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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections. Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes three new threat detections that alert security teams when sensitive files are modified on Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads running on Amazon EKS or Amazon ECS. These findings help identify post-compromise attacker activities by monitoring critical system files, including configuration files, authe 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 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 2, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. 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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances are now available. Published context: June 30, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g instances are ideal for workloads such as hi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub CSPM launches AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls. Published context: June 30, 2026. Today, AWS Security Hub CSPM announces the AI Security Best Practices standard, a set of 31 automated security controls that detect when your deployed AI resources do not align with security best practices. Developed by AWS security experts, this standard helps you continuously evaluate your Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker work ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS WAF adds support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. Published context: June 29, 2026. Today, AWS announces general availability of AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) protection for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, enabling you to protect your agentic AI workloads from common web exploits and abuse. As enterprises move agentic applications from prototype to production, this launch gives security and platform teams ability to apply consist ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Published context: June 25, 2026. Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances. M8a instances deliver ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8in instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: June 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8in instances are available in the AWS US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland) regions. C8in instances are powered by custom, sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS. These instances feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards, delivering up to 43% higher performanc ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions. Published context: June 26, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand, New Zealand), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Europe (Milan), and AWS Canada West (Calgary) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Kiro achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: June 25, 2026. Kiro is now FedRAMP High and Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (DoD CC SRG) Impact Level (IL) 4 and 5 authorized in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG IL-4/5 compliance requirements can now use Kiro as their agentic engineering pa ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 announces AMI Watermarks for improved AMI governance. Published context: June 24, 2026. Amazon EC2 introduces AMI watermarks, letting you embed custom identifiers in your private AMIs. Once applied, a watermark automatically carries forward to every AMI derived from the original, whether you copy it across regions or create a new AMI from a running instance. Watermarks also remain visible when you share an AMI with other accounts. This helps yo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch now supports tags on dashboards. Published context: June 24, 2026. A mazon CloudWatch now supports tagging for CloudWatch dashboards, enabling you to organize, categorize, and control access to your dashboards using tags. Tags are key-value pairs that help you identify and manage AWS resources across your environment. With this launch, the PutDashboard API now accepts an optional Tags parameter, allowing you to assign up to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS announces faster service auto scaling. Published context: June 18, 2026. Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. In AWS benchmarking tests, time to trigger scale-out improved from 363 seconds to 86 seconds (76% faster, 4.2x), and total time to scale and provision new tasks improved from 386 seconds to ...