AWS Cost Optimization

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Private CA now provides detailed certificate issuance logs. Published context: October 5, 2026. AWS Private CA announces detailed certificate issuance logs, a new AWS CloudTrail service event that records the complete certificate content, issuing CA information, requester identity, and signing status for every issuance. You can use these events for compliance auditing, certificate inventory, algorithm migration tracking, and failed-issuance monitoring. 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 AWS Health introduces the version catalog for software lifecycle management. Published context: October 2, 2026. Today, AWS Health introduces the version catalog which provides a centralized source of lifecycle information for software versions across AWS services. The version catalog helps customers move from reactive to proactive management of version upgrades and end-of-support risk. It is available in the AWS Health Dashboard, and customers on Business Support Plus ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS adds Amazon VPC Lattice support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployments. Published context: October 2, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies for ECS services using Amazon VPC Lattice . Applications that use VPC Lattice for service-to-service communication across VPCs and AWS accounts can now take advantage of managed traffic shifting natively from Amazon ECS when rolling out up ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers. Published context: October 1, 2026. AWS Budgets lets you set custom cost and usage thresholds and alerts you by email when your spending crosses the threshold. AWS Budgets now verifies new email subscribers before sending them budget alerts. When you add an email address to a budget notification, AWS Budgets sends a verification email to that address, and the address begins receiving notificat ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview. Published context: October 1, 2026. AWS announces the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, a AI-powered service that is the next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The agent analyzes and optimizes AWS infrastructure across cost, security, performance, and reliability, delivering contextualized recommendations prioritized by business goals. It automaticall 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 Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data. Published context: September 30, 2026. Starting today, you can directly query operational data together with data stored in data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools, without extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines or data duplication. Applications increasingly need access to data from data lakes, often stored in Apache Iceberg and ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 13.23-rds.20260514, 12.22-rds.20260514 and 11.22-rds.20260514. Published context: September 29, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 13.23-rds.20260514, 12.22-rds.20260514, and 11.22-rds.20260514. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional years of fixes for critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and bugs beyond a major version’s end of standard suppor ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange. Published context: September 24, 2026. Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. RDS for PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher support modification of the ssl_groups parameter. You can select cryptographic groups from the RDS for PostgreSQL allow lis ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: September 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: September 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: September 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses for enterprise scale. Published context: September 24, 2026. Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses with a new enhanced Custom event bus that lets you build event-driven applications that decouple teams and can scale with your organization. Create a custom event bus, share it across accounts, and now teams can publish and consume events with strict ordering, open event formats, built-in retention, and support for a ...