AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces AWS Blocks, an open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS (Preview). Published context: June 16, 2026. Today, AWS announces the public preview of AWS Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework for application developers who want backend capabilities on AWS removing the need to learn infrastructure tools. AWS Blocks runs a fully functional local environment with Postgres, authentication, and real-time messaging, no AWS account required. When ready to deploy, ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (Public Preview). Published context: June 16, 2026. Today, AWS announces the public preview of a new storage migration capability for AWS Transform that enables application owners, database administrators, and cloud migration teams to migrate block storage workloads from any on-premises or cloud source to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), alongside the existing Amazon EBS option. AWS Transform for ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Tag Propagation for Managed Resources. Published context: June 15, 2026. AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, enabling you to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon ENIs. This helps you enforce cost allocation, service control policies (SCPs), and compliance requirements across all resources provisioned by your capacity providers. LMI ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS Express Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. ECS Express Mode empowers developers to rapidly launch containerized applications, including web applications and APIs, making it easy to orchestrate and manage cloud architecture while maintaining full control over in ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs introduces additional metadata. Published context: June 10, 2026. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs now supports EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting by eliminating the need to manually correlate flow log data with resource metadata. VPC Flow Logs enable you to capture and log information about your VPC network traffic to monitor and troubleshoot n ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider. Published context: June 11, 2026. AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider, a lightweight client-side provider that automates deployment of exported certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and local caching of secrets from AWS Secrets Manager across AWS and non-AWS workloads. Previously, customers exporting public or private certificates from ACM had to build custom automation 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 CloudWatch Application Signals now supports infrastructure, logs, and traces context for faster troubleshooting](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/cloudwatch-application-signals-supports infrastructure-logs-traces-context-for-faster troubleshooting/). Published context: June 11, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces service health ranking on the application map and new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page. These capabilities let operators triage unhealthy services and inspect the underlying compute environment, log snippets, and trace details in one place, making it easier to find root causes ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EKS now supports local clusters on AWS Outposts with Amazon EC2 instance store. Published context: June 11, 2026. Today, AWS is expanding support for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) local clusters on AWS Outposts to first-generation and second-generation AWS Outposts racks running Amazon EC2 instances that boot from Amazon EC2 instance store. AWS Outposts offers static stability for Amazon EC2 instances backed by EC2 instance store , and AWS is now extending tha ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing metal-48xl and metal-96xl for Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances. Published context: June 9, 2026. AWS is announcing the general availability of metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS and feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. Thes ...

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. ...