AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget. Published context: May 28, 2026. Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Budgets widgets in BCM Dashboards, giving you the flexibility to customize your cost management console with the views that matter most to your organization. You can now monitor AWS Budgets alongside Cost Explorer reports and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization report ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 in general availability. Published context: May 27, 2026. Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 across all three deployment models. With Spark 4.0.2, you can build and maintain data pipelines more easily with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types, enforce fine-grained access control (FGAC) at the row level or column level, strengthen compliance and governance frameworks with Apache Iceberg v3 table format, and deplo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: May 26, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) 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 a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports integration with Kiro Powers. Published context: May 27, 2026. Today, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports integration with Kiro Powers , enabling developers to build Aurora MySQL-backed applications faster with AI agent assistance. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks that have been validated by Kiro par ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication. Published context: May 26, 2026. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now use ENA Express for replication traffic between Availability Zones. ENA Express uses AWS’s Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to optimize network performance by delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth for cross-AZ replication traffic leveraging advanced congestion control and multi-pathing capabilities, and red 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 Logs Insights adds new query commands and functions. Published context: May 21, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language now supports 13 new commands and functions that give you more powerful ways to query, transform, and analyze your logs. Customers analyzing logs in CloudWatch Logs Insights often need to perform string manipulation, encode or decode field values, parse non-JSON log formats, or calculate geographic distances, so ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9. Published context: May 8, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Introducing pre-fetching and IAM role assumption for AWS Secrets Manager Agent. Published context: May 18, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager Agent now supports two new capabilities: pre-fetching secrets at startup and assuming an IAM role to retrieve secrets. With pre-fetching, you can specify a list of secrets or a tag value to retrieve and cache at agent startup, reducing application startup latency and optimizing cost through the BatchGetSecretValue API. With IAM role assum ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users, while enabling organizations to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Agent adds verification scripts for pentest findings. Published context: May 22, 2026. AWS Security Agent now generates verification scripts for penetration test findings, enabling security teams to independently reproduce and validate discovered vulnerabilities. Previously, teams manually followed reproduction steps from finding details. Now, AWS Security Agent automatically generates ready-to-run scripts for each confirmed finding. Teams dow 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 New agentic migration assessment capabilities now available with AWS Transform. Published context: May 22, 2026. AWS Transform now offers advanced migration assessment capabilities including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, flexible file format support, and multiple new total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment features. These latest features let you quickly build a migration business case and accelerate your migration decisions. You can start your migration ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Datadog vended keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens. Published context: May 22, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager now extends its managed external secrets capability to include Datadog Keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens (PATs). Managed external secrets enable customers to automatically rotate third-party credentials directly from AWS Secrets Manager by offering first-class integration with supported third-party services. With this launch, ...