AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group. Published context: July 23, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers agent traces and prompts to the same log group as your agent’s logs, giving you unified observability for AI agents in a single Amazon CloudWatch log group. Previously, AgentCore split agent telemetry across multiple destinations trace spans went to the shared aws/spans log group while event logs containing prompts, in ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment. Published context: July 23, 2026. Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment , allowing you to evaluate the latest Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MySQL 9.7 capabilities before they become generally available. MySQL 9.7 is the latest L ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets. Published context: July 20, 2026. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options on multi-session fleets. Users streaming on multi-session fleets can now connect their OneDrive or Google Drive accounts and access, save, and sync their cloud-based files directly within their streaming sessions, in addition to the exis ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge. Published context: July 22, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager now automatically publishes events to Amazon EventBridge whenever your secret values change, enabling you to build event-driven workflows that respond in real time to secret updates. Until now, you had to rely on AWS CloudTrail events parsed into EventBridge to know when a secret value changed — requiring you to match multiple API events ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Selectively log network activity events by identity in AWS CloudTrail. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS launches enhanced event filtering for network activity events for VPC end points, a CloudTrail event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint . Customers can now control which network activity events are logged based on the IAM user identity making the API call. For example, you can configure selectors to log ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Published context: July 21, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 brings AI integration directly into the database engine, enabling customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL without additional middleware. Customers running RDS for SQL Server can ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch announces coding agent insights. Published context: July 20, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch announces the launch of coding agent insights, giving engineering leaders visibility into how AI coding tools are driving value across their organization. Coding Agent Insights integrates with Claude apps gateway for AWS to collect telemetry from Claude Code without additional instrumentation. Other supported coding agents include Codex and 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 Data Exports now provides standardized Amazon Bedrock product metadata. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock in AWS Data Exports (Cost and Usage Report), giving FinOps teams and cloud administrators consistent, structured attributes to understand Bedrock costs. AWS Data Exports lets you create customized exports of your AWS cost and usage data and deliver them to Amazon S3 for querying with Amazo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece to help meet local data residency require ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications. Published context: July 14, 2026. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills that give AI coding assistants expert, up-to-date guidance for building and operating Flink applications. The skills provide expert guidance for common tasks such as creating applications, troubleshooting, scaling, monitoring, networking configuration, and cost optimization. Customers can lev ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8g and M8g database instances in additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 15, 2026. AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne, Malaysia), Europe (London, Paris, Zurich), AWS GovCloud (US-East), South America (Sao Paulo), and Mexico (Central) regions. Additionally, M8g ins ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification. Published context: July 14, 2026. AWS IAM Identity Center is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use IAM Identity Center to enable workforce access to AWS accounts and applications that are subject to FedRAMP Class C compliance. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( ...