AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Lightsail is now available in three additional AWS Regions. Published context: June 12, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Lightsail is available in three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion brings the power and simplicity of Lightsail to customers across new geographies in Asia, South America, and Europe. With this launch, customers in these geographical regions can now enjoy lowe ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Gemma 4 models now available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 10, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of the Gemma 4 family of open-weight models from Google DeepMind on Amazon Bedrock . 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, an ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18. Published context: June 11, 2026. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, starting with version 18.3. This release brings community improvements to query performance and database management, and introduces support for pg_roaringbitmap, a new extension that performs fast, memory-efficient set operations on large collections of integers. This enabl 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 ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication. Published context: June 10, 2026. Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication, enabling customers to deploy tracing, profiling, and security agents that require access to application processes and shared IPC resources on ECS Managed Instances . With this launch, you can configure two new settings in ECS daemon definitions: pidMode controls whether the daemo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd general purpose instances are now available. Published context: June 10, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances , powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed AWS processors, delivering the best price performance for general purpose workloads running on Amazon EC2 . ​​M9g instances serve a broad range of ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models now available in US East (N. Virginia) on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 11, 2026. Today, AWS announces the expanded availability of OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models, which are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region on Amazon Bedrock. With GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5, you can build generative AI applications across reasoning, coding, computer use, document workflows, and long-running agentic tasks. GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s most capable mo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS FinOps Agent is now available in preview. Published context: June 9, 2026. Today, AWS announces the preview of AWS FinOps Agent, a frontier agent for FinOps practitioners and engineering teams that answers cost questions, surfaces optimization opportunities, automatically investigates cost anomalies, and runs recurring FinOps workflows on a schedule you define. With the AWS FinOps Agent, you can ask questions about your AWS costs a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces Claude Fable 5, the first generally available Mythos-class model. Published context: June 9, 2026. Claude Fable 5 is generally available on AWS and makes Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use. Fable 5 is state-of-the-art on nearly all tested benchmarks and delivers a step-change in autonomous knowledge work and coding for developers and enterprises building production AI appli ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Managed Instances expands to additional AWS Regions. Published context: June 8, 2026. AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, except Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Auckland). LMI lets you run Lambda functions on managed Amazon EC2 instances, giving you access to specialized compute configurations and EC2 pricing advantages while maintaining Lambda’s ope ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server migration cost assessment capabilities now available in AWS Transform. Published context: June 8, 2026. Amazon RDS for SQL Server now offers TCO assessment in AWS Transform, so you can estimate costs when migrating on-premises SQL Server databases to RDS for SQL Server. Using AI-powered agents, AWS Transform analyzes your on-premises SQL Server environment and provides optimal database instance recommendations that meet your workload requirements and reduce co ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 1, 2026. You can now use GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 in production workloads on Amazon Bedrock and build with Codex for AI-powered software development, with the same security, governance, and operational controls you already use across AWS. GPT-5.5 is the most capable model from OpenAI, excelling at agentic coding, data analysis, and multi-step autonomous tasks. It runs on ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Published context: June 1, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. 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. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% bette ...