☁️ AWS Daily Digest · July 23, 2026
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1. Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the US West (N. California) Region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the US West (N. California) Region, offering up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances. This benefits customers with latency-sensitive workloads, such as those requiring high-speed access to data in memory. The C7a instances feature Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory and are available in 12 sizes.
2. Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances. This benefits customers with latency-sensitive workloads, such as those requiring high memory bandwidth. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz.
3. Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in the Europe (Ireland) region, offering up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation M6id instances. This benefits customers with I/O intensive database workloads and real-time data analytics. M8id instances offer up to 384 vCPUs, 1.5TiB of memory, and 22.8TB of NVMe SSD storage.
4. Introducing self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for AWS Lambda function code
Serverless · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Amazon S3 buckets for function code, eliminating the 75 GB code storage limit and giving customers full security control. This benefits customers managing Lambda functions at scale, who can now apply their own encryption, access controls, and compliance tags to their code storage. Previously, the default AWS-managed code storage created challenges at scale.
5. Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US), delivering strong performance across coding, professional work, and agentic tasks. This benefits customers in the government sector who require a balance of capability, cost, and speed for their AI workloads. Claude Sonnet 5 navigates large codebases, lands multi-file changes, and carries debugging and refactoring tasks through to completion.
6. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group
AI/ML · AWS What's New
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group, giving customers a single Amazon CloudWatch log group for AI agent telemetry. This benefits customers who can now apply fine-grained access control and customer-managed key (CMK) encryption at the individual agent level. Previously, agent telemetry was split across multiple destinations.
7. Introducing modularized kernel cryptography in Amazon Linux
Security · AWS Compute Blog
Amazon Linux now features modularized kernel cryptography, separating Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 cryptographic components into an independent kernel module. This benefits customers who can now reuse certified cryptographic components across subsequent kernel versions, streamlining FIPS compliance workflows. The modular approach reduces the need for re-certification when non-cryptographic kernel changes occur.
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