AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 now supports specifying compatible instance types on AMIs. Published context: September 4, 2026. Amazon EC2 now enables AMI owners to define which instance types are compatible with their AMIs. Owners can specify supported instance types, unsupported instance types, or both — and any launch attempt on a non-permitted instance type is automatically blocked. AMI owners now have a built-in way to prevent launches on instances that are not compatible with t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports automatic sync scheduling for data source connectors. Published context: September 4, 2026. AWS announces automatic sync scheduling for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service that handles data ingestion, storage optimization, and advanced retrieval without requiring you to manage vector databases or data pipelines. Previously, keeping your knowledge base current required manually triggeri ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now available in four additional regions. Published context: September 3, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo) regions. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports ServiceNow as a native data source connector. Published context: September 4, 2026. AWS announces the ServiceNow data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now connect their ServiceNow instance to crawl knowledge articles and service catalog items directly into their managed knowledge base. Previously, bringing ServiceNow content into Bedrock K ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Published context: September 3, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g and C9gd instances ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal. Published context: September 1, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal that eliminates the need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure when connecting agents to third-party tools and services. Developers using AgentCore Gateway to connect agents with services such as GitHub, Salesforce, and Slack previously had to build, host, and maintain custom OAuth call ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support non-critical daemons. Published context: September 3, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now support non-critical Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances . You can configure a daemon as non-critical so that your mission-critical application tasks continue running uninterrupted, even when a daemon fails, stops, or becomes unhealthy. Amazon ECS Managed Daemons lets you centrally deploy and manage sof ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Quick adds new tool settings and Model Context Protocol (MCP) sync support for connectors. Published context: September 2, 2026. Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick introduces new tool settings and MCP sync support that give admins and connector owners more control over how connectors are de ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Config now supports 60 new resource types. Published context: September 2, 2026. AWS Config now supports 60 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Organizations. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you hav ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions. Published context: September 2, 2026. Starting today, AWS Lambda supports SnapStart for functions packaged as container images , reducing startup times from several seconds to as low as sub-second. Lambda SnapStart is an opt-in capability that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable applications without provisioning resources or implementing complex performance optimizati ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Automated Security Response on AWS adds AI Toolkit for custom remediations. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, AWS announced four new capabilities for Automated Security Response on AWS (ASR). Customers can now use an AI-driven Toolkit that generates custom remediations using any AI assistant with built-in safety guardrails. In addition, customers can automatically remediate findings from Amazon Inspector, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon Macie. Customers can also ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL. Published context: September 1, 2026. Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, to give you a complete view of your database fleet in a single console. Amazon CloudWatch Datab ...