes clusters and pods to use with their batch processing workflows. Furthermore, there is no charge for this service. […]
Amazon EC2 Trn1 Instances for High-Performance Model Training are Now Available
Update April 13, 2023 — Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Trn1n instances, powered by AWS Trainium, are now generally available. Amazon EC2 Trn1n instances double the network bandwidth (compared to Trn1 instances) to 1600 Gbps of Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) to deliver even higher performance for training network-intensive generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, such as large […]
AWS Local Zones Expansion: Taipei and Delhi
In late 2019 I told you about the AWS Local Zone in Los Angeles, California. In that post I described Local Zones as a new type of AWS infrastructure deployment that brings select AWS services very close to a particular geographic area. A year after that launch, I announced our plans to add 3 more […]
Amazon File Cache – A High Performance Cache On AWS For Your On-Premises File Systems
I am pleased to announce today the availability of Amazon File Cache, a new high-speed cache service on AWS designed for processing file data stored in disparate locations—including on premises. File Cache accelerates and simplifies your most demanding cloud bursting and hybrid workflows by giving your applications access to files using a fast and familiar […]
Amazon WorkSpaces Introduces Ubuntu Desktops
At AWS, we love to give our customers choices: the choice of infrastructure to deploy your workloads, to store your most important data, or the operating systems for your virtual desktops. Many of you choose Amazon Workspaces to provision and distribute virtual desktops securely and at scale to your workforce. Our customers choose Workspaces when […]





