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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Introducing KNFSD File Cache - Now in Preview. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the availability of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source, Apache-2.0 licensed solution for deploying a scalable, high-speed Network File System (NFS) cache on AWS. KNFSD File Cache mounts exports from one or more source NFS servers, whether on-premises, in another AWS Availability Zone or Region, or in another cloud over AWS Interconnect - m ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 23, 2026. AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Sonnet 5 on Amazon Bedrock. Claude Sonnet 5 delivers strong performance across coding, professional work, and agentic tasks while maintaining the balance of capability, cost, and speed. For coding, it navigates large codebases, lands multi-file changes, and carries debugging and refactoring tasks through to completion with ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group. Published context: July 23, 2026. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers agent traces and prompts to the same log group as your agent’s logs, giving you unified observability for AI agents in a single Amazon CloudWatch log group. Previously, AgentCore split agent telemetry across multiple destinations trace spans went to the shared aws/spans log group while event logs containing prompts, in ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets. Published context: July 20, 2026. Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options on multi-session fleets. Users streaming on multi-session fleets can now connect their OneDrive or Google Drive accounts and access, save, and sync their cloud-based files directly within their streaming sessions, in addition to the exis ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Selectively log network activity events by identity in AWS CloudTrail. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS launches enhanced event filtering for network activity events for VPC end points, a CloudTrail event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint . Customers can now control which network activity events are logged based on the IAM user identity making the API call. For example, you can configure selectors to log ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Data Exports now provides standardized Amazon Bedrock product metadata. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock in AWS Data Exports (Cost and Usage Report), giving FinOps teams and cloud administrators consistent, structured attributes to understand Bedrock costs. AWS Data Exports lets you create customized exports of your AWS cost and usage data and deliver them to Amazon S3 for querying with Amazo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications. Published context: July 14, 2026. Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills that give AI coding assistants expert, up-to-date guidance for building and operating Flink applications. The skills provide expert guidance for common tasks such as creating applications, troubleshooting, scaling, monitoring, networking configuration, and cost optimization. Customers can lev ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in additional regions. Published context: July 15, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Regions. G7e instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance compared to G6e. Customers can use G7e instances to deploy large language mo ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs. Published context: July 16, 2026. AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) can now automatically re-apply an account’s customizations when that account moves to a different Organizational Unit (OU). Previously, moving an enrolled account between OUs required manually triggering customization re-application, creating operational overhead and risk of configuration drift. With this ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Managed Grafana achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 16, 2026. Amazon Managed Grafana is now a FedRAMP High authorized service in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. Federal agencies, public sector organizations, and other enterprises with FedRAMP High compliance requirements can now use Amazon Managed Grafana to visualize, query, and alert on operational metrics across their AWS and hybrid en ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage. Published context: July 15, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports intelligent storage tiering, which automatically classifies your log data across three storage tiers - Standard (existing), Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access based on access patterns. This allows you to store logs in Amazon CloudWatch for extended periods at lower-cost tiers without any operational overhead. Wi ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Security Hub now provides AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets. Published context: July 14, 2026. Today, AWS announces that AWS Security Hub now provides an AI inventory, giving central security teams a continuously updated, organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture. As organizations rapidly deploy AI agents, models, and pipelines, security teams may lack visibility into what AI assets exist across their organization. Without central ...