AWS

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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam. Published context: June 19, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This new Local Zone is one of the first AWS Local Zones in the Asia Pacific with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to meet dat ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in th ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances. Published context: June 16, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches memory-optimized X2m database instances. Based on the Amazon EC2 X2iedn instance, X2m database instances provide the Amazon RDS Optimize CPU feature, which allows customers to reduce SQL Server software licensing costs by 50% or more compared to Amazon RDS x2iedn database instances for m ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL expand Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 2029. Published context: June 17, 2026. Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition and Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL now offer Amazon RDS Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, from the previous end date of February 28, 2027. This applies to Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) and RDS for MySQL version 5.7, giving customers additional time to plan ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform now supports model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads. Published context: June 16, 2026. AWS Transform now offers a model-to-model migration custom transformation that assesses your generative AI workloads and produces a comprehensive migration plan for moving from third-party providers to Amazon Bedrock. The AI-powered agent scans your codebase, identifies every AI SDK and model in use, gathers your migration requirements through interactive qu ...