AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation. Published context: July 10, 2026. AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation through the AWS MCP Server. You can connect AI coding agents, including Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor, to DMS Schema Conversion and run complete migration workflows using natural language directly from your IDE. Agents create projects, browse source metadata, convert sche ...

July 12, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. Published context: July 9, 2026. AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in AWS GovCloud (US East, US West) regions. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g ...

July 12, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Apache Spark troubleshooting agent

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Apache Spark troubleshooting agent. Published context: July 10, 2026. Amazon EMR on EKS now supports the Apache Spark troubleshooting agent. Data engineers can now diagnose EMR on EKS job failures through natural language, receiving automated root cause analysis and PySpark code recommendations without manually navigating distributed logs and Spark History Server data. The agent analyzes Spark History Server data, distributed ...

July 11, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances now available in additional regions

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances now available in additional regions. Published context: July 10, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) regions. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS and feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. These inst ...

July 11, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options. Published context: July 10, 2026. Today, Amazon Location Service announced new enhancements to its Places APIs that give developers greater control over address name formatting, multilingual address, travel-optimized POI search, and drive-through data. These capabilities span the Geocode, ReverseGeocode, GetPlace, Suggest, Autocomplete, SearchNearby, and SearchText APIs. Developers can now c 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. ...

July 11, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

OAuth support for the AWS MCP Server

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OAuth support for the AWS MCP Server. Published context: July 9, 2026. You can now connect AI agents directly to the AWS MCP Server using AWS Sign-In. Agents connect using industry-standard OAuth without requiring additional authentication software. Existing AWS identities, sign-in methods, IAM permissions, and governance controls you have already set up continue to apply. Developers can authorize agents interactively through a 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. ...

July 10, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules. Published context: July 9, 2026. AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudTrail. This expansion increases built-in governance coverage across AI workloads and core cloud infrastructure. Examples of the new managed rules include evaluatin ...

July 10, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure. Published context: July 7, 2026. Today, AWS announces that AWS Security Hub now monitors Microsoft Azure resources, extending risk analytics, cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, and security response management across both clouds. Many AWS customers running workloads in AWS and Azure have had to operate separate security tools for each environment, making it difficu ...

July 9, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai. Published context: July 7, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai, Oracle’s latest Long Term Support Release, with Amazon Bedrock integration which provides access to foundation models such as Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, and Meta Llama. With Oracle Database 26ai, you can leverage Oracle’s Select AI feature to generate and run SQL queries from natural language promp ...

July 9, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing. Published context: July 7, 2026. You can now connect and manage Azure Virtual Machines in AWS Systems Manager without manual agent installation or per-instance tier fees. Create a Cloud Connector and automatically deploy the SSM Agent to your Azure VMs at scale. Once connected, Azure VMs appear alongside EC2 instances in a unified view, and you can connect to them using Session Manager, run ...

July 8, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. Published context: July 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8ine instances are available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. C8ine instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS. These instances feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards, delivering up to 43% higher performance compared to pre ...

July 8, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events. Published context: July 6, 2026. Today, AWS announces Service Events for Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, which automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services without additional code changes. Customers can now quickly identify whether a deployment has introduced new exceptions by navigatin 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. ...

July 7, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez