AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda durable functions now exports live telemetry for execution insights. Published context: October 28, 2026. AWS Lambda announces the Durable Execution Telemetry Exporter plugin for Lambda durable functions. This new observability plugin captures the step-by-step history of your durable executions and sends them to one or more destinations of your choice. You can use the exported data to gather operational and business insights and keep history beyond the standard ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS Managed Instances adds cross-instance and Spot consolidation. Published context: October 28, 2026. Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Managed Instances introduces two infrastructure optimization updates: cross-instance and Spot consolidation. Cross-instance consolidation evaluates tasks running across multiple underutilized instances together, packing them onto fewer instances to raise utilization and lower costs. Spot consolidation exte 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 Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 is now available. Published context: October 28, 2026. AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 (@aws/agentcore 1.0.0), rebuilt with faster startup, a consistent command structure, and support for more AgentCore resources. The CLI helps developers create, develop, deploy, and operate AI agents and supporting resources from the terminal. With version 1.0, developers can u ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS now supports GPU sharing with NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS). Published context: October 27, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports GPU sharing with NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS), enabling you to run multiple Amazon ECS tasks concurrently on a single NVIDIA GPU. GPU sharing helps you increase GPU utilization and reduce infrastructure costs for workloads that use only part of a GPU’s capacity, such as small-model inference, A ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported SageMaker MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16. Published context: October 27, 2026. Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16, bringing a redesigned tracing experience and faster experiment tracking to your generative AI and machine learning workflows. MLflow 3.16 improves debugging and analysis of generative AI applications and agents. The redesigned trace explorer is now the default, with adjustable row height, reorderable c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect Customer expands testing and simulation to validate flow action outcomes. Published context: October 26, 2026. Amazon Connect Customer now enables you to validate the outcomes of your customer experience flow actions during testing and simulation. In addition to confirming that an action started, you can now verify the data it returns when it completes, such as a Lambda function response, an Amazon Lex resolved intent, or the variables set by an Agentic CX block. Whe ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Launch Before Terminate at account-level to replace instances. Published context: October 26, 2026. AWS EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you enable Launch Before Terminate as the default replacement behavior across all Auto Scaling groups in your account. When enabled, Auto Scaling launches a replacement instance and waits for it to pass health checks before terminating the instance it replaces, helping your applications maintain full capacity and availability du ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: October 26, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-6.1 Terra expands the GPT-6 family with a balance of capability, speed, and cost efficiency for everyday workloads. As the newest model in the Terra line, GPT-6.1 Terra combines detailed visual reasoning, accurate computer use, and improved factuality and natural wri ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now supports tags in alarm actions payload. Published context: October 20, 2026. Today, Amazon CloudWatch announces support for including alarm tags in action payloads and Amazon EventBridge events, enabling customers to route and filter alarm notifications by tag without additional lookups. When enabled on an alarm, CloudWatch adds the alarm tags to the messages it sends to Amazon SNS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon EventBridge each time the al ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percent. Published context: October 23, 2026. Amazon EMR announces a reduction of 30 percent in the EMR charge added to EKS when running EMR on EKS. This price decrease applies to both the per-vCPU-hour charge and the per-GB-hour charge, while the underlying Amazon EKS charges remain unchanged. All EMR workloads running on the EKS deployment option benefit from this change. Now, you can run Apache Spark ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon MSK Connect now supports pausing and resuming connectors. Published context: October 22, 2026. Amazon MSK Connect (Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect) now supports pausing and resuming connectors, letting you temporarily pause a connector from processing records and resume it later. This is useful when you need to stop data flow during maintenance on a source database or a sink target, or to pause processing while you investigate an ups ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AgentCore Gateway now supports Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and model fallback. Published context: October 22, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports the Amazon Bedrock InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs on its inference endpoint, along with model fallback routing for inference traffic. With InvokeModel support, you can point your existing Amazon Bedrock SDK integration at the gateway and reach any model provider through one governed endpoint, ...