We deliver concise summaries of official AWS update announcements.
Information as of November 3, 2026.
Amazon Connect Customer now supports Cases and External Tool events in the Wait block, providing more control over how customer experience flows react to real-time data changes, saving time for both end-customers and agents.
Amazon Connect Customer enables invoking Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools in customer experience flows via the new 'External Tool' block, connecting flows to third-party apps through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway without custom Lambda functions.
AWS Lambda now supports queues for Apache Kafka in self-managed Kafka event source mappings, enabling customers to scale Kafka workload processing beyond topic partition counts, improving throughput during traffic spikes and processing resilience.
Amazon Aurora MySQL has been updated to 8.4.10, adding support for GTID tags and up to 50,000 simultaneous connections per DB instance
Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.14 now supports MySQL 8.0.46, including post-quantum TLS for encrypting data in-transit and operational improvements. Available in all AWS Regions.
Amazon RDS now supports per snapshot billing, allowing customers to see the cost of each individual snapshot, improving visibility into backup spend and budgets.
Kiro now offers Anthropic's new Haiku 5.5 model in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. As the fastest model in the Claude 5.5 family, it is ideal for high-volume tasks requiring quick responses.
Amazon Connect Customer adds versioning and aliasing for flows and flow modules, allowing resources to be pointed at aliases instead of specific versions for simplified deployment
AWS WAF introduces automatic SDK integration for CloudFront distributions, adding client-side signals for Bot Control, Fraud Control ATP, and Fraud Control ACFP without application code changes.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now allows you to disable automatic minor version upgrades for DB instances using JVM, Spatial, Locator, or OLAP options, giving you control over when to apply these upgrades.
Amazon MSK now supports TLS 1.3 for MSK Provisioned clusters, enabling faster and more secure encryption for streaming data. Customers can enable TLS 1.3 by selecting a named security policy in their cluster configuration, with no changes required to existing clusters until a policy is applied.
Amazon CloudFront now forwards two optional headers to your origin. The CloudFront-Viewer-ISP header shows the viewer's ISP, and the CloudFront-Viewer-TLS-Details header shows whether post-quantum cryptography was used for each connection.
Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI's Daybreak Red in AWS GovCloud (US-East), enabling authorized security professionals to use advanced AI for vulnerability research, exploit reproduction, and mitigation development with enhanced controls and privacy
Amazon Connect Customer automatically saves in-progress emails as drafts, allowing agents to resume work without losing progress when connectivity is interrupted or when their browser is accidentally closed or refreshed
Kiro provides agents with real-time access to current internet information, ensuring answers are based on up-to-date search results and page content. Administrators can disable web search and fetch for their organization via the Kiro console.
Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) on the bedrock-runtime endpoint and introduces Cross-Region Inference in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling customers to achieve higher throughput without managing capacity across multiple regions.
Amazon Quick launches Quick Essentials for enterprises, simplifying access to AI-powered chat, research, flows, and apps. Quick Sight readers upgrade at no extra cost, enabling natural language queries on dashboards.
Managed Prometheus collectors for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon CloudWatch now support Amazon MSK consumer-group metrics, collecting Kafka exporter and consumer-group lag metrics to help detect processing bottlenecks in streaming applications.
Amazon MSK Connect now enables in-place updates of connector plugins and worker configurations, reducing operational overhead and risk while preserving committed offsets
AWS Marketplace now allows partners with multiple legal entities to publish a product listing once in their primary account and enable local subsidiaries to sell it through direct private offers, eliminating the need to recreate and maintain duplicate listings across every account.
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports GPU partitioning, allowing multiple models to run on a single GPU with hardware-enforced isolation
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition introduces support for post-quantum TLS key exchange, enabling post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting data in transit. PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher allow modification of the ssl_groups parameter from the Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL allow list.
Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server now support storage autoscaling on additional storage volumes, automatically scaling up to 256 TiB without downtime
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio introduces custom designations, allowing administrators to define permission sets aligned with organizational roles. This enables differentiated access for project members within a single project, eliminating the need for separate projects to isolate permissions.
Amazon Redshift now offers automated cross-region snapshot copying, enabling automatic backups of provisioned clusters or serverless workgroups to chosen target AWS regions without manual intervention
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place upgrades from Grafana version 12.4 to 13.2, bringing features like Git Sync for dashboards, dynamic dashboards, and PromQL query support in the Amazon CloudWatch data source plugin
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now offers cross-instance and Spot consolidation, optimizing resource utilization and reducing costs by repacking tasks across multiple instances and Spot capacity.
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports time series collections, enabling customers to ingest, store, and analyze logs, metrics, traces, and event data without provisioning or managing clusters
AWS Lambda now supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) lazy loading for Lambda Managed Instances, reducing container startup times by up to 70%. Create a SOCI index in Amazon ECR and publish a function version to enable it automatically.
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports public endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling connections from serverless functions or applications outside a VPC without VPN, bastion host, or SSH tunnel.
AWS Backup now supports cross-account management and backup in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling centralized management of backups across organization accounts
AWS Certificate Manager adds ACME protocol support in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling automated public TLS certificate issuance and renewal via ACMEv2-compatible clients
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in two new AWS Regions: Canada (Central) and Africa (Cape Town). DAX is a fully managed, highly available in-memory cache for Amazon DynamoDB that accelerates read-intensive workloads.
AWS Step Functions workflows can now be used as tools for AI agents via Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, allowing agents to decide when to run workflows and what input to pass.
Lambda durable functions now include a new Telemetry Exporter plugin that captures step-by-step execution history and sends it to chosen destinations for operational and business insights.
Amazon EKS Dashboard adds consolidated CA rotation visibility across clusters, enabling fleet-wide management of upcoming expirations and automated rotation events
Amazon Quick introduces smart approvals to reduce unnecessary prompts while maintaining oversight of critical actions. Administrators control usage via custom permissions, and users can disable it in chat options.
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch for Oracle Database versions 19c and 26ai, including the latest security updates and an updated time zone file reflecting daylight saving time changes in several regions
AWS Agent Registry, a fully managed discovery service via Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, is now available in four additional regions: Europe (London), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (Ohio), and Canada (Central).
Amazon ElastiCache now offers Valkey data tiering on Graviton4-based R8gd nodes in the Europe (Spain) Region and Graviton3-based R7gd nodes in the Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions
AWS IAM Identity Center's Identity Store now delivers real-time events to Amazon EventBridge for user and group changes, enabling automated security and compliance workflows
AWS Backup now supports restore testing for Amazon Redshift, allowing you to include Redshift in your restore testing plans alongside other AWS resources to automate and verify backup restores.
Amazon SageMaker AI MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16, offering a redesigned trace explorer and faster metric chart rendering for experiments with large metric histories
Amazon Bedrock now provides cross-Region inference in Canada, allowing customers with strict data residency requirements to keep inference processing entirely within Canada
Amazon Corretto provides patch updates for its Long-Term Support (LTS) and Feature Release (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Updates for Corretto 27, 25, 21, 17, 11, and 8 are now available for download.
Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming now displays a failover slate to viewers when a broadcaster's stream is interrupted, ensuring they see an animated image instead of buffering or a frozen frame until the stream reconnects.
Amazon ECR now supports replication backfill, allowing customers to replicate existing images to configured destinations with a single API call. Up to ten backfill jobs can run concurrently.
Amazon Connect Customer now allows you to validate the outcomes of your customer experience flow actions during testing and simulation. You can now verify the data returned when an action completes, such as a Lambda function response, an Amazon Lex resolved intent, or variables set by an Agentic CX block.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports light mode for Identity Center (IDC) based domains, allowing users to choose between dark and light themes.
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth 2.0 bearer token authentication for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs using AWS Sign-In, allowing engines like Apache Spark, Trino, and Apache Flink to authenticate with standard OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens.
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