Issue #215 | 16 Feb 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL identity columns and sequence objects
▪️ Athena 1-minute reservations and 4 DPU minimum capacity
▪️ Aurora Global Database managed minor version upgrades
▪️ Backup cross-Region database snapshot copy to logically air-gapped vaults
▪️ Batch Job Queue and Share Utilization Visibility
▪️ Bedrock
     ▫️AgentCore Browser now supports proxy configuration
     ▫️+6 fully-managed open weights models
     ▫️expands support for AWS PrivateLink
▪️ CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue
▪️ Connect
     ▫️after contact work timeout configuration for tasks, chats, and emails
     ▫️audio enhancements for noisy environments
     ▫️auto-accept for tasks, chats, and emails
     ▫️granular access controls for analytics dashboards
     ▫️in-app notifications to surface critical operational alerts to business users
     ▫️real time AI-powered overviews and recommended next actions for Tasks
▪️ DynamoDB Resource Control Policies
▪️ ECR additional metrics for monitoring repositories
▪️ EKS Auto Mode Enhanced Logging
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk GitHub Actions
▪️ HealthOmics Kiro Power and Kiro IDE extension for bioinformatics workflow development
▪️ Lake Formation enhances cross-account sharing
▪️ MSK
     ▫️broker logs on Express Brokers
     ▫️new APIs and console integration
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups
▪️ Outposts EC2 C8i, M8i, and R8i instances
▪️ Payment Cryptography Achieves Cartes Bancaires Approval
▪️ RDS
     ▫️backup configuration when restoring snapshots
     ▫️latest Cumulative Update (CU23) for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift allocating extra compute for automatic optimizations
▪️ S3 Tables add partition and sort order definition in the CreateTable API
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod node actions from the console
▪️ Support Center Console now supports 7 additional languages

Issue #216 | 23 Feb 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL Kiro powers and AI agent skills
▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL new Go, Python, and Node.js connectors that simplify IAM authentication
▪️ Amazon Aurora Server-Side Encryption at Rest
▪️ Backup PrivateLink support for SAP HANA
▪️ Bedrock Claude Sonnet 4.6
▪️ Bedrock reinforcement fine-tuning adds support for open-weight models with OpenAI-compatible APIs
▪️ Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity
▪️ Clean Rooms remote Apache Iceberg REST catalogs
▪️ Connect agent time-off requests in draft schedules
▪️ Connect Cases AWS Service Quotas
▪️ Connect multi-line text fields on case templates
▪️ DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0
▪️ EC2 nested virtualization
▪️ EC2 new high performance computing Hpc8a instances
▪️ Glue 5.1 is now available in 18 additional regions
▪️ HealthImaging additional metrics for monitoring data stores
▪️ Managed Grafana KMS customer managed keys
▪️ MSK dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for existing clusters
▪️ OpenSearch Service Graviton4 (c8g,m8g & r8g ) instances
▪️ OpenSearch Service storage optimized i7i instances
▪️ RDS for Oracle January 2026 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle