AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region. Published context: May 14, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8aedz instances are available in Europe (Ireland) region. These instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin). These instances offer the highest maximum CPU frequency, 5GHz in the cloud. X8aedz instances are built using the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro Cards an ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent now supports full repository code reviews. Published context: May 12, 2026. Today, AWS announces the release of full repository code review , a new capability in AWS Security Agent that performs deep, context-aware security analysis of your entire codebase. Unlike traditional static analysis tools that match code against known vulnerability patterns, full repository code review reasons about your application’s architecture, trust bo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle SE2 License Included. Published context: May 13, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI). M8i and R8i 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 new instances offer ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform adds containerization capability during migrations. Published context: May 11, 2026. AWS Transform now supports replatforming applications to containers during migration to AWS. This release extends AWS Transform’s agentic AI capabilities to automate the containerization of your source code, enabling you to migrate and modernize in parallel, reducing the time and complexity of moving from on-premises to cloud-native architectures. Migration 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 Lambda supports scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances. Published context: May 12, 2026. AWS Lambda now supports scheduled scaling for functions running on Lambda Managed Instances, using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler. This capability allows you to define one-time or recurring schedules that proactively adjust your function’s capacity limits ahead of expected traffic, to meet your performance targets during peak periods and avoid costs during idl ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available. Published context: May 11, 2026. Today, AWS announced the general availability of Claude Platform on AWS, a new service that gives customers direct access to Anthropic’s native Claude Platform experience through their existing AWS account. AWS is the first cloud provider to offer access to the native Claude Platform experience. Developers and organizations now have the choice to access Anth ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones. Published context: May 11, 2026. Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) Express now supports traffic between Amazon EC2 instances in different Availability Zones within a Region, delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth. ENA Express is a networking feature that uses the AWS Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to improve network performance. SRD is a reliable network protocol that deliver ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling. Published context: May 11, 2026. AWS WAF now supports dynamic label interpolation, enabling you to forward WAF classification signals to your origin and embed context in responses with a single rule. Security engineers who previously maintained a separate rule for every signal value can now use ${namespace:} syntax in custom request headers, response headers, and response bodies to forward ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SES Mail Manager now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: May 7, 2026. Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding Mail Manager coverage to 30 AWS regions. Amazon SES Mail Manager provides a centralized gateway to manage all inbound and outbound email traffic with advanced routing, filtering, and archiving capabilities. It simplifies complex email infrastructure by replacing the need for mul ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides client-side encryption. Published context: May 7, 2026. The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides column-level client-side encryption through its KMS Encryption plugin. The wrapper provides advanced capabilities such as failover handling, AWS authentication integration, and enhanced monitoring for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS open source databases. It enables Java applications to encrypt sensitive data before it 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: May 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) 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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support additional capabilities for IPv6 query traffic. Published context: May 7, 2026. Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS64 on inbound endpoints and IPv6 forwarding through the internet gateway (IGW) on outbound endpoints, making it easier to manage hybrid DNS across IPv4 and IPv6 networks. With DNS64 enabled on inbound endpoints, you can synthesize AAAA (IPv6) responses for domains that only have A (IPv4) records, allowing IPv ...