☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 17, 2026
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1. Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M9g database instances
Database · AWS What's New
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M9g database instances, providing up to 30% performance improvement. This benefits customers seeking better database performance and price/performance improvements. The M9g instances are available with new 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes, offering up to 192 vCPU.
2. Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029
Database · AWS What's New
Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL have extended support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029, giving customers more time to plan upgrades. This benefits customers who require additional time to transition to a supported major version while still receiving critical security patches and bug fixes. There is no price increase with this extension.
3. Optimize EC2 costs with AWS Compute Optimizer right sizing
FinOps · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Compute Optimizer now offers right sizing for EC2 instances, helping customers optimize costs by matching instance types and sizes to actual resource demands. This benefits customers seeking to reduce EC2 costs while maintaining performance and capacity requirements. AWS Compute Optimizer analyzes resource configuration and utilization metrics to provide rightsizing recommendations.
4. Integrating Event Source Mappings with AWS Lambda tenant isolation mode
Compute · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Lambda now integrates Event Source Mappings with tenant isolation mode, addressing trade-offs between security, operational complexity, and cost efficiency. This benefits customers building event-driven multi-tenant SaaS applications requiring compute isolation between tenants. The integration reduces operational overhead and costs.
5. AWS Nitro Isolation Engine: Formally verifying the hypervisor in the AWS Nitro System
Security · AWS Compute Blog
The AWS Nitro Isolation Engine provides formal verification of the hypervisor in the AWS Nitro System, enhancing security for customer workloads. This benefits millions of customers using the AWS Nitro System to protect sensitive workloads. The Nitro System is purpose-built hardware and software for data isolation and protection.
6. AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now support Spark Connect for interactive workloads
AI/ML · AWS What's New
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now support Spark Connect for interactive workloads, enabling development and running of Apache Spark applications from preferred environments. This benefits customers seeking to develop and run Spark applications on AWS Glue's serverless infrastructure without managing clusters. Spark Connect uses a thin client architecture for Spark job submission.
7. Reducing costs by 50% while processing population-scale genomics with Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and AWS Batch
Storage · AWS HPC Blog
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and AWS Batch has helped Oxford Nanopore Technologies reduce costs by 50% while processing population-scale genomics. This benefits customers seeking to process large-scale genomics data reliably and securely while reducing computational costs. The solution uses AWS Batch and Nextflow to build a managed compute environment.
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