OAuth support for the AWS MCP Server

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OAuth support for the AWS MCP Server. Published context: July 9, 2026. You can now connect AI agents directly to the AWS MCP Server using AWS Sign-In. Agents connect using industry-standard OAuth without requiring additional authentication software. Existing AWS identities, sign-in methods, IAM permissions, and governance controls you have already set up continue to apply. Developers can authorize agents interactively through a 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. ...

July 10, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules. Published context: July 9, 2026. AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudTrail. This expansion increases built-in governance coverage across AI workloads and core cloud infrastructure. Examples of the new managed rules include evaluatin ...

July 10, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub extends unified security management to Microsoft Azure. Published context: July 7, 2026. Today, AWS announces that AWS Security Hub now monitors Microsoft Azure resources, extending risk analytics, cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, and security response management across both clouds. Many AWS customers running workloads in AWS and Azure have had to operate separate security tools for each environment, making it difficu ...

July 9, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai. Published context: July 7, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai, Oracle’s latest Long Term Support Release, with Amazon Bedrock integration which provides access to foundation models such as Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, and Meta Llama. With Oracle Database 26ai, you can leverage Oracle’s Select AI feature to generate and run SQL queries from natural language promp ...

July 9, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing. Published context: July 7, 2026. You can now connect and manage Azure Virtual Machines in AWS Systems Manager without manual agent installation or per-instance tier fees. Create a Cloud Connector and automatically deploy the SSM Agent to your Azure VMs at scale. Once connected, Azure VMs appear alongside EC2 instances in a unified view, and you can connect to them using Session Manager, run ...

July 8, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. Published context: July 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8ine instances are available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. C8ine 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 performance compared to pre ...

July 8, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events. Published context: July 6, 2026. Today, AWS announces Service Events for Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, which automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services without additional code changes. Customers can now quickly identify whether a deployment has introduced new exceptions by navigatin 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. ...

July 7, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public certificates

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public certificates. Published context: July 6, 2026. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now allows you to provision a fully managed ACME server endpoint that issues public TLS certificates with a 45 day validity from Amazon Trust Services using any ACMEv2-compatible client, including Certbot, cert-manager for Kubernetes, and acme.sh. With the CA/Browser Forum mandating 47-day certificate lifetimes by 2029, manual m ...

July 7, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EVS VCF 9.0 and 9.1 support

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EVS VCF 9.0 and 9.1 support. Published context: July 6, 2026. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1. Amazon EVS lets you run the latest VCF software directly within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on EC2 bare-metal instances. With this latest announcement, you now have complete control of the installation, operations, and managem ...

July 7, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS CloudFormation and CDK accelerate development feedback loops with pre-deployment validat...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS CloudFormation and CDK accelerate development feedback loops with pre-deployment validation on all stack operations. Published context: June 30, 2026. AWS CloudFormation customers can now get immediate feedback on deployment errors in seconds, eliminating the need to wait through a full provision-and-rollback cycle to discover preventable failures. CloudFormation now runs pre-deployment validation on Create Stack and Update Stack operations, catching common deployment errors before resource provisioning be ...

July 6, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now FedRAMP High and Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG) Impact Level (IL) 4 and 5 authorized in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG IL-4/5 compliance requirements can now use Ama ...

July 6, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS CodePipeline now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS CodePipeline now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. Published context: July 6, 2026. Starting today, AWS CodePipeline is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (ap-southeast-6). AWS CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service that enables you to model, visualize, and automate the steps required to release your software. With CodePipeline, you model the full release process for building your code, deploying to pre-production env ...

July 6, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez