AWS What's New

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 ( ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in additional regions. Published context: July 15, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Regions. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances to deploy large language mo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate. Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use Aurora DSQL to build applications and run workloads that are subject to FedRAMP Moderate compliance requirements. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program th ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs. Published context: July 16, 2026. AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) can now automatically re-apply an account’s customizations when that account moves to a different Organizational Unit (OU). Previously, moving an enrolled account between OUs required manually triggering customization re-application, creating operational overhead and risk of configuration drift. With this ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags. Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags in events delivered to all destinations including Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda. System-generated tags are metadata labels attached to your bucket by AWS services. You can use these tags to filter events from thousands of buckets with a single EventBridge rule, inste ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GameLift Streams now supports IAM role credentials for stream sessions. Published context: July 17, 2026. Amazon GameLift Streams now supports assigning an IAM role to a stream session, enabling your application to securely access resources in your AWS account, such as Amazon S3 buckets and DynamoDB tables. With this launch, you can pass a RoleArn parameter when starting a stream session, and your application automatically receives short-lived, auto-refreshing A ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Managed Grafana achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon Managed Grafana is now a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now use Amazon Managed Grafana to visualize, query, and alert on operational metrics across their AWS and hybrid en ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 now surfaces the public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs. Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon EC2 now surfaces the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store parameters associated with public AMIs directly in the AMI metadata. When you describe a public AMI, the response includes the associated public SSM parameter, making it easy to discover and reference in your configurations. Previously, finding the SSM parameter associated with a public AM ...