AWS Cost Optimization

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion. Published context: September 23, 2026. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data. This capability simplifies data ingestion for workloads where record ordering is not required, eliminating hot p ...

Today’s signal AWS News Blog recently reported Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-powered observability for generative AI and agentic workloads. Published context: September 22, 2026. Learn how Amazon CloudWatch Omni delivers AI-powered observability purpose-built for generative AI and agentic workloads. Trace, evaluate, and experiment with AI agents across any framework—directly from your IDE or a standalone web experience—using open standards and built-in evaluators for quality, correctness, and coherence. The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EVS now in scope for FedRAMP Class C. Published context: September 21, 2026. The Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) service is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C (formerly Moderate baseline) in all United States Regions. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region. Published context: September 18, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the South America (São Paulo) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports AWS Graviton (ARM64) workloads. Published context: September 18, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service Express Mode now supports specifying ARM64 as the CPU architecture for your service, making it easy to deploy ARM-based container images on AWS Graviton-powered compute and benefit from up to 40% better price-performance compared to x86-based instances. Amazon ECS Express Mode makes it easy to rapidly launch containerized app ...

Today’s signal AWS Architecture Blog recently reported ReadyOn’s Four Walls of tenant isolation on Amazon EKS. Published context: September 18, 2026. ReadyOn runs a multi-tenant platform on Amazon EKS that handles highly sensitive enterprise data. This post describes their Four Walls model: four independent layers of tenant isolation combining Kubernetes namespaces, Karpenter node pools, Amazon VPC security groups, and per-tenant Amazon Aurora databases for zero-trust defense in depth. The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Introducing Amazon EC2 T8i instances. Published context: September 17, 2026. AWS is announcing the general availability of new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon 6 processors, available exclusively on AWS, and built on the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. T8i instances deliver up to 30% better price performance compared to previous generation T3 insta ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS extends Amazon S3 Files support to the Amazon EC2 compute type. Published context: September 16, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports Amazon S3 Files for tasks running on the Amazon EC2 launch type, enabling customers to connect their containerized applications directly to data in Amazon S3 as a shared file system. With this launch, customers running ECS workloads on EC2 instances can work with their S3 data using standard file sys ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Monitor cost anomalies directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with the new Detected Anomalies widget. Published context: September 15, 2026. Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for the Detected Anomalies widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now review cost anomalies alongside cost and usage, budgets, cost efficiency, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization. This provides a unified view of your spending, commitments, and cost anomalies i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda durable functions integrates with Pydantic AI. Published context: September 10, 2026. Today, AWS Lambda durable functions announces an integration with Pydantic AI , an open source framework for building AI agents in Python. AWS Lambda durable functions saves your Pydantic AI agent’s progress as it runs, so after an interruption like a timeout, your agent resumes from the last completed step instead of starting over. Your agent gains fault to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Supplemental Patch Bundle for July 2026 Release Update. Published context: September 11, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB) for the July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database version 19c and 26ai. Starting with April 2026 releases, the Oracle Spatial Patch Bundle has been renamed to Supplemental Patch Bundle (SPB). The SPB includes additional database patches recomme ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. Published context: September 11, 2026. AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, giving you visibility into workflow resource utilization as runs execute. The 14 new run metrics span CPU and GPU usage, memory usage, file system usage and I/O metrics, network throughput, and ephemeral storage usage. AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare a ...