Cloud Automation

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS FinOps Agent is now available in preview. Published context: June 9, 2026. Today, AWS announces the preview of AWS FinOps Agent, a frontier agent for FinOps practitioners and engineering teams that answers cost questions, surfaces optimization opportunities, automatically investigates cost anomalies, and runs recurring FinOps workflows on a schedule you define. With the AWS FinOps Agent, you can ask questions about your AWS costs a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Managed Instances expands to additional AWS Regions. Published context: June 8, 2026. AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions, except Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Auckland). LMI lets you run Lambda functions on managed Amazon EC2 instances, giving you access to specialized compute configurations and EC2 pricing advantages while maintaining Lambda’s ope ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 1, 2026. You can now use GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 in production workloads on Amazon Bedrock and build with Codex for AI-powered software development, with the same security, governance, and operational controls you already use across AWS. GPT-5.5 is the most capable model from OpenAI, excelling at agentic coding, data analysis, and multi-step autonomous tasks. It runs on ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock adds Amazon CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs. Published context: June 1, 2026. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that provides secure, enterprise-grade access to high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies, enabling you to build and scale generative AI applications. Amazon Bedrock customers can now monitor inference traffic to the bedrock-mantle endpoint with Amazon CloudWatch metrics, the same way they already ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration. Published context: June 2, 2026. AWS today announced that AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 (CUR 2.0) provides new integration options with AWS Athena and AWS Redshift. This capability allows customers to analyze the data from their AWS CUR 2.0 in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL without building custom data warehouse solutions, bringing feature parity with CUR 1.0 i ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Step Functions adds AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step. Published context: June 3, 2026. AWS Step Functions now enables you to add AI agent reasoning steps to your workflow through an optimized integration with the managed harness (currently in preview) in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service that orchestrates AWS services with built-in error handling, parallel execution, and human approval steps. The AgentCo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-5.4 generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: June 3, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports GPT‑5.4 from OpenAI in AWS GovCloud (US-West) — giving government and regulated industry customers access to OpenAI’s most capable frontier model for professional work, backed by the enterprise-grade security and goverment compliance scope of AWS GovCloud (US). GPT‑5.4 supports native computer-use capabilities, and deep reasoning ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability. Published context: June 2, 2026. Today, AWS announces durability support for Amazon ElastiCache. Durability enables you to use ElastiCache for workloads that require microsecond read latency but cannot tolerate data loss. With durability support, ElastiCache now stores data durably across multiple Availability Zones (AZs) using a Multi-AZ transactional log to enable fast failover, database 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 News Blog recently reported Get started with OpenAI GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 models, and Codex on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: June 1, 2026. OpenAI frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4, and Codex, the OpenAI coding agent, are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Deploy frontier models on Bedrock’s high performance inference engine with built-in security, governance, and pay-per-token pricing. 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 S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions. Published context: May 29, 2026. Amazon S3 Tables are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Regions. Amazon S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, streamlining tabular data storage at scale. S3 Tables automatically perform continual table maintenance to optimize query efficiency and reduce storage costs as you ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier. Published context: May 29, 2026. AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps multicloud Interconnect, making it easier to privately connect your workloads on AWS and other public clouds. Customers have been adopting multicloud strategies while migrating more applications to the cloud. With AWS Interconnect - multicloud, AWS simplified the way cloud services providers (CSPs) off ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance. Published context: May 29, 2026. Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance, helping organizations plan, route, and track long-running follow-up work. For example, an insurance team managing an auto repair claim can schedule future tasks for an adjuster visit, parts availability check, and repair completion follow-up, with each task routed to the right te ...