Amazon CloudWatch now lets you ingest metrics via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) and query them using Prometheus Query Language (PromQL). You pay per GB ingested, with 15 months of storage included. Custom OTel metrics and AWS vended metrics from more…

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about…

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i instances are available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among…

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. ECS Express Mode empowers developers to rapidly launch containerized applications, including web applications and APIs, making it easy to…

Today, Amazon Web Services announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio, a unified querying and visualization experience that enables you to explore metrics from a single interface within the CloudWatch console. With Query Studio, a team operating services…

AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, enabling you to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon ENIs. This helps you enforce cost allocation, service control policies (SCPs), and…