☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 18, 2026
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7 highlights · ~2 min read · Quick AI briefing per item
1. Amazon EC2 G7 instances are now generally available
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 G7 instances are now generally available, featuring up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. This benefits customers running AI inference and graphics workloads, such as language translation and game streaming. G7 instances deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6 instances.
2. Amazon ECS announces faster service auto scaling
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution metrics. This improvement benefits customers who need to quickly adjust to changing workload demands, enabling them to reduce baseline capacity and lower compute costs. Faster service auto scaling improves time to trigger scale-out by 76% and total time to scale and provision new tasks by 72%.
3. Nested virtualization is now available on additional Intel platforms and US Gov Cloud regions
Compute · AWS What's New
Nested virtualization is now available on additional Intel platforms, including C7i, R7i, and M7i instances, and in US GovCloud regions. This expansion benefits customers who need to create nested environments for use cases such as running emulators for mobile applications. Nested virtualization capabilities are now available in all commercial regions and US GovCloud (US-East) and US GovCloud (US-West).
4. Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking connectivity
Networking · AWS What's New
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking connectivity, enabling brokers to connect to private resources in a VPC without exposing them publicly. This benefits customers who need to meet security and compliance requirements when connecting to private identity providers or other brokers. Amazon MQ establishes this connectivity using Amazon VPC Lattice, AWS Resource Access Manager, and AWS PrivateLink.
5. Optimize EC2 costs with AWS Compute Optimizer right sizing
FinOps · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Compute Optimizer now provides right sizing recommendations for EC2 instances, helping customers optimize costs by matching instance types and sizes to actual resource demands. This benefits customers who want to improve their ROI on EC2 investments without manually analyzing hundreds or thousands of instances. AWS Compute Optimizer analyzes configuration and utilization metrics to provide recommendations.
6. Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications
AI/ML · AWS Blog
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is a new capability that enables developers to build enterprise-grade generative AI applications with proprietary data in minutes. This benefits organizations building agentic AI applications that need secure and reliable access to enterprise-wide data. Managed Knowledge Base abstracts away the complexity of building and managing retrieval-augmented generation pipelines.
7. Amazon Connect Customer launches the ability to interrupt an agent with an urgent contact
Database · AWS What's New
Amazon Connect Customer now supports the ability to interrupt an agent with an urgent contact, overriding their usual routing configuration. This benefits customers who need to prioritize time-sensitive work, such as urgent callbacks or critical customer service issues. Agents can now receive urgent calls even if they are already on another call.
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