AWS News Blog
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 Transfer Family SFTP connectors now support VPC-based connectivity
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.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Quick Suite, EC2 C8i, C8i-flex, and M8a instances, and more (October 13, 2025)
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 […]
Announcing Amazon Quick Suite: your agentic teammate for answering questions and taking action
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.
New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available
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.
Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances
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.
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.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Amazon Bedrock, ECS Managed Instances, Builder ID updates, and more (October 6, 2025)
Last week, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5—the world’s best coding model according to SWE-Bench – became available in Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) and Kiro. I’m excited about this for two reasons: First, a few weeks ago I spent 4 intensive days with a global customer delivering an AI-assisted development workshop, where I experienced firsthand […]