AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media. Published context: June 2, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) for Microsoft SQL Server. With BYOM, customers who migrate SQL Server applications from on-premises environments can adopt a managed database service on AWS and reuse their existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses, including Software Assurance, through Microsoft ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS PCS now provides a production-ready Deep Learning AMI. Published context: June 1, 2026. Today, AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) launches PCS-ready DLAMI, an AWS-maintained Amazon Machine Image built on the Deep Learning Base GPU AMI (Ubuntu 24.04). It provides a production-quality foundation for AI/ML training and high performance computing (HPC), with core infrastructure components pre-installed and tested for compatibility. AWS PCS is ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance. Published context: June 1, 2026. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom IAM permissions boundaries, so organizations that enforce Service Control Policies (SCPs) requiring permissions boundaries on all IAM roles can adopt SageMaker Unified Studio without modifying their security posture. When a user creates a project, SageMaker Unified Studio provisions three IAM roles: a proje ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions. Published context: May 29, 2026. Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions. Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, streamlining tabular data storage at scale. S3 Tables automatically perform continual table maintenance to optimize query efficiency and reduce storage costs as you ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: May 28, 2026. Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. DynamoDB Streams captures time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications in DynamoDB tables, enabling real-time data processing and event-driven architectures. This enhancement allows government agencies and orga ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier. Published context: May 29, 2026. AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps multicloud Interconnect, making it easier to privately connect your workloads on AWS and other public clouds. Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. With AWS Interconnect - multicloud, AWS simplified the way cloud services providers (CSPs) off ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes. Published context: May 28, 2026. AWS Organizations now automatically emits CloudTrail events to your management account whenever accounts join or leave your organization. These new events—AccountJoinedOrganization and AccountDepartedOrganization—provide security teams and cloud administrators with enhanced visibility into organizational membership changes, helping detect unauthorized activi 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 Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance. Published context: May 29, 2026. Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance, helping organizations plan, route, and track long-running follow-up work. For example, an insurance team managing an auto repair claim can schedule future tasks for an adjuster visit, parts availability check, and repair completion follow-up, with each task routed to the right te ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2026 Release Update and Supplemental Patch Bundle. Published context: May 29, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle April 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c, and the corresponding Supplemental Patch Bundle for Oracle Database version 19c. We recommend upgrading to the April 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. Starting with Apr ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget. Published context: May 28, 2026. Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Budgets widgets in BCM Dashboards, giving you the flexibility to customize your cost management console with the views that matter most to your organization. You can now monitor AWS Budgets alongside Cost Explorer reports and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization report ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 in general availability. Published context: May 27, 2026. Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 across all three deployment models. With Spark 4.0.2, you can build and maintain data pipelines more easily with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types, enforce fine-grained access control (FGAC) at the row level or column level, strengthen compliance and governance frameworks with Apache Iceberg v3 table format, and deplo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: May 26, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth a ...