AWS Weekly

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

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 #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 #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 #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

▪️ 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 #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 #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