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Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now provides CDC iterator position. Published context: June 3, 2026. Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now returns an iterator position in the GetRecords response for change data capture (CDC) streams, indicating whether a consumer has reached the tip of the stream or whether additional records may be available. Amazon Keyspaces is a scalable, serverless, and managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service that let ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon OpenSearch UI is now available in GovCloud regions. Published context: June 5, 2026. Amazon OpenSearch Service expands its modernized operational analytics experience to GovCloud regions, including AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), enabling users to gain insights across data spanning managed domains and serverless collections from a single endpoint. The expansion includes Workspaces to enhance collaboration and productivity, 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 SageMaker AI launches multi-turn reinforcement learning for AI agent model customization. Published context: June 3, 2026. Amazon SageMaker AI now offers multi-turn reinforcement learning (RL), a new serverless model customization technique for fine-tuning models on multi-step, agentic tasks. SageMaker AI model customization lets you adapt foundation models using techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR), and reinforcement l 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 Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations. Published context: June 3, 2026. AWS Compute Optimizer now lets you extend the lookback period of your Amazon EBS volume and Amazon ECS rightsizing recommendations from the default 14 days to 32 days, at no additional cost. A longer lookback period allows Compute Optimizer to account for monthly utilization patterns, such as month-end processing, when generating rightsizing recommendations. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media. Published context: June 2, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server launches Bring Your Own Media (BYOM) for Microsoft SQL Server. With BYOM, customers who migrate SQL Server applications from on-premises environments can adopt a managed database service on AWS and reuse their existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses, including Software Assurance, through Microsoft ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance. Published context: June 1, 2026. Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom IAM permissions boundaries, so organizations that enforce Service Control Policies (SCPs) requiring permissions boundaries on all IAM roles can adopt SageMaker Unified Studio without modifying their security posture. When a user creates a project, SageMaker Unified Studio provisions three IAM roles: a proje ...

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. ...