AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes and improvements added by the PostgreSQL commu ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS IoT Core now supports native InfluxDB routing for time-series data. Published context: August 25, 2026. AWS IoT Core now supports InfluxDB rule action that routes time-series data from your Internet of Things (IoT) devices directly to InfluxDB databases, without writing custom device-side code or using intermediate cloud services. AWS IoT Core is a fully managed service that securely connects billions of IoT devices to the AWS cloud, and routes IoT device data ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported SageMaker MLflow now supports customer managed keys. Published context: August 24, 2026. SageMaker MLflow now enables customers to encrypt their data using customer-managed keys (CMK) through AWS Key Management Service (KMS). This enhancement allows organizations with strict security and compliance requirements to manage their own encryption keys. With customer-managed keys, you gain enhanced security control and comprehensive audit capabilities 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 ECS now automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity. Published context: August 24, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now automatically detects and repairs container instances, enabling customers to reduce undetected workload failures and improve application availability without manual intervention. With this launch, Amazon ECS continuously monitors agent connectivity across container instances. Infrastructure events such as EBS 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 OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: August 24, 2026. GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East), bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine built for high-performance, security and reliability. GPT-5.6 sets a new standard for intelligence and efficiency, allowing you to solve ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 adds an on-node diagnostics tool. Published context: August 24, 2026. AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 is now generally available with a new on-node diagnostics tool, cluster stability improvements, and an updated HPC and AI/ML software stack. pcluster-diag is a diagnostics tool built into the ParallelCluster AMIs that lets you run diagnostic checks on any cluster node with a single command, and get a structured report that makes it e ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers chat with their data. Published context: August 21, 2026. Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers chat with their data in plain language and get back the answer, the evidence behind it, and the fix, in seconds. Managers have always had the data. What they haven’t had is the time to dig through dashboards, find what’s driving performance, and decide what to do next. Now Amazon Connect Customer does that work for t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. Published context: August 19, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. These instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances. R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidt ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: August 19, 2026. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors spend on third-party foundation models running on Amazon Bedrock, such as Anthropic Claude and other provider-hosted models. Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to detect and alert on unusual spend, and this launch extends that coverage to third-party model usage on Amazon Bedrock. Teams running production gen ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), enabling you to use tag-based conditions in your Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to your data streams. ABAC is an authorization strategy that simplifies access management by allowing you to enforce different access levels for multiple teams and applica ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation. Published context: August 19, 2026. AWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) has a on-demand penetration testing service that uses an AI agent to autonomously test web applications for vulnerabilities, billing based on cumulative task hours consumed across parallel testing tasks. Security teams and DevSecOps engineers previously had no built-in way to cap test costs or efficiently confir ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: August 20, 2026. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in additional regions. C8gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), M8gd instances are available in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and R8gd instances are available in Europe ...