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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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus 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 Ama ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS AppConfig launches managed experimentation tools for A/B testing. Published context: July 1, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of experimentation tools in AWS AppConfig, a new capability that enables you to run A/B tests and feature experiments without building or managing separate experimentation infrastructure. Built on 25+ years of Amazon experimentation best practices, AWS AppConfig experimentation tools use AI-driven guidance to hel ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections. Published context: July 1, 2026. Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes three new threat detections that alert security teams when sensitive files are modified on Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads running on Amazon EKS or Amazon ECS. These findings help identify post-compromise attacker activities by monitoring critical system files, including configuration files, authe 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 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: July 2, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors available only on AWS. X8i instances are SAP-certified and deliver the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances are now available. Published context: June 30, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C9g and C9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. C9g instances are ideal for workloads such as hi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub CSPM launches AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls. Published context: June 30, 2026. Today, AWS Security Hub CSPM announces the AI Security Best Practices standard, a set of 31 automated security controls that detect when your deployed AI resources do not align with security best practices. Developed by AWS security experts, this standard helps you continuously evaluate your Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Amazon SageMaker work ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS WAF adds support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. Published context: June 29, 2026. Today, AWS announces general availability of AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) protection for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, enabling you to protect your agentic AI workloads from common web exploits and abuse. As enterprises move agentic applications from prototype to production, this launch gives security and platform teams ability to apply consist ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Published context: June 25, 2026. Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. M8a instances are powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to M7a instances. M8a instances deliver ...