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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported FreeRTOS 202604 LTS now available with enhanced security and MQTT v5.0. Published context: May 1, 2026. FreeRTOS 202604 LTS, a new Long Term Support release of the open-source real-time operating system for embedded devices, is now available. This release provides embedded systems developers and Internet of Things (IoT) device manufacturers with feature stability, security updates, and critical bug fixes for two years. It addresses key challenges in embedded s ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron Models Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OSS models (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B) models expanding your ability to build and scale generative AI applications with diverse, high-performance foundation models. This offers the flexibility to leverage OpenAI’s and NVIDIA’s latest models alongside o ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB . Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infr ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Neuron SDK now available with Neuron Agentic Development for NKI kernel development on Trainium. Published context: April 30, 2026. AWS Neuron announces the Neuron Agentic Development capabilities, an open-source collection of agents and skills that equip AI coding assistants to accelerate development on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia . The initial release provides agentic coding capabilities for Neuron Kernel Interface (NKI) kernel development, covering the workflow from authoring to p ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 console. Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon CloudWatch now provides a visual configuration editor for the CloudWatch agent directly in the Amazon EC2 console, enabling you to set up and manage observability for your EC2 instances without hand-editing JSON. The CloudWatch agent collects infrastructure and application metrics, logs, and traces from EC2 instances and sends them to CloudWatch and A ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) region adding to the list of available regions where you can use Amazon DocumentDB . Amazon DocumentDB is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infr ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron Models Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: April 29, 2026. Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI’s open-weight GPT OSS models (120B and 20B) and NVIDIA Nemotron (Nano 9B v2, Nano 12B v2, Nano 30B, Super 120B) models expanding your ability to build and scale generative AI applications with diverse, high-performance foundation models. This offers the flexibility to leverage OpenAI’s and NVIDIA’s latest models alongside o ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents (Limited Preview). Published context: April 28, 2026. AWS and OpenAI are expanding their partnership to bring frontier intelligence to the infrastructure millions of organizations already trust. Enterprises want the most capable AI models and agents, with the security, operational maturity, and data governance that production workloads demand. Today, we’re bringing those together with three new offerings on Ama ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions. Published context: April 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 (Milan) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the ...

Today’s signal AWS News Blog recently reported Top announcements of the What’s Next with AWS, 2026. Published context: April 28, 2026. At the “What’s Next with AWS” 2026 event, AWS launched Amazon Quick—an AI assistant for work with a desktop app and expanded integrations—and expanded Amazon Connect into four agentic AI solutions for supply chain, hiring, customer experience, and healthcare. AWS also expended its partnership with OpenAI, bringing models like GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agen ...