AWS Weekly

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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #218 | 9 March 2026 ▪️ Batch configurable scale down delay ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Policy | GA ▪️ Bedrock Mistral AI Devstral 2 ▪️ CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on APM is enabled by Default ▪️ Config +30 resource types ▪️ Connect Health Agentic AI Built for Healthcare ▪️ Database Savings Plans OpenSearch Service and Neptune Analytics ▪️ Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis ▪️ Elemental MediaLive Now Supports SRT Listener Mode ▪️ EventBridge Scheduler a higher default quota for the CreateSchedule API ▪️ GameLift Servers launches DDoS Protection ▪️ HealthLake data transformation agent for automated CCDA-to-FHIR data conversion | Preview ▪️ IAM simplified role creation and setup in service workflows ▪️ Lambda Kiro Power durable functions development ▪️ Lightsail OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant ▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion      ▫️Prometheus as a sink      ▫️unified ingestion endpoint for OpenTelemetry data ▪️ OpenSearch Service capacity optimized blue/green deployments ▪️ Organizations Multi-party approval with approval team baselining ▪️ Redshift      ▫️new array functions for semi-structured data processing      ▫️reusable templates for COPY operations ▪️ Redshift Serverless datashare permissions during restore ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod      ▫️API-driven Slurm configuration      ▫️comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio      ▫️AWS Glue 5.1 for data processing jobs      ▫️light mode support for IAM-based domains      ▫️metadata sync with third-party catalogs      ▫️remote connection from Kiro IDE ▪️ Security Hub Shield network security director findings

Issue #217 | 2 March 2026 ▪️ AppConfig integrates with New Relic for automated rollbacks ▪️ Aurora DSQL Playground for interactive database exploration ▪️ Automated Reasoning policies now include references to the source document ▪️ AWS Deadline Cloud running tasks together in chunks ▪️ AWS Elemental Inference announcement ▪️ Backup Neptune to five additional AWS Regions ▪️ Bacs Direct Debit as a payment method for UK customers ▪️ Bedrock     ▫️announces OpenAI-compatible Projects API     ▫️batch inference now supports the Converse API format     ▫️server-side tool execution with AgentCore Gateway ▪️ CloudWatch lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL ▪️ CloudWatch logs centralization rules now support customizable destination log group structure ▪️ Cognito client secret management with secret rotation and custom secrets ▪️ Compute Optimizer AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots ▪️ Connect dynamic dialing mode switching for outbound campaigns ▪️ DSQL      ▫️new integrations for Visual Studio Code SQLTools and DBeaver     ▫️new support for Tortoise, Flyway, and Prisma ▪️ EC2 Image Builder wildcard support and simplified IAM ▪️ ECS Managed Instances EC2 Capacity Reservations ▪️ EKS Node Monitoring Agent is now open source ▪️ EventBridge Scheduler adds resource count metrics for quota monitoring ▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot is now available as a Kiro Power ▪️ Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer Preview ▪️ Lightsail expands blueprint selection with a new WordPress blueprint ▪️ Location Service LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance ▪️ Marketplace multiple purchases of SaaS and Professional Services products ▪️ MediaConvert new video probe API and UI ▪️ Network Firewall firewall state change notifications through EventBridge ▪️ Observabilitynow available as a Kiro power ▪️ OpenSearch Service new insights for improved cluster stability ▪️ Q Developer generative AI-based artifacts ▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations ▪️ Resource Access Manager maintaining shares when accounts change organizations ▪️ S3 AWS source region information in server access logs ▪️ Security Agent penetration tests on shared VPCs across AWS accounts ▪️ Security Hub Extended plan for pay-as-you-go partner solutions ▪️ Trusted Advisor unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer ▪️ VPC Encryption Controls announces pricing ▪️ WAF AI activity dashboard for visibility into AI bot and agent traffic ▪️ WorkSpaces Applications extends support for 4K resolution

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

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 #214 | 9 Feb 2026 ▪️ Aurora DSQL indexes on the NUMERIC data type ▪️ AWS Batch unmanaged compute environments for Amazon EKS ▪️ AWS Builder ID now supports Sign in with Apple ▪️ Batch Array Job Status Summary in ListJobs API ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports browser profiles ▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 4.6 ▪️ Bedrock Structured outputs ▪️ CloudFront mutual TLS support for origins ▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals integration with Kiro powers ▪️ Connect APIs to test and simulate voice interactions ▪️ Connect appeals workflow for agent performance evaluations ▪️ Connect Cases CSV uploads to map related field options ▪️ Connect improved wait time estimates ▪️ DynamoDB global tables with replication across multiple AWS accounts ▪️ EC2 and VPC now display related resources for security groups ▪️ EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances ▪️ EC2 capacity blocks for ML can be shared across multiple accounts ▪️ ECS adds Network Load Balancer support for Linear and Canary deployments ▪️ ECS Managed Instances now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud ▪️ Glue native REST API connector for universal data integration ▪️ HealthImaging adds JPEG XL support ▪️ IAM Identity Center account access and application use in multiple AWS Regions ▪️ IAM Identity Center Multi-party requires OTP verification for voting ▪️ Lightsail memory-optimized instance bundles ▪️ Management Console now displays Account Name on the Navigation bar ▪️ Marketplace localized billing for Professional Services from AWS EMEA ▪️ Network Firewall announces new price reductions ▪️ Quick Suite Easy Resolution of Ambiguous Map Locations ▪️ RDS enhanced console experience to connect to a database ▪️ Redshift autonomics for multi-cluster environments ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Cartesia Sonic 3 text-to-speech model ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart DeepSeek OCR, MiniMax M2.1, and Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Production-Ready Drug Discovery and Robotics Pipelines with NVIDIA NIMs ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Apache Spark lineage ▪️ STS validation of select identity provider specific claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI and OCI ▪️ WorkSpaces launches Graphics G6, Gr6, and G6f bundles ▪️ WorkSpaces Secure Browser now supports custom domain

Issue #213 | 1 Feb 2026 ▪️ AWS MCP Server Deployment Agent SOPs | Preview ▪️ Bedrock 1-hour duration for prompt caching ▪️ Bedrock server-side custom tools using the Responses API ▪️ Cognito inbound federation Lambda triggers ▪️ Connect granular access controls for cases ▪️ Deadline Cloud editing job name and description ▪️ DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency in Fault Injection Service ▪️ ECS container health status as a CloudWatch metric ▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.35 ▪️ EventBridge 1 MB payload size ▪️ GameLift Servers automatic scaling to and from zero instances ▪️ IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6 ▪️ Keyspaces pre-warming with WarmThroughput for your tables ▪️ Lambda enhanced observability for Kafka event source mappings ▪️ Lightsail blueprints for Node.js, LAMP, and Ruby on Rails blueprints ▪️ Marketplace AMI self-service listing experience to FPGA products ▪️ Marketplace New Partner Revenue Measurement ▪️ Network Firewall GenAI traffic visibility and enforcement with Web category-based filtering ▪️ RDS for Oracle Cross-Region replicas with additional storage volumes ▪️ RDS IPv6 for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs ▪️ S3 Change the server-side encryption type ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink ▪️ Transfer Family now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP ▪️ WorkSpaces announces advanced printer redirection ▪️ WorkSpaces Core monthly pricing for managed instances

Issue #212 | 26 January 2026 ▪️ Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates ▪️ Amazon MQ JMS specification for RabbitMQ brokers ▪️ AWS additional policy details to access denied error messages ▪️ AWS Security Agent now supports GitHub Enterprise Cloud ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Browser now supports custom browser extensions ▪️ Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5 ▪️ Clean Rooms join and partition hints in SQL ▪️ Connect adds conditional logic and real-time updates to Step-by-Step Guides ▪️ Connect automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation ▪️ Deadline Cloud machine learning training using Foundry Nuke CopyCat ▪️ EC2 48xlarge and metal-48xl sizes for EBS optimized ▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling New Mechanisms for Group Deletion Protection ▪️ EC2 M4 Max Mac instances | GA ▪️ ECR cross-repository layer sharing ▪️ EMR Serverless KMS customer managed keys for encrypting local disks ▪️ EVS multiple VMware NSX Edge Gateways ▪️ EVS VCF and VMware ESX software version selection ▪️ Instance Scheduler enhanced scaling, reliability, and event-driven automation ▪️ Quick Sight dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables ▪️ Quick Suite expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type for SPICE datasets ▪️ RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds ▪️ RDS for Oracle bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2 ▪️ RDS for Oracle now supports replicas in Oracle multi-tenant configuration ▪️ RDS for SQL Server enhances differential and transaction log restores support ▪️ Resource Control Policies support for Cognito and CloudWatch Logs ▪️ Route 53 Domains support for .ai, and other top-level domains ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod enhanced lifecycle scripts debugging ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio cross-Region and IAM role-based subscriptions ▪️ Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps ▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Office, Visio and Project 2024 Apps