AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: August 19, 2026. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors spend on third-party foundation models running on Amazon Bedrock, such as Anthropic Claude and other provider-hosted models. Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to detect and alert on unusual spend, and this launch extends that coverage to third-party model usage on Amazon Bedrock. Teams running production gen ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), enabling you to use tag-based conditions in your Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to your data streams. ABAC is an authorization strategy that simplifies access management by allowing you to enforce different access levels for multiple teams and applica ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation. Published context: August 19, 2026. AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) has a on-demand penetration testing service that uses an AI agent to autonomously test web applications for vulnerabilities, billing based on cumulative task hours consumed across parallel testing tasks. Security teams and DevSecOps engineers previously had no built-in way to cap test costs or efficiently confir ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: August 20, 2026. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in additional regions. C8gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), M8gd instances are available in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and R8gd instances are available in Europe ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock announces reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol. Published context: August 21, 2026. Today, OpenAI announced that they are lowering API prices for GPT-5.6 Sol. Following the recent Terra and Luna price reductions, Sol now costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens—20% lower input pricing and 33.3% lower output pricing. This promotional pricing is available at least through November 21, 2026. Whether you’re building a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle management. Published context: August 20, 2026. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced certificate authority (CA) rotation, enabling customers to rotate their cluster’s CA through a managed lifecycle with automated safeguards. Each Amazon EKS cluster has its own CA that allows encrypted connections to the cluster’s Kubernetes API, and now you can rotate the CA before it expires to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 with Cross Region Inferencing. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, with US Geo and Global cross-Region inference. Customers can now access Grok 4.6 at scale with cross-Region inference routing requests across multiple AWS Regions for higher throughput and lower inference costs. Cross-Region inference automati ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes three new processors that parse and enrich log data as it’s ingested: an Amazon RDS log parser, an XML parser and a GeoIP enrichment processor. CloudWatch pipelines is a fully managed service that ingests, transforms, and routes telemetry to CloudWatch without managing infrastructure. Log sources often produce data th ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS IAM identity federation to external services is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region. Published context: August 18, 2026. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now enables AWS workloads in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region to securely authenticate with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is an independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the European Union (EU), designed to help customers meet t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AgentCore payments is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Published context: August 18, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of AgentCore payments, a capability within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that enables AI agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay for paid APIs, MCPs, and content with just a few lines of code. AgentCore payments provides the security, guardrails, and observability enterprises need to deploy transacting agents ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI models in India. Published context: August 18, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India, with India Geo cross-Region inference. Customers with regulatory requirements of in-country inferencing can now use OpenAI models at scale ensuring that inferencing is processed within India. Cross-Region inference automatically routes inference requests across multiple AWS Regi 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 MSK now supports configuring custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters. Published context: August 17, 2026. You can now easily configure custom domain names on Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters, on either ZooKeeper or KRaft mode for metadata management. This capability helps client applications maintain the same connection endpoints, simplifying cluster migrations, disaster recovery failovers, and scaling operations without reconfiguration. Previously, customers con ...