AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect Customer launches agent-to-agent collaboration. Published context: September 22, 2026. Amazon Connect Customer now supports agent-to-agent collaboration, giving customers the choice to bring in specialized AI agents during a live interaction to resolve a customer request. With this launch, Connect Customer AI agents can collaborate with each other, and with AI agents outside Connect Customer, over the open agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol through ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: September 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-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. The R8i a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources. Published context: September 25, 2026. Amazon Transcribe now lets you encrypt your custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest with a customer-managed AWS KMS key that you own and control. Previously, these custom resources were always encrypted with an AWS owned key. Now you can supply your own symmetric AWS KMS key when you create or update these resources ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub AI Inventory adds Azure self-hosted instance support. Published context: September 22, 2026. AWS Security Hub AI Inventory now supports discovering and cataloging AI assets running on self-hosted instances in Microsoft Azure. This expansion extends Security Hub’s existing self-hosted discovery capabilities beyond AWS, enabling central security teams to gain a continuously updated, organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture across ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses for enterprise scale. Published context: September 24, 2026. Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses with a new enhanced Custom event bus that lets you build event-driven applications that decouple teams and can scale with your organization. Create a custom event bus, share it across accounts, and now teams can publish and consume events with strict ordering, open event formats, built-in retention, and support for a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Salesforce and Zendesk as native data source connectors. Published context: September 23, 2026. AWS announces Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now sync Salesforce knowledge articles and Zendesk articles and community posts directly into their managed knowledge base. Previously, bringing content from these platforms into Be ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion. Published context: September 23, 2026. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data. This capability simplifies data ingestion for workloads where record ordering is not required, eliminating hot p ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-first observability for agents and applications. Published context: September 23, 2026. AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an evolution of Amazon CloudWatch. Omni is an AI-powered observability experience organized around your teams and the applications they run, so that you can observe and troubleshoot your applications and agents in one place. It combines the interoperability of OpenTelemetry with the scale and ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EVS now in scope for FedRAMP Class C. Published context: September 21, 2026. The Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) service is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C (formerly Moderate baseline) in all United States Regions. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region. Published context: September 18, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the South America (São Paulo) region. 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 among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect Talent is now generally available. Published context: September 16, 2026. Amazon Connect Talent is now generally available, giving talent acquisition leaders an AI-powered hiring solution that accelerates candidate selection at scale. Informed by decades of Amazon’s hiring science, Amazon Connect Talent uses AI agents to conduct structured voice interviews, administer evidence based assessments, and score candidates consistently, 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 Express Mode now supports AWS Graviton (ARM64) workloads. Published context: September 18, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service Express Mode now supports specifying ARM64 as the CPU architecture for your service, making it easy to deploy ARM-based container images on AWS Graviton-powered compute and benefit from up to 40% better price-performance compared to x86-based instances. Amazon ECS Express Mode makes it easy to rapidly launch containerized app ...