AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Artifact now includes Assurance Assistant for compliance inquiries. Published context: July 1, 2026. AWS Artifact now includes Assurance Assistant, an AI-powered capability that generates citation-backed responses to security and compliance questions about AWS services. AWS Artifact is the service through which AWS provides compliance reports, certifications, and agreements to customers. Assurance Assistant helps third-party risk managers, compliance office 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 Bedrock AgentCore now available in four additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Spain). 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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances are now available. Published context: June 30, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd 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 compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g instances are ideal for workloads such as hi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents. Published context: June 30, 2026. Amazon WorkSpaces for agents is now generally available, enabling AI agents to securely access and operate desktop applications through managed WorkSpaces environments. Enterprises run critical business processes on desktop applications (ERP systems, CRMs, mainframes, and proprietary tools) where years of customization, undocumented logic, and strict complia 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 AWS Security Hub CSPM launches AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls. Published context: June 30, 2026. Today, AWS Security Hub CSPM announces the AI Security Best Practices standard, a set of 31 automated security controls that detect when your deployed AI resources do not align with security best practices. Developed by AWS security experts, this standard helps you continuously evaluate your Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker work ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS WAF adds support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. Published context: June 29, 2026. Today, AWS announces general availability of AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) protection for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, enabling you to protect your agentic AI workloads from common web exploits and abuse. As enterprises move agentic applications from prototype to production, this launch gives security and platform teams ability to apply consist ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Published context: June 30, 2026. Two new models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. OpenAI GPT-5.4 is now available in Kiro for complex reasoning, coding, document analysis, and multi-step agentic workflows. It helps developers build AI applications and production workflows that can interpret context, interact with tools, operate software environ ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Tag is now available in beta via Claude Enterprise in AWS Marketplace. Published context: June 23, 2026. Anthropic is launching Claude Tag — bringing Claude directly into the channels where your team already works, starting with Slack. Claude Tag is available today in beta to AWS customers who access Claude Enterprise through AWS Marketplace. Claude Tag is a new way for teams to work with Claude. Grant Claude access to selected channels, and connect it to which ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Published context: June 25, 2026. Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. M8a instances are powered by 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 M7a instances. M8a instances deliver ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch launches OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS. Published context: June 23, 2026. CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS collects infrastructure metrics at 30-second granularity using open-source receivers including cAdvisor, Kube State Metrics, and NVIDIA DCGM. Each metric carries OpenTelemetry semantic conventions and Kubernetes labels, making it straightforward to correlate across nodes, pods, and workloads in a single PromQ 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 C8in instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: June 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8in instances are available in the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland) regions. C8in 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 performanc ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Cognito now supports customer managed key for encryption at rest. Published context: June 23, 2026. Amazon Cognito now supports customer managed keys in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for encrypting user pool data at rest. While AWS owned keys are used by default to protect your data, customer managed keys give you full control over the encryption keys, helping you achieve your organization’s data governance objectives. With customer managed keys, you ca ...