AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023. Published context: July 31, 2026. AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), available as both managed runtimes and container base images. These new runtimes enable customers running Lambda functions on Java 8, 11, or 17 to migrate from Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) to AL2023 without requiring a simultaneous Java version upgrade. The existing Lambda r ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors. Published context: July 31, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from your AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors — enabling you to monitor Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon MSK, and Amazon OpenSearch Service workloads without deploying or managing any agents. Previously, getting Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch required deploying, scaling, 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 announces up to 80% lower prices for OpenAI GPT‑5.6 models. Published context: July 30, 2026. Today, OpenAI announced lower prices for GPT‑5.6 Luna and GPT‑5.6 Terra. Effective July 30, 2026, on-demand inference prices on Amazon Bedrock for GPT‑5.6 Luna are reduced by 80%, while prices for GPT‑5.6 Terra are reduced by 20%. These reductions are in-line with OpenAI’s first-party pricing changes for these models. GPT‑5.6 Luna is optimized for fast, high ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances. Published context: July 31, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances with up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. 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. R8i and ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Grok 4.3 from xAI is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: July 30, 2026. xAI’s Grok 4.3 model is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider in AWS GovCloud (US-West), giving you even more choice as you build generative AI applications across reasoning, agentic, and enterprise workflows. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model that offers configurable reaso ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions. Published context: July 31, 2026. AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises servers, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon EC ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Gemma 4 models are now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: July 30, 2026. The Gemma 4 family of open-weight models from Google DeepMind on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). With Gemma 4, you can build generative AI applications across reasoning, multimodal understanding, agentic, and software engineering workflows. The Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock includes three variants - Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, and Gemma 4 E2B ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 29, 2026. Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US), allowing customers to replicate file systems between AWS accounts. EFS Replication enables you to easily maintain an up-to-date replica of your file system in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region of your choice. With this launch, EFS Replication customers can meet business continuity, multi-acco ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation. Published context: July 29, 2026. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a new AWS CloudFormation update policy. When you configure the new AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy and update properties that require instance replacement, CloudFormation automatically triggers an Instance Refresh. With this integration, you can now access Instance Refresh capabilities includi 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 Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Published context: July 28, 2026. AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, allowing customers to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their Console Home dashboard. With the Cost and Usage widget, customers can track month-to-date and forecasted costs, identify savings opportunities, and see how t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub MCP App brings exposure findings into your AI-assisted workflow (Preview). Published context: July 27, 2026. AWS announces the preview of the AWS Security Hub MCP App, a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings your Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop. This capability can help accelerates your security investigations by reducing context switching and manual triage, letting you explore and act on your exposures without leaving yo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control for IAM. Published context: July 27, 2026. Amazon Neptune Database now supports tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, enabling customers to use AWS resource tags and IAM principal tags as conditions in IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to control access to Neptune data-plane operations. Neptune already provides robust security through VPC isolation, TLS encryption, and IAM authentic ...