Cloud Operations

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2026 Release Update. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the Oracle July 2026 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c, 21c and 26ai. We recommend upgrading to the July 2026 RU as it includes security updates for Oracle database products. Starting with July 2026 releases, the naming format for an RU in Oracle Database 19c changes t ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. Published context: August 25, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. 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. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better pri ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. Published context: August 28, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. The C8gn instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nit ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: August 27, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances are available in the Europe (Milan) and Europe (Spain) 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 comparable Intel processors in the c ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8id instances are now available in additional regions. R8id instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Malaysia, Sydney), Canada (Central), and Europe (Ireland, Stockholm). R8id instances feature up to 22.8TB of NVMe SSD local instance storage, 3x more than R6id, and provide up to 3.3x higher memory bandwi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. Published context: August 25, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to address Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes and improvements added by the PostgreSQL commu ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: August 24, 2026. GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East), bringing the smartest family of models from OpenAI yet to Bedrock’s next-generation inference engine built for high-performance, security and reliability. GPT-5.6 sets a new standard for intelligence and efficiency, allowing you to solve ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. Published context: August 19, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. These instances, feature 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 R7a instances. R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidt ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control (ABAC), enabling you to use tag-based conditions in your Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to control access to your data streams. ABAC is an authorization strategy that simplifies access management by allowing you to enforce different access levels for multiple teams and applica ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions. Published context: August 20, 2026. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in additional regions. C8gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore), M8gd instances are available in Mexico (Central) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne), and R8gd instances are available in Europe ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle management. Published context: August 20, 2026. Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) announced certificate authority (CA) rotation, enabling customers to rotate their cluster’s CA through a managed lifecycle with automated safeguards. Each Amazon EKS cluster has its own CA that allows encrypted connections to the cluster’s Kubernetes API, and now you can rotate the CA before it expires to ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors. Published context: August 19, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now includes three new processors that parse and enrich log data as it’s ingested: an Amazon RDS log parser, an XML parser and a GeoIP enrichment processor. CloudWatch pipelines is a fully managed service that ingests, transforms, and routes telemetry to CloudWatch without managing infrastructure. Log sources often produce data th ...