AWS News Blog
Category: Featured
Amazon Inspector enhances container security by mapping Amazon ECR images to running containers
Amazon ECR image-to-container mapping that shows which images are actively running in containers and how widely they’re deployed, and extended vulnerability scanning support for minimal base images including scratch, distroless, and Chainguard containers.
New Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to accelerate AI innovations
The P6-B200 EC2 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell B200 GPUs offer up to twice the performance of previous P5en instances for machine learning and high-performance computing workloads.
Accelerate CI/CD pipelines with the new AWS CodeBuild Docker Server capability
AWS CodeBuild now offers Docker Server capability, enabling a dedicated and persistent Docker server within projects that dramatically reduces build times by maintaining a centralized cache, as demonstrated by a 98% reduction in build time from 24 minutes to just 16 seconds.
Accelerate the modernization of Mainframe and VMware workloads with AWS Transform
AWS Transform leverages the power agentic AI to accelerate modernization of legacy workloads. It deploys specialized AI agents to automate complex tasks like code analysis, refactoring, decomposition, dependency mapping, validation, and transformation planning, dramatically reducing project timelines and helping organization modernize with greater confidence.
AWS Transform for .NET, the first agentic AI service for modernizing .NET applications at scale
Accelerate .NET modernization with agentic AI. AWS Transform for .NET speeds up large-scale modernization from .NET Framework to cross-platform .NET by up to 4x. With the .NET modernization agent, modernization teams can collaboratively execute larger and more complex projects with consistency, remove Windows license dependencies to reduce operating costs by up to 40%, and enhance code quality, performance, and security.
In the works – AWS South America (Chile) Region
AWS announces plans to launch a new AWS Region in Chile by the end of 2026 with three Availability Zones, marking the third AWS Region in Latin American alongside existing Regions in São Paulo and Mexico, and bringing AWS infrastructure and services closer to Chile including AI capabilities while supporting data residency requirements.
Accelerate the transfer of data from an Amazon EBS snapshot to a new EBS volume
Amazon EBS introduces a new Provisioned Rate for Volume Initialization to accelerate data transfer from EBS snapshots to new EBS volumes by specifying a consistent volume initialization rate, improving workflow efficiency and predictability.
Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in preview) accelerates code generation
Amazon Q Developer is now available in preview on GitHub, enabling developers to assign tasks to an AI agent that can develop features, conduct code reviews, enhance security, and migrate Java code, all directly within GitHub issues.