☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 19, 2026
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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 matters for developers working with AI inference and graphics workloads, as G7 instances deliver up to 4.6x AI inference performance and up to 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6. G7 instances are suitable for workloads such as language translation, video analysis, and game streaming.
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 benefits developers who need to quickly adjust to changing workload demands, enabling them to reduce baseline capacity and lower compute costs. Faster auto scaling improves service reliability and performance.
3. Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam
Storage · AWS What's New
A new AWS Local Zone is now available in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This benefits customers in the Asia Pacific region who require low latency and need to meet data residency requirements. The new Local Zone supports Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS Local Snapshots.
4. Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports multilocation canaries
Networking · AWS What's New
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports multilocation canaries, allowing developers to run the same canary across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously. This benefits developers who need to monitor application availability from multiple geographic locations, reducing operational overhead and configuration drift. Multilocation canaries consolidate run data, metrics, and artifacts in a single primary Region.
5. Optimize EC2 costs with AWS Compute Optimizer right sizing
FinOps · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Compute Optimizer provides rightsizing recommendations to optimize EC2 costs. This matters for developers who want to improve their ROI on EC2 investments by matching instance types and sizes to actual resource demands. Compute Optimizer analyzes resource 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 enables developers to build enterprise-grade generative AI applications with proprietary data in minutes. This benefits organizations building agentic AI applications that require 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 MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters
Database · AWS What's New
Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters, maximizing capacity utilization and eliminating the need for manual partition management. This benefits customers who want to optimize the performance of their MSK Express-based clusters when scaling up or down. Intelligent Rebalancing is available at no additional cost on all MSK Provisioned clusters running Express brokers.
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