AWS News Jan 19 - Jan 25

This week: EC2 G7e instances bring NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for 2.3x better AI inference, RDS Blue Green Deployments now complete switchovers in under 5 seconds, and QuickSight doubles SPICE capacity to 2TB. Plus Graviton 4 instances expand across Aurora and RDS, ECR adds cross-repo layer sharing, and Route 53 picks up .AI domains. Compute EC2 G7e: GA with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, 2.3x inference vs G6e EC2 M4 Max Mac: GA with M4 Max (16-core CPU, 40-core GPU), 25% faster builds EC2 C8gb/M8gb/R8gb: 48xlarge+metal sizes, 30% better than Graviton3, 300Gbps EBS Auto Scaling: Layered deletion protection via IAM condition keys + group safeguards Database Aurora/RDS R8g: Graviton4, 40% better perf, 29% better price-perf RDS Blue/Green: Switchovers under 5s (2s with Advanced JDBC Driver) RDS Oracle: Bare metal for SE2 BYOL (25% cheaper), Multi-AZ replicas for multi-tenant RDS SQL Server: Differential/log restores directly on Multi-AZ Storage & Containers ECR: Cross-repo blob mounting reuses layers, faster pushes, lower storage Analytics & AI/ML QuickSight: Reader table customization; SPICE now 2TB, 64K string length SageMaker Unified Studio: Cross-region Glue/Redshift table subscriptions SageMaker HyperPod: CloudWatch log links for lifecycle debugging Bedrock AgentCore Browser: Custom Chrome extension support Bedrock Reserved: Claude Sonnet 4.5 in GovCloud Security & IAM Access Denied Errors: Now include specific policy ARN that blocked request Resource Control Policies: Support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs Config: 13 new rules (Cognito MFA, EBS snapshot access, ECS non-root) Security Agent: GitHub Enterprise Cloud integration for AI code review Hybrid & Edge Outposts Gen2: 20 new countries, C7i/M7i/R7i with 40% better perf Elastic VMware Service: VCF/ESX version selection; multiple NSX Tier-0 Gateways Developer & Operations Corretto: Q1 security updates for JDK 8-25 Transfer Family Terraform: Web apps module with IAM Identity Center auth Instance Scheduler: Smarter orchestration, auto-retry alternate instance types EMR Serverless: Customer-managed KMS for local disk encryption Clean Rooms: Join/partition hints for query optimization MQ RabbitMQ: JMS support via topic exchange plugin AWS News Feed: Whats new at AWS For help with your AWS Infrastructure check out flomotlik.me or email [email protected] For detailed show notes check out awsnewsweekly.com