AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon Bedrock receive FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: June 25, 2026. OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models are now FedRAMP High and Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG) Impact Level (IL) 4 and 5 approved within Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG IL-4/5 c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response (Preview). Published context: June 23, 2026. AWS announces the preview of AI-powered investigations in Amazon GuardDuty, a new capability that automatically analyzes GuardDuty findings and accounts to help you quickly distinguish true threats from benign findings. This feature addresses the time-intensive manual investigation process that contributes to alert fatigue and slows incident response for sec 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 announces AMI Watermarks for improved AMI governance. Published context: June 24, 2026. Amazon EC2 introduces AMI watermarks, letting you embed custom identifiers in your private AMIs. Once applied, a watermark automatically carries forward to every AMI derived from the original, whether you copy it across regions or create a new AMI from a running instance. Watermarks also remain visible when you share an AMI with other accounts. This helps yo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift is now generally available. Published context: June 24, 2026. The AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift is now generally available, enabling Swift developers to build secure, scalable IoT applications natively on Apple platforms including macOS, iOS, and tvOS, as well as Linux. This SDK addresses the previous lack of native Swift support for AWS IoT services, providing stable, production-ready APIs specifically designed for tea ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Logs supports managed syslog ingestion. Published context: June 23, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Logs supports managed syslog ingestion, enabling customers to send syslog messages from firewalls, routers, switches, and Linux servers directly into CloudWatch Logs. With today’s launch, customers can configure their network devices and servers to send syslog messages over TCP, TCP+TLS, or UDP to a VPC endpoint in their account - without i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch now supports tags on dashboards. Published context: June 24, 2026. A mazon CloudWatch now supports tagging for CloudWatch dashboards, enabling you to organize, categorize, and control access to your dashboards using tags. Tags are key-value pairs that help you identify and manage AWS resources across your environment. With this launch, the PutDashboard API now accepts an optional Tags parameter, allowing you to assign up to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS announces faster service auto scaling. Published context: June 18, 2026. Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. In AWS benchmarking tests, time to trigger scale-out improved from 363 seconds to 86 seconds (76% faster, 4.2x), and total time to scale and provision new tasks improved from 386 seconds to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent announces support for Threat Modeling. Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now includes threat modeling, an AI-powered agentic capability that automatically generates threat models for your applications. Available today in public preview, AWS Security Agent analyzes your design documents or application source code, understands the full context of your application architecture, and iden ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam. Published context: June 19, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This new Local Zone is one of the first AWS Local Zones in the Asia Pacific with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to meet dat ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capability (preview). Published context: June 17, 2026. AWS DevOps Agent now offers a release management capability in preview, reviewing code changes for release readiness and running autonomous release testing to help you ship code to production safely and with confidence. With this addition, AWS DevOps Agent now works across both delivery and operations. It accelerates and validates the deployment of code chan ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS launches a new continuous modernization capability in AWS Transform that provides autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation at scale. Published context: June 15, 2026. Today, AWS Transform announces a new continuous modernization capability (Preview) that autonomously detects, prioritizes, and remediates tech debt across enterprise software portfolios. AWS Transform already helps enterprises migrate out of data centers, modernize mainframe and Windows applications, and modernize codebases for common scenarios such as versi ...