AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers. Published context: October 1, 2026. AWS Budgets lets you set custom cost and usage thresholds and alerts you by email when your spending crosses the threshold. AWS Budgets now verifies new email subscribers before sending them budget alerts. When you add an email address to a budget notification, AWS Budgets sends a verification email to that address, and the address begins receiving notificat ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview. Published context: October 1, 2026. AWS announces the preview of AWS Well-Architected Agent, a AI-powered service that is the next-gen evolution of AWS Trusted Advisor and the AWS Well-Architected Tool. The agent analyzes and optimizes AWS infrastructure across cost, security, performance, and reliability, delivering contextualized recommendations prioritized by business goals. It automaticall 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-6 Astra now supports UltraFast mode on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: September 30, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of UltraFast mode for GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Ultrafast is a premium speed tier for GPT-6 Astra built for workloads where speed matters most. According to OpenAI, Ultrafast delivers up to 6x faster inference in the API, with up to 300 tokens per second. The Amazon Bedrock inference engine delivers the ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data. Published context: September 30, 2026. Starting today, you can directly query operational data together with data stored in data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools, without extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines or data duplication. Applications increasingly need access to data from data lakes, often stored in Apache Iceberg and ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, is now available in preview. Published context: September 29, 2026. Developed jointly by AWS and OpenAI, Bedrock Managed Agents (BMA) is built on a customized version of OpenAI’s Agents API engineered to be AWS-native and integrated with AWS resources. You can now build agents optimized for OpenAI models that run entirely inside AWS with the identities, permissions, and governance controls you already use. BMA manages how th ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 13.23-rds.20260514, 12.22-rds.20260514 and 11.22-rds.20260514. Published context: September 29, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 13.23-rds.20260514, 12.22-rds.20260514, and 11.22-rds.20260514. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional years of fixes for critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and bugs beyond a major version’s end of standard suppor ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: September 29, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. An upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6.1 Sol delivers exceptionally strong performance on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work. According to OpenAI, it approaches GPT-6 Astra across demanding evaluations at roughly one-fifth of the cost, giving developers more ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: September 28, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.7, a frontier model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work, with US Geo and Global cross-Region inference. Grok 4.7 builds on Grok 4.6 with better mixed-document handling, more dependable repo-scale coding with planning and error recovery, and enhanced browser-use agents for form fills and portal navig ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange. Published context: September 24, 2026. Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. RDS for PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher support modification of the ssl_groups parameter. You can select cryptographic groups from the RDS for PostgreSQL allow lis ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: September 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) 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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS DataSync launches a monitoring dashboard for tracking task executions across your account. Published context: September 25, 2026. AWS DataSync now provides a monitoring dashboard in the DataSync console that gives you visibility into your data transfers across your account. For each task execution, you can see its status, data and file transfer rates, duration, and the total data and files transferred. You can filter executions by status, task, task mode, execution ID, or start time to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: September 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) 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. These C8i ...