AWS News Blog
Now Open — AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
AWS has launched its first New Zealand Region with three Availability Zones, marking its 16th Region in Asia Pacific and enabling local data residency for New Zealand organizations.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon EC2, Amazon Q Developer, IPv6 updates, and more (September 1, 2025)
My LinkedIn feed was absolutely packed this week with pictures from the AWS Heroes Summit event in Seattle. It was heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and new Heroes coming together. For those not familiar with the AWS Heroes program, it’s a global community recognition initiative that honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to […]
New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i Flex instances are now available
M8i and M8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.
AWS services scale to new heights for Prime Day 2025: key metrics and milestones
Amazon Prime Day 2025 achieved record-breaking sales with enhanced AI shopping features, while AWS infrastructure handled unprecedented volumes of data—including 1.7 trillion Lambda invocations per day, DynamoDB peaking at 151 million requests per second, and a 77% increase in Fargate container tasks—showcasing the massive scalability required to power the four-day shopping event.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Aurora 10th anniversary, Amazon EC2 R8 instances, Amazon Bedrock and more (August 25, 2025)
As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to shape the way we build modern applications. This week brings a special milestone that perfectly captures this evolution in cloud […]
Best performance and fastest memory with the new Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances
R8i and R8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.
AWS Weekly Roundup: Single GPU P5 instances, Advanced Go Driver, Amazon SageMaker HyperPod and more (August 18, 2025)
Let me start this week’s update with something I’m especially excited about – the upcoming BeSA (Become a Solutions Architect) cohort. BeSA is a free mentoring program that I host along with a few other AWS employees on a volunteer basis to help people excel in their cloud careers. Last week, the instructors’ lineup was […]
AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for 15 years in a row
AWS is recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services for the fifteenth consecutive year. In the report, Gartner once again placed AWS highest on the “Ability to Execute” axis. We believe this reflects our ongoing commitment to giving customers the broadest and deepest set of capabilities to accelerate innovation as well as unparalleled security, reliability, and performance they can trust for their most critical applications.