☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 28, 2026
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7 highlights · ~2 min read · Quick AI briefing per item
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. This expansion benefits customers with memory-intensive workloads such as databases and real-time big data analytics. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based instances.
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, offering 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 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, 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 using GroovyJVM and Cassandra benchmarks. M8a instances offer 45% more memory bandwidth compared to M7a instances.
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). This benefits federal agencies and public sector organizations with strict security and compliance requirements. These models can now be used to build and scale generative AI applications with confidence.
5. AWS Network Firewall now supports managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight
Security · 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 by expanding their managed rules offerings and providing access to proprietary threat intelligence. These rule groups help organizations strengthen their defense against emerging threats.
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. This benefits customers by providing virtual machine-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume, and direct control over environment lifecycle and state. 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. This benefits customers with AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference performance and 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6 instances. G7 instances also deliver faster performance for GPU-accelerated analytics.
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