AWS

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups. Published context: May 5, 2026. AWS Backup for Amazon EKS now completes cluster state backups up to 10x faster. This performance improvement enables you to back up Amazon EKS clusters with a large numbers of namespaces and Kubernetes resources significantly faster, reducing backup windows from days to hours for the largest clusters. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed, and cost-eff ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: May 5, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore brings enterprise-grade agentic AI capabilities to workloads with elevated compliance needs in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AgentCore is a platform for building, deploying, and operating AI agents securely at scale—without managing infrastructure. With AgentCore, organizations can accelerate agents from prototype to production 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 FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Published context: May 4, 2026. Amazon FSx, a fully-managed service that makes it easy and cost effective to launch, run, and scale feature-rich, high-performance file systems in the cloud, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Amazon FSx lets you choose between four widely-used file systems: NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS. It supports a wid ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports read replica with additional storage volumes. Published context: May 1, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports read replicas for database instances with additional storage volumes. Additional storage volumes allow customers to scale database storage up to 256 TiB by adding up to three storage volumes, each with up to 64 TiB, in addition to the primary storage volume. With this launch, for dat ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported General availability of AWS for SAP MCP Server in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. Published context: April 23, 2026. Today, we’re announcing the General Availability of the AWS for SAP MCP Server on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, purpose-built to connect AI agents directly to SAP ERP systems, securely and at scale. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and SAP’s Open Data Protocol (OData) standards, this solution addresses the challenge of making SAP business data and proce ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins. Published context: May 1, 2026. Amazon CloudFront now supports WebSockets traffic through Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, enabling you to use CloudFront as the single entry point for real-time applications hosted entirely in private subnets. WebSockets support extends VPC origins to applications that require persistent, bidirectional connections between clients and servers, such as ch 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 DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB . Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infr ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB . Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infr ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: April 28, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Milan) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the ...