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Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databases
Update2 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 10, 2026
Amazon GuardDuty announces an expansion of RDS Protection that extends threat detection beyond login anomalies to identify data exfiltration and data destruction attacks targeting Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL databases.
Topics: AI agents, SQL, Postgres, Observability, Developer tools
More Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB releases
Every Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB releaseAWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally available
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible databases. This advanced database driver reduces RDS Blue/Green switchover, Aurora Global database switchover and database failover times, improving application availability.
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports partial indexes
Amazon Aurora DSQL now lets you build an index over a specific subset of a table, storing only qualifying rows rather than every row in the entire table, which improves query performance and lowers index storage cost. Many tables hold a small working set alongside a much larger history, such as open orders among years of completed ones.
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports OpenTelemetry metrics and detailed monitoring
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now publishes OpenTelemetry metrics to Amazon CloudWatch for your node-based clusters, and each metric carries attributes you can filter and aggregate on with Prometheus Query Language (PromQL) expressions. ElastiCache now offers two monitoring modes.
Amazon DynamoDB introduces filtered export to Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB now supports filtered export for tables. Export to Amazon S3 allows you to export your table data for analytics, data sharing, and other offline uses, as either a full export or an incremental export over a time window.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct queries of data stored in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats within data lakes. This eliminates the need for ETL pipelines when combining transactional data with historical records.
Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads
Amazon Aurora serverless now scales in even larger steps, adding up to 16 ACUs to its current capacity within a second and continuing to scale up to 256 ACUs as your workload grows. With this launch, your workload will scale faster and reach capacity that it requires.
Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances
Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support R8a database instances powered by 5th generation AMD EPYC processors, expanding the choice available for your database workloads. Each vCPU in R8a database instances corresponds to a physical CPU core, which delivers consistent per-core performance.
Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data
Starting today, you can directly query operational data together with data stored in data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Parquet formats using your existing PostgreSQL applications and tools, without extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines or data duplication.
Also shipped on Oct 8, 2026
AWS in October 2026The Compliance API chat endpoints now also return chats from the unified Claude experience, in beta for
The Compliance API chat endpoints now also return chats from the unified Claude experience, in beta for Claude Enterprise organizations, with your existing Compliance Access Key. See Retrieve and delete chats, files, and projects.
Cloud SQL for MySQL supports blue-green deployments ( Preview )
Cloud SQL for MySQL supports blue-green deployments ( Preview ). Blue-green deployments let you update databases, such as performing major version upgrades from MySQL 8.0 to 8.4 and staging hardware or configuration modifications, while minimizing downtime.
Updates to Intelligent Workloads and Standard Workloads
Create and define Intelligent Workloads Intelligent Workloads is now generally available (GA), designed for teams that want to proactively monitor business-impacting transactions and associated KPIs. You can now leverage bulk creation to build multiple workloads at once.
Performance Risks Inbox is now generally available
Performance Risks Inbox is GA Performance Risks Inbox is now generally available (GA). It finds the performance anti-patterns that quietly slow your application down, such as N+1 queries and inefficient database calls, and groups them in one place so your team can fix them before they become incidents.
CLI v0.9.0 | CLI, Beta
CLI v0.9.0 Manage cloud tasks with cr code , including interactive messages, side questions, plans, and delivery. Complete shell commands and read richer review JSON . Verify signed Linux releases and recover more reliably from login and update failures. Run cr update . See cloud tasks and upgrade details .
The Discover page and domains are now GA
The Discover page and domains are now generally available. Discover is a curated browsing experience that helps users find assets across Databricks without requiring deep knowledge of catalog hierarchies.