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Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announced a new catalog of community add-ons that includes metrics-server, kube-state-metrics, cert-manager, prometheus-node-exporter, fluent-bit, and external-dns. This enables you to easily find, select, configure, and manage popular open-source Kubernetes add-ons directly through EKS. Each add-on has been packaged, scanned, and validated for compatibility by EKS, with container images securely hosted in an EKS-owned private Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) repository. To make Kubernetes clusters production-ready, you need to integrate various operational tools and add-ons. These add-ons can come from various sources including AWS and open-source community repositories. Now, EKS makes it easy for you to access a broader selection of add-ons, providing a unified management experience for

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS South America (São Paulo), Canada West (Calgary) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances. I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access the small to medium size datasets (multi-

Today, Amazon EBS announced a new latency injection action in AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS), a fully managed service for running fault injection experiments. You can now use this action to inject I/O latency on your volumes as part of a controlled testing experiment to understand how your mission-critical applications respond to storage faults. With the new fault action, you can test your architecture against elevated storage latency, allowing you to observe application behavior and fine-tune your monitoring and recovery processes to ensure high availability. EBS volumes are designed to meet the needs of highly available, latency-sensitive applications such as Oracle, SAP HANA, and Microsoft SQL Server. The latency injection action simulates degraded I/O performance on your volume to replicate the real-world signals, such as Amazon CloudWatch alarms and operating system timeouts, that occur during storage performance issues. Using this action, you can build confidence t

Amazon Lex now allows you to leverage large language models (LLMs) to improve the natural language understanding of your deterministic conversational AI bots in eight new languages: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Catalan, French, Italian, and German. With this capability, your voice- and chat-bots can better handle complex utterances, maintain accuracy despite spelling errors, and extract key information from verbose inputs to fulfill the customer’s request. For example, a customer could say ‘Hi I want to book a flight for my wife, my two kids and myself’, and the LLM will properly identify to book flight tickets for four people. This feature is available in 10 commercial AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available: Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central). To learn more about this feature, visit

Today, Amazon announced the availability of detailed performance statistics for Amazon EC2 instance store NVMe volumes. This new capability delivers real-time visibility into the performance of your AWS Nitro System-based EC2 instance store NVMe volumes, making it easier to monitor storage health and quickly resolve application performance issues. With EC2 detailed performance statistics, you can access 11 comprehensive metrics at one second granularity to monitor input/output (I/O) statistics of your locally attached NVMe volumes, including queue length measurements, IOPS, throughput, and detailed I/O latency histograms. These metrics are similar to the detailed performance statistics available for EBS volumes, providing a consistent monitoring experience across both storage types. The granular visibility provided by these metrics helps you identify specific w

Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 announces support for Graphics G6 instances with fractionalized GPU sizes, which are built on the EC2 G6 family, designed to cater to graphics applications that need smaller GPU fractions. Graphics G6 instances with fractionalized GPU sizes (G6f and Gr6f) allow users to utilize only the GPU resources they need, rather than provisioning full GPU instances. This approach helps enable better resource optimization through shared GPU capacity, offering flexibility to choose smaller GPU fractions (such as 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8) that align with specific workload requirements. Organizations can benefit from reduced costs by avoiding over-provisioning while maintaining access to GPU capabilities for applications that don't require full GPU power. These new instance types are available in 10 AWS Regions, including US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Fr

Amazon S3 now supports conditional deletes in S3 general purpose buckets, which verify that an object is unchanged before deleting it. This helps you to prevent accidental deletions in high-concurrency, multiple-writer scenarios. You can now perform conditional deletes using the HTTP if-match header with an ETag value. Amazon S3 will only allow your delete request to succeed if the Etag provided matches that of the object. Additionally, you can use the s3:if-match condition key in your S3 bucket policies to enforce conditional delete operations. For example, you can require clients to use the HTTP if-match header in both S3 DeleteObject and S3 DeleteObjects API requests, helping you to minimize the risk of accidentally deleting objects in your bucket. Conditional deletes are available in S3 general purpose buckets at no additional cost in all AWS Regions. You can use the Amazon S3 API, SDKs, and CLI to perform conditional deletes. To learn more, visit the

Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions, makes it easy for you to scale your relational database workloads by providing a serverless endpoint that automatically distributes data and queries across multiple Amazon Aurora Serverless instances while maintaining the transactional consistency of a single database. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database offers capabilities such as distributed query planning and transaction management, removing the need for you to create custom solutions or manage multiple databases to scale. As your workloads increase, Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database adds additional compute resources while staying within your specified budget, so there is no need to provision for peak, and compute automatically scales down when demand is low. Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is available with PostgreSQL 16.6, 16.8, and 16.9 compatibility in these regions. For pricing details and Region av

AWS Storage Gateway announces Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) support for AWS Storage Gateway endpoints, APIs, and gateway appliance interfaces. This enhancement enables both IPv6 and IPv4 access to our new dual-stack endpoints. The existing AWS Storage Gateway endpoints supporting IPv4 only will remain available for backwards compatibility. AWS Storage Gateway provides on-premises access to data stored in AWS storage. With this launch, customers can standardize their applications and workflows for managing their AWS Storage Gateway resources on IPv6 while maintaining backward compatibility with IPv4 clients. By using the new dual-stack capabilities in the Storage Gateway appliances, service endpoints, and APIs, customers can transition from IPv4 to IPv6 gradually without needed to switch all their networking at once. AWS Storage Gateway support for IPv6 is available in all

Customers in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family for file transfers over Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), FTP over SSL (FTPS) and Applicability Statement 2 (AS2). AWS Transfer Family provides fully managed file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) over SFTP, FTP, FTPS and AS2 protocols. In addition to file transfers, Transfer Family enables common file processing and event-driven automation for managed file transfer (MFT) workflows, helping customers to modernize and migrate their business-to-business file transfers to AWS. To learn more about AWS Transfer Family, visit our product page and user-guide. See the