Amazon EC2 C8id and M8id instances with up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in additional regions, including Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Canada (Central) for C8id instances and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central) for M8id instances.[230022] These new instances offer 3 times more vCPUs, memory and local storage compared to previous sixth-generation instances, delivering up to 43% higher compute performance and 3.3 times more memory bandwidth.[230022] C8id instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, including those that need access to high-speed, low-latency local storage like video encoding, image manipulation, and other forms of media processing.[230022] M8id instances are best for workloads that require a balance of compute and memory resources along with high-speed, low-latency local block storage, including data logging, media processing, and medium-sized data stores.[230022] AWS Glue now supports catalog federation for remote Apache Iceberg catalogs in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, providing direct and secure access to Iceberg tables and cataloged in remote catalogs using AWS analytics engines.[266635] This capability allows users to federate to Iceberg tables in remote catalogs using their preferred AWS analytics engines, without moving or copying tables.[266635] Catalog federation is supported by a wide variety of analytics engines, including Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, AWS Glue, and third-party engines like Apache Spark.[266635] AWS Lake Formation for access controls allows users to use fine-grained access controls, cross-account sharing, and trusted identity propagation when sharing remote catalog tables with other data consumers.[266635]