AWS What's New

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS AppConfig launches managed experimentation tools for A/B testing. Published context: July 1, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of experimentation tools in AWS AppConfig, a new capability that enables you to run A/B tests and feature experiments without building or managing separate experimentation infrastructure. Built on 25+ years of Amazon experimentation best practices, AWS AppConfig experimentation tools use AI-driven guidance to hel ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics. Published context: July 1, 2026. Today, Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new engine purpose-built for log analytics workloads, delivering up to 4x better price-performance on internal benchmarks. It combines this efficiency with the full-text search capabilities that OpenSearch is known for, so users can still run the ad hoc queries that incident investigation depends on. As log volum ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections. Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes three new threat detections that alert security teams when sensitive files are modified on Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads running on Amazon EKS or Amazon ECS. These findings help identify post-compromise attacker activities by monitoring critical system files, including configuration files, authe 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 SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI versioning and auto-patching. Published context: July 2, 2026. Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now gives you visibility into the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) versions running across your clusters and automatically applies security patches without disrupting your workloads. SageMaker HyperPod is purpose-built infrastructure for training and deploying foundation models at scale. Cluster administrators previously had limited insig 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 Express Mode now supports custom task definitions. Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode now supports custom task definitions, giving you the flexibility to use existing ECS application configurations and advanced task-level customizations with Express Mode’s simplified deployment experience. This also enables you to reuse task definitions from your existing CI/CD pipelines and infrastru 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 EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 2, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) 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 among ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning. Published context: July 2, 2026. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning. Customers can use the open-source terraform-aws-sagemaker-unified-studio module to deploy a SageMaker Unified Studio domain through version-controlled templates. With this launch, platform teams can bring SageMaker Unified Studio into their existing infrastructure-as-code pipelines, mai 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 Artifact now includes Assurance Assistant for compliance inquiries. Published context: July 1, 2026. AWS Artifact now includes Assurance Assistant, an AI-powered capability that generates citation-backed responses to security and compliance questions about AWS services. AWS Artifact is the service through which AWS provides compliance reports, certifications, and agreements to customers. Assurance Assistant helps third-party risk managers, compliance office 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 AgentCore now available in four additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Spain). Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is the platform to build, connect, and optimize agents. It helps engineers ship agents fast with any framework and any model, connect them to enterprise systems and tools, and ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances are now available. Published context: June 30, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g instances are ideal for workloads such as hi ...