☁️ AWS Daily Digest · July 05, 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 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). These instances deliver higher performance and faster memory bandwidth, benefiting customers with memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA and large databases. They offer up to 43% higher performance 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. 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. 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 domains through version-controlled templates. This benefits platform teams who can maintain consistency across development, staging, and production accounts. Customers can use the open-source terraform-aws-sagemaker-unified-studio module.
5. 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 AMI versions and automatically applying security patches. This benefits cluster administrators who can keep clusters secure and consistent without disrupting workloads. HyperPod is purpose-built infrastructure for training and deploying foundation models at scale.
6. 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 expansion benefits customers who can more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate a broader range of resources. The newly supported resource types are available in Config rules and Config aggregators.
7. Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager
Security · AWS Blog
AWS Certificate Manager now supports Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) for automating public TLS certificate issuance. This benefits customers who can automate certificate renewal and revocation without human intervention. ACME support helps reduce the risk of certificate expiration and associated errors.
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