☁️ AWS Daily Digest · July 04, 2026
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1. Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV-SNP
Security · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP), enabling customers to run confidential computing workloads on dedicated physical servers. This benefits customers who require control over instance placement and host affinity for their workloads. Dedicated Host SEV-SNP is available with AMD security firmware.
2. Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions, including Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). This benefits customers running memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, large databases, and data analytics. X8i instances deliver up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation X2i instances.
3. Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available
Compute · AWS Blog
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors are now available, delivering up to 25% higher performance per vCPU compared to previous-generation C8g instances. This benefits customers running compute-intensive workloads like real-time analytics and CPU-based machine learning inference. C9g instances feature the fastest memory of any processor.
4. AWS Config now supports 8 new resource types
Security · AWS What's New
AWS Config now supports 8 new resource types across key services, including Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EC2, and Amazon S3. This benefits customers by providing greater coverage over their AWS environment, enabling more effective discovery, assessment, audit, and remediation of resources. The newly supported resource types are available in all AWS Regions.
5. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning, allowing customers to deploy a SageMaker Unified Studio domain through version-controlled templates. This benefits platform teams by bringing SageMaker Unified Studio into their existing infrastructure-as-code pipelines, maintaining consistency across development, staging, and production accounts. Customers can use the open-source terraform-aws-sagemaker-unified-studio module.
6. Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI versioning and auto-patching
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI versioning and auto-patching, giving customers visibility into the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) versions running across their clusters. This benefits cluster administrators by automatically applying security patches without disrupting workloads, keeping clusters secure and consistent. The new capabilities help remove operational burdens.
7. Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks
Compute · AWS Blog
Amazon EKS clusters can now be upgraded with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks, easing the process of upgrading a Kubernetes control plane. This benefits teams managing hundreds of clusters, especially in regulated environments, by providing a safety net in case something goes wrong during an upgrade. The feature introduces emulated versions to ease rollback.
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