AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing. Published context: August 31, 2026. Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). You can access Amazon Redshift with single sign-on with your corporate credentials, and the traffic traverses Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and stays on the AWS network. This is valuabl ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Agent Registry agents and MCP servers now available in Amazon Quick. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, Amazon Quick announces integration with AWS Agent Registry, enabling users to discover and use resources from their organization’s AWS Agent Registry directly within Amazon Quick. AWS Agent Registry supports MCP servers and agents, which users can now search and browse directly within Amazon Quick. After finding the agent or MCP server they need, user ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd memory optimized instances are now available. Published context: August 31, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R9g and R9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. R9g instances are ideal for memory-intensive work ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Workload Credentials Provider is now available as a one-click install for Linux and Windows. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces one-click installation for the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (AWCP) on Amazon Linux and Windows, reducing setup from a multi-step build-from-source process to a single command. AWCP resolves secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and caches them locally, enabling applications to retrieve secrets over a local HTTP endpoint. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Published context: August 27, 2026. Meta’s Muse-Glimmer-30B and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8-27B models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring specialized capabilities spanning autonomous local agentic workflows and multimodal long-horizon reasoning, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, sc 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 RDS for Oracle now supports July 2026 Release Update. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and 26ai. We recommend upgrading to the July 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. Starting with July 2026 releases, the naming format for an RU in Oracle Database 19c changes t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: August 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Grok 4.6 is SpaceXAI’s latest flagship model, built for long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work. It offers 500k context window and configurable reasoning efforts (low, medium, high, xhigh). The model ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. Published context: August 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better pri ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control. Published context: August 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control (FGAC), enabling you to enforce per-user and per-tenant memory isolation through AgentCore Gateway without building custom authorization logic. With FGAC, you can front your Memory resource with an AgentCore Gateway configured for OAuth (JWT) authentication and attach Cedar policies tha ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports flexible namespace variables. Published context: August 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now lets developers define flexible namespace variables to scope long-term memories along any application-specific dimension - such as organization, tenant, team, or environment - without creating duplicate strategies or overloading built-in variables. This gives multi-tenant and complex-hierarchy applications fine-grained con 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 EC2 C8gn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. Published context: August 28, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. The C8gn instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nit ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to two new regions. Published context: August 27, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in two additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is the platform to build, connect, and optimize agents. It helps engineers ship agents fast with any framework and any model, connect them to enterprise systems and tools, and optimize them continuously, with ...