AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. Published context: July 24, 2026. Agents using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 Cloud PC can now take calls directly from their virtual desktop session with audio optimization enabled. To get started, IT administrators need to complete a one-time setup for their virtual desktop environment. Once configured, media is redirected from the virtual desktop to the agent’s local ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System , deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Introducing KNFSD File Cache - Now in Preview. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed solution for deploying a scalable, high-speed Network File System (NFS) cache on AWS. KNFSD File Cache mounts exports from one or more source NFS servers, whether on-premises, in another AWS Availability Zone or Region, or in another cloud over AWS Interconnect - m ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). Elastic Disaster Recovery is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It helps minimize downtime and data loss wit ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Published context: July 24, 2026. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers a simplified console experience for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager. Mail Manager is a capability within SES for managing email flow, but configuring its resources individually to set up SMTP sending requires multiple steps. The new guided setup creates and configures these resources automatically, so ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and User Activity Monitoring now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 24, 2026. Two new models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Claude Opus 4.8 is the most intelligent Opus model, delivering stronger self-verification, more efficient tool calling, and better follow-through on long-horizon projects. It plans before it edits, catches its own mistakes, and finds creative paths around obstacles in ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 23, 2026. AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock. Claude Sonnet 5 delivers strong performance across coding, professional work, and agentic tasks while maintaining the balance of capability, cost, and speed. For coding, it navigates large codebases, lands multi-file changes, and carries debugging and refactoring tasks through to completion with ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers. Published context: July 24, 2026. AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations. LMI enables you to run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 instances while maintaining serverless operational simplicity. Capacity providers are resources that let you define ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput. Published context: July 24, 2026. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store data streams at any scale. On-demand streams automatically increase ingest capacity in response to rising data ingest usage. With On-demand Advantage mode, you can proactively manage stream capacity using warm throughput to prepare streams for ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group. Published context: July 23, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers agent traces and prompts to the same log group as your agent’s logs, giving you unified observability for AI agents in a single Amazon CloudWatch log group. Previously, AgentCore split agent telemetry across multiple destinations trace spans went to the shared aws/spans log group while event logs containing prompts, in ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment. Published context: July 23, 2026. Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment , allowing you to evaluate the latest Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MySQL 9.7 capabilities before they become generally available. MySQL 9.7 is the latest L ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets. Published context: July 20, 2026. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options on multi-session fleets. Users streaming on multi-session fleets can now connect their OneDrive or Google Drive accounts and access, save, and sync their cloud-based files directly within their streaming sessions, in addition to the exis ...