Cloud Managed Services

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Published context: July 21, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 brings AI integration directly into the database engine, enabling customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL without additional middleware. Customers running RDS for SQL Server can ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece to help meet local data residency require ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8g and M8g database instances in additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 15, 2026. AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora (MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility) and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Melbourne, Malaysia), Europe (London, Paris, Zurich), AWS GovCloud (US-East), South America (Sao Paulo), and Mexico (Central) regions. Additionally, M8g ins ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate. Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can now use Aurora DSQL to build applications and run workloads that are subject to FedRAMP Moderate compliance requirements. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program th ...

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 ...