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Faster nodes, smarter scaling: What’s new inside Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Auto Modeby Sajjan Gundapuneedi on June 23, 2026 at 3:39 pmIn this post, we walk through the performance and scalability improvements we shipped across the four pillars of EKS Auto Mode: runtime, compute, storage, and networking.
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Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control: AWS Lambda introduces MicroVMsby Micah Walter on June 22, 2026 at 10:40 pmAWS launches a new serverless compute primitive, AWS Lambda MicroVMs. VM-level, isolated sandboxes with no shared kernel or resources between sessions. Rapid launch and resume, full lifecycle control, state preservation up to 8 hours, no infrastructure to manage.
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Building and running custom code transformations without leaving your editorby David Hasani on June 22, 2026 at 10:37 pmCustom code transformations are the work that no off-the-shelf migrator covers for you. Moving your services off an internal library, enforcing your team’s error-handling conventions, standardizing logging across your fleet of services: that work piles up on your backlog because general-purpose tools weren’t written with your codebase in mind. AWS Transform custom tackles that kind
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Amazon EKS now supports control plane egress through your VPCby Aaresh Sharma on June 22, 2026 at 4:20 pmToday, we’re announcing customer-routed control plane egress, a new capability that you can use to route Kubernetes control plane traffic through your own Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This includes admission webhook callbacks, OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider lookups, and aggregate API server requests. With this feature, you can apply the same VPC routing, security group, endpoint policy, and AWS Network Firewall controls that you use for your data plane to the Kubernetes API Server’s customer-controllable outbound traffic on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters.
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Prevent data exfiltration: AWS egress controls for cloud workloadsby Meriem SMACHE on June 22, 2026 at 3:53 pmWhen securing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, teams naturally prioritize inbound controls, firewalls, WAFs, and access policies, because that’s where the most visible threats originate. Outbound traffic, on the other hand, tends to get less attention. It’s often left open by default to avoid breaking application dependencies and because the risk feels less immediate.
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AWS Weekly Roundup: NY Summit recap, Local Zone in Hanoi, Grok 4.3 in Bedrock, price reductions, and more (June 22, 2026)by Channy Yun (윤석찬) on June 22, 2026 at 2:46 pmLast week AWS Summit New York City brought together thousands of customers, partners, and builders for a free, one-day event showcasing the latest in cloud and AI innovation. Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI at AWS unveiled a stack of AI launches in his keynote, all built around one thesis: agents that compound value
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Feature Flag Orchestration with AWS DevOps Agent and LaunchDarklyby Greg Eppel on June 19, 2026 at 9:08 pmIntroduction Organizations that use feature flags alongside incident response tooling often connect the two manually. When an outage occurs, engineers must identify which flags are relevant, decide whether to disable them, and coordinate the change across teams. This manual process adds latency at the moment it matters most. You can use AWS DevOps Agent and
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Supercharge your cloud operations with the Kiro power for AWS DevOps Agentby Shashiraj Jeripotula on June 19, 2026 at 8:51 pmWhen an alarm fires at 2 AM, the first thing most engineers do is grep logs, check recent deployments, and trace code paths. However, the context they need — metrics, traces, topology, configurations — lives in a separate browser tabs and applications. What if your IDE could bring that cloud intelligence directly to your code,
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Accelerate Incident Resolution with PagerDuty and AWS DevOps Agentby Shan Kandaswamy on June 19, 2026 at 7:21 pmWhen something breaks in production, you find out fast. Understanding why it broke, before the damage spreads, is the hard part. That is where Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams lose the most time. Think about the last time you got paged at 2 a.m. The alert said something broke, not why. You open four or
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Production-Ready Autonomous Incident Resolution with AWS DevOps Agent (now GA) and Datadog MCP Serverby Nina Chen on June 18, 2026 at 10:57 pmThis post was co-written with Bharadwaj Tanikella (AI/ML Product Engineering Leader) and Mohammad Jama (Product Marketing Manager) from Datadog. In December 2025, we showed how AWS DevOps Agent and Datadog MCP Server could work together to autonomously correlate monitoring data with the infrastructure deployed and configured on AWS to resolve incidents in minutes instead of
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Announcing Amazon EC2 G7 instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUsby Daniel Abib on June 18, 2026 at 9:22 pmAnnouncing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7 instances, delivering high performance GPU acceleration for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads.
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Amazon ECS introduces new high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scalingby Channy Yun (윤석찬) on June 18, 2026 at 9:06 pmAmazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service auto scaling automatically adjusts task counts to meet workload demand with comprehensive scaling policies, including predictive scaling for recurring traffic patterns, scheduled scaling for planned events, and target tracking to scale dynamically on real-time metrics. You can choose proactive scaling by using predictive scaling (automatic) and scheduled scaling
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Accelerate security investigations with Kiro CLIby Sibasankar Behera on June 18, 2026 at 7:24 pmWhen a security event occurs in your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment, rapid response is critical. However security teams often struggle with time-consuming, manual processes that slow down investigations. Analysts must recall complex AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) syntax for multiple services, manually correlate findings across Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, and other security tools,
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Spring 2026 SOC 1 and 2 reports are now available in OSCAL formatby Thomas Fischer on June 18, 2026 at 4:50 pmAmazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to release the Spring 2026 System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 and 2 reports in machine-readable OSCAL format alongside the PDF version of the reports. The reports cover 188 services over the 12-month period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, giving customers a full year of assurance.
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PostgreSQL 18 on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS: Performance enhancementsby Nazneen Jafri on June 17, 2026 at 10:29 pmThis is Part 1 of a two-part series covering the key features in PostgreSQL 18. In this post, we focus on performance enhancements: skip scan optimization for multicolumn indexes, enhanced EXPLAIN output, automatic removal of unnecessary self-joins, and several vacuum and autovacuum improvements that help keep your database running efficiently.
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PostgreSQL 18 on Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS: Security, monitoring, and developer enhancementsby Nazneen Jafri on June 17, 2026 at 10:29 pm
In Part 1 of this series, we explored the performance enhancements in PostgreSQL 18, including skip scan optimization, enhanced EXPLAIN output, automatic self-join removal, and vacuum/autovacuum improvements. In this second part, we focus on security, monitoring, developer productivity, and logical replication enhancements that improve operational efficiency and the overall developer experience.
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Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026by AWS News Blog Team on June 17, 2026 at 4:36 pm
A recap of the top announcements from AWS’s New York Summit 2026
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Deep dive into Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL lock analysis with CloudWatch Database Insightsby Kanhaiya Lal on June 17, 2026 at 4:06 pmIn this post, we show you how to use Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights for lock analysis in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. You learn how to enable the feature, interpret lock tree visualizations, resolve common lock-related issues, and maintain optimal database performance. This lock tree analysis feature also applies to Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
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Introducing AWS Continuum: Security at machine speedby Chet Kapoor on June 17, 2026 at 3:34 pmWhat we believe We’ve been thinking deeply about enterprise security. The operating model that served us for the past decade (collect telemetry, store it, query it, build dashboards to watch it) is no longer keeping pace. We need to shift to the new world: telemetry, context, reasoning, and actions. An approach that produces outcomes. The
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Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applicationsby Daniel Abib on June 17, 2026 at 3:09 pmAmazon Bedrock’s new Fully Managed Knowledge Bases simplifies building enterprise RAG pipelines by providing native data connectors Smart Parsing for automatic multi-format data preparation, and an Agentic Retriever for complex multi-step queries—all integrated with AgentCore Gateway so developers can focus on business outcomes rather than infrastructure management.