AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes enhanced observability metrics. Published context: August 6, 2026. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes additional performance and session health metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, enabling IT administrators to gain deeper visibility into their application streaming workloads. These new metrics span network performance, compute resource utilization, and session lifecycle events — all available at no additional cost. With 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 supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instances. Published context: August 6, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instances, enabling you to run your workloads on GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of an NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPU with 3 GB of GPU memory. Fractional GPUs give you the flexibility to right-size your containers for small-model AI inference, model expe ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn nodes. Published context: August 6, 2026. Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn node families for Valkey and Memcached. Graviton4-based nodes provide up to 47% higher throughput, up to 43% lower P99 latency, and up to 31% better price-performance for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based nodes of equivalent sizes on Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, depending on node famil ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 new EC2 instance types. Published context: August 7, 2026. Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 additional Amazon EC2 instance types for managed EC2 fleets and managed container fleets. Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service that enables game developers and studios to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated game servers in the cloud. This expansion gives customer access to the latest compute-optimized an ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS WAF now supports a Salt Security managed rule group for API and MCP threat detection. Published context: August 6, 2026. AWS WAF now supports the Salt Security managed rule group, available through AWS Marketplace: Salt Managed Rules for AWS WAF - AI Agent & API Security . This rule group gives AWS WAF customers detection and mitigation for API-focused attacks and for traffic from AI agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints, without writing or maintaining custom rules ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated RPKI for BYOIP prefixes. Published context: August 7, 2026. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) management for Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) prefixes. Network administrators can centrally monitor BGP route protection and automate Route Origin Authorization (ROA) management across their organizatio ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds memory, policy, and harness in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: August 7, 2026. Today, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduces new capabilities in AWS GovCloud (US-West). AgentCore is the platform to build, connect, and optimize agents. With these capabilities, teams operating in regulated environments can build context-aware agents and take them from prototype to production faster, with the controls needed to scale across their organizatio ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan) region. Published context: August 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Milan) 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 R8i and R8i-flex instances of ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Cognito now available as a skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS. Published context: August 7, 2026. Amazon Cognito is now available as a core skill (aws-auth) in the Agent Toolkit for AWS . AI coding agents using the toolkit can now set up, configure, secure, and troubleshoot Amazon Cognito using best-practice workflows, helping developers implement secure sign-in flows for users, AI agents, and microservices faster. The Amazon Cognito (aws-auth) skill cov ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AgentCore runtime instances are now generally available. Published context: August 6, 2026. Today, AWS announces runtime instances, a new feature in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that lets you run agents on your own Amazon EC2 instances without managing infrastructure. AgentCore runtime provides purpose-built infrastructure to deploy and operate AI agents securely at scale. Runtime instances complement the existing microVM-based option in AgentCore runt 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 M8g instances now available in additional regions. Published context: August 6, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei), and AWS Mexico (Central) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Glue Data Quality makes ETL anomaly detection free and improves anomaly predictions. Published context: August 5, 2026. AWS Glue Data Quality now offers improved anomaly detection with a new observation mode that reduces detection of false anomalies and removes pricing for anomaly detection in ETL jobs. Customers using notebook-based or exploratory workflows now benefit from smarter anomaly detection that gracefully handles irregular data arrival intervals. This new capabilit ...