AWS Announces New Services and Updates for Government Agencies
AWS has announced several new services and updates to its offerings, including the general availability of AWS Glue 6.0, which delivers 30% lower pricing than previous versions and full support for Apache Iceberg v3 features.[73]
The company has also launched support for Amazon Lightsail, a fully serverless managed Spark service, in the AWS Marketplace, allowing customers to easily deploy eligible AWS Marketplace AMIs on Amazon Lightsail in just a few clicks.[135]
Additionally, AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 5 additional AWS regions, providing VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume speeds, and state preservation for executing user or AI-generated code.[137]
The company has also introduced AWS IAM identity federation to external services in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region, enabling secure authentication with third-party cloud providers, SaaS providers, and self-hosted applications.[145]
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region, delivering up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances.[160]
Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, providing better performance and lower prices for running data warehouse and data lake workloads.[176]
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5, the most advanced Opus model yet, compatible with zero data retention (ZDR), bringing a step-change in coding and long-running agents for teams building at the highest level.[177]
Amazon Quick's agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing an agentic AI teammate to government and regulated-industry teams within an isolated, FedRAMP Class D authorized environment.[189]