7/16/2026, 12:00:00 AM ~ 7/17/2026, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon Managed Grafana achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)

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 environments while meeting their strict security and compliance requirements.\n Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service based on open-source Grafana that makes it easier for you to visualize and analyze your operational data at scale. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. 

For more details about Amazon Managed Grafana in AWS GovCloud (US), visit the Amazon Managed Grafana GovCloud documentation or contact your AWS account team for more information. To learn more, visit the Amazon Managed Grafana product page.

Track cost efficiency trends directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with the new Cost Efficiency widget

Today, AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) announces support for Cost Efficiency widget in BCM Dashboards. You can now view cost efficiency trends alongside Cost Explorer, Budgets, and reports for Savings Plans and Reserved Instance coverage and utilization reports. This provides a unified view of your spending, commitments, and optimization performance in a single, tailored dashboard.\n The Cost Efficiency widget displays your efficiency score over time, showing how your efficiency across your AWS environment changes over time. You can view efficiency by AWS account, region, or overall, and adjust granularity to analyze trends at the level that matters most to your team. By adding one or more Cost Efficiency widget to a BCM Dashboard, you can monitor your optimization performance from your existing cost management workflows. The widget links directly to the Cost Optimization Hub console so you can easily take actions when you have recommendations for savings opportunities.

With the Cost Efficiency widget, you can create a unified view of your spending, commitments, budgets, and optimization performance. The widget is fully integrated with dashboard exports and can be included in scheduled email reports or downloaded as a CSV or PDF for offline analysis. They are also included with cross-account dashboard sharing.

The Cost Efficiency widget for BCM Dashboards is available in all AWS commercial Regions at no additional charge. To learn more, visit our User Guide.

Amazon EC2 now surfaces the public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs

Amazon EC2 now surfaces the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Parameter Store parameters associated with public AMIs directly in the AMI metadata. When you describe a public AMI, the response includes the associated public SSM parameter, making it easy to discover and reference in your configurations.\n Previously, finding the SSM parameter associated with a public AMI required searching through SSM parameter namespaces manually. Now, when you describe a public AMI, the response includes the public SSM parameter it is associated with. This allows you to discover the SSM parameter for a public AMI easily and use it as an alias that always resolves to the latest version, simplifying AMI updates across your infrastructure. This capability is available to all customers at no additional cost in all AWS regions including AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and AWS China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD, and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, please visit the documentation.

Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags

Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags in events delivered to all destinations including Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and AWS Lambda. System-generated tags are metadata labels attached to your bucket by AWS services. You can use these tags to filter events from thousands of buckets with a single EventBridge rule, instead of listing each bucket name individually.\n To get started, enable S3 Event Notifications on your general purpose buckets through the AWS Management Console, AWS SDK, or AWS CLI. If AWS services like AWS CloudFormation have already applied system-generated tags to your buckets, S3 automatically includes them in new event notifications. System-generated tags in S3 Event Notifications are available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions and require no changes to existing configurations. To learn more, visit the S3 Event Notifications documentation.

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 19 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database.\n PostgreSQL 19 introduces parallel autovacuum with configurable worker limits, so routine maintenance no longer bottlenecks large databases. The new REPACK CONCURRENTLY command rebuilds tables and reclaims storage online, keeping production databases accessible without third-party extensions. Native SQL Property Graph Queries (SQL/PGQ) let you express relationship traversals directly in standard SQL, eliminating separate application logic. Logical replication now synchronizes sequence values automatically and can be enabled dynamically without a server restart, reducing planned downtime. Beta 2 adds bug fixes and stability improvements from the Beta 1 testing period, including refinements to parallel autovacuum worker coordination and REPACK CONCURRENTLY lock handling. Please refer to PostgreSQL community announcement for more details. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are retained for a maximum period of 60 days and are automatically deleted after the retention period. Amazon RDS database snapshots that are created in the preview environment can only be used to create or restore database instances within the preview environment. You can use the PostgreSQL dump and load functionality to import or export your databases from the preview environment. Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment database instances are priced as per the pricing in the US East (Ohio) Region.

AWS Sustainability service now includes water withdrawals data

Customers can now view annual water withdrawals data associated with their AWS workloads in AWS Sustainability, alongside existing carbon emissions data. This enhancement helps organizations gain comprehensive visibility into their environmental impact across carbon and water.\n Water withdrawals data is available by AWS Region, service, and AWS account on an annual basis through the AWS Sustainability console and API. The data represents the total volume of water withdrawn for data center operations, with efficiency improvements reflected as lower withdrawal volumes.

AWS Sustainability water withdrawals data is available at no additional charge in all AWS Regions where the service is available.

To get started visit the AWS Sustainability user guide. For more information, see the AWS Sustainability console page.

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances (u7in-24tb.224xlarge) are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region. U7i instances are part of the AWS 7th generation and are powered by custom fourth-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Sapphire Rapids). U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, enabling customers to scale transaction processing throughput in a fast-growing data environment. U7i instances offer up to 45% better price performance over existing U-1 instances.\n U7in-24TB instances deliver 896 vCPUs and support up to 100 Gbps of Amazon EBS bandwidth for faster data loading and backups, 200 Gbps of network bandwidth, and ENA Express. U7i instances are ideal for customers running mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.

To learn more about U7i instances, visit the High Memory instances page.

Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of two new RG instance sizes - rg.large and rg.12xlarge. These new sizes deliver the same Graviton-powered performance benefits as existing RG instances, including up to 2.4x faster query performance than previous-generation RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU, giving you more flexibility to right-size your provisioned clusters for any workload.\n rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes are available on the current track (P202) only. Customers on the trailing track (P201) can continue to use rg.xlarge and rg.4xlarge. Existing RA3 clusters can migrate to RG instances using Snapshot and Restore, Elastic Resize, or Classic Resize. RG instances are available with flexible pricing options, including On-Demand, and 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances with No Upfront payment.

The new rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes are now available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), Canada (Central), Mexico (Central), South America (São Paulo), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Taiwan), Asia Pacific (Thailand), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). To get started, refer to the following resources:

Amazon Redshift node types

RA3 to RG upgrade guide

Amazon Redshift cluster versions

Amazon Redshift pricing

Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA

You can now transition objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) as soon as the day they are created, without the previous 30-day minimum retention in S3 Standard. These storage classes offer up to 40% lower storage costs than S3 Standard while still providing millisecond access when needed, making them ideal for backups, log analytics, and compliance workloads where data becomes cold within hours or days.\n To get started, create new S3 Lifecycle rules to transition objects to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA as soon as 0 days after creation. You can configure these rules using the S3 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs. This update is available in all AWS Regions where S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA are available. For pricing details, visit the Amazon S3 pricing page. To learn more, visit the overview page and documentation.

AWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support to six additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults are now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary).\n With logically air-gapped vaults now available in these Regions, you can store immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted using AWS owned keys or customer-managed keys. You can back up directly to logically air-gapped vaults, copy backups across accounts and Regions, share vaults for recovery using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM), and safeguard vault access during account compromise using Multi-party approval.

To get started, visit the AWS Backup console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. For a complete list of supported Regions and features, visit the AWS Backup documentation. To learn more about logically air-gapped vaults, visit the feature documentation and pricing page.

AWS Backup extends restore testing support to six additional AWS Regions

AWS Backup restore testing is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary).\n Restore testing helps you automate and periodically run restore tests of supported AWS resources across storage, compute, and database services. You can create restore testing plans that automatically select recovery points, run restores on a schedule, and measure restore job completion time against your recovery time objectives (RTO). This helps you evaluate recovery readiness and meet regulatory and compliance requirements for disaster recovery and business continuity.

To get started, visit the AWS Backup console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), or AWS SDKs. For a complete list of supported Regions and features, visit the AWS Backup documentation To learn more about restore testing, visit the feature documentation and pricing page.

AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs

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 capability, you can opt in to automatic re-application in your AFT deployment, so accounts stay consistent with their OU-specific configuration as soon as they’re moved.\n To enable this capability, set aft_customization_triggers = [“account_move”] in your AFT configuration. The re-application workflow skips the bootstrap and provisioning phases, running only global and account-level customizations for faster execution. Individual accounts can be excluded from this behavior by setting account_skip_customization_triggers = “true”, giving teams precise control over which accounts participate in automated re-application.

This release also includes additional improvements: support for custom Terraform Cloud and Enterprise workspace naming variables, tighter access controls on the AFT logging bucket, and improved scaling for large-scale AWS Enterprise Support enrollment. Organizations enforcing compliance or security baselines tied to OU membership will benefit most from these combined enhancements.

This capability is available today across all AWS regions where AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform is offered. To learn more about enabling automatic customization re-application and upgrading to the latest AFT release, visit the AFT documentation and review the AFT release notes on GitHub.

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