AWS Changes That Matter - March 2026
AWS shipped hundreds of updates in March 2026. Most of them will never affect your day-to-day work. Here are the ones that will.
Aurora PostgreSQL joins the free tier with express configuration
This is the biggest practical change for teams building on AWS this month. Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless is now available on the AWS Free Tier with up to 4 Aurora Capacity Units (ACUs) and 1 GiB of storage per cluster. More importantly, AWS introduced “express configuration” - a streamlined creation flow that spins up an Aurora PostgreSQL serverless cluster in seconds, without requiring a VPC.