AWS What's New

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Grok 4.3 from xAI is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: July 30, 2026. xAI’s Grok 4.3 model is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). With this launch, xAI joins Amazon Bedrock as a model provider in AWS GovCloud (US-West), giving you even more choice as you build generative AI applications across reasoning, agentic, and enterprise workflows. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model that offers configurable reaso ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions. Published context: July 31, 2026. AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises servers, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon EC ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Gemma 4 models are now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: July 30, 2026. The Gemma 4 family of open-weight models from Google DeepMind on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). With Gemma 4, you can build generative AI applications across reasoning, multimodal understanding, agentic, and software engineering workflows. The Gemma 4 family on Amazon Bedrock includes three variants - Gemma 4 31B, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, and Gemma 4 E2B ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 29, 2026. Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US), allowing customers to replicate file systems between AWS accounts. EFS Replication enables you to easily maintain an up-to-date replica of your file system in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region of your choice. With this launch, EFS Replication customers can meet business continuity, multi-acco ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation. Published context: July 29, 2026. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a new AWS CloudFormation update policy. When you configure the new AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy and update properties that require instance replacement, CloudFormation automatically triggers an Instance Refresh. With this integration, you can now access Instance Refresh capabilities includi 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 AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Published context: July 28, 2026. AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, allowing customers to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their Console Home dashboard. With the Cost and Usage widget, customers can track month-to-date and forecasted costs, identify savings opportunities, and see how t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub MCP App brings exposure findings into your AI-assisted workflow (Preview). Published context: July 27, 2026. AWS announces the preview of the AWS Security Hub MCP App, a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings your Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop. This capability can help accelerates your security investigations by reducing context switching and manual triage, letting you explore and act on your exposures without leaving yo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control for IAM. Published context: July 27, 2026. Amazon Neptune Database now supports tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, enabling customers to use AWS resource tags and IAM principal tags as conditions in IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to control access to Neptune data-plane operations. Neptune already provides robust security through VPC isolation, TLS encryption, and IAM authentic ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. Published context: July 24, 2026. Agents using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) or Windows 365 Cloud PC can now take calls directly from their virtual desktop session with audio optimization enabled. To get started, IT administrators need to complete a one-time setup for their virtual desktop environment. Once configured, media is redirected from the virtual desktop to the agent’s local ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System , deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Introducing KNFSD File Cache - Now in Preview. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed solution for deploying a scalable, high-speed Network File System (NFS) cache on AWS. KNFSD File Cache mounts exports from one or more source NFS servers, whether on-premises, in another AWS Availability Zone or Region, or in another cloud over AWS Interconnect - m ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). Elastic Disaster Recovery is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It helps minimize downtime and data loss wit ...