☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 29, 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. 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 (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, 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. Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs
Serverless · AWS Blog
AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that lets you run code in isolated, stateful execution environments. This benefits customers who need to run user-generated or AI-generated code in a secure and isolated environment. MicroVMs are powered by Firecracker, a lightweight virtualization technology.
5. 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, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference performance and 2.1x graphics performance. This benefits customers with AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads. G7 instances also deliver faster performance for GPU-accelerated analytics on Amazon EMR and Amazon EKS.
6. Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling
Compute · AWS Blog
Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling, allowing for proactive and reactive scaling based on real-time metrics. This benefits customers who need to quickly adjust to changing workload demands. Amazon ECS service auto scaling adjusts task counts based on Amazon CloudWatch metrics.
7. Amazon S3 server access logs now deliver to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables
Storage · AWS What's New
Amazon S3 server access logs can now be delivered to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables, giving customers more flexibility in monitoring and analyzing access to their data. This benefits customers who need to set alarms, monitor traffic patterns, and investigate access incidents. Delivery to CloudWatch Logs also enables cross-account and cross-Region aggregation and AWS KMS encryption.
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