AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration. Published context: June 2, 2026. AWS today announced that AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) provides new integration options with AWS Athena and AWS Redshift. This capability allows customers to analyze the data from their AWS CUR 2.0 in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL without building custom data warehouse solutions, bringing feature parity with CUR 1.0 i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon OpenSearch UI is now available in GovCloud regions. Published context: June 5, 2026. Amazon OpenSearch Service expands its modernized operational analytics experience to GovCloud regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling users to gain insights across data spanning managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The expansion includes Workspaces to enhance collaboration and productivity, 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 Runtime introduces interactive shells for terminal access into agent sessions. Published context: June 5, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports interactive shells through a new InvokeAgentRuntimeCommandShell API, opening a persistent, PTY-backed terminal directly into a running agent session over WebSocket. This complements the existing InvokeAgentRuntimeCommand API for one-shot execution, giving developers a full terminal experience inside an isolated m 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 Step Functions adds AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step. Published context: June 3, 2026. AWS Step Functions now enables you to add AI agent reasoning steps to your workflow through an optimized integration with the managed harness (currently in preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that orchestrates AWS services with built-in error handling, parallel execution, and human approval steps. The AgentCo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker AI launches multi-turn reinforcement learning for AI agent model customization. Published context: June 3, 2026. Amazon SageMaker AI now offers multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), a new serverless model customization technique for fine-tuning models on multi-step, agentic tasks. SageMaker AI model customization lets you adapt foundation models using techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR), and reinforcement l 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 Cognito now supports multi-Region replication. Published context: June 4, 2026. Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication, enabling you to synchronize user and machine identity data — including credentials, user pool configurations, and federation setups — to a secondary user pool in a standby Region you designate in near real-time. This capability helps you improve the resilience of your authentication system by providing a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-5.4 generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: June 3, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports GPT‑5.4 from OpenAI in AWS GovCloud (US-West) — giving government and regulated industry customers access to OpenAI’s most capable frontier model for professional work, backed by the enterprise-grade security and goverment compliance scope of AWS GovCloud (US). GPT‑5.4 supports native computer-use capabilities, and deep reasoning ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations. Published context: June 3, 2026. AWS Compute Optimizer now lets you extend the lookback period of your Amazon EBS volume and Amazon ECS rightsizing recommendations from the default 14 days to 32 days, at no additional cost. A longer lookback period allows Compute Optimizer to account for monthly utilization patterns, such as month-end processing, when generating rightsizing recommendations. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability. Published context: June 2, 2026. Today, AWS announces durability support for Amazon ElastiCache. Durability enables you to use ElastiCache for workloads that require microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss. With durability support, ElastiCache now stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using a Multi-AZ transactional log to enable fast failover, database 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 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 ...