☁️ AWS Daily Digest · July 13, 2026
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1. Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances now available in additional regions
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific and Europe regions. These instances deliver up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU and are ideal for workloads like real-time big data analytics. They feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards and custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
2. Gemma-4-E2B-it for is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Gemma-4-E2B-it is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, enabling customers to build capable AI applications on AWS infrastructure. This multimodal model processes text, image, and audio input and generates text output, with a built-in reasoning mode. It offers image understanding and native function calling for agentic workflows.
3. OpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AI/ML · AWS What's New
OpenAI's privacy-filter is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, allowing customers to build data sanitization workflows on AWS infrastructure. This model detects and masks personally identifiable information in text, and is fast, context-aware, and tunable. It labels input sequences in a single forward pass and detects various PII span categories.
4. Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, enabling customers to build low-latency speech applications on AWS infrastructure. This multilingual model excels at high-quality transcription of audio to text with a natively streaming architecture. It supports transcription across 13 languages and offers configurable transcription delays.
5. Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Qwen3 embedding and reranking models are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, enabling customers to build comprehensive search pipelines on AWS infrastructure. These models are designed for information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, and are typically used in tandem. The embedding model performs efficient initial recall, while the reranker refines results in a subsequent re-ranking stage.
6. Announcing Lambda MicroVMs: serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startup
Compute · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Lambda MicroVMs provide serverless compute environments with VM-level isolation and near-instant startup, powered by Firecracker virtualization. This allows customers to securely run just-in-time code without managing virtualization infrastructure. Lambda MicroVMs can be used to build data analytics applications, AI sandboxes, and interactive development environments.
7. Accelerate multiplayer game hosting with AWS m8azn instances
Compute · AWS Compute Blog
AWS m8azn instances accelerate multiplayer game hosting with up to 2x computational performance, powered by AMD's 5th gen EPYC processors. These instances maintain consistent player experiences in complex and dense computational game environments. They are ideal for game studios hosting dedicated multiplayer servers on AWS, impacting player experience and retention.
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