☁️ AWS Daily Digest · June 20, 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, accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. This matters for developers and engineers 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 available with up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
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 and metric publishing optimizations. This benefits developers and engineers working with containerized applications, as faster service auto scaling enables reduced baseline capacity and lower compute costs while maintaining 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 generally available in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This benefits customers in the Asia Pacific region, as the new Local Zone enables them to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally.
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 matters for developers and site reliability engineers, as multilocation canaries simplify monitoring application availability from multiple geographic locations.
5. Upgrading Lambda function runtimes at scale with AWS Transform custom
Compute · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Transform custom enables upgrading Lambda function runtimes at scale, helping teams modernize their code and configurations. This benefits teams managing hundreds or thousands of functions, as upgrading runtimes is a significant engineering effort that competes with feature work.
6. Optimize EC2 costs with AWS Compute Optimizer right sizing
FinOps · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Compute Optimizer provides right sizing recommendations to optimize EC2 costs, analyzing resource configuration and utilization metrics. This benefits FinOps teams, as rightsizing helps reduce cost while maintaining performance and capacity requirements.
7. Build RAG-powered AI solutions at the edge with AWS Local Zones and Outposts
AI/ML · AWS Compute Blog
AWS Local Zones and Outposts enable building RAG-powered AI solutions at the edge, deploying self-managed Small Language Models on premises or in adjacent metros. This matters for organizations in regulated industries, as SLMs can achieve accuracy comparable to large models for specific use cases while keeping data strictly on-premises or within specific geographic boundaries.
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