Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region. Published context: July 31, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i-flex instances powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids) are available in Europe (Milan) region. These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud provide ...

August 3, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch announces managed Prometheus collectors. Published context: July 31, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from your AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors — enabling you to monitor Amazon EKS, Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon MSK, and Amazon OpenSearch Service workloads without deploying or managing any agents. Previously, getting Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch required deploying, scaling, 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. ...

August 2, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances. Published context: July 31, 2026. Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances with up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. R8i and ...

August 1, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions. Published context: July 31, 2026. AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). AWS CodeDeploy is a fully managed deployment service that automates application deployments to Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises servers, AWS Lambda functions, and Amazon EC ...

July 31, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation. Published context: July 29, 2026. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh as a new AWS CloudFormation update policy. When you configure the new AutoScalingInstanceRefresh update policy and update properties that require instance replacement, CloudFormation automatically triggers an Instance Refresh. With this integration, you can now access Instance Refresh capabilities includi 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. ...

July 30, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region. Published context: July 28, 2026. AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, allowing customers to surface insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their Console Home dashboard. With the Cost and Usage widget, customers can track month-to-date and forecasted costs, identify savings opportunities, and see how t ...

July 29, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control for IAM

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control for IAM. Published context: July 27, 2026. Amazon Neptune Database now supports tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, enabling customers to use AWS resource tags and IAM principal tags as conditions in IAM policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs) to control access to Neptune data-plane operations. Neptune already provides robust security through VPC isolation, TLS encryption, and IAM authentic ...

July 28, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in additional regions

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6in and R6idn instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System , deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth ...

July 27, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). Elastic Disaster Recovery is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It helps minimize downtime and data loss wit ...

July 26, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers. Published context: July 24, 2026. AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations. LMI enables you to run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 instances while maintaining serverless operational simplicity. Capacity providers are resources that let you define ...

July 25, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment. Published context: July 23, 2026. Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment , allowing you to evaluate the latest Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MySQL 9.7 capabilities before they become generally available. MySQL 9.7 is the latest L ...

July 24, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez

AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge. Published context: July 22, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager now automatically publishes events to Amazon EventBridge whenever your secret values change, enabling you to build event-driven workflows that respond in real time to secret updates. Until now, you had to rely on AWS CloudTrail events parsed into EventBridge to know when a secret value changed — requiring you to match multiple API events ...

July 23, 2026 · 3 min · David Gomez