Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Can Now Be Cancelled

Amazon EC2 future-dated Capacity Reservations now support cancellation. These reservations let you reserve capacity up to 120 days in advance.

The new cancellation support comes with an upfront quote for any applicable charges. That gives teams more flexibility when plans change before the reservation starts.

AWS S3 Vectors Cuts Costs for Huge Indexes

Amazon S3 Vectors now lowers query charges for very large indexes. AWS says data-processed charges are reduced by up to 80% for vector indexes larger than 10 million vectors.

The change happens automatically, so you don’t need application changes to benefit. That’s a big deal if you’re running similarity search at scale and want lower operating costs without reworking your setup.

Amazon Redshift RG Instances Expand with Graviton Gains

Amazon Redshift RG instances powered by Graviton are now available in more Regions. AWS says these instances offer up to 4.2x better price-performance versus other warehouses.

AWS Lambda MicroVMs Add a New Serverless VM Option

AWS Lambda MicroVMs are now available. They provide VM-level isolation, near-instant launch, and suspend/resume support for up to 8 hours.

AWS also says the pricing model includes a baseline plus usage-based charges for additional resources. That makes the feature relevant for sandboxed or per-user compute where isolated environments matter.

Amazon RDS Adds Graviton5 M9g Instances for Open-Source Engines

Amazon RDS now supports Graviton5-based M9g instances for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB. AWS says they deliver up to about 30% better performance and about 23% better price-performance than prior Graviton4 equivalents.