We deliver concise summaries of official AWS update announcements.
Information as of August 4, 2026.
AWS Config adds support for 15 new resource types across Amazon Bedrock, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and Amazon SageMaker, expanding coverage of AWS resources for discovery, assessment, auditing, and remediation
Amazon ECR increases the maximum image layer size to 200 GB for images pushed via Docker push, eliminating the need to split data across multiple layers or use external storage for large language models, genomics datasets, or large binary dependencies
AWS WAF adds two new managed rule groups from Miggo Security, offering continuous protection against actively exploited vulnerabilities and AI/ML application threats via AWS Marketplace
AWS Transform now generally available for offline source transformation, enabling customers to modernize Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL without live database connections. This allows direct upload of DDL files, assessment of complexity, and generation of customizable transformation plans.
Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuning for over 25 open-source models, enabling deeper adaptation to domain-specific patterns and knowledge.
Amazon EC2 I7i instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors, offering up to 23% better compute performance and over 10% better price performance versus previous generation I4i instances, ideal for I/O-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads
AWS Resilience Hub offers pre-configured tests based on service architecture and recovery objectives, helping teams validate readiness for scenarios like Availability Zone and Regional impairments
AWS HealthOmics enables setting maximum execution duration for individual WDL tasks, allowing cost control and automated error recovery
Amazon GameLift Streams provides stream URLs for temporary, unauthenticated access to playable stream sessions in supported web browsers, requiring no AWS account, credentials, or software installation.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds Teradata Vantage as a data source, enabling integration of enterprise data warehouse data with other assets for unified analysis
Amazon RDS for Oracle now provides 1-year and 3-year Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances, offering up to 53% cost savings compared to On-Demand prices. These instances feature custom Intel Xeon 6 processors exclusive to AWS, delivering superior performance and memory bandwidth.
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions, offering active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency. This expansion enables multi-Region clusters in Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.
AWS launches an open-source Context Ontology Accelerator to help organizations build machine-readable business models, enabling AI agents to make consistent, explainable decisions through a knowledge graph and Model Context Protocol.
Amazon Location Service now supports proximity-based point of interest discovery with GrabMaps data in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Regions, allowing developers to surface nearby places ranked by distance with category filtering.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now provides full Git version control directly within tools like Query Editor, Visual ETL, Workflows, and Notebooks, enabling file-level management and flexible repository integration
Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, deliver up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances and are ideal for compute-intensive workloads
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances deliver up to 19% better price-performance compared to C6i, ideal for compute-intensive workloads with sizes from large to 16xlarge.
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five new regions, allowing developers and DevOps engineers to deploy applications with lower latency.
Amazon CloudWatch now supports collecting Prometheus metrics from AWS infrastructure using fully managed collectors, enabling monitoring of Amazon EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch Service workloads without deploying or managing agents.
AWS Lambda now offers Java 8, 11, and 17 runtimes on Amazon Linux 2023, enabling migration from AL2 without upgrading Java versions.
AWS Transit Gateway now offers Policy-Based Routing, enabling granular traffic control based on packet attributes without complex multi-VPC architectures
Amazon Bedrock reduces prices for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra models by up to 80%, enabling customers to apply their capabilities across more applications and process larger workloads
The IAM Policy Simulator is now integrated into the IAM console, adding support for testing SCPs, condition key effects, and policy exclusions
Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance at 30% lower cost per vCPU
AWS Direct Connect provides BGP route visibility, enabling users to view routes exchanged between AWS and on-premises routers across private, transit, and public VIFs via console or API
AWS Glue adds VPC connectivity, filter pushdown, and partition support to the REST API connector, enabling secure access to private endpoints, reduced data transfer costs, and faster ingestion through parallel reads
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers OpenSearch 3.7, introducing improvements to vector search performance, search relevance, and query insights.
AWS Directory Service now enables direct upgrades from Standard to Enterprise Edition for AWS Managed Microsoft AD without migrating directories or re-joining workloads.
Amazon Bedrock introduces Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 models for generative AI applications in reasoning, multimodal understanding, and software engineering workflows
Amazon Bedrock adds xAI's Grok 4.3 model to AWS GovCloud (US-West), offering enhanced reasoning and agent-building capabilities ideal for enterprise workloads.
Amazon MSK Express provides continuous delivery of Apache Kafka topics to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables, reducing data ingestion and downstream query costs by up to 60% and 30% respectively compared to self-managed deployments.
AWS Interconnect now generally available, enabling connections to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
AWS WAF adds pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new text transformations to help normalize request content
Amazon Redshift Data API adds long polling to reduce API calls for SQL metadata or results, session management for visibility into active sessions, and flexible batch execution allowing each statement in a batch to execute independently. These enhancements improve efficiency for ETL pipelines and administrative scripts.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation, enabling features like root volume replacement and controlled rollouts
Amazon Connect Customer now automatically surfaces relevant examples of agent evaluations when managers prepare coaching feedback, enabling actionable, evidence-backed coaching. This saves time previously spent manually searching for examples.
IAM Identity Center now supports multi-Region replication for instances using the Identity Center directory, enhancing resilience and deployment flexibility across AWS Regions.
Amazon EFS now provides cross-account replication in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling automatic synchronization of file systems across multiple accounts
AWS Outposts extends AWS infrastructure to on-premises environments, now supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, helping customers optimize latency and data residency requirements.
AWS Console Home adds the Cost and Usage widget to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, enabling users to display insights from Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub on their dashboard.
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane increases HPA sync concurrency up to 40 times the default Kubernetes value, reducing scaling time for HPA-driven workloads under load.
Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint, enabling private access from VPCs without internet egress for IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA)
AWS Glue Data Quality adds a new Distribution Analyzer to generate frequency distribution profiles, integrating directly with DQDL rulesets for histograms and value distributions, stored in S3 for future querying.
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection and result storage in the AWS Glue Data Catalog for catalog-based data quality evaluations, providing consistent data quality across ETL jobs and catalog evaluations
Amazon Neptune adds tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, allowing dynamic control of cluster access using resource and principal tags
Amazon S3 Tables now supports the Variant data type defined in Apache Iceberg Version 3, enabling direct writing of semi-structured data like JSON without prior schema definition
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports agent-based data transfers with Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS), Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage, and allows deployment of Enhanced mode agents on Microsoft Hyper-V.
AWS DataSync now allows Enhanced mode to use Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations, simplifying workflows for large-scale migrations, AI/ML training, and high-performance computing.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now allows direct control over ad decision server timeouts, enabling customization of HTTP ad request timeouts and parallel processing to optimize performance for live events and VOD workflows.
AWS Security Hub MCP App, a local MCP server, integrates Security Hub exposure findings into Claude Desktop to accelerate security investigations
Amazon GameLift Streams adds custom aspect ratio and dynamic resolution, enhancing streaming across diverse devices and network conditions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports restoring TDE-enabled SQL Server databases to Multi-AZ instances and instances with read replicas using native backup and restore, eliminating the need to disable TDE or switch to Single-AZ configurations.
AWS HealthLake now offers resource matching to automatically identify and link duplicate records, enabling accurate longitudinal patient records and trustworthy population health datasets without specialized master data management tools
Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces an all-upfront payment option for 3-year Serverless Reservations, offering up to 50% savings over on-demand rates
Amazon MWAA supports Apache Airflow 2.11.2, including security improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades
Amazon Connect enables audio optimization on Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. After a one-time setup, media redirects from the virtual desktop to the agent's local device, improving audio quality
Offered via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS with zero data retention, enhancing code generation, long-running agents, and complex analysis accuracy
Amazon SES now offers a guided setup for sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager, automating resource creation and configuration so developers can get started in just a few clicks.
AWS Lambda automatically generates logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers, delivering them to CloudWatch Logs for monitoring scaling and instance lifecycle operations.
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now allows scaling down ingest capacity for on-demand streams. This enables users to adjust write throughput up or down as needed.
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now allows creation of Host Resource Groups without requiring Self-Managed Licenses, offering greater flexibility for customers needing hardware-level isolation or using EC2 Mac instances.
Amazon Bedrock offers Claude Sonnet 5 in AWS GovCloud (US), delivering strong performance across coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work while keeping data within AWS infrastructure.
AWS Clean Rooms now supports larger worker types with 32 vCPUs and 244 GB of memory for SQL analyses, improving performance and cost efficiency for complex queries on large datasets
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, deliver up to 60% better compute performance and significantly improved storage performance for storage-optimized workloads
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs as vended logs, improving observability and simplifying debugging for network traffic patterns.
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET is now generally available, enabling C# developers to build long-running workflows directly in Lambda
Amazon ECS Service Connect introduces zone-aware routing, prioritizing service-to-service traffic within the same Availability Zone to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs and latency
AWS has released a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark measuring how accurately and efficiently AI agents complete real-world AWS tasks. It provides a public test suite derived from real AWS usage for evaluating and improving model and agent performance on AWS operations.
Kiro now offers more powerful Opus 4.8 and cost-effective Sonnet 5 models along with organization-wide usage monitoring capabilities in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now offers G7e instances in Seoul, London, and Tokyo regions, supporting large LLM inference and high-memory workloads
Amazon EVS expands to Seoul, Zurich, and Stockholm Regions, offering lower latency and compliance benefits for VMware workloads on AWS.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore delivers agent traces and prompts to the same log group as agent logs, providing unified observability for AI agents in a single Amazon CloudWatch log group.
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL 9.7 in the preview environment, allowing users to evaluate the latest release and test new capabilities
AWS enables customers paying via electronic funds transfer to configure preferences for how credit memos are automatically applied to outstanding invoices, offering options to apply to the original, next eligible, or oldest unpaid invoice.
AWS Parallel Computing Service introduces node lifecycle actions, enabling automatic execution of custom scripts at defined points in a compute node's lifecycle
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference performance over previous-generation G6 instances
Amazon EC2 M8id instances feature Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous generation M6id instances.
Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance than C6a instances with DDR5 memory and support for up to 128 EBS volumes per instance.
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances are now available in new regions, offering 16TiB and 24TiB of DDR5 memory and high-throughput processing capabilities
AWS Wickr now offers a managed Data Retention Service for Premium users, enabling organizations to retain conversations across their network for archiving. The serverless architecture simplifies deployment and maintains end-to-end encryption.
Amazon SageMaker introduces G6 instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East), enabling government agencies and organizations to run generative AI workloads while meeting strict compliance and data residency requirements
AWS Organizations has doubled the resource control policy quota from 1,000 to 2,000 per organization, enabling more granular access controls in large multi-account environments
Amazon Corretto announces security updates and Docker image changes. Default images now use Amazon Linux 2023, and JavaFX binaries are no longer included with Corretto 8
AWS Lambda durable functions now allow encryption of execution data with customer managed keys via AWS KMS, enabling compliance in regulated industries.
AWS Entity Resolution introduces real-time processing with advanced matching workflows, enabling complex rule sets to be executed in milliseconds via the GenerateMatchId API
Network Load Balancer now supports listener rules to route connections to different target groups based on source IP address type, enabling IPv6 traffic to IPv6 targets and IPv4 traffic to IPv4 targets while preserving the original client IP end-to-end.
Amazon EC2 M8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over M7a instances, ideal for latency-sensitive workloads.
Amazon ECS now supports built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling safer software updates and faster releases for containerized applications
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, allowing you to query and analyze search and log analytics data alongside other data assets.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery expands to six new regions, enabling recovery of applications from physical infrastructure, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and cloud platforms
AWS Direct Connect now offers 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru, with MACsec encryption capabilities.
AWS Secrets Manager automatically publishes events to Amazon EventBridge whenever secret values change, enabling real-time response workflows
Amazon EKS enables control over EFA network interface configuration and physical distribution of EC2 instances for performance and availability optimization
Amazon ECS introduces Action Logs, delivering detailed records of service-side operations during deployments and managed daemon updates to improve monitoring and troubleshooting
Amazon SES now offers three pricing plans-Essentials, Pro, and Enterprise-providing tiered capabilities at discounted rates compared to à-la-carte pricing.
Amazon EC2 introduces M6in and M6idn instances in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, offering up to 200Gbps network bandwidth and high-performance storage for network-intensive workloads
Amazon EC2 launches sixth-generation C6in network-optimized instances in the Taipei region, offering up to 200Gbps network bandwidth and enhanced performance for various high-demand applications
Amazon EC2 now offers R6in and R6idn instances in the Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These sixth-generation network-optimized instances deliver up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and 2x more network bandwidth compared to comparable fifth-generation instances.
AWS HealthOmics offers fully managed bioinformatics workflows for research and drug discovery, now available in the Tokyo and Ohio Regions, enabling customers to build genomics data analysis pipelines using Nextflow, WDL, and CWL.
AWS Marketplace enables India-based sellers to upload and manage their seller signatures directly through AWS Partner Central, streamlining tax invoicing and compliance with automated validation and real-time status visibility.
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage options on multi-session fleets, allowing users to connect, access, save, and sync cloud files directly within streaming sessions.
Amazon Connect Customer now displays real-time and historical metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards, enabling supervisors to track agent performance in their queues.
AWS Partner Central agents now support all AWS Partner funding programs, eliminating manual data entry and reducing eligibility errors
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling AI integration, a new free edition, and native vector data types
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates and General Distribution Release updates for Microsoft SQL Server, addressing security vulnerabilities
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports up to 1.5 billion active metric time series and 200,000 rules per workspace, enabling storage and analysis of billions of Prometheus metrics across organizations.
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink 2.3, introducing adaptive partition selection, improved handling of out-of-order updates in CDC pipelines, and new SQL functions for converting between changelog and standard streams
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances leverage AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 60% better compute performance and significantly improved storage performance for storage-optimized workloads
Amazon Connect now supports over 50 languages and 100 new voice options, enhancing natural conversational experiences with improved flow and speech control features.
AWS CloudTrail now allows selective logging of network activity events for VPC endpoints based on the IAM user identity making the API call, enabling customers to capture unauthorized access attempts while excluding routine traffic from trusted identities.
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions. Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, they offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances.
AWS Data Exports introduces consistent, structured attributes for Amazon Bedrock costs, eliminating the need for custom logic in CUR 2.0
AWS announces the preview of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source solution for deploying a scalable, high-speed NFS cache on AWS, designed for read-heavy burst compute workloads.
Amazon CloudWatch introduces coding agent insights, providing visibility into how AI coding tools drive value across organizations. It integrates with Claude apps gateway to collect telemetry from Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot without additional instrumentation.
AWS launches a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, supporting Amazon S3 and EBS Local Snapshots for in-country data processing and storage
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now allows data engineers to create, share, and reuse custom visual transforms in visual ETL flows, enabling teams to apply business-specific logic without coding expertise.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports network topology configuration at the partition level for Slurm orchestrated clusters, improving distributed training performance by aligning job placement with instance interconnect characteristics
Amazon GameLift Streams now allows assigning an IAM role to a stream session, enabling applications to securely access AWS resources without code changes. By passing a RoleArn parameter when starting a session, applications automatically receive short-lived, auto-refreshing AWS credentials.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports one-click migration from legacy OpenSearch Dashboards to OpenSearch UI, allowing users to move existing tenants and saved objects without manual recreation.
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows the use of customer-managed AWS KMS keys to encrypt canary environment variables, providing enhanced control over sensitive configuration data encryption.
Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 in the Database Preview Environment, introducing parallel autovacuum, online table rebuilding, and native SQL property graph queries
AWS adds a Cost Efficiency widget to BCM Dashboards, showing efficiency scores over time, account/region breakdowns, and integrating with budgets and commitments for unified monitoring
Amazon S3 now allows transitioning objects to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA immediately after creation, eliminating the previous 30-day minimum retention in S3 Standard. This reduces storage costs by up to 40% while maintaining millisecond access for cold data scenarios.
Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of two new RG instance sizes - rg.large and rg.12xlarge. These instances deliver the same Graviton-powered performance benefits as existing RG instances, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance than previous-generation RA3 instances at 30% lower price per vCPU.
Amazon EC2 U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA and Oracle
AWS Sustainability now provides annual water withdrawal data, enabling users to assess environmental impact alongside carbon emissions.
Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags for all destinations, simplifying event filtering across multiple buckets with a single EventBridge rule.
Amazon EC2 now includes public SSM parameters in AMI metadata, simplifying AMI updates by providing direct access to the latest version via an alias
Amazon Managed Grafana is now FedRAMP High authorized in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions, enabling federal agencies and public sector organizations to visualize, query, and alert on operational metrics across AWS and hybrid environments while meeting strict security and compliance requirements.
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now compliant with FedRAMP Moderate in selected US regions, enabling use for government workloads requiring this standard.
AWS Backup now offers restore testing in seven new regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Israel (Tel Aviv), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). This enables automated restore tests and measurement of restore job completion times against recovery time objectives (RTO).
AWS Backup now offers logically air-gapped vaults in six new regions: Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Mexico (Central), and Canada West (Calgary). This allows storage of immutable, isolated backups that are locked by default and encrypted using AWS-owned or customer-managed keys.
AWS Glue SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling data replication from SAP OData, Amazon DynamoDB, and Salesforce to Amazon Redshift and Amazon S3 without custom pipelines.
Amazon Cognito now allows password hashes to be included in CSV user imports, enabling immediate sign-in for imported users
Amazon EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, deliver up to 2.3x inference performance over G6e instances
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports intelligent storage tiering, automatically classifying log data into three tiers-Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access-based on access patterns. This reduces operational overhead and enables long-term log retention at lower costs.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new commands and functions, enabling statistical aggregation, null value handling in time-series data, log comparison across time windows, outlier detection, and event enrichment with lookup data.
AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now automatically re-applies account customizations when accounts move between OUs, eliminating manual intervention and configuration drift risks.
Amazon RDS allows up to four storage modifications per database instance within a rolling 24-hour window, enabling size, type, and performance adjustments without downtime
Amazon MSK Express Brokers now supports Apache Kafka version 4.2, enhancing reliability and performance with improved leader election, smoother consumer rebalances, and optimized task assignments for Kafka Streams
Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8gd and M8gd instances in additional regions, improving performance for complex queries and index rebuild operations
Amazon Aurora and RDS now offer AWS Graviton4-based R8g and M8g instances in additional regions, delivering up to 40% performance and 29% price/performance improvements
Amazon MQ allows you to configure EBS disk storage size for RabbitMQ brokers independently of instance type, enabling custom storage sizing for specific messaging workloads on M7g clusters.
Amazon Connect Customer now offers proactive outreach via SMS, WhatsApp, and email in the Cape Town region, enabling targeted, personalized campaigns with automated triggers and analytics.
AWS Lambda console now offers a one-click setup prompt to configure coding agents with AWS serverless skills and the Serverless Model Context Protocol server, eliminating the need to navigate multiple documentation pages for setup.
Amazon EC2 launches M8in, M8idn, M8ib, and M8idb instances in new regions, featuring 6th-gen Intel Xeon processors and up to 43% higher performance, with enhanced networking and EBS bandwidth.
Amazon CloudWatch now supports a lookup processor that allows you to enrich log events by matching log fields against a lookup table directly within your CloudWatch Pipeline, adding metadata such as team ownership from IP addresses automatically.
AWS Lambda now supports referencing code directly from Amazon S3 buckets, eliminating storage limits and reducing function activation time. The default limit for Lambda-managed storage has also increased from 75GB to 300GB per Region per account
Amazon RDS for Db2 launches in new regions, enabling easy setup, operation, and scaling of Db2 databases in the cloud.
Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing users to build, manage, and query OpenSearch Service domains and OpenSearch Serverless collections directly from AI coding agents like Claude Code, Kiro, and Cursor using the AWS MCP server and a curated skill.
AWS Security Hub now offers an AI inventory, giving security teams a continuous, organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture. It automatically discovers managed AI services and self-hosted workloads across AWS environments.
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available for single-Region clusters in the Europe (Spain) Region. It is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability and multi-Region strong consistency.
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now offers automated rollback and support for migrating stopped WorkSpaces from PCoIP to DCV, enabling large-scale protocol changes with minimal manual effort
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink provides AI Agent Skills, offering expert guidance for building and operating Flink applications. The skills integrate with existing AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor.
Amazon GuardDuty now offers AI Protection, extending threat detection to AWS AI services like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, enabling automatic detection of AI-specific threats such as anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting attacks, and prompt injection attempts.
AWS IAM Identity Center is now in scope for FedRAMP Class C in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions, enabling workforce access to FedRAMP Class C compliant AWS accounts and applications.
AWS DRS now skips preparation steps for EC2-based AWS workloads, reducing recovery time by up to 65% for Windows and 40% for Linux
AWS DRS now supports setting Amazon EBS volume initialization rates, enabling recovered volumes to reach full performance faster during drills and recoveries-particularly beneficial for I/O-intensive workloads.
Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations when restoring a namespace from a snapshot to the same serverless namespace, eliminating manual reconfiguration and reducing data ingestion gaps
Amazon DocumentDB now supports 46 additional MongoDB aggregation operators and cursor methods from version 8.0.1, expanding query API compatibility for easier MongoDB workload migration without application code changes
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus offers a fully managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that can handle up to 1 billion active metric series per workspace.
Amazon Bedrock now generally available with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models, offering a range of capabilities from flagship reasoning to fast, cost-efficient inference on Bedrock's next-generation engine.
AWS Storage Gateway now enables copying file shares between gateways directly from the console, automating configuration and streamlining migrations.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B models for information retrieval and cross-modal understanding, enabling customers to build comprehensive search pipelines on AWS infrastructure.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now includes Mistral AI's Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime, a multilingual real-time speech transcription model supporting 13 languages with configurable latency and accuracy settings.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers OpenAI's privacy-filter, a bidirectional token-classification model for detecting and masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text, enabling high-throughput data sanitization workflows.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Google DeepMind's gemma-4-E2B-it, a multimodal, instruction-tuned model optimized for efficient local execution. It processes text, image, and audio inputs, supports step-by-step reasoning, and provides capabilities like image understanding, video understanding, and code generation.
Amazon DocumentDB is now available as a specialized database skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling AI coding agents to automate cluster setup, management, migration, optimization, and troubleshooting
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs for Slurm-orchestrated clusters, enabling customers to deploy clusters with pre-configured, security-hardened environments that meet specific organizational requirements
Amazon Location Service extends Places APIs with new capabilities including address component formatting control, multilingual support, travel-optimized search, and drive-through service indicators
Amazon EKS Auto Mode supports ARC zonal shift and autoshift, automatically protecting cluster availability during AZ impairments
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning, eliminating the need to download, configure, or upload lifecycle configuration scripts to Amazon S3.
AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports offline source conversion for Microsoft SQL Server, enabling schema and code conversion without direct database connectivity.
Amazon EC2 G7 instances feature NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, delivering up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance over G6 instances
Amazon EMR on EKS provides natural language job failure diagnosis and automated root cause analysis. It also integrates with MCP-compatible AI coding agents.
Amazon EC2 introduces R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances in Tokyo, Frankfurt, and Ireland regions, featuring 6th-gen Intel Xeon processors and Nitro cards for up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU, with high network and EBS bandwidth for demanding workloads
AWS Partner Central now offers AI-powered Partner Lead Prospecting to help ACE-eligible AWS Partners act on and convert leads faster
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, featuring AWS Graviton4 processors and up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD storage for improved performance and storage access.
Amazon EC2 introduces C8id, M8id, and R8id instances in new regions, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors for up to 43% higher performance and 3.3x more memory bandwidth than previous generations
AWS Partner Central now allows partners to share qualifications across connected partner and seller accounts via subsidiary connections, enabling consolidated partnership status beyond revenue attribution.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now enables proactive verification of GPU accelerator health on running instances at any time for Slurm-orchestrated clusters created with continuous provisioning, allowing comprehensive hardware validation as instances come online without interrupting existing workloads.
Amazon EC2 now allows replacing the root volume of a running instance with an existing EBS volume, eliminating the need for snapshot or AMI creation and reducing operational overhead for stateful workloads.
Amazon EC2 I8g instances leverage AWS Graviton4 processors and third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs to deliver high performance for I/O-intensive workloads
The AWS MCP Server now allows AI agents to connect directly using AWS Sign-In with industry-standard OAuth, eliminating the need for additional authentication software.
AWS Organizations automatically applies service control policies by default when creating new organizations via the console, preventing member account departures or self-closure
AWS DMS Schema Conversion now integrates with AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, and Cursor, enabling complete migration workflows via natural language directly from the IDE. Predefined procedures guide agents in project creation, metadata browsing, schema conversion, report generation, and result export.
Amazon DocumentDB now supports R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and DDR5 memory, enabling higher throughput and larger memory workloads
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors with a 3.2 GHz all-core turbo frequency, offering up to 40% better compute performance and 20% better price performance over existing I3en instances, with up to 120TB of local NVMe storage and up to 65% better real-time storage performance.
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers, using SASL/SCRAM or mutual TLS authentication, while preserving original topic names and avoiding infinite loops.
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store adds batch feature writes and record listing capabilities, enabling scalable feature data processing and management
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom asset types for IAM-based domains, enabling cataloging of any asset format such as medical imaging files, PowerBI dashboards, or PDF reports
AWS Client VPN is now available in four new regions: Canada West (Calgary), Mexico (Central), and two in Asia Pacific - New Zealand and Taipei. This fully managed service enables secure connections for remote workforces to AWS or on-premises resources.
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now emits events to Amazon EventBridge when database instances or clusters undergo state changes, enabling automated responses via EventBridge rules without API polling.
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in Europe and Asia Pacific regions, featuring up to 11.4TB of NVMe SSD storage and Graviton4 processors for up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances
AWS Config adds 191 new managed rules across key services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker, enhancing governance for AI workloads and core cloud infrastructure
AWS Neuron has been updated to version 2.31.0, introducing NKI 0.5.0 and the UltraServer Operator. Performance improvements and new features are included.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows adds 19 new operators for Amazon Bedrock, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, AWS Glue Data Catalog, and Amazon MWAA Serverless, allowing users to orchestrate these services visually without custom integration code.
AWS Builder Center now provides free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshop participants, eliminating the need for an AWS account or credit card and enabling safe experimentation with AWS resources.
Amazon Connect Customer now supports forecasting, planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails, enabling workforce optimization across all workloads including Voice, Chat, Tasks, and Emails
Amazon Aurora DSQL now offers change data capture (CDC), enabling real-time database change streaming to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for event-driven architectures and data integration workflows
Amazon Redshift now supports Graviton-based RG instances on the trailing track, offering up to 2.4x faster query performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU compared to RA3 instances.
AWS Security Hub introduces Network Scanning to identify resources actually reachable from the public internet, detecting public IPs, VMs, load balancers, open ports, and services behind them.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenLineage compatible data lineage in IAM-based domains, capturing lineage events from Apache Spark jobs and providing interactive lineage graphs and a DeleteLineageEvent API
Amazon S3 Vectors provides purpose-built vector storage for AI agents and RAG, now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports Stream Session Admin Shell, enabling secure terminal access to inspect logs, processes, and GPU utilization without managing SSH keys or infrastructure credentials
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances offer 12TB of memory and custom fourth-gen Intel Xeon processors, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server
Amazon RDS for Oracle adds support for Oracle's latest long-term support release, 26ai, enabling natural language to SQL generation and in-database RAG implementations
Amazon Redshift RG instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, offering up to 2.4x faster performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU than previous RA3 instances
Amazon EC2 C8ine instances feature sixth-generation Intel Xeon processors, delivering up to 43% higher performance and significantly improved network throughput for security and network virtual appliances.
Amazon EMR Serverless now offers larger worker configurations with 32 vCPUs and up to 244 GB of memory, enabling more compute and memory-intensive workloads
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now offers a 35% reduction for G-series and 60% reduction for P-series and AWS Trainium instances, applying automatically to existing customers with no action required
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod supports Disaggregated Prefill and Decode (DPD), separating LLM inference phases to dedicated GPU pools for consistent latency and higher throughput
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds support for connecting existing Amazon MWAA environments, allowing data engineers and platform teams to manage Airflow workflows from the same interface used for analytics and machine learning.
AWS Systems Manager now enables management of Azure virtual machines without manual agent installation or per-instance tier fees, and eliminates the Advanced Instances Tier for hybrid and multicloud nodes.
Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-AZ storage class designed for single-digit millisecond data access, offering up to 10x faster data access and 80% lower request costs than S3 Standard, enabling fast data access for ML training and interactive analytics.
AWS now offers declarative policies for VPC Encryption Controls, enabling centralized management and consistent application across all VPCs in monitoring or enforcement mode.
Amazon SageMaker Studio now integrates directly with Hugging Face, allowing users to select a model and customize or deploy it within a pre-configured Studio environment in one click. New customers receive a ready-to-use environment with pre-configured permissions, while existing customers can access directly from Hugging Face.
Amazon Cognito now allows users to instantly adjust their rate limits up or down to the account-level maximum using the console or new API operations, eliminating the need for manual service quota requests.
AWS Security Hub introduces impact analysis for exposure findings, helping security teams understand the full scope of potential attacker access
Amazon EKS Auto Mode now offers significantly reduced management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types, with reductions of 35% for G-series and 60% for P-series and AWS Trainium, applying automatically to all clusters.
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures exception and latency event snapshots, function-level performance data, and deployment events from instrumented services without additional code changes.
AWS Certificate Manager provides a fully managed ACME server endpoint for issuing public TLS certificates with 45-day validity via ACMEv2-compatible clients, enabling automated certificate management and centralized policy enforcement
Amazon EVS now supports VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and the newly released 9.1, enabling full control over installation, operations, and management on EC2 bare-metal instances.
AWS Secrets Manager now supports automatic rotation of Paddle API keys and GitLab access tokens, enabling seamless transitions with configurable grace periods for Paddle and atomic rotation for GitLab
AWS CodePipeline is available in major regions, automating build, test, and deployment on code changes through a defined workflow
AWS CodeBuild adds support for Amazon Linux 2023 on on-demand build hosts, offering an updated Linux kernel and package improvements
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod provides visibility into AMI versions across clusters and automatically applies security patches without disrupting workloads, helping maintain cluster security and consistency while reducing manual patching efforts
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for infrastructure-as-code deployment through version-controlled templates
AWS Config adds support for 8 new resource types across Amazon API Gateway, Amazon EC2, and Amazon S3 Vectors, expanding coverage of AWS resources for discovery, assessment, auditing, and remediation
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support AMD SEV-SNP, enabling customers to run confidential computing workloads on fully dedicated physical servers with control over instance placement and host affinity.
Amazon EC2 X8i instances offer up to 43% higher performance and 1.5x more memory capacity compared to previous generation X2i instances, targeting memory-intensive workloads
Amazon ECS now allows customization of deployment circuit breaker settings, enabling users to define failure thresholds as fixed counts or percentages and choose between consecutive or cumulative failure counting models.
Amazon ECS offers real-time deployment monitoring in the console, enabling users to track progress, health, and diagnose failures directly
Amazon CloudWatch now allows creating alarms directly from log queries, eliminating intermediate steps and enabling monitoring and alerting within the log analysis workflow
AWS Security Agent enhances security across the development lifecycle with STRIDE-based threat modeling, code reviews, and penetration testing now available in additional regions.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG IL-4/5 authorized in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, enabling secure monitoring for sensitive environments.
Amazon EKS now allows Kubernetes minor version rollback within 7 days after an upgrade, providing a safety net for production validation
Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports custom task definitions, allowing the use of existing ECS application configurations and advanced task-level customizations. This enables reuse of task definitions from existing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
AWS AppConfig now offers experimentation tools with AI guidance for running A/B tests and feature experiments across EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and on-premises servers.
Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now includes new threat detections for sensitive file modifications on Amazon EC2, EKS, and ECS, helping identify post-compromise attacker activities.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, the platform for building, connecting, and optimizing agents, is now available in four new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Spain).
Amazon RDS now offers cross-region automated backup replication in four additional regions, enhancing recovery capabilities for mission-critical databases.
AWS Partner Central now allows partners to associate existing AWS Marketplace solutions and products directly with co-selling opportunities, streamlining management and improving fulfillment tracking.
AWS Artifact adds Assurance Assistant, an AI-powered tool that generates citation-backed responses to security and compliance questions, supporting both single queries and bulk XLSX uploads.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has increased default runtime quota limits, allowing users to run more AI agents simultaneously
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports dynamic instrumentation, allowing developers to inspect runtime state without restarts or redeployments.
Amazon Connect Customer increases the limit of security profiles per user from 2 to 7, enabling granular access controls for each business line
Amazon Connect Customer now allows you to create rules to automatically redact specific applications or URLs from agent screen recordings, helping supervisors identify compliance issues more effectively.
Amazon EC2 launches C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, offering up to 25% better compute performance and featuring the Nitro Isolation Engine for enhanced security.
AWS Interconnect - last mile offers a fully managed connectivity service to link branch offices and data centers to AWS with a few clicks, now in gated preview with AT&T, combining AWS cloud innovation with AT&T's extensive network for high availability and SLA-backed service.
Available via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, delivering high performance for coding, agents, and knowledge work
AWS Network Firewall introduces container attribute-based rules for Amazon EKS and ECS, simplifying security for containerized workloads by using native container constructs instead of IP-based rules.
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces a new engine purpose-built for log analytics, delivering up to 4x better price-performance and combining full-text search with analytical queries.
Amazon RDS for Db2 enables direct joining of RDS for Db2 DB instances to domains of self-managed Microsoft Active Directory, allowing Kerberos authentication for single sign-on without AWS Managed Microsoft AD.
Amazon SageMaker AI adds serverless model customization for Gemma 4 E4B and 31B models using supervised fine-tuning, direct preference optimization, and reinforcement fine-tuning
IAM Identity Center allows customer managed applications to programmatically access AWS accounts on behalf of users, eliminating redundant sign-in prompts after external IdP authentication.
AWS Security Hub CSPM introduces an AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls to evaluate Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker workloads against security configurations
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports container image caching, enabling up to 2x faster end-to-end scaling for generative AI models during scale-out events by pre-caching container images so new instances can start serving traffic faster without waiting to pull large images from Amazon ECR.
AWS has launched Capability Insights, an open-source solution that allows deployment of regional capabilities data within your own Amazon VPC. This self-hosted dashboard meets data residency and compliance requirements by keeping all data within your network and providing full control over the infrastructure.
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling offers a new strategy that prioritizes launching instances into capacity reservations before evenly distributing remaining capacity across Availability Zones, maximizing utilization of pre-purchased capacity.
Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents is now generally available, enabling AI agents to securely access and operate desktop applications through managed WorkSpaces environments.
Amazon Time Sync Service now supports microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types, leveraging the AWS Nitro System for improved application event ordering and distributed transaction speeds
AWS End User Messaging adds support for rich media and interactive messaging via RCS across 22 countries, enabling rich cards, carousels, images, videos, and interactive buttons, with RCS conversation pricing in 21 countries.
Amazon Neptune now supports dual-stack mode, allowing database clusters to accept connections over IPv4, IPv6, or both protocols simultaneously. Private and public configurations are available.
Amazon ElastiCache now supports T4g node types in additional AWS Regions, offering burstable CPU performance powered by AWS Graviton2 processors for applications with temporary usage spikes.
AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports managed in-place Slurm version upgrades for existing clusters, allowing upgrades with no disruption to running jobs and preserving accounting data.
Amazon RDS now offers dynamic connection scaling for IAM database authentication, allowing connection rates to scale with instance resources. This enables enterprise workloads to handle high-volume connection patterns efficiently.
AWS CloudFormation and CDK now offer an express mode, reducing deployment time by up to 4x. Deployments complete once resource configurations are applied, without waiting for extended stabilization checks like traffic readiness or region propagation.
AWS CloudFormation now runs pre-deployment validation on Create Stack and Update Stack operations, accelerating development velocity across all workflows
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now adds resource tags directly to log events at ingestion time, enabling easier filtering, searching, and analysis of logs by metadata such as team ownership, environment, or cost center-without requiring changes to logging instrumentation.
AWS Security Hub now monitors Microsoft Azure resources, unifying risk analytics and security posture management across both clouds. It automatically detects Azure VMs, container images, and more.
AWS announces maintenance transitions and end-of-support for services including Amazon Bedrock Agents and Amazon WorkSpaces, affecting new customers and requiring migration planning for existing users.
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now enables processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion. Users can add business context, remove high-cardinality labels, and enforce naming conventions without custom processing layers or modifying application instrumentation.
AWS WAF now protects agentic AI workloads on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with IP controls, rate limiting, and managed rules
AWS Clean Rooms now allows storing SQL query results as intermediate tables within a collaboration, enabling multi-step analytical workflows while preserving privacy.
Amazon GameLift Servers now offers DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity, helping game developers protect session-based multiplayer games against DDoS attacks with no additional cost and negligible latency.
Kiro now offers OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. GPT-5.4 supports complex reasoning and coding with a 272K context window, while Nemotron 3 Super 120B provides efficient computation and fast inference for agentic tasks.
Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Opus 4.8, enhancing capabilities for agentic coding, knowledge work, and long-running tasks in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon MWAA Serverless now correctly validates subnet ownership in shared VPC configurations, enabling workflow creation in member accounts using shared subnets via AWS RAM.
Amazon S3 now delivers server access logs to CloudWatch Logs, enabling instant querying, alarms, cross-account and cross-Region aggregation, and KMS encryption. Logs can also be mirrored to S3 Tables in Apache Iceberg format at no additional storage cost, allowing direct SQL querying with Athena, Redshift, and other Iceberg-compatible engines.
Amazon EC2 R8g instances, powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, are now available in new regions, offering up to 30% better performance than Graviton3-based instances for memory-intensive workloads.
Amazon EC2 C8in instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 600 Gbps network bandwidth, ideal for network-intensive workloads
Amazon EC2 M8a instances feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 30% higher performance and 19% better price-performance over M7a instances, ideal for latency-sensitive workloads.
Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance than C6a instances and support more EBS volume attachments
Amazon Redshift now offers All Upfront and Partial Upfront payment options for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances on RG instances, enhancing cost optimization flexibility
Kiro has obtained FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling secure development for sensitive workloads
AWS Network Firewall adds new managed rule groups from VisionHeight, offering zero-day threat protection and blocking noisy scanners and Tor traffic
Amazon Bedrock now supports these models certified for FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 in AWS GovCloud (US), enabling government agencies to build compliant generative AI applications with high-performance serverless inference powered by Mantle.
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server, addressing security vulnerability CVE-2026-40370
Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now allows sharing DNS views with other AWS accounts using AWS RAM. Consumer accounts can associate their own Route 53 private hosted zones with a shared DNS view, making their records resolvable through the owner's global resolver in every AWS Region where it runs.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now generally available in the Europe (Paris) Region, enabling data ingestion and preprocessing for Amazon OpenSearch Service clusters and serverless collections.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release updates for Microsoft SQL Server, addressing security vulnerabilities
AWS Backup speeds up S3 backup copy operations by up to 8x for buckets with millions of objects and low change rates, reducing cross-account and cross-Region copy times.
AWS GovCloud (US) now provides all customers with 24/7 technical support from US-based, US-citizen engineers by default, ensuring faster resolution within regulated environments.
AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift is now generally available, enabling Swift developers to build secure, scalable IoT applications natively on Apple platforms including macOS, iOS, and tvOS, as well as Linux
Amazon EMR Serverless allows updates to key application configurations such as maximum capacity and custom image settings without stopping and restarting the application.
Amazon EC2 introduces AMI watermarks, allowing embedding of custom identifiers in private AMIs to enhance tracking and governance across the organization
Amazon ElastiCache supports Valkey 9.1 for node-based clusters, offering higher throughput, improved memory efficiency, and stronger access control for multi-tenant workloads
Amazon GuardDuty introduces AI-powered investigations in preview, helping security teams focus on genuine threats
Amazon EC2 U7in-24TB instances offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server
Amazon CloudWatch adds tag support for dashboards, enabling organization, access control, and filtering of dashboards using tags
Amazon Neptune now supports AWS CloudFormation for global databases, enabling multi-region topology definition as code.
Amazon CloudWatch now offers OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS, collecting infrastructure metrics at 30-second intervals using open-source receivers like cAdvisor and Kube State Metrics, enabling cross-node and pod correlation via PromQL.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers new automated policy refinement workflows. The iterative policy improvement and ambiguity reduction workflows help customers enhance their policies with less manual effort, leading to more reliable Guardrail validation results.
Amazon Cognito supports encrypting user pool data at rest with customer managed keys in AWS KMS, enhancing data access control and audit capabilities.
AWS HealthOmics adds ephemeral storage for private workflows, providing dedicated scratch space for bioinformatics workloads to improve run performance and reduce costs.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory enables multi-account architectures, allowing memory resources and agents across AWS accounts. Use resource-based policies to grant access and configure delivery to separate accounts.
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 G6e instances with NVIDIA L40s GPUs, enabling deployment of large language models and diffusion models for interactive training and fine-tuning.
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports managed syslog ingestion, allowing direct sending of syslog messages from firewalls, routers, and Linux servers via TCP/UDP to a VPC endpoint without agents.
Amazon Connect Customer now offers Agentic CX designer (NLX) in preview, a no-code canvas for designing AI-powered self-service experiences with Live Sync to guide customers in real time.
Anthropic launches Claude Tag in beta, enabling direct access to Claude within Slack channels for AWS Marketplace customers using Claude Enterprise, with per-channel scoping and spend controls
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports mTLS authentication for data replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express brokers, enabling migration, disaster recovery, and data distribution across hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Amazon MSK provides AI agent skills that offer expert guidance for operating MSK, helping developers automate tasks and migrate to MSK Express, compatible with existing AI coding agents.
AWS Transform for migrations now supports all AWS commercial regions, simplifying deployments that meet data residency requirements
AWS Lambda now offers MicroVMs, providing VM-level isolation, near-instant launch and resume speeds, and state preservation for executing user or AI-generated code
AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles, allowing customers to activate predefined execution settings at runtime. This separates platform-specific settings from core workflow logic, reducing errors and accelerating scaling from development to production.
Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e instances featuring up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs, 96 GB GPU memory, and 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors, enabling deployment of large language models and AI workloads
Amazon OpenSearch Service's Migration Assistant adds AI-assisted capabilities, simplifying migration of self-managed Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch deployments to OpenSearch Serverless or Managed Clusters using tools like Kiro and Claude Code
AWS IAM Identity Center now allows separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications, enabling independent management of each up to 7,000 by default without one consuming the other's capacity.
AWS Batch introduces BFPO and SCOP allocation strategies, allowing users to define instance type ordering based on workload-specific performance characteristics
AWS Network Firewall changes the default stateful action for new firewall policies to improve connection reliability and prevent dropped packets
AWS Outposts now enables self-service configuration, quoting, ordering, subscription management, renewal, and decommissioning directly from the AWS Management Console, CLI, and API
AWS now offers nested virtualization on additional Intel instances and AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling KVM or Hyper-V execution on virtual EC2 instances for various use cases.
AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, enabling large-scale GPU workloads using the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture within Slurm-managed clusters.
AWS Compute Optimizer now analyzes CloudWatch metrics to detect IOPS and throughput spikes, aiding cost-performance balance for bursty workloads
Amazon MSK now enables Intelligent Rebalancing for Express brokers on existing clusters, simplifying automatic partition balancing during scaling.
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics introduces multilocation canaries, enabling developers and site reliability engineers to run the same canary across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point
AWS launches a new Local Zone in Hanoi, supporting Amazon S3 and Amazon EBS Local Snapshots for local data storage and backup
Amazon SNS enables customers in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region to send SMS text messages to subscribers in over 200 countries and territories
Amazon SageMaker AI provides new observability capabilities for inference endpoints, enabling real-time monitoring of token performance, GPU health, and infrastructure status to quickly diagnose and resolve issues.
Amazon EKS introduces customer-routed control plane egress, allowing outbound Kubernetes API server traffic to be routed through your own VPC. This enables organizations with data perimeter requirements or compliance mandates to reach private OIDC providers and webhook servers accessible only within their VPC and control traffic routing.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the Ministral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 model, featuring multimodal capabilities and agentic functions in a compact 14B-parameter architecture optimized for edge deployment, supporting multiple languages.
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the all-MiniLM-L12-v2 model for semantic search and sentence similarity. This compact model provides fast inference with high-quality embeddings for information retrieval and text clustering applications
Amazon Connect Customer now supports interrupting an agent with a contact, overriding their usual routing configuration for urgent or time-sensitive work. This allows direct assignment of certain contacts to specific agents even when they are in a custom status.
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking, enabling brokers to connect to private resources in a VPC without public exposure, enhancing security and compliance.
Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, deliver up to 4.6x AI inference and 2.1x graphics performance compared to G6
Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations
AWS announces Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bundles for Amazon WorkSpaces Personal in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region, offering updated packages and security improvements.
Amazon GameLift Servers now allows customization of Linux capabilities for containers and retrieval of comprehensive network information for all containers on the same instance, enhancing control and communication between game servers and auxiliary services.
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports larger General Purpose (gp3) volumes with up to 64 TiB size, 80,000 IOPS, and 2,000 MiB/s throughput, enabling better performance for high-throughput OLTP and large-scale analytical workloads.
Amazon Aurora MySQL and RDS for MySQL have extended support for MySQL 5.7 through June 30, 2029, from the previous end date of February 28, 2027, providing continued security patches and bug fixes.
Amazon RDS now generally available for Graviton5-based M9g instances, offering up to 30% performance improvement and 23% price/performance improvement over Graviton4-based instances
AWS DevOps Agent now offers a release management capability in preview, evaluating code changes for production safety and running autonomous release testing to help ship code to production safely and confidently.
AWS HealthOmics enables real-time monitoring of workflow execution progress via CloudWatch, supporting alarms, dashboards, and integration with existing tools
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now supports Apache Spark Connect, enabling users to develop and run Spark applications from their preferred environments on AWS Glue's serverless infrastructure without managing clusters
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now generally available with managed agent harness, allowing users to define agents through configuration and switch models mid-session
Amazon Quick now integrates with 16 additional tools across productivity, design, analytics, data infrastructure, financial intelligence, commerce, and communication, enabling teams to build workflows combining multiple tools in a single conversation
AWS Blocks is an open-source TypeScript framework that allows developers to build backend capabilities on AWS without learning infrastructure tools, with local testing and seamless deployment to production.
Amazon Redshift expands general availability of RG instances powered by AWS Graviton processors to three new regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These instances deliver up to 4.2X better price-performance and 30% lower cost per vCPU compared to other data warehouses.
AWS Sign-in supports resource-based policies and resource control policies for the AWS Management Console, allowing you to restrict console sign-in to expected networks. These policies can be applied organization-wide through AWS Organizations.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers Web Search, allowing developers to build agents with up-to-date web knowledge without integrating external services
AWS Transform for mainframe provides a connected, traceable reimagine experience from assessment through code generation, enabling automated modernization of z/OS COBOL and PL/I workloads in months instead of years.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers automated reasoning checks using formal verification techniques to validate AI model outputs with mathematical rigor, significantly reducing risks in regulated industries and enterprise applications
Amazon S3 Vectors increases the number of similarity search results per query to 10,000, a 100x increase from the previous limit, aiding applications with multi-stage retrieval pipelines.
AWS Transform offers model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads, helping organizations move from third-party providers to Amazon Bedrock with an AI-powered agent that scans codebases and generates migration plans.
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers the InvokeGuardrailChecks API, allowing users to apply individual safeguards at any point in agentic AI applications without creating guardrail resources. The API provides granular control over which safeguards to run at each step, returning severity and confidence scores for custom thresholds and actions.
AWS Security Agent now includes AI-powered threat modeling, automatically generating threat models from design documents or source code. Developers can integrate it into IDEs for early threat mitigation, while security teams can use it for pre-deployment assessments.
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation service, is now generally available, allowing developers to build production-ready AI agents grounded in enterprise data without managing vector databases, data pipelines, or retrieval infrastructure
AWS Secrets Manager now provides a secret safety skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing AI coding agents to securely retrieve and use secrets without exposing values in model context or logs, preserving developer workflows.
Oracle Database@AWS now supports Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless (ADB-S), a fully managed Oracle database service on Exadata infrastructure. ADB-S can be provisioned directly from the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS APIs, supporting four workload types: AI Transaction Processing, AI Lakehouse, AI JSON Database, and Oracle APEX.
AWS Continuum discovers, prioritizes, validates, and remediates security risks at machine speed within user-defined guardrails. It integrates findings from existing tools and its own scans, prioritizes them using a context graph of the environment and business, and validates exploitability by building reproducible proof in an isolated sandbox. Confirmed exposures receive fast, reversible mitigations within guardrails, followed by durable fixes routed through the user's review and deployment process
AWS Glue Data Catalog adds business context and semantic search in preview, allowing users to enrich tables with glossary terms and metadata, and enabling AI agents to find data by meaning rather than inferred context.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now supports Bedrock Guardrails in policy, providing enterprises with deeper safety and security controls for scaling AI agents in production by evaluating agent actions and gateway calls in real-time.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers optimization capabilities that turn production traces into continuous agent improvements, identifying and fixing silent failures that affect users.
Amazon Quick introduces autonomous agents and multi-dataset analytics, enabling natural language task specification and analysis across multiple data sources for continuous workflow automation and secure data management.
AWS Outposts introduces bmn-cx3a instances featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and up to 800 Gbps bare-metal accelerated networking, designed for high-throughput workloads like real-time market data and telecom 5G core networks.
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows console access through VPC endpoints, enabling management without internet connectivity.
AWS DevOps Agent now supports custom SRE agents, bring-your-own sub-agents, and headless access via MCP and A2A protocols, allowing developers to invoke it from existing tools and coding assistants like Kiro and Claude.
AWS Partner Central offers lead enrichment and prospecting, enabling partners to assess purchase likelihood and program eligibility for leads
AWS Lambda Managed Instances enables automatic tagging of managed resources like EC2 instances and EBS volumes, simplifying cost tracking and compliance management
AWS introduces historical data retention for Cost Explorer accounts in billing groups, allowing these accounts to access past billing data at their original billable rates without additional steps.
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering delivers the lowest-cost, fully elastic Lustre file storage optimized for mixed hot and cold data workloads, now available in 13 additional regions, significantly reducing storage costs for less frequently accessed data.
Amazon ECS Express Mode enables developers to rapidly launch containerized applications, providing an AWS domain name, HTTPS support, and automatic scaling based on traffic patterns.
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall announces preview support for Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security, allowing security administrators to enforce DNS threat protections directly within DNS Firewall rules without deploying separate firewalls.
Amazon CloudWatch now offers Log Analytics, unifying CloudWatch Logs Insights, Live Tail, and Contributor Insights in one console. Users can run multiple queries, use existing features, and access all tools from this default interface.
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now enables on-demand replication of snapshots between opt-in Regions, simplifying disaster recovery and global data distribution
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now allows attaching metadata directly from applications for long-term memory records, ensuring values pass through extraction unchanged without LLM inference.
AWS adds xAI's Grok 4.3 model to Amazon Bedrock, enhancing reasoning and agent-building capabilities
AWS Transform adds continuous modernization capability that autonomously detects, prioritizes, and remediates tech debt across enterprise software portfolios, supporting AI agent readiness assessments and security vulnerability detection
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances, accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, deliver up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference
AWS Transform extends its block storage migration capabilities to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, enabling customers to migrate workloads directly to FSx for ONTAP and eliminating the need for intermediate storage platforms and separate migration tools.
Amazon S3 adds annotations, allowing up to 1GB of custom metadata in JSON, XML, or YAML format to be attached to objects, helping AI agents and analytics tools find the right data more effectively.
AWS Partner Central agents automate new partner onboarding from profile setup to compliance completion, guiding partners through all steps required to sell with AWS
AWS Marketplace Storefront enables partners to build and deploy branded solution catalogs on their websites or applications in hours, with automated billing and CRM integrations.
The Amazon Connect Customer Services Competency certifies service partners with proven expertise in transforming enterprise-wide customer experience on Amazon Connect
AWS Partners can now automate pricing within co-sell workflows using express private offers. Pre-configured pricing rules enable rapid private offers for customers, accelerating deal conversion in AWS-led sales.
AWS Marketplace has lowered the listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%, making it more cost-effective for consulting partners, systems integrators, managed services providers, and independent software vendors to transact their services through AWS Marketplace.
Amazon S3 Vectors cuts data processing charges for queries on vector indexes with over 10 million vectors by up to 80%, lowering costs for large-scale AI, RAG, and semantic search workloads
Amazon RDS for SQL Server introduces memory-optimized X2m database instances, offering up to 64 vCPUs and 4 TB of memory, reducing SQL Server licensing costs by over 50%.
AWS Partner Central now supports Business Value Realization (BVR), a new experience and funding model for partners driving customer adoption and outcomes after deploying strategic AWS services
AWS Partner Central accepts SOC 2 Type II audit reports or AWS Well-Architected Framework Reviews to complete Foundational Technical Review in minutes, providing AI-powered validation and immediate feedback to partners
AWS Marketplace introduces AI-assisted product listing in Partner Assistant chat, helping ISVs and Consulting Partners create high-quality listings using existing digital assets
Amazon CloudWatch now natively supports OpenTelemetry metrics via OTLP and allows querying with PromQL, offering per-GB pricing and 15 months of storage, enabling unified querying of application and AWS service metrics.
AWS Partner Central agents now evaluate every co-sell opportunity in real time, providing recommendations that drive AWS engagement and accelerate deal progression. The agent enriches opportunity details on behalf of the partner, eliminating the need for manual review.
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports the latest minor versions of MariaDB, providing security fixes, bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features. Users can utilize automatic minor version upgrades or RDS Managed Blue/Green Deployments for safer and simpler updates.
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521, fixing known security vulnerabilities and bugs. Extended Support allows running MySQL databases for up to three years beyond a major version's end of standard support date.
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the preview environment, allowing evaluation of the latest LTS release. Features include Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, SQL Standard IS JSON predicate, and basic XML data type.
Amazon GameLift Servers now offers free network bandwidth in and out of AWS for all instance types from generation 6 and later, including On-Demand and Spot, with no additional cost or commitment required.
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio now generally available, enabling unified querying and visualization of metrics across multiple accounts and regions using PromQL or Metrics Insights
Amazon CloudWatch provides cross-account and cross-region metrics centralization, allowing automatic replication of metrics to a single destination account for unified monitoring and management.
AWS WAF now enables content owners to price, meter, and collect payments from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs, using machine-readable HTTP 402 responses for payment verification at the edge.
Amazon EC2 C7i instances, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. They offer up to 15% better price-performance versus C6i instances, larger instance sizes up to 48xlarge, bare metal options, Intel AMX support, and up to 128 EBS volumes.
Amazon EC2 introduces C8i instances in the Europe (Stockholm) region, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, delivering up to 2.5x more memory bandwidth and 20% higher performance than C7i instances
Amazon EC2 I7i instances feature 5th Gen Intel Xeon Processors, offering up to 23% better compute performance and optimized storage for I/O-intensive workloads
Amazon SageMaker AI supports serverless fine-tuning for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano model, allowing users to customize the model with their proprietary data without managing infrastructure.
Amazon Lightsail expands to Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain), enabling lower latency and better performance for applications in these regions while meeting local data residency requirements
AWS Lake Formation now enables reading and writing underlying data files in Amazon S3 for tables registered in the AWS Glue Data Catalog, providing a single set of permissions for both SQL queries and direct file access using existing Lake Formation table grants.
Amazon MWAA Serverless can now emit workflow and task state change events to Amazon EventBridge, enabling event-driven automation for Apache Airflow workflows
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now allows users to view CloudWatch Logs directly within the environment's Logs tab, eliminating the need to navigate to the CloudWatch console.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 18, bringing performance improvements and new extension pg_roaringbitmap
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds service health ranking to the application map and new infrastructure, logs, and traces tabs on the service overview page, enabling operators to quickly identify and investigate degraded services.
Amazon EKS extends support for local clusters on AWS Outposts to first and second-generation racks running Amazon EC2 instances booted from EC2 instance store, enhancing data residency and resilience against temporary network disconnects
Amazon Quick integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI, enabling natural language queries and automated multi-step workflows. It processes both structured data and unstructured documents simultaneously.
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances feature 4th-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and 8 TiB of DDR5 memory, ideal for mission-critical in-memory databases like SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, allowing government and regulated-industry customers to reserve GPU capacity for machine learning workloads.
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now generally available, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, delivering up to 25% better compute performance compared to previous generations.
Amazon VPC Flow Logs now supports EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting
Amazon Bedrock now offers the Gemma 4 family from Google DeepMind, enabling generative AI applications across reasoning, multimodal understanding, and software engineering workflows.
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now allow configuration of pidMode and ipcMode settings, enabling daemon processes to access instance-wide resources and shared namespaces with other containers
Amazon EC2 future-dated Capacity Reservations now allow cancellation of reservations, with potential charges displayed for review before proceeding.
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, enabling users to investigate incidents using logs, traces, and metrics within compatible agentic IDEs like Claude Desktop and VS Code, with interactive visualizations for review.
Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models in the US East (N. Virginia) Region, enabling advanced generative AI applications for coding, reasoning, and long-running tasks.
AWS Workload Credentials Provider automates deployment of ACM certificates and local caching of Secrets Manager secrets across AWS and non-AWS workloads, eliminating the need for custom automation and preventing expiry-related failures.
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports out-of-order sample ingestion and workspace-level rule query offset, reducing data loss and improving alert accuracy for distributed workloads
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports ingestion, storage, and querying of Prometheus native histograms, enabling high-resolution metric distributions with greater precision and lower cardinality than classic histograms. Only populated buckets with actual observations are metered.
Amazon EC2 introduces metal-48xl and metal-96xl sizes for M8in, M8ib, M8idn, M8idb, R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances, powered by 6th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and AWS Nitro cards, delivering up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU and high network/EBS bandwidth
AWS FinOps Agent answers cost questions, surfaces optimization opportunities, automatically investigates cost anomalies, and runs recurring FinOps workflows. Available in preview at no additional charge.
Amazon S3 Access Grants maps identities from directories like Microsoft Entra ID or AWS IAM principals to datasets in S3, enabling scalable data permission management.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support Amazon EMR Serverless, allowing data engineers and analysts to choose their Spark runtime for interactive analytics and data engineering workloads.
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Intelligent-Tiering is designed for general-purpose file workloads, offering up to 85% cost savings compared to FSx SSD storage class
AWS now supports updates to data table configurations for AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 via the AWS Management Console and SDK/CLI, allowing customers to modify existing exports without deletion and recreation.
Amazon EC2 introduces P6-B200 instances accelerated by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East), offering up to 2x performance over P5en instances for AI training and inference.
Amazon DocumentDB supports engine minor version 5.0.1, delivering new aggregation operators and enhanced monitoring capabilities
Amazon MSK Express Brokers now supports automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams, eliminating the need to manually pre-create or manage topics for stateful operations
AWS Compute Optimizer identifies idle resources for Amazon DynamoDB provisioned tables, ElastiCache, MemoryDB, DocumentDB, WorkSpaces, and SageMaker endpoints
AWS Cost Explorer now includes 'Analyze with Amazon Q', allowing users to get detailed cost analysis for any configured report with a single click, covering cost trends, top drivers, and anomalies.
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports interactive sessions with Spark Connect, enabling development and execution of Apache Spark applications from managed notebooks in SageMaker Unified Studio and other notebook environments or IDEs, with monitoring, debugging, and cost visibility for individual sessions
AWS Backup now offers fully-managed, policy-based data protection and recovery for Amazon EKS clusters in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, including automated scheduling, retention management, immutable vaults, and cross-Region and cross-account copies.
Anthropic has requested AWS to revoke access to Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 for all users to comply with US Government export control directives. All other models remain unaffected.
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