Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey introduces ElastiCache Insights
UpdateyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 13, 2026
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now features ElastiCache Insights, a pre-built dashboard in Amazon CloudWatch for your node-based clusters. ElastiCache Insights brings cluster health, memory, compute, network, command throughput, latency, keyspace, and errors into a single view sourced from a set of OpenTelemetry metrics that ElastiCache publishes...
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More Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB releases
Every Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB releaseAmazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databases
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.
AWS 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
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Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports OpenTelemetry metrics and detailed monitoring
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Amazon DynamoDB introduces filtered export to Amazon S3
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Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports direct querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data in your data lake
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Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads
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Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances
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Also shipped on Oct 12, 2026
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