AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Published context: August 27, 2026. Meta’s Muse-Glimmer-30B and Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8-27B models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers. These two models bring specialized capabilities spanning autonomous local agentic workflows and multimodal long-horizon reasoning, enabling customers to deploy high-performance, sc 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 Oracle now supports July 2026 Release Update. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and 26ai. We recommend upgrading to the July 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. Starting with July 2026 releases, the naming format for an RU in Oracle Database 19c changes t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: August 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work. Grok 4.6 is SpaceXAI’s latest flagship model, built for long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work. It offers 500k context window and configurable reasoning efforts (low, medium, high, xhigh). The model ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. Published context: August 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better pri ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control. Published context: August 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control (FGAC), enabling you to enforce per-user and per-tenant memory isolation through AgentCore Gateway without building custom authorization logic. With FGAC, you can front your Memory resource with an AgentCore Gateway configured for OAuth (JWT) authentication and attach Cedar policies tha ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports flexible namespace variables. Published context: August 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now lets developers define flexible namespace variables to scope long-term memories along any application-specific dimension - such as organization, tenant, team, or environment - without creating duplicate strategies or overloading built-in variables. This gives multi-tenant and complex-hierarchy applications fine-grained con 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 C8gn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. Published context: August 28, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. The C8gn instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nit ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to two new regions. Published context: August 27, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in two additional AWS Regions: US West (N. California) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad). 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 optimize them continuously, with ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: August 27, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) 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 comparable Intel processors in the c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8id instances are now available in additional regions. R8id instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm). R8id instances feature up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage, 3x more than R6id, and provide up to 3.3x higher memory bandwi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Cognito adds admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations. Published context: August 26, 2026. Amazon Cognito now provides a new admin API operation to reset a user’s time-based one-time Password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication (MFA) configuration. When users lose access to their TOTP device, administrators can remove the device association, allowing the user to enroll a new device on their next sign-in. This removes the need to recreate accounts t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda introduces managed runtimes in public preview for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15. Published context: August 25, 2026. Today, AWS Lambda introduces managed runtimes in public preview, starting with Node.js 26 and Python 3.15. This gives customers, partners and upstream language communities the opportunity to try upcoming managed runtimes before their general availability (GA) release and to share their feedback with the Lambda team. Previously, Lambda managed runtimes were l ...