AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: August 27, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8id instances are now available in additional regions. R8id instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm). R8id instances feature up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage, 3x more than R6id, and provide up to 3.3x higher memory bandwi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Cognito adds admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations. Published context: August 26, 2026. Amazon Cognito now provides a new admin API operation to reset a user’s time-based one-time Password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) configuration. When users lose access to their TOTP device, administrators can remove the device association, allowing the user to enroll a new device on their next sign-in. This removes the need to recreate accounts t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda introduces managed runtimes in public preview for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15. Published context: August 25, 2026. Today, AWS Lambda introduces managed runtimes in public preview, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15. This gives customers, partners and upstream language communities the opportunity to try upcoming managed runtimes before their general availability (GA) release and to share their feedback with the Lambda team. Previously, Lambda managed runtimes were l ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes and improvements added by the PostgreSQL commu ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS IoT Core now supports native InfluxDB routing for time-series data. Published context: August 25, 2026. AWS IoT Core now supports InfluxDB rule action that routes time-series data from your Internet of Things (IoT) devices directly to InfluxDB databases, without writing custom device-side code or using intermediate cloud services. AWS IoT Core is a fully managed service that securely connects billions of IoT devices to the AWS cloud, and routes IoT device data ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported SageMaker MLflow now supports customer managed keys. Published context: August 24, 2026. SageMaker MLflow now enables customers to encrypt their data using customer-managed keys (CMK) through AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This enhancement allows organizations with strict security and compliance requirements to manage their own encryption keys. With customer-managed keys, you gain enhanced security control and comprehensive audit capabilities 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 ECS now automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity. Published context: August 24, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now automatically detects and repairs container instances, enabling customers to reduce undetected workload failures and improve application availability without manual intervention. With this launch, Amazon ECS continuously monitors agent connectivity across container instances. Infrastructure events such as EBS 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 OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: August 24, 2026. GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East), bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine built for high-performance, security and reliability. GPT-5.6 sets a new standard for intelligence and efficiency, allowing you to solve ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 adds an on-node diagnostics tool. Published context: August 24, 2026. AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 is now generally available with a new on-node diagnostics tool, cluster stability improvements, and an updated HPC and AI/ML software stack. pcluster-diag is a diagnostics tool built into the ParallelCluster AMIs that lets you run diagnostic checks on any cluster node with a single command, and get a structured report that makes it e ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers chat with their data. Published context: August 21, 2026. Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers chat with their data in plain language and get back the answer, the evidence behind it, and the fix, in seconds. Managers have always had the data. What they haven’t had is the time to dig through dashboards, find what’s driving performance, and decide what to do next. Now Amazon Connect Customer does that work for t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. Published context: August 19, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. These instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances. R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidt ...