☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 26, 2026
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1. Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in additional regions, including Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe, and Canada, offering up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances. This benefits customers with memory-intensive workloads such as databases and real-time big data analytics. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and the AWS Nitro System.
2. Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region, delivering up to 50% higher performance compared to C6a instances. This benefits customers with latency-sensitive workloads, such as those using AVX-512, VNNI, and bfloat16. C7a instances feature Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory for high-speed access to data.
3. Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region
Compute · AWS What's New
Amazon EC2 M8a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, offering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances. This benefits customers with latency-sensitive workloads, such as those using SAP-certified instances. M8a instances deliver up to 60% faster performance for specific workloads like GroovyJVM benchmark.
4. OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon Bedrock receive FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval in AWS GovCloud (US)
AI/ML · AWS What's New
OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon Bedrock have received FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling federal agencies to build and scale generative AI applications. This benefits government organizations with strict security and compliance requirements. These models are powered by Mantle, a next-generation distributed inference engine.
5. AWS Network Firewall now supports managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight
Networking · AWS What's New
AWS Network Firewall now supports managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight, including Zero-Day Threat Protection and Noisy Scanners and Tor Protection. This benefits customers seeking to strengthen their defense against emerging threats and reduce firewall log noise. These rule groups are available through AWS Marketplace.
6. Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
Compute · AWS Blog
AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that lets customers run code in isolated, stateful execution environments with virtual machine-level isolation. This benefits customers with multi-tenant applications that require high security and control over environment lifecycle. MicroVMs are powered by Firecracker technology.
7. Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs
Compute · AWS Blog
Amazon EC2 G7 instances are now available, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for high-performance AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads. This benefits customers seeking to improve performance for GPU-accelerated workloads, such as AI inference and graphics. G7 instances deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance compared to G6 instances.
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