AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock announces reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol. Published context: August 21, 2026. Today, OpenAI announced that they are lowering API prices for GPT-5.6 Sol. Following the recent Terra and Luna price reductions, Sol now costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens—20% lower input pricing and 33.3% lower output pricing. This promotional pricing is available at least through November 21, 2026. Whether you’re building a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle management. Published context: August 20, 2026. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced certificate authority (CA) rotation, enabling customers to rotate their cluster’s CA through a managed lifecycle with automated safeguards. Each Amazon EKS cluster has its own CA that allows encrypted connections to the cluster’s Kubernetes API, and now you can rotate the CA before it expires to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 with Cross Region Inferencing. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, with US Geo and Global cross-Region inference. Customers can now access Grok 4.6 at scale with cross-Region inference routing requests across multiple AWS Regions for higher throughput and lower inference costs. Cross-Region inference automati ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes three new processors that parse and enrich log data as it’s ingested: an Amazon RDS log parser, an XML parser and a GeoIP enrichment processor. CloudWatch pipelines is a fully managed service that ingests, transforms, and routes telemetry to CloudWatch without managing infrastructure. Log sources often produce data th ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS IAM identity federation to external services is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region. Published context: August 18, 2026. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now enables AWS workloads in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region to securely authenticate with external services using short-lived JSON Web Tokens (JWTs). The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is an independent cloud for Europe entirely located within the European Union (EU), designed to help customers meet t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AgentCore payments is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Published context: August 18, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of AgentCore payments, a capability within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that enables AI agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay for paid APIs, MCPs, and content with just a few lines of code. AgentCore payments provides the security, guardrails, and observability enterprises need to deploy transacting agents ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI models in India. Published context: August 18, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India, with India Geo cross-Region inference. Customers with regulatory requirements of in-country inferencing can now use OpenAI models at scale ensuring that inferencing is processed within India. Cross-Region inference automatically routes inference requests across multiple AWS Regi 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 MSK now supports configuring custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters. Published context: August 17, 2026. You can now easily configure custom domain names on Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters, on either ZooKeeper or KRaft mode for metadata management. This capability helps client applications maintain the same connection endpoints, simplifying cluster migrations, disaster recovery failovers, and scaling operations without reconfiguration. Previously, customers con ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock expands API support and introduces Cross Region Inferencing for OpenAI models. Published context: August 17, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports the OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Sol, Terra, and Luna) on the bedrock-runtime endpoint, with support for the Responses, Converse, and Chat Completions APIs. It also adds support for cross-Region inference, allowing customers to use Global and Geo cross-Region inference to access higher throughput and lower inference costs. Cross-Region ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Quick now supports approval policies for sharing. Published context: August 12, 2026. Amazon Quick now offers approval policies, giving administrators governance controls over how assets are shared within their organization. With approval policies, administrators can require designated approvers to review and approve share requests before access is granted, helping organizations ensure that sharing of sensitive assets is deliberate, compliant 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 MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3. Published context: August 11, 2026. Starting today, Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports MariaDB major version 12.3, the latest Long-Term Support release from the MariaDB community. This release supports MariaDB 12.3.2 minor version. MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, reducing the code changes needed when migrating applications from Oracle to MariaDB. It adds an IS JSON ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SES click tracking now supports custom URL paths for mobile app deep linking. Published context: August 14, 2026. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now makes it easier to support mobile deep linking with the new ses:custom-path HTML attribute. When you add this attribute to an tag, SES carries your path segment through to the tracking URL, so mobile operating systems can match it to your app’s Universal Links (iOS) or App Links (Android) configuration. This enables ...