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Transform live video for mobile audiences with AWS Elemental Inference

Post Syndicated from Micah Walter original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/transform-live-video-for-mobile-audiences-with-aws-elemental-inference/

Today, we’re announcing AWS Elemental Inference, a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms and maximizes live and on-demand video broadcasts to engage audiences at scale. At launch, you’ll be able to use AWS Elemental Inference to adapt video content into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time.

With AWS Elemental Inference, broadcasters and streamers can reach audiences on social and mobile platforms such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts without manual postproduction work or AI expertise.

Today’s viewers consume content differently than they did even a few years ago. However, most broadcasts are produced in landscape format for traditional viewing. Converting these broadcasts into vertical formats for mobile platforms typically requires time-consuming manual editing that causes broadcasters and streamers to miss viral moments and lose audiences to mobile-first destinations.

Let’s try it out
AWS Elemental Inference offers flexible deployment options to fit your existing workflow. You can choose to create a feed through the standalone console or configure AWS Elemental Inference through the AWS Elemental MediaLive console.

AWS Elemental Inference console

To get started with AWS Elemental Inference, navigate to the AWS Management Console and choose AWS Elemental Inference. From the dashboard, choose Create feed to establish your top-level resource for AI-powered video processing. A feed contains your feature configurations and begins in CREATING state before transitioning to AVAILABLE when ready.

AWS Elemental Inference console

After creating your feed, you can configure outputs for either vertical video cropping or clip generation. For cropping, you can start with an empty feed. The service automatically manages cropping parameters based on your video specifications. For clip generation, choose Add output, provide a name (such as “highlight-clips”), select Clipping as the output type, and set the status to ENABLED.

This standalone interface provides a streamlined experience for configuring and managing your AI-powered video transformations, making it straightforward to get started with vertical video creation and clip generation.

AWS MediaLive inference

Alternatively, you can enable AWS Elemental Inference directly within your AWS Elemental MediaLive channel configuration. You can use this integrated approach to add AI capabilities to your existing live video workflows without modifying your architecture. Enable the features you need as part of your channel setup, and AWS Elemental Inference will work in parallel with your video encoding.

AWS MediaLive inference console

After it’s enabled, you can configure Smart Crop with outputs for different resolution specifications within an Output group.

AWS MediaLive inference console

AWS Elemental MediaLive now includes a dedicated AWS Elemental Inference tab on the channel details page, providing a centralized view of your AI-powered video transformation configuration. The tab displays the service Amazon Resource Name (ARN), data endpoints, and feed output details, including which features, such as Smart Crop, are enabled and their current operational status.

How AWS Elemental Inference works
The service uses an agentic AI application that analyses video in real time and automatically applies the right optimizations at the right moments. Detection of vertical video cropping and clip generation happens independently, executing multistep transformations that require no human intervention to extract value.

AWS Elemental Inference analyzes video and automatically applies AI capabilities with no human-in-the-loop prompting required. While you focus on quality video production, the service autonomously optimizes content to create personalized content experiences for your audience.

AWS Elemental Inference applies AI capabilities in parallel with live video, achieving 6–10 second latency compared to minutes for traditional postprocessing approaches. This “process once, optimize everywhere” method runs multiple AI features simultaneously on the same video stream, eliminating the need to reprocess content for each capability.

The service integrates seamlessly with AWS Elemental MediaLive, so you can enable AI features without modifying your existing video architecture. AWS Elemental Inference uses fully managed foundation models (FMs) that are automatically updated and optimized, so you don’t need dedicated AI teams or specialized expertise.

Key features at launch
Enjoy the following key features when AWS Elemental Inference launches:

  • Vertical video creation – AI-powered cropping intelligently transforms landscape broadcasts into vertical formats (9:16 aspect ratio) optimized for social and mobile platforms. The service tracks subjects and keeps key action visible, maintaining broadcast quality while automatically reformatting content for mobile viewing.
  • Clip generation with advanced metadata analysis – Automatically detects and extracts clips from live content, highlighting moments for real-time distribution. For live broadcasts, this means identifying game-winning plays in soccer and basketball—reducing manual editing from hours to minutes.

Keep an eye on this space as more features and capabilities will be introduced throughout this year, including tighter integration with core AWS Elemental services and features to help customers monetize their video content.

Now available
AWS Elemental Inference is available today in 4 AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai). You can enable AWS Elemental Inference through the AWS Elemental MediaLive console or integrate it into your workflows using the AWS Elemental MediaLive APIs.

With consumption-based pricing, you pay only for the features you use and the video you process, with no upfront costs or commitments. This means you can scale during peak events and optimize costs during quieter periods.

To learn more about AWS Elemental Inference, visit the AWS Elemental Inference product page. For technical implementation details, see the AWS Elemental Inference documentation.

 

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Sonnet 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, Kiro in GovCloud Regions, new Agent Plugins, and more (February 23, 2026)

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun (윤석찬) original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-claude-sonnet-4-6-in-amazon-bedrock-kiro-in-govcloud-regions-new-agent-plugins-and-more-february-23-2026/

Last week, my team met many developers at Developer Week in San Jose. My colleague, Vinicius Senger delivered a great keynote about renascent software—a new way of building and evolving applications where humans and AI collaborate as co-developers using Kiro. Other colleagues spoke about building and deploying production-ready AI agents. Everyone stayed to ask and hear the questions related to agent memory, multi-agent patterns, meta-tooling and hooks. It was interesting how many developers were actually building agents.

We are continuing to meet developers and hear their feedback at third-party developer conferences. You can meet us at the dev/nexus, the largest and longest-running Java ecosystem conference on March 4-6 in Atlanta. My colleague, James Ward will speak about building AI Agents with Spring and MCP, and Vinicius Senger and Jonathan Vogel will speak about 10 tools and tips to upgrade your Java code with AI. I’ll keep sharing places for you to connect with us.

Last week’s launches
Here are some of the other announcements from last week:

  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 model in Amazon Bedrock – You can now use Claude Sonnet 4.6 which offers frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work at scale. Claude Sonnet 4.6 approaches Opus 4.6 intelligence at a lower cost. It enables faster, high-quality task completion, making it ideal for high-volume coding and knowledge work use cases.
  • Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors – You can use new Hpc8a instances delivering up to 40% higher performance, increased memory bandwidth, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter networking. You can accelerate compute-intensive simulations, engineering workloads, and tightly coupled HPC applications.
  • Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models – You can now configure the instance types, auto-scaling policies, and concurrency settings for custom Nova model deployments with Amazon SageMaker Inference to best meet your needs.
  • Nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances – You can create nested virtual machines by running KVM or Hyper-V on virtual EC2 instances. You can leverage this capability for use cases such as running emulators for mobile applications, simulating in-vehicle hardware for automobiles, and running Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows workstations.
  • Server-Side Encryption by default in Amazon Aurora – Amazon Aurora further strengthens your security posture by automatically applying server-side encryption by default to all new databases clusters using AWS-owned keys. This encryption is fully managed, transparent to users, and with no cost or performance impact.
  • Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions – You can use Kiro for the development teams behind government missions. Developers in regulated environments can now leverage Kiro’s agentic AI tool with the rigorous security controls required.

For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on the What’s New with AWS page.

Additional updates
Here are some additional news items that you might find interesting:

  • Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS – You can see how new open-source Agent Plugins for AWS extend coding agents with skills for deploying applications to AWS. Using the deploy-on-aws plugin, you can generate architecture recommendations, cost estimates, and infrastructure-as-code directly from your coding agent.
  • A chat with Byron Cook on automated reasoning and trust in AI systems – You can hear how to verify AI systems doing the right thing using automated reasoning when they generate code or manage critical decisions. Byron Cook’s team has spent a decade proving correctness in AWS and apply those techniques to agentic systems.
  • Best practices for deploying AWS DevOps Agent in production – You can read best practices for setting up DevOps Agent Spaces that balance investigation capability with operational efficiency. According to Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS DevOps Agent, a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, has handled thousands of escalations, with an estimated root cause identification rate of over 86% within Amazon.

From AWS community
Here are my personal favorite posts from AWS community:

Join the AWS Builder Center to connect with community, share knowledge, and access content that supports your development.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendar and sign up for upcoming AWS events:

  • AWS Summits – Join AWS Summits in 2026, free in-person events where you can explore emerging cloud and AI technologies, learn best practices, and network with industry peers and experts. Upcoming Summits include Paris (April 1), London (April 22), and Bengaluru (April 23–24).
  • Amazon Nova AI Hackathon – Join developers worldwide to build innovative generative AI solutions using frontier foundation models and compete for $40,000 in prizes across five categories including agentic AI, multimodal understanding, UI automation, and voice experiences during this six-week challenge from February 2nd to March 16th, 2026.
  • AWS Community Days – Community-led conferences where content is planned, sourced, and delivered by community leaders, featuring technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs. Upcoming events include Ahmedabad (February 28), JAWS Days in Tokyo (March 7), Chennai (March 7), Slovakia (March 11), and Pune (March 21).

Browse here for upcoming AWS led in-person and virtual events, startup events, and developer-focused events.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

— Channy

Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun (윤석찬) original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-hpc8a-instances-powered-by-5th-gen-amd-epyc-processors-are-now-available/

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing (HPC) optimized instance type powered by latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz. These instances are ideal for compute-intensive tightly coupled HPC workloads, including computational fluid dynamics, simulations for faster design iterations, high-resolution weather modeling within tight operational windows, and complex crash simulations that require rapid time-to-results.

The new Hpc8a instances deliver up to 40% higher performance, 42% greater memory bandwidth, and up to 25% better price-performance compared to previous generation Hpc7a instances. Customers benefit from the high core density, memory bandwidth, and low-latency networking that helped them scale efficiently and reduce job completion times for their compute-intensive simulation workloads.

Hpc8a instances
Hpc8a instances are available with 192 cores, 768 GiB memory, and 300 Gbps Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking to run applications requiring high levels of inter node communications at scale.

Instance Name Physical Cores Memory (Gib) EFA Network Bandwidth (Gbps) Network Bandwidth (Gbps) Attached Storage
Hpc8a.96xlarge 192 768 Up to 300 75 EBS Only

Hpc8a instances are available in a single 96xlarge size with a 1:4 core-to-memory ratio. You will have the capability to right size based on HPC workload requirements by customizing the number of cores needed at launch instances. These instances also use sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards, which offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, enhancing performance and security for your workloads.

You can use Hpc8a instances with AWS ParallelCluster and AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) to simplify workload submission and cluster creation and Amazon FSx for Lustre for sub-millisecond latencies and up to hundreds of gigabytes per second of throughput for storage. To achieve the best performance for HPC workloads, these instances have Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) disabled.

Now available
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Stockholm) AWS Regions. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the CloudFormation resources tab of AWS Capabilities by Region.

You can purchase these instances as On-Demand Instances and Savings Plan. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 Pricing page.

Give Hpc8a instances a try in the Amazon EC2 console. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances page and send feedback to AWS re:Post for EC2 or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Channy

Announcing Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Amazon Nova models

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun (윤석찬) original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-sagemaker-inference-for-custom-amazon-nova-models/

Since we launched Amazon Nova customization in Amazon SageMaker AI at AWS NY Summit 2025, customers have been asking for the same capabilities with Amazon Nova as they do when they customize open weights models in Amazon SageMaker Inference. They also wanted have more control and flexibility in custom model inference over instance types, auto-scaling policies, context length, and concurrency settings that production workloads demand.

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of custom Nova model support in Amazon SageMaker Inference, a production-grade, configurable, and cost-efficient managed inference service to deploy and scale full-rank customized Nova models. You can now experience an end-to-end customization journey to train Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova 2 Lite models with reasoning capabilities using Amazon SageMaker Training Jobs or Amazon HyperPod and seamlessly deploy them with managed inference infrastructure of Amazon SageMaker AI.

With Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Nova models, you can reduce inference cost through optimized GPU utilization using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 and G6 instances over P5 instances, auto-scaling based on 5-minute usage patterns, and configurable inference parameters. This feature enables deployment of customized Nova models with continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, or reinforcement fine-tuning for your use cases. You can also set advanced configurations about context length, concurrency, and batch size for optimizing the latency-cost-accuracy tradeoff for your specific workloads.

Let’s see how to deploy customized Nova models on SageMaker AI real-time endpoints, configure inference parameters, and invoke your models for testing.

Deploy custom Nova models in SageMaker Inference
At AWS re:Invent 2025, we introduced new serverless customization in Amazon SageMaker AI for popular AI models including Nova models. With a few clicks, you can seamlessly select a model and customization technique, and handle model evaluation and deployment. If you already have a trained custom Nova model artifact, you can deploy the models on SageMaker Inference through the SageMaker Studio or SageMaker AI SDK.

In the SageMaker Studio, choose a trained Nova model in Models in your models in the Models menu. You can deploy the model by choosing Deploy button, SageMaker AI and Create new endpoint.

Choose the endpoint name, instance type, and advanced options such as instance count, max instance count, permission and networking, and Deploy button. At GA launch, you can use g5.12xlarge, g5.24xlarge, g5.48xlarge, g6.12xlarge, g6.24xlarge, g6.48xlarge, and p5.48xlarge instance types for the Nova Micro model, g5.24xlarge, g5.48xlarge, g6.24xlarge, g6.48xlarge, and p5.48xlarge for the Nova Lite model, and p5.48xlarge for the Nova 2 Lite model.

Creating your endpoint requires time to provision the infrastructure, download your model artifacts, and initialize the inference container.

After model deployment completes and the endpoint status shows InService, you can perform real-time inference using the new endpoint. To test the model, choose the Playground tab and input your prompt in the Chat mode.

You can also use the SageMaker AI SDK to create two resources: a SageMaker AI model object that references your Nova model artifacts, and an endpoint configuration that defines how the model will be deployed.

The following code creates a SageMaker AI model that references your Nova model artifacts:

# Create a SageMaker AI model
    model_response = sagemaker.create_model(
        ModelName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge',
        PrimaryContainer={
            'Image': '123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/nova-inference-repo:v1.0.0',
            'ModelDataSource': {
                'S3DataSource': {
                   'S3Uri': 's3://your-bucket-name/path/to/model/artifacts/',
                   'S3DataType': 'S3Prefix',
                   'CompressionType': 'None'
                }
            },
            # Model Parameters
            'Environment': {
                'CONTEXT_LENGTH': 8000,
                'CONCURRENCY': 16,
                'DEFAULT_TEMPERATURE': 0.0,
                'DEFAULT_TOP_P': 1.0
            }
        },
        ExecutionRoleArn=SAGEMAKER_EXECUTION_ROLE_ARN,
        EnableNetworkIsolation=True
    )
    print("Model created successfully!")

Next, create an endpoint configuration that defines your deployment infrastructure and deploy your Nova model by creating a SageMaker AI real-time endpoint. This endpoint will host your model and provide a secure HTTPS endpoint for making inference requests.

# Create Endpoint Configuration
    production_variant = {
        'VariantName': 'primary',
        'ModelName': 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge',
        'InitialInstanceCount': 1,
        'InstanceType': 'ml.g5.12xlarge',
    }
    
    config_response = sagemaker.create_endpoint_config(
        EndpointConfigName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge-Config',
        ProductionVariants= production_variant
    )
    print("Endpoint configuration created successfully!")
    
# Deploy your Noval model
    endpoint_response = sagemaker.create_endpoint(
        EndpointName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge-endpoint',
        EndpointConfigName= 'Nova-micro-ml-g5-12xlarge-Config'
    )
    print("Endpoint creation initiated successfully!")

After the endpoint is created, you can send inference requests to generate predictions from your custom Nova model. Amazon SageMaker AI supports synchronous endpoints for real-time with streaming/non-streaming modes and asynchronous endpoints for batch processing.

For example, the following code creates streaming completion format for text generation:

# Streaming chat request with comprehensive parameters
streaming_request = {
"messages": [
        {"role": "user", "content": "Compare our Q4 2025 actual spend against budget across all departments and highlight variances exceeding 10%"}
    ],
    "max_tokens": 512,
    "stream": True,
    "temperature": 0.7,
    "top_p": 0.95,
    "top_k": 40,
    "logprobs": True,
    "top_logprobs": 2,
    "reasoning_effort": "low",  # Options: "low", "high"
    "stream_options": {"include_usage": True}
}

invoke_nova_endpoint(streaming_request)

def invoke_nova_endpoint(request_body):
"""
    Invoke Nova endpoint with automatic streaming detection.
    
    Args:
        request_body (dict): Request payload containing prompt and parameters
    
    Returns:
        dict: Response from the model (for non-streaming requests)
        None: For streaming requests (prints output directly)
    """
    body = json.dumps(request_body)
    is_streaming = request_body.get("stream", False)
    
    try:
        print(f"Invoking endpoint ({'streaming' if is_streaming else 'non-streaming'})...")
        
        if is_streaming:
            response = runtime_client.invoke_endpoint_with_response_stream(
                EndpointName=ENDPOINT_NAME,
                ContentType='application/json',
                Body=body
            )
            
            event_stream = response['Body']
            for event in event_stream:
                if 'PayloadPart' in event:
                    chunk = event['PayloadPart']
                    if 'Bytes' in chunk:
                        data = chunk['Bytes'].decode()
                        print("Chunk:", data)
        else:
            # Non-streaming inference
            response = runtime_client.invoke_endpoint(
                EndpointName=ENDPOINT_NAME,
                ContentType='application/json',
                Accept='application/json',
                Body=body
            )
            
            response_body = response['Body'].read().decode('utf-8')
            result = json.loads(response_body)
            print("✅ Response received successfully")
            return result
    
    except ClientError as e:
        error_code = e.response['Error']['Code']
        error_message = e.response['Error']['Message']
        print(f"❌ AWS Error: {error_code} - {error_message}")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"❌ Unexpected error: {str(e)}")

To use full code examples, visit Customizing Amazon Nova models on Amazon SageMaker AI. To learn more about best practices on deploying and managing models, visit Best Practices for SageMaker AI.

Now available
Amazon SageMaker Inference for custom Nova models is available today in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, visit the AWS Capabilities by Region.

The feature supports Nova Micro, Nova Lite, and Nova 2 Lite models with reasoning capabilities, running on EC2 G5, G6, and P5 instances with auto-scaling support. You pay only for the compute instances you use, with per-hour billing and no minimum commitments. For more information, visit Amazon SageMaker AI Pricing page.

Give it a try in Amazon SageMaker AI console and send feedback to AWS re:Post for SageMaker or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Channy

AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Opus 4.6 in Amazon Bedrock, AWS Builder ID Sign in with Apple, and more (February 9, 2026)

Post Syndicated from Sébastien Stormacq original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-claude-opus-4-6-in-amazon-bedrock-aws-builder-id-sign-in-with-apple-and-more-february-9-2026/

Here are the notable launches and updates from last week that can help you build, scale, and innovate on AWS.

Last week’s launches
Here are the launches that got my attention this week.

Let’s start with news related to compute and networking infrastructure:

  • Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances: These new Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. These instances offer up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation instances.
  • AWS Network Firewall announces new price reductions: The service has added the hourly and data processing discounts on NAT Gateways that are service-chained with Network Firewall secondary endpoints. Additionally, AWS Network Firewall has removed additional data processing charges for Advanced Inspection, which enables Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection of encrypted network traffic.
  • Amazon ECS adds Network Load Balancer support for Linear and Canary deployments: Applications that commonly use NLB, such as those requiring TCP/UDP-based connections, low latency, long-lived connections, or static IP addresses, can take advantage of managed, incremental traffic shifting natively from ECS when rolling out updates.
  • AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types: These range across key services including Amazon EKS, Amazon Q, and AWS IoT. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources.
  • Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support replication across multiple AWS accounts: DynamoDB global tables are a fully managed, serverless, multi-Region, and multi-active database. With this new capability, you can replicate tables across AWS accounts and Regions to improve resiliency, isolate workloads at the account level, and apply distinct security and governance controls.
  • Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database: The new console experience provides ready-made code snippets for Java, Python, Node.js, and other programming languages as well as tools like the psql command line utility. These code snippets are automatically adjusted based on your database’s authentication settings. For example, if your cluster uses IAM authentication, the generated code snippets will use token-based authentication to connect to the database. The console experience also includes integrated CloudShell access, offering the ability to connect to your databases directly from within the RDS console.

Then, I noticed three news items related to security and how you authenticate on AWS:

  • AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple: AWS Builder ID, your profile for accessing AWS applications including AWS Builder Center, AWS Training and Certification, AWS re:Post, AWS Startups, and Kiro, now supports sign-in with Apple as a social login provider. This expansion of sign-in options builds on the existing sign-in with Google capability, providing Apple users with a streamlined way to access AWS resources without managing separate credentials on AWS.
  • AWS STS now supports validation of select identity provider specific claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI and OCI: You can reference these custom claims as condition keys in IAM role trust policies and resource control policies, expanding your ability to implement fine-grained access control for federated identities and help you establish your data perimeters. This enhancement builds upon IAM’s existing OIDC federation capabilities, which allow you to grant temporary AWS credentials to users authenticated through external OIDC-compatible identity providers.
  • AWS Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar for easier account identification: You now have an easy way to identify your accounts at a glance. You can now quickly distinguish between accounts visually using the account name that appears in the navigation bar for all authorized users in that account.
  • Amazon CloudFront announces mutual TLS support for origins: Now with origin mTLS support, you can implement a standardized, certificate-based authentication approach that eliminates operational burden. This enables organizations to enforce strict authentication for their proprietary content, ensuring that only verified CloudFront distributions can establish connections to backend infrastructure ranging from AWS origins and on-premises servers to third-party cloud providers and external CDNs.

Finally, there is not a single week without news around AI :

  • Claude Opus 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock: Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s most intelligent model to date and a premier model for coding, enterprise agents, and professional work. Claude Opus 4.6 brings advanced capabilities to Amazon Bedrock customers, including industry-leading performance for agentic tasks, complex coding projects, and enterprise-grade workflows that require deep reasoning and reliability.
  • Structured outputs now available in Amazon Bedrock: Amazon Bedrock now supports structured outputs, a capability that provides consistent, machine-readable responses from foundation models that adhere to your defined JSON schemas. Instead of prompting for valid JSON and adding extra checks in your application, you can specify the format you want and receive responses that match it—making production workflows more predictable and resilient.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars so that you can sign up for this upcoming event:

AWS Community Day Romania (April 23–24, 2026): This community-led AWS event brings together developers, architects, entrepreneurs, and students for more than 10 professional sessions delivered by AWS Heroes, Solutions Architects, and industry experts. Attendees can expect expert-led technical talks, insights from speakers with global conference experience, and opportunities to connect during dedicated networking breaks, all hosted at a premium venue designed to support collaboration and community engagement.

If you’re looking for more ways to stay connected beyond this event, join the AWS Builder Center to learn, build, and connect with builders in the AWS community.

Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup.

— seb

Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances with up to 22.8 TB local NVMe storage are generally available

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun (윤석찬) original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-c8id-m8id-and-r8id-instances-with-up-to-22-8-tb-local-nvme-storage-are-generally-available/

Last year, we launched the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances, M8i instances, and R8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS with sustained all-core 3.9 GHz turbo frequency. They deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.

Today we’re announcing new Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances backed by up to 22.8TB of NVMe-based SSD block-level instance storage physically connected to the host server. These instances offer 3 times more vCPUs, memory and local storage compared to previous sixth-generation instances.

These instances deliver up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3 times more memory bandwidth compared to previous sixth-generation instances. They also deliver up to 46% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 30% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics compared to previous sixth generation instances.

  • C8id instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, including those that need access to high-speed, low-latency local storage like video encoding, image manipulation, and other forms of media processing.
  • M8id instances are best for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low-latency local block storage, including data logging, media processing, and medium-sized data stores.
  • R8id instances are designed for memory-intensive workloads such as large-scale SQL and NoSQL databases, in-memory databases, large-scale data analytics, and AI inference.

C8id, M8id, and R8id instances now scale up to 96xlarge (versus 32xlarge sizes in the sixth generation) with up to 384 vCPUs, 3TiB of memory, and 22.8TB of local storage that make it easier to scale up applications and drive greater efficiencies. These instances also offer two bare metal sizes (metal-48xl and metal-96xl), allowing you to right size your instances and deploy your most performance sensitive workloads that benefit from direct access to physical resources.

The instances are available in 11 sizes per family, as well as two bare metal configurations each:

Instance Name vCPUs Memory (GiB) (C/M/R) Local NVMe storage (GB) Network bandwidth (Gbps) EBS bandwidth (Gbps)
large 2 4/8/16* 1 x 118 Up to 12.5 Up to 10
xlarge 4 8/16/32* 1 x 237 Up to 12.5 Up to 10
2xlarge 8 16/32/64* 1 x 474 Up to 15 Up to 10
4xlarge 16 32/64/128* 1 x 950 Up to 15 Up to 10
8xlarge 32 64/128/256* 1 x 1,900 15 10
12xlarge 48 96/192/384* 1 x 2,850 22.5 15
16xlarge 64 128/256/512* 1 x 3,800 30 20
24xlarge 96 192/384/768* 2 x 2,850 40 30
32xlarge 128 256/512/1024* 2 x 3,800 50 40
48xlarge 192 384/768/1536* 3 x 3,800 75 60
96xlarge 384 768/1536/3072* 6 x 3,800 100 80
metal-48xl 192 384/768/1536* 3 x 3,800 75 60
metal-96xl 384 768/1536/3072* 6 x 3,800 100 80

*Memory values are for C8id/M8id/R8id respectively.

These instances support the Instance Bandwidth Configuration (IBC) feature like other eighth-generation instance types, offering flexibility to allocate resources between network and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) bandwidth. You can scale network or EBS bandwidth by 25%, allocating resources optimally for each workload. These instances also use sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards offloading CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, enhancing performance and security for your workloads.

You can use any Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that include drivers for the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) and NVMe to fully utilize the performance and capabilities. All current generation AWS Windows and Linux AMIs come with the AWS NVMe driver installed by default. If you use an AMI that does not have the AWS NVMe driver, you can manually install AWS NVMe drivers.

As I noted in my previous blog post, here are a couple of things to remind you about the local NVMe storage on these instances:

  • You don’t have to specify a block device mapping in your AMI or during the instance launch; the local storage will show up as one or more devices (/dev/nvme[0-26]n1 on Linux) after the guest operating system has booted.
  • Each local NVMe device is hardware encrypted using the XTS-AES-256 block cipher and a unique key. Each key is destroyed when the instance is stopped or terminated.
  • Local NVMe devices have the same lifetime as the instance they are attached to and do not persist after the instance has been stopped or terminated.

To learn more, visit Amazon EBS volumes and NVMe in the Amazon EBS User Guide.

Now available
Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id and R8id instances are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. R8id instances are additionally available in Europe (Frankfurt) Region. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the CloudFormation resources tab of AWS Capabilities by Region.

You can purchase these instances as On-Demand Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances. These instances are also available as Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 Pricing page.

Give C8id, M8id, and R8id instances a try in the Amazon EC2 console. To learn more, visit the EC2 C8i instances, M8i instances, and R8i instances page and send feedback to AWS re:Post for EC2 or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Channy

AMD Intros Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 FPGAs

Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/amd-intros-kintex-ultrascale-gen-2-fpgas/

For this year’s Integrated Systems Europe trade show, AMD is unveiling an upgraded lineup of its Kintex mid-range FPGAs. Dubbed the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 family, this latest iteration of the Kintex family is designed to modernize the FPGAs, bringing support for newer and faster memory, I/O, and cryptography technologies. As with the existing (Gen […]

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AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for AWS account access and application use

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun (윤석찬) original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iam-identity-center-now-supports-multi-region-replication-for-aws-account-access-and-application-use/

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS IAM Identity Center multi-Region support to enable AWS account access and managed application use in additional AWS Regions.

With this feature, you can replicate your workforce identities, permission sets, and other metadata in your organization instance of IAM Identity Center connected to an external identity provider (IdP), such as Microsoft Entra ID and Okta, from its current primary Region to additional Regions for improved resiliency of AWS account access.

You can also deploy AWS managed applications in your preferred Regions, close to application users and datasets for improved user experience or to meet data residency requirements. Your applications deployed in additional Regions access replicated workforce identities locally for optimal performance and reliability.

When you replicate your workforce identities to an additional Region, your workforce gets an active AWS access portal endpoint in that Region. This means that in the unlikely event of an IAM Identity Center service disruption in its primary Region, your workforce can still access their AWS accounts through the AWS access portal in an additional Region using already provisioned permissions. You can continue to manage IAM Identity Center configurations from the primary Region, maintaining centralized control.

Enable IAM Identity Center in multiple Regions
To get started, you should confirm that the AWS managed applications you’re currently using support customer managed AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key enabled in AWS Identity Center. When we introduced this feature in October 2025, Seb recommended using multi-Region AWS KMS keys unless your company policies restrict you to single-Region keys. Multi-Region keys provide consistent key material across Regions while maintaining independent key infrastructure in each Region.

Before replicating IAM Identity Center to an additional Region, you must first replicate the customer managed AWS KMS key to that Region and configure the replica key with the permissions required for IAM Identity Center operations. For instructions on creating multi-Region replica keys, refer to Create multi-Region replica keys in the AWS KMS Developer Guide.

Go to the IAM Identity Center console in the primary Region, for example, US East (N. Virginia), choose Settings in the left-navigation pane, and select the Management tab. Confirm that your configured encryption key is a multi-Region customer managed AWS KMS key. To add more Regions, choose Add Region.

You can choose additional Regions to replicate the IAM Identity Center in a list of the available Regions. When choosing an additional Region, consider your intended use cases, for example, data compliance or user experience.

If you want to run AWS managed applications that access datasets limited to a specific Region for compliance reasons, choose the Region where the datasets reside. If you plan to use the additional Region to deploy AWS applications, verify that the required applications support your chosen Region and deployment in additional Regions.

Choose Add Region. This starts the initial replication whose duration depends on the size of your Identity Center instance.

After the replication is completed, your users can access their AWS accounts and applications in this new Region. When you choose View ACS URLs, you can view SAML information, such as an Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL, about the primary and additional Regions.

How your workforce can use an additional Region
AWS Identity Center supports SAML single sign-on with external IdPs, such as Microsoft Entra ID and Okta. Upon authentication in the IdP, the user is redirected to the AWS access portal. To enable the user to be redirected to the AWS access portal in the newly added Region, you need to add the additional Region’s ACS URL to the IdP configuration.

The following screenshots show you how to do this in the Okta admin console:

Then, you can create a bookmark application in your identity provider for users to discover the additional Region. This bookmark app functions like a browser bookmark and contains only the URL to the AWS access portal in the additional Region.

You can also deploy AWS managed applications in additional Regions using your existing deployment workflows. Your users can access applications or accounts using the existing access methods, such as the AWS access portal, an application link, or through the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

To learn more about which AWS managed applications support deployment in additional Regions, visit the IAM Identity Center User Guide.

Things to know
Here are key considerations to know about this feature:

  • Consideration – To take advantage of this feature at launch, you must be using an organization instance of IAM Identity Center connected to an external IdP. Also, the primary and additional Regions must be enabled by default in an AWS account. Account instances of IAM Identity Center, and the other two identity sources (Microsoft Active Directory and IAM Identity Center directory) are presently not supported.
  • Operation – The primary Region remains the central place for managing workforce identities, account access permissions, external IdP, and other configurations. You can use the IAM Identity Center console in additional Regions with a limited feature set. Most operations are read-only, except for application management and user session revocation.
  • Monitoring – All workforce actions are emitted in AWS CloudTrail in the Region where the action was performed. This feature enhances account access continuity. You can set up break-glass access for privileged users to access AWS if the external IdP has a service disruption.

Now available
AWS IAM Identity Center multi-Region support is now available in the 17 enabled-by-default commercial AWS Regions. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, visit the AWS Capabilities by Region. You can use this feature at no additional cost. Standard AWS KMS charges apply for storing and using customer managed keys.

Give it a try in the AWS Identity Center console. To learn more, visit the IAM Identity Center User Guide and send feedback to AWS re:Post for Identity Center or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Channy

Intel Announces Xeon 600 Series This is Granite Rapids for Workstations

Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/intel-announces-xeon-600-series-granite-rapids-for-workstations/

Intel this afternoon is taking the wraps off of the Xeon 600 series, the company’s upcoming workstation platform. Based on Intel’s Granite Ridge CPUs, the release of the Xeon 600 series will see Intel’s latest server technology finally cascade down into workstation parts, replacing the current Xeon W-2500/W-3500 (Sapphire/Emerald Rapids) platforms that have been the […]

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Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun (윤석찬) original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-amazon-ec2-g7e-instances-accelerated-by-nvidia-rtx-pro-6000-blackwell-server-edition-gpus/

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances that deliver cost-effective performance for generative AI inference workloads and the highest performance for graphics workloads.

G7e instances are accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and are well suited for a broad range of GPU-enabled workloads including spatial computing and scientific computing workloads. G7e instances deliver up to 2.3 times inference performance compared to G6e instances.

Improvements made compared to predecessors:

  • NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs — NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs offer two times the GPU memory and 1.85 times the GPU memory bandwidth compared to G6e instances. By using the higher GPU memory offered by G7e instances, you can run medium-sized models of up to 70B parameters with FP8 precision on a single GPU.
  • NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P — For models that are too large to fit into the memory of a single GPU, you can split the model or computations across multiple GPUs. G7e instances reduce the latency of your multi-GPU workloads with support for NVIDIA GPUDirect P2P, which enables direct communication between GPUs over PCIe interconnect. These instances offer the lowest peer to peer latency for GPUs on the same PCIe switch. Additionally, G7e instances offer up to four times the inter-GPU bandwidth compared to L40s GPUs featured in G6e instances, boosting the performance of multi-GPU workloads. These improvements mean you can run inference for larger models across multiple GPUs offering up to 768 GB of GPU memory in a single node.
  • Networking — G7e instances offer four times the networking bandwidth compared to G6e instances, which means you can use the instance for small-scale multi-node workloads. Additionally, multi-GPU G7e instances support NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) with Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), which reduces the latency of remote GPU-to-GPU communication for multi-node workloads. These instance sizes also support NVIDIA GPUDirectStorage with Amazon FSx for Lustre, which increases throughput by up to 1.2 Tbps to the instances compared to G6e instances, which means you can quickly load your models.

EC2 G7e specifications
G7e instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 768 GB of total GPU memory (96 GB of memory per GPU) and Intel Emerald Rapids processors. They also support up to 192 vCPUs, up to 1,600 Gbps of network bandwidth, up to 2,048 GiB of system memory, and up to 15.2 TB of local NVMe SSD storage.

Here are the specs:

Instance name
  GPUs GPU memory (GB) vCPUs Memory (GiB) Storage (TB) EBS bandwidth (Gbps) Network bandwidth (Gbps)
g7e.2xlarge 1 96 8 64 1.9 x 1 Up to 5 50
g7e.4xlarge 1 96 16 128 1.9 x 1 8 50
g7e.8xlarge 1 96 32 256 1.9 x 1 16 100
g7e.12xlarge 2 192 48 512 3.8 x 1 25 400
g7e.24xlarge 4 384 96 1024 3.8 x 2 50 800
g7e.48xlarge 8 768 192 2048 3.8 x 4 100 1600

To get started with G7e instances, you can use the AWS Deep Learning AMIs (DLAMI) for your machine learning (ML) workloads. To run instances, you can use AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS SDKs. For a managed experience, you can use G7e instances with Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Support for Amazon SageMaker AI is also coming soon.

Now available
Amazon EC2 G7e instances are available today in the US East (N. Virginia) and US East (Ohio) AWS Regions. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the CloudFormation resources tab of AWS Capabilities by Region.

The instances can be purchased as On-Demand Instances, Savings Plan, and Spot Instances. G7e instances are also available in Dedicated Instances and Dedicated Hosts. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 Pricing page.

Give G7e instances a try in the Amazon EC2 console. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 G7e instances page and send feedback to AWS re:Post for EC2 or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Channy

Zabbix in 2025: A Year of Growth, Community, and Innovation

Post Syndicated from Michael Kammer original https://blog.zabbix.com/zabbix-in-2025-a-year-of-growth-community-and-innovation/32470/

2025 has been a dynamic and crucial year for Zabbix — marked not just by global events and major releases, but also by meaningful community engagement, an important milestone in our history, new ways of sharing expertise, and headcount growth around the world – all while making sure our product evolves to provide even more value for our valued customers and partners. Let’s dig in!

Celebrating 20 years in business

On April 12, Zabbix officially celebrated its 20th anniversary as a company. It was a time for our entire community to step back, take stock, and imagine what the future might bring as our offices threw some amazing birthday parties to celebrate two decades of growing (and monitoring) together!

“I’m very satisfied with the results we’ve achieved as a company and I’m extremely grateful for our community, customers, and partners – they make everything we do possible.” – Alexei Vladishev, Zabbix Founder and CEO

A new path toward Zabbix expertise

In October, we launched Zabbix Academy, an online learning platform that offers a comprehensive library of interactive courses that are designed to help users master every aspect of Zabbix, on their own time and at their own speed.

Zabbix Academy includes everything from an introduction to open-source monitoring to advanced Zabbix security administration. There’s no need for any prior certification or training, and Zabbix Academy offers certifications and skill assessments aligned with Zabbix standards as well as a flexible pricing model that includes both free and paid courses and webinars, plus the ability to choose either a single standalone course or a yearly subscription.

“Our community is our greatest asset, and we believe that continuous learning is essential for long-term success, and Zabbix Academy is proof of that commitment.” – Kristine Lamberte, Head of Training at Zabbix

Nous sommes Zabbix!

In addition to all the other positive news, 2025 will be remembered as the year we announced the acquisition of our long-term partner IZI-IT and the establishment of Zabbix France, a new regional office dedicated to providing localized support and closer collaboration with French users and enterprises.

Headed by IZI-IT Founder and CEO Steve Destivelle, Zabbix France will leverage France’s strong technology ecosystem, skilled workforce, and strategic location to build a new European hub that will enable faster response times, support compliance with regional business and regulatory expectations, and ultimately boost our brand visibility across Europe.

Home sweet home

2025 also happened to be the year in which Zabbix finally outgrew our long-time Riga location. In September, our search for new premises led us to make the move to a larger and more suitable office space. The new office is spacious, flexible, easily accessible by bicycle or public transport, and features a modern infrastructure that can help us continue growing and competing in the global marketplace.

Building a better product

The big news on the product development front was the release of Zabbix 7.4 in July. Zabbix 7.4 introduces a wide variety of new features that users have requested, while delivering significant UI/UX improvements that make monitoring with Zabbix even more accessible and efficient. Looking forward, our teams are also working hard to bring the next generation of Zabbix features to life, with the following projects in the works:

  • Zabbix 8.0 LTS, which will introduce leading-edge technical features as well as a redesigned user interface with enhanced visualizations for a more intuitive and user-friendly experience.
  • Zabbix Mobile, an official Zabbix Mobile App for iOS and Android that will put instant push notifications, incident management, and seamless collaboration at your fingertips.
  • Zabbix Marketplace, a global platform designed to connect users, partners, and vendors in order to help them exchange information and discover new solutions together.

Growing our community

From major conferences to local meetups and knowledge-sharing events, the global Zabbix ecosystem came together like never before in 2025! Everything we do at Zabbix happens with the knowledge that our community is what sets us apart, which is why we’ll always meet our members wherever they happen to be.

Our global events gave monitoring professionals, partners, and enthusiasts a valuable forum to share their real-world expertise, helping our users keep pace with evolving technologies, strengthening their professional networks, and making sure that community feedback continues to shape our offerings. Some of the highlights included:

  • 12 Zabbix Labs across Latin America, designed to foster vocational education and train specialized professionals who are ready for the professional challenges of the future.
  • 1 regional forum in Mexico City that brought together regional experts to discuss trends, share experiences, and explore how open source tools are changing the technology landscape.
  • 5 conferences (Benelux, Germany, China, Japan, and Latin America) that delivered a unique mix of practical knowledge, direct access to experts, and networking opportunities.
  • Innumerable exhibitions, trade fairs, and expos, which boosted our brand and built relationships.
  • One incredible Zabbix Summit in Riga that brought together hundreds of professionals, developers, partners, and users to share insights, learn from expert talks and workshops, and explore real-world case studies on effective Zabbix use.

Meanwhile, 2025 saw our headcount grow in every one of our global offices, as more and more talented individuals got wind of what we’re doing and chose to be a part of it.

Not to be outdone, our partners team also added 16 Resellers and 16 Certified Partners to our roster of global associates, all while revising and updating our Partner Program to bring Zabbix services to new users in more locations and in additional languages.

Staying safe

Security is not a one-time milestone for Zabbix, but a continuous process. In 2025, we focused on making our security practices more proactive, transparent, and deeply embedded into how we build and operate our products and services.

In 2025 we successfully recertified our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO/IEC 27017:2015 certifications for another 3 year period. At the same time, our HackerOne bug bounty program continued to be a solid line of defense, as 2025 brought 24 valid submissions that netted $16,700 in bounties.

Furthermore, as Latvia’s only CNA, Zabbix continued to refine its CVE workflows with faster triage and publication timelines, as well as improved vulnerability severity assessment and documentation.

Giving back

During the 2025 holiday season, we continued what may be the most important Zabbix tradition at all – lending our support to local organizations that make a real difference in our communities, including those that provided family support, food relief, access to healthcare and rehabilitation services, and simple holiday joy to senior citizens.

Due in large part to efforts like these, in November Zabbix was named “Enterprise of Riga 2025” in the ICT category – a recognition awarded to the most successful and impactful companies in Riga’s priority sectors. The award highlights not only business results but also contributions to innovation, sustainability, employee well-being, and the growth of the local tech ecosystem.

Looking ahead to 2026

In keeping with our new slogan “Your business works – you know it,” the plan for 2026 and beyond is to evolve from a traditional monitoring tool to a full observability platform, as our Founder and CEO laid out in his keynote speech during Zabbix Summit 2025.

We’re also planning to up our game when it comes to community engagement and training, meaning conferences, meetups, trainings, online events, and global expos that take into account feedback from our community and are increasingly tailored to provide members with what they need most.

With that in mind, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank our amazing global community for everything they did to make 2025 such a success. Whether it was in the form of blog contributions translating documentation, or creating templates and widgets, our community showed up in a big way all throughout the year.

It also goes without saying that we couldn’t have made 2025 the year that it was without our customers, whose trust, collaboration, and commitment to excellence continued to inspire us, drive innovation across everything we do, and allow us to stay open source and innovative.

“Looking ahead, I am genuinely excited about what is coming next in 2026. We have ambitious goals, but I have no doubt whatsoever that together, as one strong, amazing team, we will deliver, grow and continue building something we can all be proud of.” – Alexei Vladishev

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Kiro CLI latest features, AWS European Sovereign Cloud, EC2 X8i instances, and more (January 19, 2026)

Post Syndicated from Veliswa Boya original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-kiro-cli-latest-features-aws-european-sovereign-cloud-ec2-x8i-instances-and-more-january-19-2026/

At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 which also happens to be my last post for the AWS News Blog (more on this later).

The AWS community is starting the year strong with various AWS re:invent re:Caps being hosted around the globe, with some communities already hosting their AWS Community Day events, the AWS Community Day Tel Aviv 2026 was hosted last week.

Last week’s launches
Here are last week’s launches that caught my attention:

  • Kiro CLI latest features – Kiro CLI now has granular controls for web fetch URLs, keyboard shortcuts for your custom agents, enhanced diff views, and much more. With these enhancements, you can now use allowlists or blocklists to restrict which URLs the agent can access, ensure a frictionless experience when working with multiple specialized agents in a single session, to name a few.
  • AWS European Sovereign Cloud – Following an announcement in 2023 of plans to build a new, independent cloud infrastructure, last week we announced the general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to all customers. The cloud is ready to meet the most stringent sovereignty requirements of European customers with a comprehensive set of AWS services.
  • Amazon EC2 X8i instances – Previously launched in preview at AWS re:Invent 2025, last week we announced the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz, available only on AWS. These SAP certified instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.

Additional updates
These projects, blog posts, and news articles also caught my attention:

  • 5 core features in Amazon Quick Suite – AWS VP Agentic AI Swami Sivasubramanian talks about how he uses Amazon Quick Suite for just about everything. In October 2025 we announced Amazon Quick Suite, a new agentic teammate that quickly answers your questions at work and turns insights into actions for you. Amazon Quick Suite has become one of my favorite productivity tools, helping me with my research on various topics in addition to providing me with multiple perspectives on a topic.
  • Deploy AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore using GitHub Actions – Last year we announced Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a flexible service that helps you seamlessly create and manage AI agents across different frameworks and models, whether hosted on Amazon Bedrock or other environments. Learn how to use a GitHub Actions workflow to automate the deployment of AI agents on AgentCore Runtime. This approach delivers a scalable solution with enterprise-level security controls, providing complete continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automation.

Upcoming AWS events
Join us January 28 or 29 (depending on your time zone) for Best of AWS re:Invent, a free virtual event where we bring you the most impactful announcements and top sessions from AWS re:Invent. Jeff Barr, AWS VP and Chief Evangelist, will share his highlights during the opening session.

There is still time until January 21 to compete for $250,000 in prizes and AWS credits in the Global 10,000 AIdeas Competition (yes, the second letter is an I as in Idea, not an L as in like). No code required yet: simply submit your idea, and if you’re selected as a semifinalist, you’ll build your app using Kiro within AWS Free Tier limits. Beyond the cash prizes and potential featured placement at AWS re:Invent 2026, you’ll gain hands-on experience with next-generation AI tools and connect with innovators globally.

Earlier this month, the 2026 application for the Community Builders program launched. The application is open until January 21st, midnight PST so here’s your last chance to ensure that you don’t miss out.

If you’re interested in these opportunities, join the AWS Builder Center to learn with builders in the AWS community.

With that, I close one of my most meaningful chapters here at AWS. It’s been an absolute pleasure to write for you and I thank you for taking the time to read the work that my team and I pour our absolute hearts into. I’ve grown from the close collaborations with the launch teams and the feedback from all of you. The Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) community has grown significantly, and I want to dedicate more time focused on this community, I’m still at AWS and I look forward to meeting at an event near you!

Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

– Veliswa Boya

Seagate Shipping 32TB HAMR Hard Drives for Server, NAS, & Surveillance Markets

Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/seagate-shipping-32tb-hamr-hard-drives-for-server-nas-surveillance-markets/

Seagate has announced this week that it has begun shipping 32TB versions of its high-capacity, high-end hard drives. The second wave of hard drives based on Seagate’s heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology, the 32TB drives mark the first capacity bump for Seagate’s top-capacity drives since Seagate brought HAMR-based drives to the retail market last year. […]

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Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally available for memory-intensive workloads

Post Syndicated from Channy Yun (윤석찬) original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-x8i-instances-powered-by-custom-intel-xeon-6-processors-are-generally-available-for-memory-intensive-workloads/

Since a preview launch at AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re announcing the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained all-core turbo frequency of 3.9 GHz, available only on AWS. These SAP certified instances deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud.

X8i instances are ideal for memory-intensive workloads including in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, traditional large-scale databases, data analytics, and electronic design automation (EDA), which require high compute performance and a large memory footprint.

These instances provide 1.5 times more memory capacity (up to 6 TB), and 3.4 times more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances. These instances offer up to 43% higher performance compared to X2i instances, with higher gains on some of the real-world workloads. They deliver up to 50% higher SAP Application Performance Standard (SAPS) performance, up to 47% faster PostgreSQL performance, up to 88% faster Memcached performance, and up to 46% faster AI inference performance.

During the preview, customers like RISE with SAP utilized up to 6 TB of memory capacity with 50% higher compute performance compared to X2i instances. This enabled faster transaction processing and improved query response times for SAP HANA workloads. Orion reduced the number of active cores on X8i instances compared to X2idn instances while maintaining performance thresholds, cutting SQL Server licensing costs by 50%.

X8i instances
X8i instances are available in 14 sizes including three larger instance sizes (48xlarge, 64xlarge, and 96xlarge), so you can choose the right size for your application to scale up, and two bare metal sizes (metal-48xl and metal-96xl) to deploy workloads that benefit from direct access to physical resources. X8i instances feature up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth with support for the Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and up to 80 Gbps of throughput to Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Here are the specs for X8i instances:

Instance name vCPUs Memory
(GiB)		 Network bandwidth (Gbps) EBS bandwidth (Gbps)
x8i.large 2 32 Up to 12.5 Up to 10
x8i.xlarge 4 64 Up to 12.5 Up to 10
x8i.2xlarge 8 128 Up to 15 Up to 10
x8i.4xlarge 16 256 Up to 15 Up to 10
x8i.8xlarge 32 512 15 10
x8i.12xlarge 48 768 22.5 15
x8i.16xlarge 64 1,024 30 20
x8i.24xlarge 96 1,536 40 30
x8i.32xlarge 128 2,048 50 40
x8i.48xlarge 192 3,072 75 60
x8i.64xlarge 256 4,096 80 70
x8i.96xlarge 384 6,144 100 80
x8i.metal-48xl 192 3,072 75 60
x8i.metal-96xl 384 6,144 100 80

X8i instances support the instance bandwidth configuration (IBC) feature like other eighth-generation instance types, offering flexibility to allocate resources between network and EBS bandwidth. You can scale network or EBS bandwidth by up to 25%, improving database performance, query processing speeds, and logging efficiency. These instances also use sixth-generation AWS Nitro cards, which offload CPU virtualization, storage, and networking functions to dedicated hardware and software, enhancing performance and security for your workloads.

Now available
Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Europe (Frankfurt) AWS Regions. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, search the instance type in the CloudFormation resources tab of AWS Capabilities by Region.

You can purchase these instances as On-Demand Instances, Savings Plan, and Spot Instances. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 Pricing page.

Give X8i instances a try in the Amazon EC2 console. To learn more, visit the Amazon EC2 X8i instances page and send feedback to AWS re:Post for EC2 or through your usual AWS Support contacts.

— Channy

SiFive To Adopt NVLInk Fusion For Future Data Center RISC-V CPU Designs

Post Syndicated from Ryan Smith original https://www.servethehome.com/sifive-to-adopt-nvlink-fusion-for-future-data-center-risc-v-cpu-designs/

For a while now, NVIDIA has been working to turn its NVLink high speed interconnect technology into more than just a bus used by NVIDIA, aiming to fashion an entire ecosystem around it. Those efforts kicked into high gear last year with the announcement of NVLInk Fusion, a program to allow third parties to connect […]

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Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Post Syndicated from Sébastien Stormacq original https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/opening-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/

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As a European citizen, I understand first-hand the importance of digital sovereignty, especially for our public sector organisations and highly regulated industries. Today, I’m delighted to share that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is now generally available to all customers. We first announced our plans to build this new independent cloud infrastructure in 2023, and today it’s ready to meet the most stringent sovereignty requirements of European customers with a comprehensive set of AWS services.

Brandenburg Gate

Berlin, Brandenburg Gate at sunset

Meeting European sovereignty requirements
Organizations across Europe face increasingly complex regulatory requirements around data residency, operational control, and governance independence. Too often today, European organisations with the highest sovereignty requirements are stuck in legacy on-premises environments or offerings with reduced services and functionality. In response to this critical need, the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is the only fully featured and independently operated sovereign cloud backed by strong technical controls, sovereign assurances, and legal protections. Public sector entities and businesses in highly regulated industries need cloud infrastructure that provides enhanced sovereignty controls that maintain the innovation, security, and reliability they expect from modern cloud services. These organisations require assurance that their data and operations remain under European jurisdiction, with clear governance structures and operational autonomy within the European Union (EU).

A new independent cloud infrastructure for Europe
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud represents a physically and logically separate cloud infrastructure, with all components located entirely within the EU. The first AWS Region in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud is located in the state of Brandenburg, Germany, and is generally available today. This Region operates independently from existing AWS Regions. The infrastructure features multiple Availability Zones with redundant power and networking, designed to operate continuously even if connectivity with the rest of the world is interrupted.

We plan to extend the AWS European Sovereign Cloud footprint from Germany across the EU to support stringent isolation, in-country data residency, and low latency requirements. This will start with new sovereign Local Zones located in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal. In addition, you will be able to extend the AWS European Sovereign Cloud infrastructure with AWS Dedicated Local Zones, AWS AI Factories, or AWS Outposts in locations you select, including your own on-premises data centres.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud and its Local Zones provide enhanced sovereign controls through its unique operational model. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be operated exclusively by EU residents located in the EU. This covers activities such as day-to-day operations, technical support, and customer service. We’re gradually transitioning the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to be operated exclusively by EU citizens located in the EU. During this transition period, we will continue to work with a blended team of EU residents and EU citizens located in the EU.

The infrastructure is managed through dedicated European legal entities established under German law. In October 2025, AWS appointed Stéphane Israël, an EU citizen residing in the EU, as managing director. Stéphane will be responsible for the management and operations of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, including infrastructure, technology, and services, as well as leading AWS broader digital sovereignty efforts. In January 2026, AWS also appointed Stefan Hoechbauer (Vice President, Germany and Central Europe, AWS) as a managing director of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. He will work alongside Stéphane Israel to lead the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

An advisory board comprised exclusively of EU citizens, and including two independent third-party representatives, provides additional oversight and expertise on sovereignty matters.

Enhanced data residency and control
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud provides comprehensive data residency assurances so you can meet the most stringent data residency requirements. As with our existing AWS Regions around the world, all your content remains within the Region you select unless you choose otherwise. Beyond content, customer-created metadata including roles, permissions, resource labels, and configurations also stays within the EU. The infrastructure features its own dedicated AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and billing system, all operating independently within European borders.

Technical controls built into the infrastructure prevent access to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud from outside the EU. The infrastructure includes a dedicated European trust service provider for certificate authority operations and uses dedicated Amazon Route 53 name servers. These servers will only use European Top-Level Domains (TLDs) for their own names. The AWS European Sovereign Cloud has no critical dependencies on non-EU personnel or infrastructure.

Security and compliance framework
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud maintains the same core security capabilities you expect from AWS, including encryption, key management, access governance, and the AWS Nitro System for compute isolation. This means your EC2 instances benefit from cryptographically verified platform integrity and hardware-enforced boundaries that prevent unauthorized access to your data without compromising on performance, giving you both the sovereignty controls and the computational power your workloads require. The infrastructure undergoes independent third-party audits, with compliance programs including ISO/IEC 27001:2013, SOC 1/2/3 reports, and Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) C5 attestation.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework defines the specific sovereignty controls across governance independence, operational control, data residency, and technical isolation. This framework is available in AWS Artifact and provides end-to-end visibility through SOC 2 attestation.

Comprehensive service availability
You can access a broad range of AWS services in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud from launch, including Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads. For compute, you can use Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS Lambda. Container orchestration is available through Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Database services include Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Storage options include Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), with networking through Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and security services including AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and AWS Private Certificate Authority. For an up-to-date list of services, refer to the AWS Capabilities matrix recently published on the AWS Builder Center.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is supported by AWS Partners who are committed to helping you meet your sovereignty requirements. Partners including Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro, and Wiz are making their solutions available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, providing you with the tools and services you need across security, data analytics, application development, and industry-specific workloads. This broad partner support helps you build sovereign solutions that combine AWS services with trusted partner technologies.

Significant investment in European infrastructure
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is backed by a €7.8 billion investment in infrastructure, jobs creation, and skills development. This investment is expected to contribute €17.2 billion to the European economy through 2040 and support roughly 2,800 full-time equivalent jobs annually in local businesses.

Some technical details
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is available to all customers, regardless of where they are located. You can access the infrastructure using the partition name aws-eusc and the Region name eusc-de-east-1. A partition is a group of AWS Regions. Each AWS account is scoped to one partition.

The infrastructure supports all standard AWS access methods including the AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs, and the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), making it straightforward to integrate into your existing workflows and automation. After having created a new root account for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud partition, you start by creating new IAM identities and roles specific to this infrastructure, giving you complete control over access management within the European sovereign environment.

Getting started
The AWS European Sovereign Cloud provides European organisations with enhanced sovereignty controls whilst maintaining access to AWS innovation and capabilities. You can contract for services through Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, with pricing in EUR and billing in any of the eight currencies we support today. The infrastructure uses familiar AWS architecture, service portfolio, and APIs, making it straightforward to build and migrate applications.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud addendum contains the additional contractual commitments for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

For me as a European, this launch represents the AWS commitment to meeting the specific needs of our continent and providing the cloud capabilities that drive innovation across industries. I invite you to find out more about the AWS European Sovereign Cloud and how it can help your organisation meet its sovereignty requirements. Read Overview of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud to learn more about the design goals and approach, sign up for a new account, and plan for the deployment of your first workload today.

— seb

German version

Start der AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Als Bürger Europas weiß ich aus eigener Erfahrung, wie wichtig digitale Souveränität ist, insbesondere für unsere öffentlichen Einrichtungen und stark regulierten Branchen. Ich freue mich, Ihnen heute mitteilen zu können, dass die AWS European Sovereign Cloud nun für alle Kunden allgemein verfügbar ist. Wir haben unsere Pläne zum Aufbau dieser neuen unabhängigen Cloud-Infrastruktur erstmals im Jahr 2023 vorgestellt. Heute ist diese Infrastruktur bereit, mit einem umfassenden Angebot an AWS-Services die strengsten Souveränitätsanforderungen europäischer Kunden zu erfüllen.

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Berlin, Brandenburger Tor bei Sonnenuntergang

Erfüllung europäischer Souveränitätsanforderungen
Organisationen in ganz Europa sehen sich mit zunehmend komplexen regulatorischen Anforderungen in Bezug auf Datenresidenz, operative Kontrolle und Unabhängigkeit der Governance konfrontiert. Europäische Organisationen mit höchsten Souveränitätsanforderungen sind heutzutage allzu oft in veralteten lokalen Umgebungen oder Angeboten mit eingeschränkten Services und Funktionen gefangen. Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud ist die Antwort auf diesen dringenden Bedarf. Sie ist die einzige unabhängig betriebene souveräne Cloud mit vollem Funktionsumfang, die durch strenge technische Kontrollen, Souveränitätszusicherungen und rechtlichen Schutz abgesichert ist. Einrichtungen des öffentlichen Sektors und Unternehmen in stark regulierten Branchen benötigen eine Cloud-Infrastruktur, die erweiterte Souveränitätskontrollen bietet und gleichzeitig die von modernen Cloud-Services erwartete Innovation, Sicherheit und Zuverlässigkeit gewährleistet. Diese Organisationen benötigen die Zusicherung, dass ihre Daten und Aktivitäten unter europäischer Zuständigkeit bleiben, mit klaren Governance-Strukturen und operativer Autonomie innerhalb der Europäischen Union (EU).

Eine neue unabhängige Cloud-Infrastruktur für Europa
Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud ist eine physisch und logisch getrennte Cloud-Infrastruktur, deren Komponenten sich vollständig innerhalb der EU befinden. Die erste AWS-Region in der AWS European Sovereign Cloud befindet sich im deutschen Bundesland Brandenburg und ist ab heute allgemein verfügbar. Diese Region arbeitet unabhängig von bestehenden AWS-Regionen. Die Infrastruktur umfasst mehrere Availability Zones mit redundanter Stromversorgung und Netzwerkverbindung, die auch bei einer Unterbrechung der Verbindung zum Rest der Welt einen kontinuierlichen Betrieb gewährleisten.

Wir beabsichtigen, die Präsenz der AWS European Sovereign Cloud von Deutschland aus EU-weit auszuweiten, um strenge Anforderungen hinsichtlich Isolierung, Datenresidenz innerhalb einzelner Länder und geringer Latenz zu erfüllen. Dies beginnt mit neuen souveränen Local Zones in Belgien, den Niederlanden und Portugal. Darüber hinaus können Sie die Infrastruktur der AWS European Sovereign Cloud mit dedizierten AWS Local Zones, AWS AI Factories oder AWS Outposts an Standorten Ihrer Wahl, einschließlich Ihrer eigenen lokalen Rechenzentren, erweitern.

Dank ihres einzigartigen Betriebsmodells bieten die AWS European Sovereign Cloud und ihre Local Zones erweiterte Souveränitätskontrollen. Der Betrieb der AWS European Sovereign Cloud wird ausschließlich von EU-Bürgern mit Wohnsitz in der EU sichergestellt. Dies umfasst Aktivitäten wie den täglichen Betrieb, den technischen Support und den Kundenservice. Wir stellen die AWS European Sovereign Cloud schrittweise so um, dass als Betriebspersonal ausschließlich EU-Bürger mit Wohnsitz in der EU zum Einsatz kommen. Während dieser Übergangsphase werden wir weiterhin mit einem gemischten Team aus in der EU ansässigen Personen und in der EU lebenden EU-Bürgern arbeiten.

Die Infrastruktur wird durch spezielle europäische juristische Personen nach deutschem Recht verwaltet. Im Oktober 2025 berief AWS Stéphane Israël, einen in der EU ansässigen EU-Bürger, zum Geschäftsführer. Stéphane wird für das Management und den Betrieb der AWS European Sovereign Cloud verantwortlich zeichnen. Dies umfasst die Bereiche Infrastruktur, Technologie und Services sowie die Federführung bei den breit angelegten Initiativen von AWS auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Souveränität. Im Januar 2026 ernannte AWS zudem Stefan Hoechbauer (Vice President, Germany and Central Europe, AWS) zum Geschäftsführer der AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Er wird gemeinsam mit Stéphane Israel die Leitung der AWS European Sovereign Cloud innehaben.

Ein Beirat, dem ausschließlich EU-Bürger, einschließlich zwei unabhängigen externen Vertretern, angehören, fungiert als zusätzliche Kontrollinstanz und bringt Fachwissen in Fragen der Souveränität ein.

Verbesserte Datenresidenz und -kontrolle
Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud bietet umfassende Garantien hinsichtlich der Datenresidenz, sodass Sie selbst die strengsten Anforderungen in diesem Bereich erfüllen können. Wie auch bei unseren bestehenden AWS-Regionen weltweit verbleiben alle Ihre Inhalte in der von Ihnen ausgewählten Region, sofern Sie keine anderen Einstellungen vornehmen. Neben den Inhalten verbleiben auch die vom Kunden erstellten Metadaten, einschließlich Rollen, Berechtigungen, Ressourcenbezeichnungen und Konfigurationen, innerhalb der EU. Die Infrastruktur verfügt über ein eigenes AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) und ein eigenes Abrechnungssystem – beides wird innerhalb der europäischen Grenzen unabhängig betrieben.

In die Infrastruktur integrierte technische Kontrollen verhindern den Zugriff auf die AWS European Sovereign Cloud von außerhalb der EU. Die Infrastruktur umfasst einen dedizierten europäischen Trust Service Provider für Zertifizierungsstellen und nutzt dedizierte Amazon-Route-53-Namenserver. Diese Server verwenden ausschließlich europäische Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) für ihre eigenen Namen. Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud unterliegt keinen kritischen Abhängigkeiten hinsichtlich Personal oder Infrastruktur außerhalb der EU.

Sicherheits- und Compliance-Framework
Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud bietet dieselben zentralen Sicherheitsfunktionen, die Sie von AWS erwarten. Dazu gehören Verschlüsselung, Schlüsselverwaltung, Zugriffskontrolle und das AWS Nitro System für die Isolierung von Rechenressourcen. Dies bedeutet, dass Ihre EC2-Instanzen von einer kryptografisch verifizierten Plattformintegrität und hardwaregestützten Grenzen profitieren, die unbefugten Zugriff auf Ihre Daten verhindern, ohne die Leistung zu beeinträchtigen. So erhalten Sie sowohl die Souveränitätskontrollen als auch die Rechenleistung, die Ihre Workloads erfordern. Die Infrastruktur wird unabhängigen Audits durch Dritte unterzogen. Die Compliance-Programme umfassen ISO/IEC 27001:2013, SOC-1/2/3-Berichte und das C5-Zertifikat des Bundesamtes für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI).

Das AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework definiert spezifische Souveränitätskontrollen in den Bereichen Governance-Unabhängigkeit, operative Kontrolle, Datenresidenz und technische Isolierung. Dieses Framework ist in AWS Artifact verfügbar und bietet durch SOC-2-Zertifizierung durchgängige Transparenz.

Umfassende Serviceverfügbarkeit
Von Beginn an steht Ihnen in der AWS European Sovereign Cloud eine breite Palette von AWS-Services zur Verfügung – darunter Amazon SageMaker und Amazon Bedrock für Workloads im Bereich Künstliche Intelligenz und Machine Learning (KI/ML). Für die Rechenleistung stehen Ihnen Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) und AWS Lambda zur Verfügung. Die Container-Orchestrierung ist über den Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) und den Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) verfügbar. Zu den Datenbank-Services gehören Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB und Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Die Speicheroptionen umfassen Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) und Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) mit Vernetzung über Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) und Sicherheits-Services wie AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) und AWS Private Certificate Authority. Eine aktuelle Liste der Services finden Sie in der AWS-Funktionsmatrix, die kürzlich im AWS Builder Center veröffentlicht wurde.

Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud wird von AWS-Partnern unterstützt, die es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht haben, Ihnen bei der Erfüllung Ihrer Souveränitätsanforderungen zur Seite zu stehen. Partner wie Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro und Wiz stellen ihre Lösungen in der AWS European Sovereign Cloud zur Verfügung und bieten Ihnen die Tools und Services, die Sie in den Bereichen Sicherheit, Datenanalyse, Entwicklung von Anwendungen und branchenspezifische Workloads benötigen. Dank dieser umfassenden Unterstützung durch Partner können Sie eigenständige Lösungen, die AWS-Services mit bewährten Partnertechnologien kombinieren, entwickeln.

Erhebliche Investitionen in die europäische Infrastruktur
Hinter der AWS European Sovereign Cloud steht eine Investition in Höhe von 7,8 Milliarden Euro in Infrastruktur, die Schaffung von Arbeitsplätzen und die Entwicklung von Kompetenzen. Diese Investition wird bis 2040 voraussichtlich 17,2 Milliarden Euro zur europäischen Wirtschaftsleistung beitragen und jährlich rund 2 800 Vollzeitstellen in lokalen Unternehmen sichern.

Einige technische Details
Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud steht allen Kunden zur Verfügung, unabhängig davon, wo sie sich befinden. Sie können mit dem Partitionsnamen aws-eusc und dem Regionsnamen eusc-de-east-1 auf die Infrastruktur zugreifen. Eine Partition ist eine Gruppe von AWS-Regionen. Jedes AWS-Konto ist auf eine Partition beschränkt.

Die Infrastruktur unterstützt alle gängigen AWS-Zugriffsmethoden, einschließlich der AWS Management Console, AWS SDKs und der AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), sodass sie sich problemlos in Ihre bestehenden Workflows und Automatisierungsprozesse integrieren lässt. Nachdem Sie ein neues Root-Konto für die Partition der AWS European Sovereign Cloud erstellt haben, beginnen Sie mit der Erstellung neuer IAM-Identitäten und -Rollen, die speziell für diese Infrastruktur vorgesehen sind. Dadurch erhalten Sie die vollständige Kontrolle über die Zugriffsverwaltung innerhalb der europäischen souveränen Umgebung.

Erste Schritte
Die AWS European Sovereign Cloud bietet europäischen Organisationen erweiterte Souveränitätskontrollen und gewährleistet gleichzeitig den Zugriff auf die Innovationen und Funktionen von AWS. Sie können Services über Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL in Auftrag geben. Die Preise werden in Euro angegeben und die Abrechnung erfolgt in einer der acht Währungen, die wir derzeit unterstützen. Die Infrastruktur basiert auf der bekannten AWS-Architektur, dem AWS-Serviceportfolio und den AWS-APIs, wodurch die Entwicklung und Migration von Anwendungen vereinfacht wird.

Der AWS European Sovereign Cloud Addendum enthält die zusätzlichen vertraglichen Verpflichtungen für die AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Für mich als Europäer symbolisiert dieser Launch das Engagement von AWS, den spezifischen Anforderungen unseres Kontinents gerecht zu werden und Cloud-Funktionen bereitzustellen, die Innovationen in allen Branchen vorantreiben. Ich lade Sie ein, mehr über die AWS European Sovereign Cloud zu erfahren und zu entdecken, wie sie Ihrer Organisation dabei helfen kann, ihre Souveränitätsanforderungen zu erfüllen. Lesen Sie die Übersicht über die AWS European Sovereign Cloud und erfahren Sie mehr über die Designziele und den Ansatz. Registrieren Sie sich für ein neues Konto und planen Sie noch heute die Bereitstellung Ihrer ersten Workload.

— seb

French version

Ouverture de l’AWS European Souvereign Cloud

En tant que citoyen européen, je mesure personnellement l’importance de la souveraineté numérique, en particulier pour nos organisations du secteur public et les industries fortement réglementées. Aujourd’hui, j’ai le plaisir d’annoncer que l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est désormais disponible pour l’ensemble de nos clients. Nous avions annoncé pour la première fois notre projet de construction de cette nouvelle infrastructure cloud indépendante en 2023, et elle est aujourd’hui prête à répondre aux exigences de souveraineté les plus strictes des clients européens, avec un large ensemble de services AWS.

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Berlin, porte de Brandebourg au coucher du soleil

Répondre aux exigences européennes en matière de souveraineté
Partout en Europe, les organisations sont confrontées à des exigences réglementaires de plus en plus complexes en matière de résidence des données, de contrôle opérationnel et d’indépendance de la gouvernance. Trop souvent aujourd’hui, les organisations européennes ayant les besoins de souveraineté les plus élevés se retrouvent contraintes de rester sur des environnements sur site, ou de recourir à des offres cloud aux services et fonctionnalités limités. Pour répondre à cet enjeu critique, l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est le seul cloud souverain entièrement fonctionnel, exploité de manière indépendante, et reposant sur des contrôles techniques robustes, des garanties de souveraineté et des protections juridiques solides. Les acteurs du secteur public et les entreprises des secteurs fortement réglementés ont besoin d’une infrastructure cloud offrant des contrôles de souveraineté renforcés, sans renoncer à l’innovation, à la sécurité et à la fiabilité attendues des services cloud modernes. Ces organisations doivent avoir l’assurance que leurs données et leurs opérations restent sous juridiction européenne, avec des structures de gouvernance claires et une autonomie opérationnelle au sein de l’Union européenne (UE).

Une nouvelle infrastructure cloud indépendante pour l’Europe
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud repose sur une infrastructure cloud physiquement et logiquement distincte, dont l’ensemble des composants est situé exclusivement au sein de l’UE. La première région AWS de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est implantée dans le Land de Brandebourg, en Allemagne, et est disponible dès aujourd’hui. Cette région fonctionne de façon indépendante par rapport aux autres régions AWS existantes. L’infrastructure comprend plusieurs zones de disponibilité, avec des systèmes redondants d’alimentation et de réseau, conçus pour fonctionner en continu même en cas d’interruption de la connectivité avec le reste du monde.

Nous prévoyons d’étendre l’empreinte de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud depuis l’Allemagne à l’ensemble de l’UE, afin de répondre aux exigences strictes d’isolation, de résidence des données dans certains pays et de faible latence. Cette extension débutera avec de nouvelles Local Zones souveraines situées en Belgique, aux Pays-Bas et au Portugal. En complément, vous pourrez étendre l’infrastructure de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud à l’aide des AWS Dedicated Local Zones, des AWS AI Factories ou d’AWS Outposts, dans les sites de votre choix, y compris au sein de vos propres centres de données sur site.

L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud et ses Local Zones offrent des contrôles de souveraineté renforcés grâce à un modèle opérationnel unique. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est exploité exclusivement par des résidents de l’UE basés dans l’UE. Cela couvre notamment les opérations quotidiennes, le support technique et le service client. Nous sommes en train d’opérer une transition progressive afin que l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud soit exploité exclusivement par des citoyens de l’UE résidant dans l’UE. Durant cette période de transition, nous continuons de travailler avec une équipe mixte composée de résidents de l’UE et de citoyens de l’UE basés dans l’UE.

L’infrastructure est gérée par des entités juridiques européennes dédiées, établies conformément au droit allemand. En octobre 2025, AWS a nommé Stéphane Israël, citoyen de l’UE résidant dans l’UE, au poste de directeur général. Stéphane est responsable de la gestion et de l’exploitation de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, couvrant l’infrastructure, la technologie et les services, ainsi que de la direction des initiatives plus larges d’AWS en matière de souveraineté numérique. En janvier 2026, AWS a également nommé Stefan Hoechbauer (Vice-président, Allemagne et Europe centrale, AWS) comme directeur général de l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Il travaillera aux côtés de Stéphane Israël pour piloter l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Un conseil consultatif, composé exclusivement de citoyens de l’UE et incluant deux représentants indépendants, apporte un niveau supplémentaire de supervision et d’expertise sur les questions de souveraineté.

Résidence des données et contrôle renforcés
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud fournit des garanties complètes en matière de résidence des données afin de répondre aux exigences les plus strictes. Comme dans les régions AWS existantes à travers le monde, l’ensemble de vos contenus reste dans la région que vous sélectionnez, sauf indication contraire de votre part. Au-delà des contenus, les métadonnées créées par les clients — telles que les rôles, les autorisations, les étiquettes de ressources et les configurations — restent également au sein de l’UE. L’infrastructure dispose de son propre système dédié de AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) et de facturation, opérant de manière totalement indépendante à l’intérieur des frontières européennes.

Des contrôles techniques intégrés à l’infrastructure empêchent tout accès à l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud depuis l’extérieur de l’UE. L’infrastructure comprend un prestataire européen de services de confiance dédié pour les opérations d’autorité de certification et utilise des serveurs de noms Amazon Route 53 dédiés. Ces serveurs n’utilisent que des domaines de premier niveau (TLD) européens pour leurs propres noms. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud ne présente aucune dépendance critique vis-à-vis de personnels ou d’infrastructures situés en dehors de l’UE.

Cadre de sécurité et de conformité
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud conserve les capacités de sécurité fondamentales attendues d’AWS, notamment le chiffrement, la gestion des clés, la gouvernance des accès et le système AWS Nitro pour l’isolation des charges de calcul. Concrètement, vos instances EC2 bénéficient d’une intégrité de plateforme vérifiée cryptographiquement et de frontières matérielles, empêchant tout accès non autorisé à vos données sans compromis sur les performances. Vous bénéficiez ainsi à la fois des contrôles de souveraineté et de la puissance de calcul nécessaires à vos charges de travail. L’infrastructure fait l’objet d’audits indépendants réalisés par des tiers, et s’inscrit dans des programmes de conformité incluant ISO/IEC 27001:2013, les rapports SOC 1/2/3, ainsi que l’attestation C5 de l’Office fédéral allemand pour la sécurité de l’information (BSI).

Le AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework définit précisément les contrôles de souveraineté couvrant l’indépendance de la gouvernance, le contrôle opérationnel, la résidence des données et l’isolation technique. Ce cadre est disponible dans AWS Artifact et offre une visibilité de bout en bout via une attestation SOC 2.

Disponibilité étendue des services
Dès son lancement, l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud donne accès à un large éventail de services AWS, notamment Amazon SageMaker et Amazon Bedrock pour les charges de travail d’intelligence artificielle et de machine learning (IA/ML). Pour le calcul, vous pouvez utiliser Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) et AWS Lambda. L’orchestration de conteneurs est disponible via Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) et Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Les services de bases de données incluent Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB et Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Les options de stockage comprennent Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) et Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), avec des capacités réseau via Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) et des services de sécurité tels que AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) et AWS Private Certificate Authority. Pour obtenir la liste la plus à jour des services disponibles, consultez la matrice des capacités AWS récemment publiée sur l’AWS Builder Center.

L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est supporté par de nombreux partenaires AWS engagés à vous aider à répondre à vos exigences de souveraineté. Des partenaires tels qu’Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro et Wiz rendent leurs solutions disponibles sur l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, vous offrant ainsi les outils et services nécessaires dans les domaines de la sécurité, de l’analyse de données, du développement applicatif et des charges de travail spécifiques à certains secteurs industriels. Cet ensemble de partenaires vous permet de construire des solutions souveraines combinant les services AWS et des technologies de partenaires de confiance.

Un investissement majeur dans l’infrastructure européenne
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud s’appuie sur un investissement de 7,8 milliards d’euros dans l’infrastructure, la création d’emplois et le développement des compétences. Cet investissement devrait contribuer à hauteur de 17,2 milliards d’euros à l’économie européenne d’ici 2040 et soutenir environ 2.800 emplois équivalent temps plein par an au sein des entreprises locales.

Quelques détails techniques
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud est accessible à tous les clients, quel que soit leur lieu d’implantation. Vous pouvez accéder à l’infrastructure en utilisant le nom de partition aws-eusc et le nom de région eusc-de-east-1. Une partition correspond à un ensemble de régions AWS. Chaque compte AWS est rattaché à une seule partition.

L’infrastructure prend en charge toutes les méthodes d’accès AWS standards, y compris la console de gestion AWS, les AWS SDKs et la AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), ce qui facilite son intégration dans vos flux de travail et vos automatisations existants. Après avoir créé un nouveau compte racine pour la partition AWS European Sovereign Cloud, vous commencez par définir de nouvelles identités et rôles IAM spécifiques à cette infrastructure, vous donnant un contrôle total sur la gestion des accès au sein de l’environnement souverain européen.

Pour commencer
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud offre aux organisations européennes des contrôles de souveraineté renforcés tout en leur permettant de continuer à bénéficier de l’innovation et des capacités d’AWS. Vous pouvez contractualiser les services via Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, avec une tarification en euros et une facturation possible dans l’une des huit devises que nous prenons en charge aujourd’hui. L’infrastructure repose sur une architecture, un portefeuille de services et des API AWS familiers, ce qui simplifie le développement et la migration des applications.

L’avenant AWS European Sovereign Cloud précise les engagements contractuels supplémentaires propres à l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

En tant qu’Européen, ce lancement illustre l’engagement d’AWS à répondre aux besoins spécifiques de notre continent et à fournir les capacités cloud qui stimulent l’innovation dans tous les secteurs. Je vous invite à découvrir l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud et à comprendre comment il peut aider votre organisation à satisfaire ses exigences de souveraineté. Consultez Overview of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (en anglais) pour en savoir plus sur les objectifs de conception et l’approche retenue, créez un nouveau compte et planifiez dès aujourd’hui le déploiement de votre première charge de travail.

— seb

Italian version

Lancio di AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Come cittadino europeo, conosco benissimo l’importanza della sovranità digitale, in particolare per le nostre organizzazioni del settore pubblico e dei settori altamente regolamentati. Oggi sono lieto di annunciare che AWS European Sovereign Cloud è ora generalmente disponibile per tutti i clienti. Abbiamo annunciato per la prima volta i nostri piani per la creazione di questa nuova infrastruttura cloud indipendente nel 2023. Finalmente oggi è pronta a soddisfare i più rigorosi requisiti di sovranità dei clienti europei con un set completo di servizi AWS.

Brandenburg Gate

Berlino, Porta di Brandeburgo al tramonto

Soddisfare i requisiti di sovranità europea
Le organizzazioni di tutta Europa devono far fronte a requisiti normativi sempre più complessi in materia di residenza dei dati, controllo operativo e indipendenza della governance. Troppo spesso, le organizzazioni europee con i più elevati requisiti di sovranità sono bloccate a causa di offerte o ambienti on-premises legacy con funzionalità e servizi ridotti. In risposta a questa esigenza fondamentale, l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud rappresenta l’unico cloud sovrano con funzionalità complete e a gestione autonoma. supportato da solidi controlli tecnici, garanzie di sovranità e protezioni legali. Gli enti pubblici e le aziende di settori altamente regolamentati necessitano di un’infrastruttura cloud che fornisca controlli di sovranità avanzati che garantiscano l’innovazione, la sicurezza e l’affidabilità che si aspettano dai moderni servizi cloud. Queste organizzazioni devono essere certe che i propri dati e le proprie operazioni restino sotto la giurisdizione europea, con chiare strutture di governance e autonomia operativa nell’ambito dell’Unione europea (UE).

Una nuova infrastruttura cloud indipendente per l’Europa
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud rappresenta un’infrastruttura cloud separata fisicamente e logicamente, con tutti i componenti situati interamente all’interno dell’UE. La prima Regione AWS nell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, situata nello stato di Brandeburgo (Germania) e ora disponibile a livello generale, opera indipendentemente dalle Regioni AWS esistenti. L’infrastruttura presenta diverse zone di disponibilità con risorse di alimentazione e rete ridondanti, progettate per funzionare continuamente anche in caso di interruzione della connettività con il resto del mondo.

Abbiamo intenzione di estendere la presenza dell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud dalla Germania all’intera UE per supportare i rigorosi requisiti di isolamento, residenza dei dati all’interno di un determinato Paese e bassa latenza. Inizieremo con nuove zone locali sovrane situate in Belgio, nei Paesi Bassi e in Portogallo. Inoltre, sarà possibile estendere l’infrastruttura AWS European Sovereign Cloud con Zone locali AWS dedicate, AWS AI Factories o AWS Outposts in posizioni selezionate, inclusi i data center on-premises.

L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud e le relative zone locali forniscono controlli sovrani avanzati tramite un modello operativo esclusivo. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud sarà gestito esclusivamente da residenti UE che si trovano nell’UE. Ciò copre attività come operazioni quotidiane, supporto tecnico e servizio clienti. Stiamo gradualmente trasformando l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud in modo che sia gestito esclusivamente da cittadini UE che si trovano nell’UE. Durante questo periodo di transizione, continueremo a lavorare con un team misto di residenti e cittadini comunitari che si trovano nell’UE.

L’infrastruttura è gestita da entità giuridiche europee dedicate, costituite secondo il diritto tedesco. Nell’ottobre 2025, AWS ha assegnato l’incarico di managing director a Stéphane Israël, cittadino comunitario residente nell’UE. Sarà responsabile della gestione e delle operazioni dell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, inclusi infrastruttura, tecnologia e servizi, oltre a guidare le più ampie iniziative di sovranità digitale di AWS. Nel gennaio 2026, AWS ha inoltre nominato managing director dell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud Stefan Höchbauer (vicepresidente, Germania ed Europa centrale, AWS). Collaborerà con Stéphane Israël per guidare l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Un comitato consultivo composto esclusivamente da cittadini comunitari, inclusi due rappresentanti terzi indipendenti, fornirà ulteriore supervisione e competenza in materia di sovranità.

Ottimizzazione del controllo e della residenza dei dati
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud offre garanzie complete sulla residenza dei dati in modo da poter soddisfare i requisiti più rigorosi in materia. Come per le nostre Regioni AWS esistenti a livello mondiale, tutti i contenuti restano all’interno della Regione selezionata, a meno che non si scelga diversamente. Oltre ai contenuti, anche i metadati creati dai clienti, tra cui ruoli, autorizzazioni, etichette delle risorse e configurazioni, restano nell’ambito dell’UE. L’infrastruttura è dotata di un proprio sistema AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) e di fatturazione dedicato, completamente gestito in modo indipendente all’interno dei confini europei.

I controlli tecnici integrati nell’infrastruttura impediscono l’accesso all’AWS European Sovereign Cloud dall’esterno dell’UE. L’infrastruttura include un provider di servizi fiduciari europeo dedicato per le operazioni delle autorità di certificazione e utilizza nameserver Amazon Route 53 dedicati. Questi server utilizzeranno solo domini di primo livello (TLD) europei per i propri nomi. L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud non ha dipendenze fondamentali da personale o infrastrutture non UE.

Framework di sicurezza e conformità
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud mantiene le stesse funzionalità di sicurezza di base di AWS, tra cui crittografia, gestione delle chiavi, governance degli accessi e AWS Nitro System per l’isolamento computazionale. Ciò significa che le istanze EC2 beneficiano dell’integrità della piattaforma verificata a livello di crittografia e dei limiti imposti dall’hardware che impediscono l’accesso non autorizzato ai dati senza compromettere le prestazioni, offrendo i controlli di sovranità e la potenza di calcolo richiesti dai carichi di lavoro. L’infrastruttura è sottoposta ad audit di terze parti indipendenti, con programmi di conformità che includono ISO/IEC 27001:2013, report SOC 1/2/3 e attestazione C5 dell’Ufficio Federale per la Sicurezza Informatica (BSI).

L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Sovereign Reference Framework definisce i controlli di sovranità specifici in termini di indipendenza della governance, controllo operativo, residenza dei dati e isolamento tecnico. Questo framework è disponibile in AWS Artifact e fornisce visibilità end-to-end tramite l’attestazione SOC 2.

Disponibilità completa del servizio
Dal momento del lancio, sarà possibile accedere a un’ampia gamma di servizi AWS nell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, tra cui Amazon SageMaker e Amazon Bedrock per carichi di lavoro di intelligenza artificiale e machine learning (IA/ML). Per i calcoli, è possibile utilizzare Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) e AWS Lambda. L’orchestrazione di container è disponibile tramite Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) e Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). I servizi di database includono Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB e Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Le opzioni di storage includono Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) e Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), con connessione in rete tramite Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) e servizi di sicurezza tra cui Servizio AWS di gestione delle chiavi (AWS KMS) e Autorità di certificazione privata AWS (AWS Private CA). Per un elenco aggiornato dei servizi, è possibile consultare l’elenco delle funzionalità AWS pubblicato di recente su AWS Builder Center.

L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud è supportato dai partner AWS, che aiutano a soddisfare i propri requisiti di sovranità. Partner come Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro e Wiz stanno rendendo disponibili le loro soluzioni nell’AWS European Sovereign Cloud, fornendo gli strumenti e i servizi necessari per la sicurezza, l’analisi dei dati, lo sviluppo di applicazioni e i carichi di lavoro specifici del settore. Questo ampio supporto dei partner aiuta a creare soluzioni sovrane che combinano i servizi AWS con tecnologie di partner affidabili.

Investimenti significativi nelle infrastrutture europee
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud è sostenuto da un investimento di 7,8 miliardi di euro destinati a infrastrutture, creazione di posti di lavoro e sviluppo delle competenze. Si prevede che questo investimento contribuirà con 17,2 miliardi di euro all’economia europea fino al 2040 e sosterrà circa 2.800 posti di lavoro equivalenti a tempo pieno all’anno nelle aziende locali.

Alcuni dettagli tecnici
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud è disponibile per tutti i clienti, indipendentemente da dove si trovino. È possibile accedere all’infrastruttura utilizzando il nome della partizione aws-eusc e il nome della Regione eusc-de-east-1. Una partizione è un gruppo di Regioni AWS. Ogni account AWS è associato a una partizione.

L’infrastruttura supporta tutti i metodi di accesso AWS standard, tra cui la Console di gestione AWS, gli SDK AWS e l’interfaccia della linea di comando AWS (AWS CLI), semplificando l’integrazione nell’automazione e nei flussi di lavoro esistenti. Dopo aver creato un nuovo account root per la partizione Di AWS European Sovereign Cloud, si inizia creando nuove identità e ruoli IAM specifici per questa infrastruttura, che consentiranno di avere il controllo completo sulla gestione degli accessi all’interno dell’ambiente sovrano europeo.

Nozioni di base
L’AWS European Sovereign Cloud fornisce alle organizzazioni europee controlli di sovranità avanzati pur mantenendo l’accesso all’innovazione e alle funzionalità di AWS. È possibile contrattare servizi tramite Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, con prezzi in EUR e fatturazione in una delle otto valute supportate oggi. L’infrastruttura utilizza l’architettura AWS, il portafoglio di servizi e le API tradizionali, semplificando la creazione e la migrazione delle applicazioni.

L’addendum di AWS European Sovereign Cloud include gli impegni contrattuali aggiuntivi per l’AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Per me come europeo, questo lancio rappresenta l’impegno di AWS per soddisfare le esigenze specifiche del nostro continente e fornire le funzionalità cloud che guidano l’innovazione in tutti i settori. Invito tutti a scoprire di più sull’AWS European Sovereign Cloud e su come può aiutare le organizzazioni a soddisfare i requisiti di sovranità. Nella Panoramica di AWS European Sovereign Cloud sono disponibili maggiori informazioni sugli obiettivi e sull’approccio di progettazione, creare un nuovo account  e pianificare l’implementazione del primo carico di lavoro oggi stesso.

— seb

Spanish version

Apertura de AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Como ciudadano europeo, comprendo de primera mano la importancia de la soberanía digital, especialmente para las organizaciones de nuestro sector público y las industrias altamente reguladas. Hoy me complace anunciar que la AWS European Sovereign Cloud ya está disponible de forma generalizada para todos los clientes. Anunciamos por primera vez nuestros planes de crear esta nueva infraestructura de nube independiente en 2023, y hoy está lista para cumplir los requisitos de soberanía más estrictos de los clientes europeos con un exhaustivo conjunto de servicios de AWS.

Berlín, Puerta de Brandeburgo al atardecer

Cumplimiento de los requisitos de soberanía europeos
Las organizaciones de toda Europa se enfrentan a unos requisitos normativos cada vez más complejos en relación con la residencia de los datos, el control operativo y la independencia de la gobernanza. Hoy en día, con demasiada frecuencia, las organizaciones europeas con los requisitos de soberanía más estrictos se ven atrapadas en entornos locales heredados u ofertas con servicios y funcionalidades reducidos. En respuesta a esta necesidad crítica, la AWS European Sovereign Cloud es la única nube soberana independiente con todas las características que está respaldada por sólidos controles técnicos, garantías de soberanía y protecciones legales. Las entidades del sector público y las empresas de industrias altamente reguladas necesitan una infraestructura en la nube que proporcione controles de soberanía mejorados que mantengan la innovación, la seguridad y la fiabilidad que se esperan de los servicios modernos en la nube. Estas organizaciones necesitan la garantía de que sus datos y operaciones permanecen bajo la jurisdicción europea, con estructuras de gobernanza claras y autonomía operativa dentro de la Unión Europea (UE).

Una nueva infraestructura de nube independiente para Europa
La AWS European Sovereign Cloud es una infraestructura de nube separada de manera física y lógica, en la que todos los componentes están ubicados íntegramente dentro de la UE. La primera región de AWS de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud se encuentra en el estado de Brandeburgo (Alemania) y ya está disponible para el público en general. Esta región opera de forma independiente de las regiones de AWS existentes. La infraestructura cuenta con varias zonas de disponibilidad con fuentes de alimenacion y redes redundantes, diseñadas para funcionar de forma continua incluso si se interrumpe la conectividad con el resto del mundo.

Tenemos previsto ampliar la presencia de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud de Alemania a toda la UE para cumplir los requisitos de aismlamiento estrictos, residencia de los datos dentro del país y baja latencia. Esto comenzará con nuevas zonas locales soberanas ubicadas en Bélgica, los Países Bajos y Portugal. Además, podrá ampliar la infraestructura de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud con zonas locales dedicadas de AWS, AWS AI Factories o AWS Outposts en las ubicaciones que elija, incluidos sus propios centros de datos locales.

La AWS European Sovereign Cloud y sus zonas locales proporcionan controles soberanos mejorados a través de su modelo operativo único. La AWS European Sovereign Cloud será operada exclusivamente por residentes de la UE ubicados en la UE. Abarca actividades como las operaciones diarias, la asistencia técnica y el servicio de atención al cliente. Estamos realizando una transición gradual de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud para que se opere exclusivamente por ciudadanos de la UE ubicados en la UE. Durante este período de transición, seguiremos trabajando con un equipo mixto de residentes de la UE y ciudadanos de la UE ubicados en la UE.

La infraestructura se administra a través de entidades jurídicas europeas especializadas constituidas en el marco de la legislación alemana. En octubre de 2025, AWS nombró director general a Stéphane Israël, ciudadano de la UE que reside en la UE. Stéphane será responsable de la administración y las operaciones de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud, lo que incluye la infraestructura, la tecnología y los servicios, además de liderar los esfuerzos más amplios de AWS en materia de soberanía digital. En enero de 2026, AWS también nombró a Stefan Hoechbauer (vicepresidente de AWS para Alemania y Europa Central) director general de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Stefan dirigirá la AWS European Sovereign Cloud junto con Stéphane Israël.

Un consejo consultivo compuesto exclusivamente por ciudadanos de la UE, que incluye a dos representantes independientes externos, proporciona supervisión y experiencia adicional en materia de soberanía.

Mejor control y residencia de datos
La AWS European Sovereign Cloud ofrece amplias garantías de residencia de datos para que pueda cumplir los requisitos más estrictos en materia de residencia de datos. Al igual que ocurre con nuestras regiones de AWS existentes en todo el mundo, todo el contenido permanece dentro la región que elija, a menos que decida lo contrario. Además del contenido, los metadatos creados por los clientes, incluidos los roles, los permisos, las etiquetas de recursos y las configuraciones, también permanecen dentro de la UE. La infraestructura cuenta con su propio sistema dedicado de AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) y facturación, que funciona de forma independiente dentro de las fronteras europeas.

Los controles técnicos integrados en la infraestructura impiden el acceso a la AWS European Sovereign Cloud desde fuera de la UE. La infraestructura incluye un proveedor de servicios de confianza europeo dedicado para las operaciones de las autoridades de certificación y utiliza servidores de nombres de Amazon Route 53 dedicados. Estos servidores solo usarán dominios de nivel superior europeos para sus propios nombres. La AWS European Sovereign Cloud no tiene dependencias críticas de personal o infraestructura fuera de la UE.

Marco de seguridad y cumplimiento
La AWS European Sovereign Cloud mantiene las mismas capacidades de seguridad básicas que cabe esperar de AWS, como el cifrado, la administración de claves, la gobernanza del acceso y AWS Nitro System para el aislamiento de la computación. Esto significa que sus instancias de EC2 se benefician de la integridad de la plataforma verificada criptográficamente y de los límites impuestos por el hardware que impiden el acceso no autorizado a sus datos sin comprometer el rendimiento, lo que le proporciona tanto los controles de soberanía como la potencia computacional que requieren sus cargas de trabajo. La infraestructura se somete a auditorías independientes externas, con programas de cumplimiento que incluyen la norma ISO/IEC 27001:2013, informes SOC 1/2/3 y la certificación C5 de la Oficina Federal de Seguridad de la Información.

El marco de referencia de soberanía de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud define los controles de soberanía específicos en relación con la independencia de la gobernanza, el control operativo, la residencia de datos y el aislamiento técnico. Este marco está disponible en AWS Artifact y proporciona visibilidad total a través de la certificación SOC 2.

Disponibilidad total del servicio
Puede acceder a una amplia variedad de servicios de AWS en la AWS European Sovereign Cloud desde su lanzamiento, incluidos Amazon SageMaker y Amazon Bedrock para cargas de trabajo de inteligencia artificial y machine learning. Para el procesamiento, puede usar Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) y AWS Lambda. La orquestación de contenedores está disponible a través de Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) y Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Los servicios de bases de datos incluyen Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB y Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Dispone de opciones de almacenamiento como Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) y Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), con redes a través de Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) y servicios de seguridad como AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) y AWS Private Certificate Authority. Para obtener una lista actualizada de los servicios, consulte la matriz de capacidades de AWS que se ha publicado recientemente en AWS Builder Center.

La AWS European Sovereign Cloud cuenta con el respaldo de los socios de AWS, que se comprometen a ayudarle a cumplir sus requisitos de soberanía. Socios como Adobe, Cisco, Cloudera, Dedalus, Esri, Genesys, GitLab, Mendix, Pega, SAP, SnowFlake, Trend Micro y Wiz ofrecen sus soluciones en la AWS European Sovereign Cloud, lo que le proporciona las herramientas y los servicios que necesita en materia de seguridad, análisis de datos, desarrollo de aplicaciones y cargas de trabajo específicas del sector. Este amplio apoyo de los socios le ayuda a crear soluciones soberanas que combinan los servicios de AWS con tecnologías de socios de confianza.

Inversión importante. en la infraestructura europea
La AWS European Sovereign Cloud está respaldada por una inversión de 7.800 millones de EUR en infraestructura, creación de empleo y desarrollo de habilidades. Se espera que esta inversión aporte 17.200 millones de EUR a la economía europea para 2040 y ayude a crear el equivalente a aproximadamente 2.800 puestos de trabajo a tiempo completo por año en empresas locales.

Algunos detalles técnicos
La AWS European Sovereign Cloud está disponible para todos los clientes, independientemente de dónde se encuentren. Puede acceder a la infraestructura utilizando el nombre de partición aws-eusc y el nombre de región eusc-de-east-1. Una partición es un grupo de regiones de AWS. Cada cuenta de AWS tiene limitado su alcance a una sola partición.

La infraestructura admite todos los métodos de acceso estándar de AWS, como la Consola de administración de AWS, los AWS SDK y la Interfaz de la línea de comandos de AWS (AWS CLI), lo que facilita la integración en sus flujos de trabajo y automatización existentes. Tras crear una nueva cuenta raíz para la partición de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud, primero deberá crear nuevas identidades y roles de IAM específicos para esta infraestructura, lo que le permitirá tener un control total sobre la administración del acceso en el entorno soberano europeo.

Cómo empezar
La AWS European Sovereign Cloud proporciona a las organizaciones europeas controles de soberanía mejorados, al tiempo que mantiene el acceso a la innovación y las capacidades de AWS. Puede contratar los servicios a través de Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, con precios en EUR y facturación en cualquiera de las ocho divisas que admitimos actualmente. La infraestructura utiliza la arquitectura, la cartera de servicios y las API habituales de AWS, lo que facilita la creación y la migración de aplicaciones.

La adenda de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud contiene los compromisos contractuales adicionales para la AWS European Sovereign Cloud.

Para mí, como europeo, este lanzamiento representa el compromiso de AWS de satisfacer las necesidades específicas de nuestro continente y proporcionar las capacidades en la nube que impulsan la innovación en todos los sectores. Le invito a descubrir más sobre la AWS European Sovereign Cloud y cómo puede ayudar a su organización a cumplir sus requisitos de soberanía. Lea la descripción general de la AWS European Sovereign Cloud para obtener más información sobre los objetivos y el enfoque del diseño, regístrese para obtener una nueva cuenta y planifique hoy mismo el despliegue de su primera carga de trabajo.

— seb

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Last week’s launches
Here are the launches that got my attention this week:

Additional updates
Here are some additional projects, blog posts, and news items that I found interesting:

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Upcoming AWS events
Join us January 28 or 29 (depending on your time zone) for Best of AWS re:Invent, a free virtual event where we bring you the most impactful announcements and top sessions from AWS re:Invent. Jeff Barr, AWS VP and Chief Evangelist, will share his highlights during the opening session.

There is still time until January 21 to compete for $250,000 in prizes and AWS credits in the Global 10,000 AIdeas Competition (yes, the second letter is an I as in Idea, not an L as in like). No code required yet: simply submit your idea, and if you’re selected as a semifinalist, you’ll build your app using Kiro within AWS Free Tier limits. Beyond the cash prizes and potential featured placement at AWS re:Invent 2026, you’ll gain hands-on experience with next-generation AI tools and connect with innovators globally.

If you’re interested in these opportunities, join the AWS Builder Center to learn with builders in the AWS community.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

– Danilo

Intel Launches Core Ultra Series 3 Mobile Processors – Panther Lake Roars to Life

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For the PC hardware space, the marquee announcement coming out of CES 2026 this year is without a doubt the launch of Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 of chips. Going by the codename of Panther Lake, the latest of Intel’s lakes marks two very important milestones for the company. Besides being the launch of a […]

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AMD’s EPYC Venice, Instinct MI455X, & Helios Hardware On Display for First Time at CES 2026

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Alongside AMD’s numerous client-focused hardware announcements during their CES 2026 keynote, the company also devoted a bit of attention to their data center/server products. Though the company is essentially mid-cycle on its major data center products right now – and thus is not launching anything in the immediate timeframe – AMD still opted to use […]

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