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Kiro AI authorized for FedRAMP High, DoD IL 4/5 in AWS GovCloud
Kiro, an agentic AI development tool, now meets stringent federal security and compliance standards in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
EC2 R8g instances expand to more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by Graviton4 processors, are now available in four additional AWS regions.
AWS Network Firewall adds VisionHeight managed threat rules
AWS Network Firewall now integrates managed threat intelligence from VisionHeight, adding Zero-Day Threat Protection and Noisy Scanners/Tor Protection rule groups.
Bedrock models gain FedRAMP High, DoD IL-4/5 in GovCloud
Select OpenAI and NVIDIA models on Amazon Bedrock are now approved for FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions.
EC2 C7a Instances Expand to AWS Singapore Region
Compute-optimized EC2 C7a instances, powered by AMD EPYC 'Genoa', are now available in ap-southeast-1.
EC2 M8a instances expand to Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
New general-purpose EC2 instances powered by AMD EPYC processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), offering improved performance and memory bandwidth.
AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift GA on Apple platforms
Native Swift SDK for AWS IoT Core now available for macOS, iOS, tvOS, and Linux.
EC2 adds watermarks to AMIs for governance
Amazon EC2 now allows embedding custom identifiers in private AMIs to track provenance and enforce governance policies.
AWS Nested Virtualization Expands to More Intel Instances and GovCloud
AWS nested virtualization now supports more Intel instance types and US GovCloud regions.