Amazon Redshift streaming just got a serious upgrade—you can now ingest 10MiB records from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, a 10x jump from the old 1MiB ceiling. No more record splitting headaches; just pipe those beefy payloads straight into your data warehouse across all commercial AWS regions.
source: [aws/whats-new]
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now lets you automate multi-server application recovery with Recovery Plans—define your server launch sequence once, then execute it with a single click during disasters or drills. No more manual dependency tracking or launch order headaches; the feature handles sequential startup with configurable wait times, approval gates, and real-time monitoring across all AWS Regions at no extra cost.
source: [aws/whats-new]
Amazon Redshift now plays nice with AI agents like Claude, Kiro, and Cursor through the Agent Toolkit for AWS, letting you query, troubleshoot, and migrate data warehouses straight from your favorite code editor. The integration bundles AWS MCP Server with Redshift skills—pre-built packages covering SQL syntax, schema discovery, data loading, and full migration workflows—available at no extra cost across all AWS regions.
source: [aws/whats-new]
Single security alerts won't catch sophisticated attackers—you need to correlate signals across AWS services to spot attack patterns. Learn how to connect the dots between unusual identity activity, source IPs, and service logs to catch multi-stage attacks before they escalate.
source: [aws/security-blog]
Missed AWS's July security updates while you were out? This roundup covers the month's expert blog posts, new service capabilities, and code samples—including fresh insights on AI agent security. Cloud engineers should check out the practical guidance to keep their infrastructure secure and up-to-date.
source: [aws/security-blog]
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 now lets you cap memory usage either manually or automatically based on your environment—perfect for running it alongside heavy ML training and analytics workloads. The tool can detect container memory budgets in Amazon EKS and throttle operations gracefully under pressure, so you won't accidentally starve your other apps of RAM.
source: [aws/whats-new]
Amazon Strands Agents Tools versions before 0.8.5 contain CVE-2026-78379, a consent bypass flaw in the python_repl tool that lets attackers execute arbitrary Python code on your host by sneaking non_interactive_mode through the batch tool. The vulnerability bypasses the human approval gate that normally protects code execution. Action required: upgrade to version 0.8.5 or later immediately if you're running affected versions.
source: [aws/security-bulletin]
AWS just dropped EC2 R8id instances in seven new regions across Asia Pacific, Canada, and Europe, so you can now spin up serious memory-crunching workloads closer to home. These beasts pack 22.8TB of NVMe SSD storage and 43% better performance than R6id, plus you can now fine-tune network and EBS bandwidth allocation by 25% for smarter resource optimization.
source: [aws/whats-new]
Amazon EC2 C8id and M8id instances are now live in Sydney, Mumbai, and Canada Central, bringing serious compute power with up to 22.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage. These beasts deliver 3x more vCPUs and memory than previous gen, plus 43% better compute performance—perfect for heavy lifting like video encoding, data analytics, and I/O-intensive workloads.
source: [aws/whats-new]