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AWS gave CloudShell an "edit" command on 17 August 2026 and aimed it at IaC and agentic work. VPC environments have no persistent storage, and sessions idle out in 20 to 30 minutes.
AWS calls MariaDB 12.3 the latest LTS release. MariaDB's own calendar gives it three years, not five: EOL 12 June 2029 against 29 May 2029 for 11.4, which shipped two years earlier.
Amazon SES shipped ses:custom-path on 14 August 2026 so click-tracking URLs can match Universal Links and App Links. The AWS example uses Apple legacy paths syntax, and a bad value fails silently.
AWS made AgentCore payments generally available on 18 August 2026 in 12 Regions. The pricing page says no additional charge, then bills an API that does not exist and omits both gas fees and a mandatory subscription.
AWS raised the Amazon ECR replication rule limit to 25 per registry on 17 August 2026. The quota table shows ap-east-2 still capped at 10, and the 25 unique-destination ceiling is unchanged.
AWS says deny by default is available wherever Amazon Quick is. Its own region table lists 26 regions and marks 8 for agentic features. Mumbai, Ohio and Singapore are not among them.
Amazon Quick's Microsoft Purview DLP shipped 14 August 2026. The user guide caps you at 1 active configuration, skips files over 500 MB, and gives warn no user-visible effect during a knowledge base sync.
AWS gave Aurora DSQL a CloudWatch Database Insights metric on 20 August 2026. The mode model does not list DSQL and the AWS Price List API carries no Aurora DSQL Database Insights SKU.
AWS added a task-hours cap to Security Agent on 19 August 2026. The smallest allowed value is 20 hours, and the Price List API rates pen testing at $50.00 per hour, so the floor is $1,000 a test.
AWS announced the rebuilt VPN Client on 13 August 2026, after 6.0.0, 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 had shipped. The rebuild relocates configuration, there is no auto-update, and the requirements now list only Windows 11.
AWS shipped five read-only Managed Dashboards on 14 August 2026 at no additional cost. You cannot schedule one directly, and the duplicate you need runs Cost Explorer API calls billed at $0.01 per request.
Bedrock now attributes bedrock-mantle cost by IAM user or role. The user guide says the finest grain is per usage type per day, tags are not retroactive, and existing CUR 2.0 exports must be recreated.
AWS Clean Rooms can now export Spark logs for SQL queries. The logs are redacted: record counts round down to an order of magnitude, values under 100 report as zero, and error text and stack traces are removed.
Clean Rooms can now enforce minimum aggregation on ad-hoc SQL. The user guide lists a COUNT exemption, a clash with differential privacy, and a cut-down SQL surface the announcement never mentions.
AWS shipped log group tag propagation for CloudWatch Centralization on 19 August 2026. The opt-in carries a rename requirement, a non-adjustable 5 TPS tagging ceiling, and a health field that stays green.
AWS says the three new CloudWatch pipelines processors cost nothing extra. The pipelines documentation says S3 and third-party sources are metered after processing, so every enriched byte is billed as a Custom log.
The 17 August 2026 announcement says recordings now survive across browser tabs. The Amazon Q Developer guide, live on the same day, says the session ends when the tab closes.
Amazon shipped six Corretto lines on 18 August 2026, four weeks after the July release. On five of them the OpenJDK update digits never move, so version-based inventory cannot tell patched from unpatched.
One call can now terminate 100 instances. AWS pitches it at container orchestrators - the workload whose main safety control, instance scale-in protection, explicitly does not apply to this API.
AWS enabled AMI creation with local snapshots on Outposts on 19 August 2026. The docs add a required --snapshot-location flag, so unchanged create-image automation now returns InvalidParameterValue.
Amazon EKS clusters built since 2018 carry a 10-year certificate authority. AWS now appends a successor 2 years out and activates it 6 months before expiry, ready or not.
Amazon EKS now lets you tune the scheduler, controller manager and API server. Four parameters shipped on 12 August 2026, and the headline autoscaling one needs a control plane tier costing $1.65 an hour.
AWS IAM role manager reached general availability on 12 August 2026 across six service consoles. Four of them attach PowerUserAccess by default, and AWS's published lockdown SCP denies an action role reuse needs.
MWAA Serverless can finally run your own Python and shell code, but the 250 MB package cap, 60-minute task timeout, fixed 1 vCPU worker and no-internet default decide whether your DAGs can actually move.
AWS said no VPC changes were required. The OpenSearch guide says every semantic enrichment index call on a VPC domain returns AccessDeniedException until you run AuthorizeVpcEndpointAccess first.
Amazon RDS added PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 to its Database Preview Environment on 18 August 2026. The extension table marks PostGIS and pg_hint_plan N/A on all three betas, and pg_plan_advice 1.0 ships instead.
AWS added the denying policy ARN to S3 403 messages on 13 August 2026. It appears only on explicit deny, covers five policy types, and skips bucket policies, VPC endpoint policies and directory buckets.
AWS shipped trusted identity propagation for SageMaker notebooks on 19 August 2026. The admin guide names five engines, the user guide two, the flag has three spellings, and pre-23 July 2025 projects are out.
AWS Secrets Manager now rotates Jenkins and SonarQube tokens with no Lambda code. The user guide adds a condition the 11 August 2026 announcement omits: the controller must answer on the public internet.
The FIPS endpoint type is baked into the Storage Gateway activation key, so an existing Tape or Volume Gateway cannot be switched over. Eight Regions, six TCP ports, and private DNS must stay off.
The new Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block runs nine graceful steps, and step 6 validates that the primary in the other Region is available. In a real Region outage that check cannot pass.
AWS made a second Las Vegas Local Zone, us-west-2-las-2a, generally available on 20 August 2026. Its own services table, updated 7 August 2026, omits the zone and contradicts the announcement on EC2 and EBS.
OAuth 2.1 removes the local proxy from AWS MCP Server setups. It also removes per-call AWS profile switching, which is the one feature consultancies working across client accounts actually rely on.
Putting origin access control in front of an S3 Multi-Region Access Point means reconciling a Developer Guide, an API reference and an S3 user guide that contradict each other on signing protocol, origin type and Region
AWS says there is no additional cost to generate a SageMaker inference recommendation. Its own EAGLE documentation shows optimization jobs running on training instances for up to 120 hours across ten nodes.
AWS announced customer managed key support for Timestream for InfluxDB on 20 August 2026. The developer guide hands you a --kms-key-id flag that six AWS reference pages do not document.
AWS made Web Search on Amazon Bedrock generally available on 4 August 2026 and told buyers to check the pricing page for costs. The pricing page has no price. Worse, the default IAM policy grants search but not external
Amazon EKS charges $0.60 per cluster hour once a Kubernetes version leaves standard support, six times the $0.10 base rate. That number, not a job title, is what a DevOps hire is really being asked to prevent.
AWS m6i.xlarge and Azure D4s v5 both cost $0.2020/hour in India as of 17 August 2026. Compute parity is not where migration budgets fail. This guide prices the replication meters, egress tiers, licence cliffs
AWS and Google now charge identical extended-support penalties, EKS turns it on by default and will not let you turn it off once it starts, and Mumbai egress runs up to 60% above US East. The numbers that decide a 2026
App maintenance is not a retainer for bug fixes. It is a calendar of externally imposed deadlines with delisting and blocked deployments at the end of them, and 2026 has an unusually crowded one.
Runtime instances bill EC2 plus a 12% management fee, and 7.8% on G-series. Worked against AWS's published microVM rates, the crossover on an 8 vCPU shape lands near 24% sustained utilisation.
Superblocks 3.0 runs inside your own AWS VPC with inference on Amazon Bedrock, from $100 a month billed annually. We break down the real build-vs-buy math for internal tools in 2026, including the costs neither side
AWS marked Step Functions Local unsupported and LocalStack made its auth token mandatory in 2026.03.0. Here are the three local integration-testing setups that still work, with commands, licence costs and gaps.
The bus is rarely what makes event-driven architecture expensive. Here is the published AWS rate card, the ordering and delivery guarantees you actually get, and the signals that say a system is ready to move.
Next.js 16.2's stable Adapter API and OpenNext let you run Next.js on AWS, Cloudflare, or Netlify instead of Vercel. The options, the caching that breaks at scale, and the 2026 cost math.
AWS's remaining performance obligations jumped to $496B in Q2 2026 and much of 2027 capacity is already reserved. Here is what the backlog means for your cloud bill and a sourced FinOps playbook for choosing Savings
Amazon Q Business stops taking new customers on July 31, 2026, and AWS points users to Amazon Quick. This playbook covers the BYOI migration path, what does not carry over, and Quick Suite costs.
AWS launched a free FinOps Agent in June 2026 on Bedrock. A 2026 decision guide comparing it with Finout, Amnic, Cloudability and native Cost Optimization Hub, with pricing, so you know when native is enough and when
On June 8, 2026 AWS added target coverage analysis to the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer. Here is how to pick a coverage percentage, run the analysis, and size a commitment without paying for unused capacity.
On July 21, 2026 AWS split Amazon SES into three plans, Essentials, Pro and Enterprise, while keeping a-la-carte pricing. The plans are not cheaper per email, so the real decision is tooling, not send price.
AWS reduced ECS Managed Instances management fees 60% for P-series and Trainium and 35% for G-series from July 1, 2026, the same day Capacity Block GPU rates rose. Here is how to capture the cut, with configuration
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore moved every agent trace, prompt and log into a single per-agent CloudWatch log group and lifted default limits to 5,000 concurrent sessions. A config-level guide to the July 2026 observability
Aurora DSQL went GA in May 2025 with DPU-based pricing; Aurora Serverless v2 bills per ACU. We ran the same pgbench workload on both: DSQL was 4x slower and 13% dearer. Which wins for a new build in 2026?
AWS launched Database Savings Plans at re:Invent 2025: up to 35% off nine managed database services for a 1-year commitment. We run the real numbers against Reserved Instances so you know when each one actually wins.
AWS shipped two NVIDIA Blackwell inference families in 2026: G7 with up to 4.6x the inference of G6, and G7e that runs a 70B model on a single 96 GB GPU and is now live in Mumbai. Here is the spec, cost and decision
India's public cloud spending is forecast to grow 28.1% to $17.5 billion in 2026, and Flexera says wasted spend rose to 29% for the first time in five years. This is a refreshed, senior-engineer FinOps playbook: nine
AWS's June 2026 container caching removes the ECR image pull from SageMaker scale-out. In AWS's own test a GenAI endpoint's cold start fell from 525 to 258 seconds. The benchmarks and when to use it.
Alibaba Cloud unveiled Agent Native Cloud at WAIC on 18 July 2026, adding AgentLoop and AgentTeams to AgentRun. Here is how the three big agent runtimes compare on billing, isolation, observability and lock-in.
AWS put Bedrock Agents Classic into maintenance mode on 30 July 2026. Existing agents keep running, but new accounts get a 403 and the model catalog freezes. Here is the capability-by-capability migration map
AWS made Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base generally available on 17 June 2026. It removes the vector store, the parsing pipeline and the retrieval orchestration. It also removes some control, and it is not in
Amazon EKS 1.33 drops out of standard support on 29 July 2026 and billing jumps from $0.10 to $0.60 per cluster hour that same day. Here is the upgrade path to 1.36 and every breaking change between.
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of standard support on 31 July 2026, and Extended Support billing begins the next day at roughly $292/month for a single db.r5.xlarge. Azure and Google Cloud bill from 1 January
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is AWS's platform for production AI agents. Its Web Search tool reached GA on 17 June 2026 at $7 per 1,000 queries. Build a cited, web-grounded agent over MCP, with code and pricing.
Amazon Bedrock's new Mantle console connects Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more to GPT, Claude and open-weight models with IAM or a Bedrock API key. Here is how to wire each coding agent through Bedrock.
Meta reportedly plans Meta Compute to rent out its spare AI GPUs, and the news moved billions on 1 July 2026. What is confirmed, why the neoclouds fell hardest, and whether renting surplus GPU capacity is worth it.
AWS Interconnect - multicloud reached GA on 14 April 2026 with Google Cloud as first launch partner. A 10 Gbps Tier 1 link costs $9,000.90 a month with no per-GB charges. Attach a Cloud WAN Core Network with a Singapore
Four vendors rebuilt their agent runtimes around the session in 2026, and they agree on routing but disagree on the compute primitive underneath. A comparison of AWS AgentCore, Azure AI Foundry, Google Agent Engine
Egress is the cloud line item nobody quotes in the sales deck. Here is what four providers charge per GB as of June 2026, the hidden charges that dwarf the headline rate, and what the EU Data Act actually abolishes
AWS lifted EC2 Capacity Block rates roughly 20% on July 1, 2026, six months after a 15% rise on January 4. P6-B300 now bills at $14.04 per accelerator hour. Here is what changed, why analysts disagree on the cause
Microsoft expanded its AWS-to-Azure migration tooling in 2026. But migration has hidden costs: moving 50 TB can cost $3,500 to $7,000 in egress alone. How to evaluate a switch on total cost, not vendor marketing.
AWS removed its advanced-instances tier on June 30, 2026, so you can manage Azure VMs from AWS Systems Manager at no per-node charge. A setup walkthrough, an honest SSM versus Azure Arc comparison, and the App Manager
Cloud waste hit a five-year high of 29% in 2026 as AI workloads made spend unpredictable. eCorpIT's cloud FinOps managed service brings visibility, rightsizing, and anomaly detection to AWS, Azure, and GCP so teams cut
AWS's FinOps Agent entered public preview at FinOps X 2026: agentic AI that root-causes cost spikes, answers plain-language cost questions, and attributes Bedrock AI spend by model and user.
Microsoft's $2.5 billion Frontier and AWS's $1 billion engineer org are the biggest bets yet that enterprise AI succeeds or fails on deployment, not models. What the vendor plays mean for buyers in 2026.
Companies waste about 27% of cloud spend, and AI is now the fastest-growing line. Six FinOps ways Indian teams cut AWS, Azure and GCP bills in 2026, from commitment discounts to cutting the GPU and token bill.
