Cloud Managed Services

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regions. Published context: August 6, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei), and AWS Mexico (Central) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Application and Network Load Balancers now support RFC 9151 compliant security policies. Published context: August 4, 2026. AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) now support new TLS-based security policies that comply with RFC 9151 TLS server requirements for Commercial National Security Algorithm (CNSA) 1.0 suite requirements. These policies implement the cryptographic requirements defined by the US National Security Agency (NSA) for secure communic ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions. Published context: August 4, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8g instances are available in AWS Europe (Paris), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Israel (Tel Aviv), and AWS Canada West (Calgary) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 C8g instances ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings now supports up to 10,000 event pollers. Published context: August 3, 2026. AWS Lambda now supports a maximum of 10,000 event pollers for Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings (ESMs), a 5x increase from the previous limit of 2,000. This enables you to reach up to 100,000 concurrent invocations, so you can build highly responsive and scalable event-driven applications with stringent performance requirements. Customers ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...