AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Published context: July 24, 2026. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers a simplified console experience for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Mail Manager is a capability within SES for managing email flow, but configuring its resources individually to set up SMTP sending requires multiple steps. The new guided setup creates and configures these resources automatically, so ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and User Activity Monitoring now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 24, 2026. Two new models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Claude Opus 4.8 is the most intelligent Opus model, delivering stronger self-verification, more efficient tool calling, and better follow-through on long-horizon projects. It plans before it edits, catches its own mistakes, and finds creative paths around obstacles in ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 23, 2026. AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock. Claude Sonnet 5 delivers strong performance across coding, professional work, and agentic tasks while maintaining the balance of capability, cost, and speed. For coding, it navigates large codebases, lands multi-file changes, and carries debugging and refactoring tasks through to completion with ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers. Published context: July 24, 2026. AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations. LMI enables you to run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 instances while maintaining serverless operational simplicity. Capacity providers are resources that let you define ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput. Published context: July 24, 2026. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. On-demand streams automatically increase ingest capacity in response to rising data ingest usage. With On-demand Advantage mode, you can proactively manage stream capacity using warm throughput to prepare streams for ...

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. ...