AWS

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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Tag Propagation for Managed Resources. Published context: June 15, 2026. AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, enabling you to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon ENIs. This helps you enforce cost allocation, service control policies (SCPs), and compliance requirements across all resources provisioned by your capacity providers. LMI ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs introduces additional metadata. Published context: June 10, 2026. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs now supports EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting by eliminating the need to manually correlate flow log data with resource metadata. VPC Flow Logs enable you to capture and log information about your VPC network traffic to monitor and troubleshoot n ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported [Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports infrastructure, logs, and traces context for faster troubleshooting](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/cloudwatch-application-signals-supports infrastructure-logs-traces-context-for-faster troubleshooting/). Published context: June 11, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces service health ranking on the application map and new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page. These capabilities let operators triage unhealthy services and inspect the underlying compute environment, log snippets, and trace details in one place, making it easier to find root causes ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing metal-48xl and metal-96xl for Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances. Published context: June 9, 2026. AWS is announcing the general availability of metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances. These instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, available only on AWS and feature the latest sixth generation AWS Nitro cards. Thes ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18. Published context: June 11, 2026. Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, starting with version 18.3. This release brings community improvements to query performance and database management, and introduces support for pg_roaringbitmap, a new extension that performs fast, memory-efficient set operations on large collections of integers. This enabl 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 M9g and M9gd general purpose instances are now available. Published context: June 10, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M9g and M9gd instances , powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed AWS processors, delivering the best price performance for general purpose workloads running on Amazon EC2 . ​​M9g instances serve a broad range of ...