Cloud Managed Services

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: May 28, 2026. Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. DynamoDB Streams captures time-ordered sequences of item-level modifications in DynamoDB tables, enabling real-time data processing and event-driven architectures. This enhancement allows government agencies and orga ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes. Published context: May 28, 2026. AWS Organizations now automatically emits CloudTrail events to your management account whenever accounts join or leave your organization. These new events—AccountJoinedOrganization and AccountDepartedOrganization—provide security teams and cloud administrators with enhanced visibility into organizational membership changes, helping detect unauthorized activi 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 RDS for Oracle now supports April 2026 Release Update and Supplemental Patch Bundle. Published context: May 29, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle April 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c, and the corresponding Supplemental Patch Bundle for Oracle Database version 19c. We recommend upgrading to the April 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. Starting with Apr ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget. Published context: May 28, 2026. Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Budgets widgets in BCM Dashboards, giving you the flexibility to customize your cost management console with the views that matter most to your organization. You can now monitor AWS Budgets alongside Cost Explorer reports and Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization report ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: May 26, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) 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 a ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication. Published context: May 26, 2026. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now use ENA Express for replication traffic between Availability Zones. ENA Express uses AWS’s Scalable Reliable Datagram (SRD) protocol to optimize network performance by delivering up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth for cross-AZ replication traffic leveraging advanced congestion control and multi-pathing capabilities, and red 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 CloudWatch Logs Insights adds new query commands and functions. Published context: May 21, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights query language now supports 13 new commands and functions that give you more powerful ways to query, transform, and analyze your logs. Customers analyzing logs in CloudWatch Logs Insights often need to perform string manipulation, encode or decode field values, parse non-JSON log formats, or calculate geographic distances, so ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9. Published context: May 8, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users, while enabling organizations to meet data residency requirements by storing and backing up data locally. AWS Local Zones are AWS infrastructure deployments that extend core services, such as compute, storage, networking ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported New agentic migration assessment capabilities now available with AWS Transform. Published context: May 22, 2026. AWS Transform now offers advanced migration assessment capabilities including what-if scenarios, customizable assumptions, flexible file format support, and multiple new total cost of ownership (TCO) assessment features. These latest features let you quickly build a migration business case and accelerate your migration decisions. You can start your migration ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally available. Published context: May 21, 2026. Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL 8.4, a community MySQL Long Term Support (LTS) major version. Aurora MySQL 8.4 launches with compatibility for community MySQL 8.4.7 and introduces aligned version numbering, so the version number you run on Aurora matches the community MySQL version it is compatible with. Aurora also manages the unde ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub now uncovers identity risks from unused access. Published context: May 20, 2026. Today, AWS Security Hub brings identity risk into the same unified console where central security teams already manage threats, exposures, and posture findings. Security Hub now detects unused IAM permissions, roles, and credentials across your AWS organization, helping central security teams identify and reduce identity risk at scale. Until now, managing id ...