New general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available

by Azalio tdshpsk | Oct 8, 2025 | AWS

Today, we’re announcing the availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8a instances, the latest addition to the general-purpose M instance family. These instances are powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors with a maximum...

Introducing new compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances

by Azalio tdshpsk | Oct 6, 2025 | AWS

After launching Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) memory-optimized R8i and R8i-flex instances and general-purpose M8i and M8i-flex instances, I am happy to announce the general availability of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom...

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest

by Azalio tdshpsk | Oct 6, 2025 | AWS

Starting today, you can use your own AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt identity data, such as user and group attributes, stored in AWS IAM Identity Center organization instances. Many organizations operating in regulated industries need complete...

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock, AWS Outposts, Amazon ECS Managed Instances, AWS Builder ID, and more (October 6, 2025)

by Azalio tdshpsk | Oct 6, 2025 | AWS

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...

Announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances for containerized applications

by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 30, 2025 | AWS

Today, we’re announcing Amazon ECS Managed Instances, a new compute option for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) that enables developers to use the full range of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) capabilities while offloading infrastructure...

Announcing AWS Outposts third-party storage integration with Dell and HPE

by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 30, 2025 | AWS

Since announcing second-generation AWS Outposts racks in April with breakthrough performance and scalability, we’ve continued to innovate on behalf of our customers at the edge of the cloud. Today, we’re expanding AWS Outposts third-party storage integration program...