AWS

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags. Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags in events delivered to all destinations including Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda. System-generated tags are metadata labels attached to your bucket by AWS services. You can use these tags to filter events from thousands of buckets with a single EventBridge rule, inste ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 now surfaces the public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs. Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon EC2 now surfaces the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store parameters associated with public AMIs directly in the AMI metadata. When you describe a public AMI, the response includes the associated public SSM parameter, making it easy to discover and reference in your configurations. Previously, finding the SSM parameter associated with a public AM ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8in, M8idn, M8ib, M8idb instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 14, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8in, M8idn network optimized, and M8ib, M8idb EBS optimized instances are available in the AWS US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. The new instances are powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors available only on AWS and deliver up to 43% higher ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads. Published context: July 14, 2026. Amazon GuardDuty now offers AI Protection, expanding threat detection to AWS AI services including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. As organizations rapidly adopt AI, security teams may lack visibility into threats specifically targeting AI workloads, such as anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting attacks, and prompt injection attempts. GuardDuty A 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 OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: July 13, 2026. GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine built for high-performance, security and reliability. GPT-5.6 sets a new standard for intelligence and efficiency, allowing you to solve harder problems in less time and with more int ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations console. Published context: July 10, 2026. AWS Organizations now automatically applies security controls by default when you create a new organization via AWS Organizations console, simplifying initial security configuration by automatically applying core security controls. This approach safeguards multi-account environments by protecting against unintended member account departures from your organiz ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. Published context: July 9, 2026. AWS is announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 Storage Optimized I8g instances in AWS GovCloud (US East, US West) regions. I8g instances offer the best performance in Amazon EC2 for storage-intensive workloads. I8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors that deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation I4g ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances now available in additional regions. Published context: July 10, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) regions. 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. These inst ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules. Published context: July 9, 2026. AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudTrail. This expansion increases built-in governance coverage across AI workloads and core cloud infrastructure. Examples of the new managed rules include evaluatin ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai. Published context: July 7, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Database 26ai, Oracle’s latest Long Term Support Release, with Amazon Bedrock integration which provides access to foundation models such as Anthropic Claude, Amazon Nova, and Meta Llama. With Oracle Database 26ai, you can leverage Oracle’s Select AI feature to generate and run SQL queries from natural language promp ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8ine instances are now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. Published context: July 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8ine instances are available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region. C8ine 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 performance compared to pre ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Certificate Manager now supports the ACME protocol for public certificates. Published context: July 6, 2026. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now allows you to provision a fully managed ACME server endpoint that issues public TLS certificates with a 45 day validity from Amazon Trust Services using any ACMEv2-compatible client, including Certbot, cert-manager for Kubernetes, and acme.sh. With the CA/Browser Forum mandating 47-day certificate lifetimes by 2029, manual m ...