AWS announcements, Aug 11 – Aug 17, 2025
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Subscribe- 15AugAmazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT with Amazon S3 Tables
- 15AugAmazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta)Amazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 15AugAmazon DynamoDB now supports a CloudWatch Contributor Insights mode exclusively for throttled keysAmazon DynamoDB · Databases
- 15AugAmazon DynamoDB now supports more granular throttle error exceptionsAmazon DynamoDB · Databases
- 15AugAWS Certificate Manager supports AWS PrivateLinkAWS PrivateLink · AWS Certificate Manager · Security, identity and compliance
- 15AugAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds support resource policiesAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus · Management, governance and cost
- 15AugAmazon Neptune now integrates with Cognee for graph-native memory in GenAI ApplicationsAmazon Neptune · Databases
- 15AugAmazon RDS for Db2 now supports cross-region automated backups for encrypted databasesAmazon RDS · Databases
- 15AugAWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actionsCloud Financial Management · Management, governance and cost
- 15AugAmazon Connect Cases now supports rules to automatically update cases upon creation
- 15AugAmazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 11.4.8, 10.11.14 and 10.6.23Amazon RDS · Databases
- 15AugAWS Managed Microsoft AD increases directory sharing limitsAWS Directory Service · Security, identity and compliance
- 15AugAmazon VPC now supports IPv4 ingress routing for large IP PoolsAmazon VPC · Networking and content delivery
- 14AugSageMaker HyperPod now supports fine-grained quota allocation of compute resources
- 14AugAmazon U7i instances now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) Region
- 14AugAmazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta)Amazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 14AugAmazon OpenSearch UI is now available in seven new regions
- 14AugAmazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in additional AWS regions
- 14AugPostgreSQL 18 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
- 14AugSageMaker HyperPod now supports Topology Aware Scheduling of LLM tasks
- 14AugAWS Batch now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS FargateAWS Fargate · AWS Batch · Compute and containers
- 14AugAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacityAmazon FSx NetApp ONTAP · Storage
- 14AugAWS Cloud Map adds support for cross-account service discovery
- 14AugAmazon Braket introduces support for program sets
- 14AugAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22Amazon RDS · Databases
- 14AugAWS Config now supports 10 new resource types
- 14AugAWS Systems Manager Automation enhances runbook execution control and updates free tier
- 14AugAmazon Q Business launches Agentic RAG to enhance accuracy and explainability
- 14AugAmazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul)
- 14AugAWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units
- 13AugAmazon SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity propagation
- 13AugAWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple Values
- 13AugAmazon DocumentDB announces Extended Support for Version 3.6
- 13AugAmazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity
- 13AugAnnouncing expanded support for Cilium with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
- 13AugAmazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- 13AugAWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio
- 12AugAmazon EC2 G6 instances now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
- 12AugAmazon EC2 Single GPU P5 instances are now generally available
- 12AugAmazon SageMaker AI now supports P6e-GB200 UltraServers
- 12AugAnnouncing new incentives for ISVs selling in AWS MarketplaceRegions, marketplace and partners
- 12AugAmazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images)
- 12AugAnthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Bedrock Expanded Context Window
- 12AugAWS Deadline Cloud introduces new cost-saving compute option
- 12AugAWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Cape Town, South Africa
- 12AugAmazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports kNN Byte vector and new data types
- 12AugAmazon Q Business launches Response Events for enhanced chat transparency
- 12AugNew Sharing and Targeting Capabilities for EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations in Cluster Placement Groups
- 11AugAmazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides a new cluster setup experience
- 11AugAmazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports multi-profile campaigns and enhanced phone number retry sequencing
- 11AugAmazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2025 Spatial Patch Bundle
- 11AugAmazon RDS for Oracle now supports the July 2025 Release Update (RU)
- 11AugAmazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Go Driver is generally available
- 11AugAWS IoT Core introduces DeleteConnection API to streamline MQTT connection management