Issue #219 | 16 March 2026

▪️ AWS Builder ID Sign in with GitHub and Amazon
▪️ Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for EKS
▪️ Backup RDS Multi-AZ clusters to 17 Regions
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory streaming notifications for long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime stateful MCP server features
▪️ Bedrock observability of First Token Latency and Quota Consumption
▪️ CDK Mixins is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds new SLO capabilities
▪️ CloudWatch Logs increased query concurrency and API limits
▪️ Connect AI-powered manager assistance (Preview)
▪️ Connect AI-powered predictive insights
▪️ Connect case data in analytics data lake
▪️ Connect conversational analytics for email
▪️ Connect integrated workflows for managers to coach agents
▪️ Connect select different From email addresses when sending emails
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs
▪️ Glue zero-ETL integrations with DynamoDB
▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere post-quantum digital certificates
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust
▪️ LZA MCP Server AI-assisted configuration management
▪️ Neptune Database adds native spatial data support
▪️ Network Firewall Launch in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️ OpenSearch Service in-place volume increases for all volume sizes
▪️ OpenSearch UI Cross Account Data Access to OpenSearch domains
▪️ PrivateLink Private CA Connector for SCEP
▪️ Quick Suite User Preferences for chat personalization
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available
▪️ S3 account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio faster data preview in Visual ETL
▪️ SAM Kiro power serverless application development
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Windows Server 2025

Issue #220 | 23 March 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available
▪️ Amazon Inspector  Windows KB-based findings
▪️ AWS Partner Central agents to accelerate co-sell
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports shell command execution
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports the AG-UI protocol
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime WebRTC real-time bidirectional streaming
▪️ Bedrock Minimax M2.5 and GLM 5
▪️ Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
▪️ Blu Insights is now AWS Transform for mainframe refactor
▪️ CloudWatch Logs log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol
▪️ CloudWatch organization-wide EC2 detailed monitoring enablement
▪️ Config  +75 new managed rules
▪️ Connect new generative text-to-speech voices and expands to new regions
▪️ Connect enables agents to forward email contacts to external email addresses
▪️ Connect voice AI agents now supports 13 new languages
▪️ DataSync AWS Secrets Manager for all location types
▪️ EC2 Fleet interruptible Capacity Reservations
▪️ EC2 NIXL with EFA to accelerate LLM inference at scale
▪️ ECR pull through cache for Chainguard
▪️ EKS 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect adds support for NDI® inputs
▪️ Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata
▪️ Neptune reading S3 data using openCyper
▪️ Neuron support for Dynamic Resource Allocation with Amazon EKS
▪️ OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.5
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server adds ability to view and schedule new OS updates
▪️ Redshift new queries in dashboards and ETL workloads by up to 7x performance
▪️ S3 Tables Simplified permissions and materialized views
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod idle resource sharing for dynamic cluster utilization
▪️ SageMaker Training Plans extending of existing capacity commitments without workload reconfiguration
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom metadata filters
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio supports aggregated view of data lineage
▪️ Security Agent downloading penetration testing reports
▪️ Security Agent now available with Service Quotas
▪️ SimpleDB exporting domain data to Amazon S3
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Expanded Multi-Node Cluster Configurations

Issue #221 | 30 March 2026

▪️ AppConfig enhanced targeting during feature flag rollout
▪️ Aurora DSQL connector that simplifies building Ruby applications
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL creating and connecting to a database in seconds
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier
▪️ Batch AMI status and supports AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events
▪️ Batch quota management and preemption for SageMaker Training jobs
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Chrome policies and custom root CA
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime managed session storage for persistent agent FS state | Preview
▪️ Bedrock Palmyra Vision 7B from Writer
▪️ CloudWatch Logs data protection, OpenSearch PPL/ SQL for the Infrequent Access ingestion class
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion GenAI +10 regions
▪️ GameLift Servers next-generation EC2 instance families
▪️ HealthImaging study-level fine-grained access control
▪️ HealthOmics batch run operations
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances file descriptor limit to 4K
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances up to 32 GB of memory and 16 vCPUs
▪️ Management Console settings to control service and Region visibility
▪️ Parallel Computing Service slurmdbd and cgroups settings
▪️ Polly +10 voices, 2 regions, and Bidirectional Streaming API
▪️ Route 53 Profiles granular IAM permissions for resource and VPC associations
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless reinforcement fine-tuning for 12 additional models
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod continuous provisioning for Slurm-orchestrated clusters
▪️ SageMaker Studio Kiro and Cursor IDEs as remote IDEs
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio remote connection from Cursor IDE
▪️ Serverless Accelerate AI-assisted development with Agent Plugin
▪️ Step Functions +28 new service integrations, including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
▪️ Storage Gateway Terraform modules now support Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Advanced Metrics
▪️ Transfer Family AS2 now supports receipts of MDNs asynchronously
▪️ Valkey automatic query caching with Advanced JDBC Wrapper

Issue #222 | 6 Apr 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL new connectors .NET and Rust apps
▪️ AWS DevOps Agent is now generally available
▪️ AWS Sustainability Console carbon emissions tracking
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is now generally available
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails cross-account safeguards | GA
▪️ CloudFront BYOIP for IPv6 through VPC IPAM integration
▪️ CloudFront SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies
▪️ CloudWatch Security Hub CSPM findings with org-wide enablement
▪️ CloudWatch Logs lookup query command
▪️ CloudWatch multi-account and region log centralization based on data source
▪️ CloudWatch OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview
▪️ CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS (Preview)
▪️ CloudWatch PromQL querying with Query Studio Preview
▪️ CloudWatch S3 Express One Zone metrics
▪️ Cluster Insights OpenSearch Service Console and EventBridge events
▪️ Connect tag-based access control for quick responses
▪️ Connect testing and simulation capabilities to chats
▪️ Deadline Cloud configurable job scheduling modes for queues
▪️ Deadline Cloud new fleet scaling configurations for render farms
▪️ Direct Connect CloudWatch metrics for BGP monitoring
▪️ Direct Connect now supports CloudFormation
▪️ ECS Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 instance store
▪️ ElastiCache Serverless IPv6 and dual stack connectivity
▪️ End User Messaging Notify
▪️ End User Messaging RCS for Business
▪️ HealthOmics VPC-connected workflows
▪️ Kiro Powers Spark troubleshooting and upgrade agents
▪️ Lightsail compute-optimized instance bundles
▪️ Location Service GrabMaps with enhanced APIs for Southeast Asia
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Multi-Region replication for Opt-In regions
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink Flink 2.2
▪️ Marketplace sellers can now self-serve refunds and agreement cancellations
▪️ OpenSearch Service agentic AI for log analytics
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS sub-millisecond network latency for high performance applications
▪️ Organizations organization paths in API responses
▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement Marketplace Metering for certain Marketplace products
▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement User Agent string for certain AWS services
▪️ Private CA utilization metrics in CloudWatch
▪️ RDS for Oracle cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent charting capabilities and support for materialized views
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent geo-specific inference for Japan and Australia
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Observability for AWS Glue jobs via CloudWatch metrics
▪️ Secrets Manager custom input for AWS KMS keys
▪️ Service Availability Updates
▪️ SES Mail Manager enhanced security and email processing
▪️ Transform automated codebase analysis | GA
▪️ Transform new AWS-managed transformations to modernize code at scale
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications improves multi-session fleet management

Issue #223 | 13 Apr 2026

▪️  Agent Registry centralized agent discovery and governance | Preview
▪️  Bedrock AgentCore Browser OS-level interaction capabilities
▪️  Bedrock Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)
▪️  Bedrock cost allocation by IAM user and role
▪️  Bedrock Data Automation custom vocabulary
▪️  Billing and Cost Management Dashboards Now Supports Scheduled Email Delivery
▪️  Certificate Manager native certificate search
▪️  CloudWatch drop and conditional processing
▪️  CloudWatch new compliance and governance capabilities
▪️  Cost Explorer Natural Language Query capabilities powered by Amazon Q
▪️  Deadline Cloud monitor creation in multiple regions
▪️  EC2 Capacity Manager tag-based dimensions
▪️  EKS EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools
▪️  IoT Greengrass SDK for C, C++, and Rust applications
▪️  IVS Real-Time Streaming redundant ingest
▪️  Lambda expands response streaming support to all commercial AWS Regions
▪️  Location Service contour line density, traffic visualization, and 3D terrain
▪️  Marketplace Discovery API for programmatic access to catalog data
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression
▪️  OpenSearch Service Graviton4 based i8ge instances
▪️  OpenSearch Service Managed Prometheus and agent tracing
▪️  Open Source Smithy-Java client framework | GA
▪️  Private CA customer managed permissions for cross-account sharing
▪️  Quick Sparklines for Inline Trend Visualization in Tables
▪️  RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy
▪️  RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️  RTB Fabric health checks for real-time bidding workloads
▪️  S3 buckets accessible as file systems
▪️  S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate
▪️  S3 new security best practice to new and existing buckets by default
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod gang scheduling for distributed training workloads
▪️  SageMaker serverless workflows to Identity Center domains
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio notebook import/export and developer acceleration
▪️  Timestream for InfluxDB Customer-Defined Maintenance Windows
▪️  Transfer Family IPv6 for connectors and web apps
▪️  Verified Permissions policy store aliases and named policies and policy templates
▪️  WorkSpaces Advisor now available for AI-powered troubleshooting
▪️  WorkSpaces Personal unique DNS names for PrivateLink

Issue #224 | 20 Apr 2026

▪️  Amazon FSx copying file system backups across AWS opt-in Regions
▪️  Aurora DSQL connector that simplifies building PHP applications
▪️  Bedrock Claude Opus 4.7
▪️  CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries with parameters
▪️  CloudWatch RUM available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️  Deadline Cloud AI-powered troubleshooting assistant for render jobs
▪️  EC2 C8gn, M8gn, R8gn higher EBS-optimized performance
▪️  EC2 C8in and C8ib instances
▪️  ECR Pull Through Cache Now Supports Referrer Discovery and Sync
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports IPv6
▪️  Interconnect last mile | GA
▪️  Interconnect multicloud | GA
▪️  Managed Grafana creating Grafana 12.4 workspaces
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless Derived Source for storage optimization
▪️  Quick document-level access controls for ACL support for S3
▪️  Quick document-level access controls for Google Drive knowledge bases
▪️  Quick multi-account sign-in within the same browser
▪️  Quick Sheet Tooltips for Rich, Contextual Data Exploration
▪️  Redshift key performance optimization for Top-K queries
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod flexible instance groups
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Qwen3.5-9B, and Qwen3.5-27B
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart optimized deployments for foundation models
▪️  Secrets Manager hybrid post-quantum TLS to protect secrets from quantum threats
▪️  Transform is now available in Kiro and VS Code

Issue #225 | 27 April 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora serverless Up to 30% better performance, smarter scaling
▪️ Amazon Corretto April 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Athena simplifies federated queries with managed connectors
▪️ Backup Redshift Serverless and Aurora DSQL support for AWS Organizations backup policies
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore managed harness | Preview
▪️ Clean Rooms configurable Spark properties for PySpark
▪️ Client VPN native AWS Transit Gateway integration
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights JOIN and sub-query commands
▪️ CloudWatch pipelines configuration of processors via AI
▪️ Compute Optimizer +162 new EC2 instance types and 32 new RDS DB instance classes
▪️ Connect +8 metrics to measure and improve AI agent performance
▪️ Connect flow modules now work across all flow types and within other modules
▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns contact priority ordering
▪️ Connect outbound campaigns now supports hourly segment refresh
▪️ Connect touchtone buffering for AI-powered self-service
▪️ Data Exports cross-account delivery
▪️ Deadline Cloud custom scripting for job submission workflows
▪️ DocumentDB in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0
▪️ EBS volume modification enhancement to AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region
▪️ EC2 for SQL Server HA now supports health notifications
▪️ EC2 Managed resource visibility settings
▪️ ECS Managed Instances GPU Health Monitoring and Auto Repair
▪️ EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keys
▪️ EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networking
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk AI-powered environment analysis now supports Windows
▪️ EVS Microsoft Windows Server Licensing
▪️ Glue OAuth 2.0 for Snowflake connectivity
▪️ IoT Greengrass non-root installation
▪️ IVS Low-Latency Streaming server-side ad insertion
▪️ Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GA
▪️ Lambda durable functions +16 AWS Regions
▪️ Lambda mount S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files
▪️ Location Service bulk address validation for the US, Canada, Australia, the UK
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Kerberos Encryption audit event logs
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Windows functional level 2016
▪️ Marketplace Management Portal bank account deletion
▪️ Marketplace streamlines VAT payment for deemed supply transactions
▪️ MSK Replicator enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replication
▪️ MSK Replicator log forwarding for replication visibility
▪️ MSK Replicator replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express Brokers
▪️ MSK Serverless expands to 13 new AWS regions
▪️ Network Firewall Managed Rules enhancement Marketplace Partners
▪️ OpenSearch Service rollback for service software updates
▪️ Partner Central Attributed Revenue Dashboard
▪️ Quick integrates with Visier’s Vee agent for workforce intelligence
▪️ Quick multiple owners for admin-managed SharePoint and Google Drive knowledge bases
▪️ Quick permission verification for ACL-enabled knowledge bases
▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift supports UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE for Apache Iceberg tables
▪️ S3 +5 additional checksum algorithms
▪️ S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Inventory
▪️ SageMaker AI optimized generative AI inference recommendations
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Qwen3.5 models
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod automatic Slurm topology management
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod on-demand deep health checks
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart +5 Qwen models
▪️ SageMaker multi-region replication from IAM Identity Center
▪️ SageMaker notebooks and data agent for IdC domains
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio multiple code spaces within projects for IAM domains
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio VPC for notebook kernels
▪️ Secrets Manager extends managed external secrets to MongoDB Atlas and Confluent Cloud
▪️ Transform landing zone creation in migration workflows

Issue #226 | 4 May 2026

▪️ Amazon Connect Decisions
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Identity On-Behalf-Of (OBO) token exchange
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore optimizing agent performance | Preview
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Node.js for direct code deployment
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents | Limited Preview
▪️ Billing Conductor Passthrough Pricing Plan for Billing Transfer users
▪️ CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tag
▪️ CloudFront WebSocket Support for VPC Origins
▪️ CloudWatch RUM improved App Monitors overview with health, SLO, and tracing status
▪️ CloudWatch visual agent configuration to the EC2 console
▪️ Connect increases attachment file sizes and adds custom file types
▪️ Connect now logs supervisor agent activity status changes to AWS CloudTrail
▪️ Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring | Preview
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download
▪️ EC2 C8ine and M8ine instances
▪️ EC2 R8in and R8ib instances
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports NVIDIA GPU metrics
▪️ EKS one-click cluster access through CloudShell
▪️ Elastic Fabric Adapter Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation
▪️ GameLift Streams Proton 10 runtime
▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere now enforces VPC endpoint policies for the CreateSession API
▪️ KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keys
▪️ Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0
▪️ MQ for RabbitMQ now supports Prometheus metrics
▪️ Neuron SDK Neuron Agentic Development for NKI kernel development on Trainium
▪️ OpenSearch Service JWKS URL configuration for JWT authentication
▪️ OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption
▪️ OpenSearch UI cross-region data access to OpenSearch domains
▪️ Outposts racks now support LagStatus CloudWatch metric
▪️ Payment Cryptography paper-based key exchange
▪️ Quick Automate APIs to trigger and monitor automation jobs
▪️ Quick Automate import and export of automations across AWS accounts
▪️ Quick Automate shared file storage for automations
▪️ Quick build custom applications | Preview
▪️ Quick Custom Sort for Filter Controls
▪️ Quick desktop application for macOS and Windows | Preview
▪️ Quick document-level access controls for SharePoint knowledge bases
▪️ Quick Free and Plus pricing plans
▪️ Quick  Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable integrations
▪️ Quick Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word extensions | Preview
▪️ Quick now supports document and visual creation in chat
▪️ RDS for SQL Server cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS for SQL Server read replica with additional storage volumes
▪️ Redshift Concurrency Scaling Support for auto-copy and zero-ETL
▪️ Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroups
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod G7e and r5d.16xlarge instances
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Gemma 4 models
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, Table Transformer Detection, and Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct
▪️ SageMaker Training Plans capacity utilization monitoring through CloudWatch
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD CLI for data and AI applications
▪️ Spatial Data Management adds custom transformations
▪️ Transfer Family Terraform Okta and Microsoft Entra ID integration examples
▪️ Transform BI migration agents for Power BI and Tableau to Amazon Quick
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal enhances PCoIP to DCV protocol migration

Issue #227 | 11 May 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL JSON data type with compression
▪️ AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper provides client-side encryption
▪️ AWS Agent Toolkit  help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS
▪️ AWS Capabilities by Region availability notifications
▪️ AWS India UPI Scan and Pay for sign-up and payments
▪️ AWS MCP Server is now generally available
▪️ Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory metadata for long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview)
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime bring-your-own file system from Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights querying by log group tags
▪️ CloudWatch RUM Session Replay for Web Applications
▪️ Connect adds default Step-by-Step Guides for After Contact Work
▪️ Connect Cases customer profile identity resolution
▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns adds multi-contact time zone detection
▪️ Console Mobile App interactive graphs, AI log summaries, and natural language logs search to CloudWatch Alarms
▪️ Directory Service directory security settings with STIG-aligned controls for Managed AD
▪️ EC2 Instance Store CSI driver now generally available in EKS add-ons
▪️ ElastiCache +13 CloudWatch metrics for network capacity planning and engine diagnostics
▪️ ElastiCache real-time aggregations
▪️ ElastiCache real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search
▪️ ElastiCache real-time hybrid search with vector and full-text
▪️ ElastiCache  Valkey 9.0
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk TLS listeners for Network Load Balancers
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor ad trickplay personalization and compact DASH manifest optimization via dynamic transcoding
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor automatic secure server-to-server integration with Google's ad platforms
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor launches Monetization Functions
▪️ Entity Resolution incremental Machine Learning based matching workflows
▪️ EventBridge data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail
▪️ IAM higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providers
▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generation
▪️ IoT Core Device Location adds Confidence Level Configuration and Measurement Type support
▪️ Marketplace introduces Tax management portal for sellers
▪️ Marketplace programmatic procurement with Agreements API
▪️ MQ in-place major version upgrades for RabbitMQ 4
▪️ Neptune 1-click connect with CloudShell
▪️ OpenSearch Service expands Cluster Insights with a new insight
▪️ OpenSearch Service VPC egress for private connectivity to resources in your VPC
▪️ Payment Cryptography cross account key sharing
▪️ Payment Cryptography Multi-party approval for sensitive operations
▪️ Quick Dataset Q&A for conversational analytics against enterprise data
▪️ Quick generates dashboards from natural language prompts
▪️ Quick New Relic for observability-driven AI agents
▪️ Quick tables bucket as a data source
▪️ Quick upgrades the extension for Microsoft Outlook (Preview)
▪️ RDS for SQL Server instances powered by AMD EPYC processors
▪️ Redshift scales data ingestion automatically with concurrency scaling for batch workloads
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver add and remove AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution
▪️ Route 53 Resolver additional capabilities for IPv6 query traffic
▪️ SageMaker AI agent experience for model customization
▪️ SageMaker AI Capacity-Aware Inference with Automatic Instance Fallback
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart 4 new Qwen models
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio adds identity and user management features
▪️ SAM  BuildKit support for Lambda functions packaged as container images
▪️ SAM WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN modifying tunnel bandwidth on existing VPN connections
▪️ VPC Lattice resource configurations now support private domain-name targets
▪️ WorkSpaces AI agents operate desktop applications (Preview)
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications host-to-client URL redirection

Issue #228 | 18 May 2026

▪️  Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture | Preview
▪️  Application Recovery Controller zonal shift with Karpenter
▪️  Application Recovery Controller Lambda event source mapping
▪️  AWS HealthOmics caching of cancelled workflow runs
▪️  AWS RTB Fabric custom domains for real-time bidding workloads
▪️  Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization and Migration Tool
▪️  Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available
▪️  CloudFormation and CDK Reference stack outputs across accounts and Regions
▪️  CloudFront OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer)
▪️  CloudFront Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer)
▪️  CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan now supports configurable usage allowances
▪️  CloudWatch Logs increased query result limits
▪️  Connect Cases edit related items and delete cases from the agent workspace
▪️  Connect Customer embedding Cases and Customer Profiles in custom agent applications
▪️  Connect Customer permission for agents to view only their own performance evaluations
▪️  EC2 ENA Express now supports traffic between Availability Zones
▪️  EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances | GA
▪️  EventBridge Scheduler +619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances
▪️  FSx for OpenZFS creating Multi-AZ file systems in shared VPCs
▪️  Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview
▪️  Lambda scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances
▪️  Managed Grafana in-place upgrade to Grafana version 12.4
▪️  Organizations higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)
▪️  Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creation
▪️  Quick cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources
▪️  Redshift RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
▪️  Route 53 Domains +34 Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.
▪️  SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Qwen3.6
▪️  SageMaker Data Agent IAM Identity Center domains
▪️  SageMaker Feature Store SageMaker Python SDK V3
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart New models for image generation and text embeddings
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart speech recognition and text-to-speech new models
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart Two new models for coding
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio getting started tutorials and in-product release notes
▪️  Security Agent full repository code reviews
▪️  Transform agent builder toolkit Kiro power for building customized transformation agents
▪️  Transform agentic AI assistant to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
▪️  Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex
▪️  Transform containerization capability during migrations
▪️  Transform customer-owned artifact stores
▪️  WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling

Issue #229 | 25 May 2026

▪️  Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is GA
▪️  Bedrock support for request-level usage attribution
▪️  Billing Conductor Account Visibility with Billing Transfer Inventory
▪️  Clean Rooms mutable payment configurations for collaborations
▪️  CloudWatch Logs Insights new query commands and functions
▪️  DocumentDB Serverless is now available on DocumentDB 8.0
▪️  ECS pause and continue controls for service deployments
▪️  EVS 32 hosts per environment
▪️  ExtendDB an open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter
▪️  Lightsail CDN distributions now support IPv6-only instances as origins
▪️  Managed Grafana dual-stack connectivity (IPv6 and IPv4)
▪️  Management Console AWS Local Zones in the Region Selector
▪️  Redshift ALTER TABLE for Iceberg tables and writes via the AWS Glue Data Catalog mount
▪️  SageMaker AI OpenAI-compatible APIs for inference endpoints
▪️  SageMaker business metadata and governance in IAM-based domains
▪️  SageMaker domain management across domain types
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod data capture for inference workloads
▪️  SageMaker Studio GPU capacity reservation through SageMaker Flexible Training Plans
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet job retries
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio data quality rule authoring and evaluation
▪️  SAM CLI CloudFormation Language Extensions
▪️  Secrets Manager Agent pre-fetching and IAM role assumption
▪️  Secrets Manager Datadog vended keys and Snowflake Programmatic Access Tokens
▪️  Security Agent adds verification scripts for pentest findings
▪️  Security Hub identity risks from unused access
▪️  Transfer Family federated permissions with IAM Identity Center across AWS Regions
▪️  Transform agentic migration assessment capabilities
▪️  WorkSpaces Personal WorkSpace Migration for Linux WorkSpaces

Issue #230 | 1 June 2026

▪️ Aurora MySQL integration with Kiro Powers
▪️ Backup OTP verification for Multi-party approval on logically air-gapped vaults
▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS
▪️ Bedrock expands support for Service Quotas
▪️ Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget
▪️ Connect Customer generative AI-powered post-contact summaries to eight new languages
▪️ Connect Customer generative AI to automatically evaluate self-service interactions
▪️ Connect Customer granular access controls for the agent login/logout report
▪️ Connect Customer scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance
▪️ Deadline Cloud browsing job attachments in the monitor
▪️ Elemental Inference now supports Smart Subtitles for automated live captioning
▪️ End User Messaging RCS for Business +20 countries
▪️ GameLift Streams gen 6e stream classes for high-fidelity game streaming
▪️ GuardDuty Malware Protection Backup supports Amazon S3 continuous backups
▪️ Interconnect multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier
▪️ IoT Core APIs for MQTT connection management
▪️ IoT Core direct messaging for point-to-point communication
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless next-gen is now generally available
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS is now available in twenty AWS Regions
▪️ Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes
▪️ Partner Central deal sizing using total contract value (TCV)
▪️ RDS ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication
▪️ Resilience Hub next generation is now generally available
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod Slurm  minimum capacity requirements with continuous provisioning
▪️ SageMaker Notebook Instances Region Expansion of P6-B200
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio interactive interface for managing Feature Store in IAM Domains
▪️ SES inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring
▪️ Shield Advanced introduces DDoS attack flow logs
▪️ Transform now modernizes networks during migrations
▪️ VPC IPAM tags on IPAM pool allocations
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications adds support for Windows Desktop OS

Issue #231 | 8 June 2026

▪️ Amazon Inspector improved agent-based scanning for EC2
▪️ Amazon Location Service public transit and intermodal routing
▪️ ARC Region Aurora scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover
▪️ AWS Compute Optimizer 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations
▪️ AWS MCP Server cross-account and cross-role access
▪️ AWS Step Functions AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Identity bring your own secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime introduces interactive shells for terminal access into agent sessions
▪️ Bedrock CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs
▪️ Bedrock GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI | GA
▪️ Bedrock redesigned console optimized for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs
▪️ CloudWatch querying metrics data up to two weeks old
▪️ Cognito multi-Region replication
▪️ Config now supports internal service linked rules
▪️ Connect AI assistant is now available in the UI builder
▪️ Connect Customer now optimizes placement of ad-hoc activities in agent schedules
▪️ Connect Customer schedule update notifications
▪️ Connect Customer up to 5,000 agents per schedule
▪️ Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration
▪️ Deadline Cloud persistent storage for Service Managed Fleets
▪️ Deadline Cloud plugin sync for service-managed fleets
▪️ Direct Connect VIF Rate Limiters to help prevent network congestion
▪️ ECS Managed Instances AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia
▪️ ECS with AWS Fargate 32vCPU compute configurations
▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.36
▪️ EKS Capabilities CloudWatch Vended Logs
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability
▪️ Glue Data Catalog Client Hive 3 and discovery of multiple catalogs
▪️ HealthLake CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) requirements
▪️ HealthOmics Nextflow version 26.04
▪️ HealthOmics Nextflow version pinning at run time
▪️ IoT Core new logs to troubleshoot connectivity and authentication
▪️ IoT Device Management MQTT session data to connectivity status API
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) CDC iterator position
▪️ PCS production-ready Deep Learning AMI
▪️ Quick Research now supports customer managed keys
▪️ Quick Research now supports customer managed keys
▪️ Quick VPC connectivity for MCP connections
▪️ RDS for Db2 IBM Db2 v12.1 and Db2 Community Edition
▪️ RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media
▪️ SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance
▪️ SageMaker AI multi-turn reinforcement learning for AI agent model customization
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent conversation history
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent integrates business context into conversations
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod EFA-only network interfaces
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod troubleshooting skills for AI coding assistants
▪️ SageMaker Studio now sets up in seconds with model customization ready from the start
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio a localized experience in twelve languages
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio notebook scheduling
▪️ SES tenant-level suppression lists

Issue #232 | 15 June 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL JSONB data type with compression
▪️ Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18
▪️ Application Migration Service is now AWS Transform MGN
▪️ AWS CLI now supports the Agent Toolkit for AWS
▪️ AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 table configurations update
▪️ AWS Workload Credentials Provider exportable ACM certificates and Secrets Manager
▪️ Bedrock  announces and delists Claude Fable 5
▪️ Bedrock Gemma 4 models
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals infrastructure, logs, and traces context for faster troubleshooting
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights  +23 query commands and functions
▪️ Compute Optimizer idle recommendations for six additional resource types
▪️ Connect Customer launches real-time dashboard alerts from conversational analytics
▪️ Connect Customer now offers AI agent trace details for self-service voice interactions
▪️ Cost Explorer intelligent cost explanations powered by Amazon Q
▪️ DocumentDB engine minor version starting with 5.0.1
▪️ EC2 M9g and M9gd general purpose instances are now available
▪️ EC2 metal-48xl and metal-96xl instances
▪️ ECS Managed Daemons inter-task visibility and communication
▪️ EKS local clusters on Outposts with EC2 instance store
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk now integrates CloudWatch Logs in the Logs tab
▪️ EMR Serverless Run Interactive Workloads
▪️ FinOps Agent is now available in preview
▪️ Lake Formation extends table permissions to access underlying data in S3
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus now supports Native Histograms
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus out of order sample ingestion
▪️ MSK Express Brokers automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams
▪️ MWAA Serverless EventBridge notifications
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless now supports Agentic Search
▪️ OpenSearch Service MCP Apps for agentic observability
▪️ Quick now integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1
▪️ RDS for SQL Server migration cost assessment capabilities now available in AWS Transform
▪️ Redshift reduces manual snapshot cost for Serverless and RG instances
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless fine-tuning for Nvidia Nemotron models
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support EMR Serverless
▪️ Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer target coverage analysis
▪️ VPC Flow Logs additional metadata

Issue #233 | 22 June

▪️ AgentCore harness in now generally available
▪️ AWS Blocksan open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS | Preview
▪️ AWS Console Private Access now works without internet connectivity
▪️ AWS Continuum for security at machine speed
▪️ AWS Sign-in resource-based policies and resource control policies
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Bedrock Guardrails in policy
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory strictly consistent metadata for long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore new optimization capabilities to continuously improve agents in production
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Web Search Agentic Web Retrieval
▪️ Bedrock Grok 4.3
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails new API targeting agentic AI workflows
▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch cross-account metrics centralization
▪️ CloudWatch Log Analytics for unified log analysis
▪️ CloudWatch native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying and per-GB pricing
▪️ CloudWatch Query Studio is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics multilocation canaries
▪️ Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metrics
▪️ Connect Customer interrupt an agent with an urgent contact
▪️ Cost Explorer historical data retention for accounts in billing groups
▪️ DevOps Agent adds release management capability | Preview
▪️ DevOps Agent custom SRE agents and MCP/A2A protocols
▪️ EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Now Supports Cancellation
▪️ EC2 G7 instances are now generally available
▪️ ECS faster service auto scaling
▪️ EKS customer-routed control plane egress
▪️ GameLift Servers Free Network Bandwidth
▪️ GameLift Servers new container fleet improvements
▪️ Glue Data Catalog business context and semantic search | Preview
▪️ Glue Interactive Sessions Spark Connect for interactive workloads
▪️ HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances Tag Propagation for Managed Resources
▪️ Marketplace announces AI-assisted product listing
▪️ Marketplace reduces listing fee for professional services to 0.5%
▪️ Marketplace Storefront is now generally available
▪️ MQ for RabbitMQ private networking connectivity
▪️ MSK Express Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless
▪️ Partner Central accelerate co-sell deals with express private offers
▪️ Partner Central agents now accelerate co-selling on every deal
▪️ Partner Central agents now guide new partners from registration to ready-to-sell
▪️ Partner Central lead enrichment and prospecting
▪️ Partner Central new funding benefits for Business Value Realization
▪️ Partner Central validates Foundational Technical Review in minutes
▪️ Partner Competency Connect Customer Services
▪️ Quick autonomous agents, multi-dataset analytics, and redesigned activity feed
▪️ Quick expands integrations with new connectors for Adobe, Figma, WhatsApp, and more
▪️ RDS for MariaDB LTS 12.3
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M9g database instances
▪️ RDS for SQL Server increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes
▪️ RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances
▪️ Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security | Preview
▪️ S3 annotations to provide AI agents and analytics tools with context for data discovery
▪️ S3 Vectors reduces query charges by up to 80% for large vector indexes
▪️ S3 Vectors up to 10,000 similarity search results per query
▪️ SageMaker AI new observability capability For Inference Endpoints
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart all-MiniLM-L12-v2 for semantic search and sentence similarity
▪️ Secrets Manager safe secrets handling in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
▪️ Security Agent adds Kiro Power, Claude Code, simulated validations and new integrations support
▪️ Security Agent support for Threat Modeling
▪️ Transform autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation
▪️ Transform FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Public Preview
▪️ Transform model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads

Issue #234 | 29 June 2026

▪️ Backup enhances Amazon S3 backup copy performance
▪️ Batch now supports customer-ordered instance allocation strategies
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory cross-account access
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks
▪️ CloudWatch Logs managed syslog ingestion
▪️ CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS
▪️ CloudWatch tags on dashboards
▪️ Cognito customer managed key for encryption at rest
▪️ Connect Customer Agentic CX designer (NLX) in preview
▪️ EC2 AMI Watermarks for improved AMI governance
▪️ ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1
▪️ EMR Serverless live configuration updates without application restarts
▪️ GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response | Preview
▪️ HealthOmics ephemeral storage for private workflows
▪️ HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles
▪️ IAM Identity Center separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications
▪️ Lambda MicroVMs isolated execution of user and AI-generated code
▪️ Marketplace Claude Tag is now available in beta
▪️ MSK AI Agent Skills to help developers operate MSK efficiently and accelerate migrations to MSK
▪️ MSK Replicator mTLS authentication
▪️ MWAA Serverless shared VPC configurations
▪️ Neptune CloudFormation for global databases
▪️ Network Firewall default drop action for improved connection reliability
▪️ Network Firewall managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight
▪️ OpenSearch Service now offers AI-assisted migrations
▪️ Outposts self-service lifecycle management
▪️ Parallel Computing Service supports P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServers
▪️ RDS Custom latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift Reserved Instance upfront pricing options for RG instances
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver sharing DNS Views between AWS Accounts
▪️ S3 server access logs to CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables
▪️ SageMaker Notebook G6e instance types
▪️ SageMaker Studio G7e instance types
▪️ Transform AWS commercial regions as migration targets
▪️ WAF support for Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Issue #235 | 5 July 2026

▪️ AppConfig managed experimentation tools for A/B testing
▪️ Artifact Assurance Assistant for compliance inquiries
▪️ AWS Interconnect  last mile new partner with AT&T in gated preview
▪️ AWS Service Availability Updates
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore default runtime quota limits increase
▪️ BedrockClaude Sonnet 5
▪️ Capability Insights regional availability dashboard
▪️ Clean Rooms intermediate tables for SQL
▪️ CloudFormation and CDK express mode speeds up infrastructure deployments by up to 4x
▪️ CloudFormation and CDK pre-deployment validation on all stack operations
▪️ CloudWatch creating alarms from log queries
▪️ CloudWatch processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics
▪️ CloudWatch Logs enriches log events with AWS resource tags
▪️ Connect Customer rule based redaction for agent screen recording
▪️ Connect Customer rule based redaction for agent screen recording
▪️ Connect Customer up to 7 security profiles with granular access controls per user
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling balanced Availability Zone distribution
▪️ EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances
▪️ EC2 Dedicated Hosts AMD SEV-SNP
▪️ ECS configurable deployment circuit breaker settings
▪️ ECS Express Mode custom task definitions
▪️ ECS real-time deployment observability in the AWS Management Console
▪️ ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing
▪️ EKS version rollback
▪️ ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1
▪️ ElastiCache T4g nodes now available in additional AWS Regions
▪️ End User Messaging RCS rich media and interactive messaging
▪️ GameLift Servers DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity
▪️ GuardDuty sensitive file modification threat detections
▪️ IAM Identity Center programmatic AWS account access for customer managed applications
▪️ MWAA Serverless shared VPC configurations
▪️ Neptune dual stack support with IPv6
▪️ Network Firewall container attribute-based inspection for EKS and ECS
▪️ OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics
▪️ Parallel Computing Service in-place Slurm major version upgrades
▪️ Partner Central Marketplace listings for co-selling
▪️ RDS for Db2 self-managed Active Directory
▪️ RDS IAM Database Authentication with Connection Rate Scaling
▪️ S3 server access logs now deliver to CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables
▪️ SageMaker AI cuts generative AI inference scale-out time by up to half with automatic container image caching
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Gemma 4 models
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod AMI versioning and auto-patching
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning
▪️ Security Hub CSPM AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls
▪️ Time Sync Service Microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions
▪️ WAF Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
▪️ WorkSpaces AI agents | GA

Issue #236 | 13 July 2026

▪️ AWS MCP Server OAuth support
▪️ Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments
▪️ Certificate Manager ACME protocol for public certificates
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Dynamic Instrumentation
▪️ CodeBuild Amazon Linux 2023 for on-demand build hosts
▪️ Cognito self-service provisioned API rate limits
▪️ Config +191 additional managed rules
▪️ Connect Customer forecasting, planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion now supports offline SQL Server conversion
▪️ DocumentDB R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances
▪️ EC2 EBS volume for Replace Root Volume
▪️ ECS Managed Instances reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%
▪️ EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%
▪️ EMR on EKS Apache Spark troubleshooting agent
▪️ EMR Serverless larger worker sizes to run more compute and memory intensive workloads
▪️ GameLift Streams secure terminal access for stream sessions
▪️ Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options
▪️ MSK Replicator replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers
▪️ Organizations account departure security controls by default for new orgы created via Organizations
▪️ Redshift RG instances now available on the trailing track
▪️ SageMaker data lineage in IAM-based domains
▪️ SageMaker Feature Store batch feature writes and record listing
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod deep health checks for Slurm clusters with continuous provisioning
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod disaggregated prefill and decode
▪️ SageMaker Studio Hugging Face one-click model deployment and customization
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom asset types to the catalog in IAM-based domains
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio importing existing MWAA environments
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports operators for Bedrock, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, and Glue Catalog
▪️ Secrets Manager managed external secrets support for Paddle and GitLab
▪️ Security Hub impact analysis for exposure findings
▪️ Security Hub Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resources
▪️ Security Hub unified security management to Microsoft Azure
▪️ Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB now publishes database state change events to Amazon EventBridge
▪️ VPC Encryption Controls declarative controls

Issue #237 | 20 July 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
▪️ Billing and Cost Management new Cost Efficiency widget
▪️ CloudFront Functions logging to CloudFront access logs
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights +25 new query commands and functions
▪️ CloudWatch Logs intelligent tiering for storage
▪️ CloudWatch lookup processor for log enrichment
▪️ Cognito importing users with password hashes
▪️ Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs
▪️ DocumentDB +46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1
▪️ DocumentDB skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
▪️ EC2 public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs
▪️ EKS Auto Mode Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery EBS volume initialization rate
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloads
▪️ GameLift Streams IAM role credentials for stream sessions
▪️ GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads
▪️ IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification
▪️ Lambda one-click setup prompt for coding agents
▪️ Lambda self-managed code storage
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications
▪️ MQ configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ MSK Express Brokers Kafka version 4.2
▪️ OpenSearch Service Agent Toolkit curated skill
▪️ OpenSearch UI one-click dashboard migration
▪️ Partner Central Partner Lead Prospecting
▪️ Partner Central subsidiary connections now support qualification sharing
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2
▪️ RDS up to four storage modifications in 24 hours
▪️ Redshift Serverless preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restores
▪️ S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags
▪️ S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod custom AMIs for Slurm clusters
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod partition-level topology for Slurm orchestrated clusters
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Gemma-4-E2B-it
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart OpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription
▪️ Security Hub AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets
▪️ Storage Gateway copying file shares across gateways
▪️ Sustainability water withdrawals data
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal simplifies bulk PCoIP to DCV protocol migration

Issue #238 | 27 July 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto July 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Amazon RDS for MySQL  v9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
▪️ AWS automatic credit memo application preferences
▪️ AWS Wickr Data Retention Service feature
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group
▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 5
▪️ CloudTrail selectively log network activity events by identity
▪️ CloudWatch coding agent insights
▪️ CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics customer managed encryption keys
▪️ Connect audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC
▪️ Connect Customer metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards
▪️ Connect expanded language support and speech controls
▪️ Data Exports standardized Bedrock product metadata
▪️ Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Lima, Peru
▪️ EC2 Dedicated Hosts host resource groups without self-managed licenses
▪️ ECS Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility
▪️ ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️ EKS EFA and placement groups on EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter
▪️ Entity Resolution advanced real-time matching
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
▪️ Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET is now generally available
▪️ Lambda durable functions now supports customer managed key encryption
▪️ Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink v2.3
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace
▪️ Marketplace self-service seller signature management for India-based sellers
▪️ Network Load Balancer Listener Rules for custom traffic routing
▪️ Open Source aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
▪️ Open Source KNFSD File Cache
▪️ Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization
▪️ Partner Central agents expand funding guidance to all programs
▪️ RDS for SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server 2025
▪️ RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ SageMaker AI Inference now supports G7 instances
▪️ SageMaker AI Inference region expansion of G6 instances
▪️ SageMaker AI inference region expansion of G7e instances
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom visual transforms
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenSearch
▪️ Secrets Manager secret update notifications to EventBridge
▪️ SES introduces pricing plans
▪️ SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets