AWS News Blog

Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager is a new centralized solution that consolidates capacity monitoring and management across all AWS accounts and regions, eliminating operational overhead and providing optimization opportunities for EC2 infrastructure at scale.

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 Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity, allowing secure file transfers between Amazon S3 and remote SFTP servers through your existing VPC infrastructure without exposing endpoints to the internet.

This week I was at the inaugural AWS AI in Practice meetup from the AWS User Group UK. AI-assisted software development and agents were the focus of the evening! Next week I’ll be in Italy for Codemotion (Milan) and an AWS User Group meetup (Rome). My sessions there will be about AI agents and context […]

Amazon has announced Quick Suite, a new AI-powered workspace that combines research, business intelligence, and automation tools to help users analyze data and streamline workflows all in one place.

Amazon EC2 has launched new M8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors, offering up to 30% better performance and 19% better price performance compared to M7a instances, along with improved memory bandwidth, networking, and storage capabilities for various general-purpose workloads.

AWS launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex EC2 instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS to offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.

Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords.