AWS Weekly

Issue #251 | 26 October 2026 ▪️ Aurora and RDS On-Demand Capacity Reservations ▪️ Bedrock prompt shortening in Advanced Prompt Optimization ▪️ Bedrock structured outputs for Claude models ▪️ Bedrock Web Search domain filtering and user location controls ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Gateway Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and model fallback ▪️ Bedrock Guardrails Standard tier for contextual grounding checks ▪️ Clean Rooms Databricks as a data source ▪️ CloudFormation force rollback for stack update rollbacks ▪️ CloudWatch Alarms tags in alarm action payloads ▪️ Connect Customer two new agent workspace layouts ▪️ Connect Customer Global Resiliency resiliency readiness across linked Regions ▪️ Connect Customer Global Resiliency persistent chat across linked Regions ▪️ Connect Customer Profiles customizable layouts in the agent workspace ▪️ Continuum code vulnerabilities | GA ▪️ Corretto October 2026 Quarterly Updates ▪️ Direct Connect 100G expansion in Manchester, England ▪️ Direct Connect 100G expansion in Bangalore, India ▪️ DynamoDB global tables disassociate replicas without deleting data ▪️ EC2 Image Builder faster builds on existing Auto Scaling Group instances ▪️ ECS ECS Gateway, managed ingress for ECS services ▪️ ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey zero-downtime online migration ▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router high bitrate mode up to 500 Mbps ▪️ EMR on EKS 30% lower EMR charge ▪️ EMR Serverless IPv6 and dual-stack connectivity ▪️ GuardDuty optional threat detection rules for Runtime Monitoring ▪️ IAM service reference adds global condition keys, service names, and data plane classification ▪️ IAM Identity Center optimistic locking for users and groups ▪️ IAM Identity Center keeps identities and assignments when changing source from Active Directory ▪️ Interconnect last mile with Megaport | Preview ▪️ MSK Connect pause and resume connectors ▪️ Network Firewall Route 53 Resolved IP Validation ▪️ Neuron TorchNeuron, native PyTorch for Trainium | Preview ▪️ Neuron 2.33 with TorchNeuron, Neuron Observer, and more ▪️ OpenSearch Serverless 5-second default refresh interval ▪️ OpenSearch Serverless intelligent ingestion for logs and documents in S3 ▪️ Partner Central Solution Matching Engine performance insights ▪️ Partner Central Program Navigator, Case Study Generator, and streamlined specialization review ▪️ Polly Generative engine upgrade with 14 new voices and 2 new languages ▪️ RDS Custom latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ RDS for SQL Server snapshots on read replicas ▪️ SageMaker AI custom sequence lengths for serverless model customization ▪️ SageMaker AI serverless customization for Muse Glimmer, Qwen 3.8, and Ministral 3 ▪️ SageMaker AI training session APIs for serverless model customization ▪️ Transform existing landing zones for migrations ▪️ Transform builds new networks and modernizes security groups ▪️ Transform storage migration assessments for S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx ▪️ Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN 1:1 NAT on attachments ▪️ WorkSpaces AI agent access to cloud desktops through managed MCP

Issue #250 | 19 October 2026 ▪️ Agent Registry custom metadata for registry records ▪️ Agent Toolkit for AWS AWS AI/ML skill for SageMaker AI ▪️ Application Recovery Controller Region switch adds four new capabilities ▪️ AWS Blockchain Snapshots for Ethereum and Solana node bootstrapping ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory consumption-based pricing for short-term memory ▪️ Billing and Cost Management ACH direct debit for sign-up and invoice payments in the US ▪️ Braket FedRAMP Class C ▪️ CloudFront Lambda Web Functions as an origin ▪️ CloudFront dual-stack VPC origins ▪️ CloudWatch log routing and chained log parsers ▪️ Connect Customer prefilled step-by-step guides for after contact work ▪️ DataSync Enhanced mode supports FSx for OpenZFS, NFS 4.2, and object metadata controls ▪️ DCV 2026.0 with RHEL 10 support and new clients ▪️ Deadline Cloud find accessible resources in the Deadline Cloud monitor ▪️ DynamoDB Streams timestamp-based stream processing ▪️ ECS LiveTaskCount metric and no charge for RunningTaskCount ▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey ElastiCache Insights dashboard in CloudWatch ▪️ EMR native data quality checks in Apache Spark jobs ▪️ End User Messaging registration improvements for faster, higher-quality submissions ▪️ End User Messaging Brand Profiles ▪️ End User Messaging managed OTP verification end-to-end ▪️ End User Messaging guided wizard for RCS registration videos ▪️ HealthOmics resource fallback order for Nextflow workflows ▪️ HealthOmics third-party container registries for private workflows ▪️ HealthOmics shared VPCs ▪️ Lambda Lambda Web Functions to handle HTTP requests directly ▪️ Lambda recursive loop detection for EventBridge Custom event buses ▪️ Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Go | GA ▪️ Lambda durable functions up to 30,000 operations and 1 MB checkpoint payloads ▪️ License Manager Ubuntu Pro license conversions through AWS Marketplace ▪️ Location Service interactive API Playground for Places, Routes and Maps ▪️ Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow AI agent skills ▪️ OpenSearch Service index-level encryption ▪️ Oracle Database@AWS aggregate and default routes for ODB peering ▪️ RDS latest Cumulative Update for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 RC1 ▪️ RDS Proxy SQL Server 2022 ▪️ Resilience Hub DevOps Agent to review findings and test results ▪️ Route 53 Domains registrations, transfers, and renewals for Premium Domains ▪️ S3 on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Muse Spark Open by Meta ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Beam by Reflection, also on AWS Trainium ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Nemotron 3.5 Super VL ▪️ SageMaker Studio sign up with Google, GitHub, or Apple credentials ▪️ Secrets Manager managed external secrets for Databricks and Twilio ▪️ Security Hub resource criticality for exposure prioritization ▪️ Security Hub CSPM Cyber Risk Institute profile version 2.2 ▪️ Time Sync Service microsecond-accurate time on 135 more EC2 instance types ▪️ Transfer Family custom ports for public SFTP servers ▪️ Transfer Family SVG logos and ICO favicons for web apps ▪️ Transfer Family SFTP server host keys in Secrets Manager ▪️ Transform Azure SDK to AWS SDK code conversion for .NET applications | GA ▪️ Transform Aurora PostgreSQL cross-Region deployment for full-stack Windows modernization

Issue #249 | 12 Oct 2026 ▪️ Aurora and RDS AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper for faster switchovers and failovers | GA ▪️ AWS Capabilities by Region feature-level availability notifications and advanced filters ▪️ Batch EKS access entry authentication ▪️ Batch job metrics in CloudWatch ▪️ Bedrock GLM 5.3 by Z.ai ▪️ Bedrock Claude Haiku 5.5 ▪️ Bedrock Ultrafast mode for OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol ▪️ Bedrock TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 ▪️ Bedrock reasoning summaries for OpenAI models ▪️ Billing and Cost Management Bedrock product attributes in Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards ▪️ Certificate Manager ACME issuance through PrivateLink ▪️ Client VPN device posture assessment ▪️ Config 77 new resource types ▪️ Connect Customer automated checks to improve performance evaluation forms ▪️ Continuum for Penetration Testing continuous penetration testing in your CI/CD pipeline | Public Preview ▪️ Control Tower AFT plan-only customization runs ▪️ EC2 shared tags for Amazon Machine Images ▪️ GameLift Servers CPU burstability for container fleets ▪️ GuardDuty RDS Protection detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS ▪️ IAM Identity Center network access controls for Identity Store ▪️ Lambda OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event sources ▪️ Network Firewall wildcard support for container attribute filters ▪️ Nova 2.5 Sonic with improved reasoning for voice agents ▪️ Private CA detailed certificate issuance logs ▪️ Quick brand templates for on-brand presentations and documents ▪️ RDS for Oracle minor version upgrade prechecks and a new event to reduce patching downtime ▪️ Redshift creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized views ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom Tooling blueprints ▪️ Security Hub export findings to S3 in CSV or JSON

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24 ▪️ Aurora and RDS AMD-based R8a instances ▪️ Aurora DSQL partial indexes ▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL querying Apache Iceberg and Parquet data ▪️ Aurora Serverless scales up by 16 ACUs within a second ▪️ AWS Service Availability Updates ▪️ AWS phone number verification for account contacts ▪️ AWS CLI bulk skill updates and version checks for the Agent Toolkit for AWS ▪️ Backup logically air-gapped vault support for FSx for NetApp ONTAP ▪️ Bedrock Claude Sonnet 5.5 ▪️ Bedrock Grok 4.7 ▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol ▪️ Bedrock UltraFast mode for OpenAI GPT-6 Astra ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Gateway private TLS certificates for VPC endpoints ▪️ Bedrock Managed Agents agents built with OpenAI, running natively on AWS | Preview ▪️ Budgets email verification for notification subscribers ▪️ CloudTrail Event Coverage for data plane operations ▪️ CloudWatch Logs automatic indexing of frequently queried fields ▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights estimate bytes scanned before running a query ▪️ Connect Customer data tables with up to 20,000 values for real-time configuration changes ▪️ Corretto September 2026 Patch Updates ▪️ Corretto 8 September 2026 Patch Updates ▪️ DataSync shared VPCs ▪️ Deadline Cloud ECS containers on Linux Service-Managed Fleets ▪️ Deadline Cloud expressions in job templates ▪️ DocumentDB 5 MongoDB aggregation stages and change stream capabilities in version 8.0.2 ▪️ DocumentDB retryable writes ▪️ DynamoDB filtered export to S3 ▪️ EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations postponing start dates ▪️ ECS VPC Lattice support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployments ▪️ EKS Kubernetes version 1.37 ▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey OpenTelemetry metrics and detailed monitoring ▪️ ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey public endpoints ▪️ EMR Serverless terabyte-scale shuffle with Serverless Storage ▪️ Glue system-managed write protection for Apache Iceberg materialized views ▪️ Glue Data Catalog table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg V3 ▪️ GuardDuty centralized management using Organizations declarative policies ▪️ Health version catalog for software lifecycle management ▪️ IAM Identity Center Identity Store APIs accept resource ARNs ▪️ Kinesis Video Streams VPC endpoints with PrivateLink ▪️ Managed Grafana Grafana 13.2 workspaces ▪️ Marketplace AI agent skill for usage-based metering integration ▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement multi-Partner support for Resource Tagging ▪️ PCS scaling logs ▪️ Quick Hierarchy Filter for guided dashboard drill-down ▪️ Quick live data from your datasets in apps ▪️ RDS full snapshot size information in the Console and API ▪️ RDS AMD-based M8a instances ▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment MySQL 26.7 ▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support minor versions 13.23, 12.22 and 11.22 ▪️ Redshift federated permissions for secure logging access ▪️ Redshift cross-Region queries for your data lake ▪️ Rekognition Face Liveness Feedback Codes ▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver DNS analytics and insights, including DNS Firewall ▪️ Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security | GA ▪️ S3 Tables all Apache Iceberg V3 data types ▪️ S3 Tables up to 100 table buckets per Region ▪️ S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering for up to 5x higher recall on filtered search ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Iceberg REST Catalog connections and IAM authentication for DocumentDB ▪️ Secrets Manager actionable security posture recommendations in the console ▪️ Security Hub remediation plans to prioritize and fix security exposures ▪️ Security Hub GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring included in the Threat Analytics plan ▪️ Systems Manager sharing documents through Resource Access Manager ▪️ Transfer Family downloading multiple files and folders in web apps ▪️ Transfer Family automatic approval of SFTP connector quota increases up to 1,000 ▪️ Transfer Family custom CloudWatch log groups for managed workflows ▪️ Transform Apache Kafka migration assessments for MSK ▪️ Well-Architected Agent AI-powered evolution of Trusted Advisor and the Well-Architected Tool | Preview

Issue #247 | 28 Sep 2026 ▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 5.5 ▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna ▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Salesforce and Zendesk as native data source connectors ▪️ Billing and Cost Management billing context for your account through a new API ▪️ Billing Transfer automatic billing group creation for two-level transfers ▪️ CloudWatch Omni AI-first observability for agents and applications ▪️ Connect Customer agent-to-agent collaboration ▪️ Connect Customer routing step data in the analytics data lake ▪️ DataSync monitoring dashboard for tracking task executions across your account ▪️ DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency across continents and +5 Regions ▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery Graviton-based source servers ▪️ ElastiCache Global Datastore tagging and tag-based access control ▪️ EMR 7.14 is now available ▪️ EMR Long Term Support with Apache Spark 4.1 ▪️ EMR on EKS interactive workloads with Spark Connect ▪️ EMR on EKS IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters ▪️ End User Messaging voice calling on WhatsApp ▪️ End User Messaging and SES AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server ▪️ EventBridge relaunched event buses for enterprise scale ▪️ GameLift Servers +5 Regions and 8 Local Zones ▪️ Glue Data Quality context-specific rule recommendations in seconds ▪️ IAM outbound identity federation supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery ▪️ Kinesis Data Streams Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion ▪️ Network Security Manager is now generally available ▪️ RDS Multi-AZ for SQL Server Developer Edition ▪️ RDS Custom latest CU for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 ▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL post-quantum TLS key exchange ▪️ Route 53 Resolver second-generation AWS Outposts racks ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway for scalable LLM inference ▪️ Security Hub AI Inventory Azure self-hosted instance support ▪️ Transcribe customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources

Issue #246 | 22 Sep 2026 ▪️ Amazon Corretto 27 is now generally available ▪️ Amazon EVS FedRAMP Class C ▪️ AWS regional resiliency for root user sign-in ▪️ Batch bulk job cancellation and termination ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore new AgentCore Runtime ▪️ Bedrock Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI ▪️ Billing and Cost Management  Monitor cost anomalies ▪️ Billing Conductor custom rates and usage tier pricing configurations ▪️ Builder Center mobile app on iOS and Android ▪️ Client VPN MacOS 27 Golden Gate ▪️ Connect Customer agents bid on preferred shifts ▪️ Connect Customer can now import evaluation form PDFs using AI ▪️ Connect Customer create, manage, and search custom metrics through APIs ▪️ Connect Customer custom metrics now supports tag-based access control ▪️ Connect Talent is now generally available ▪️ Continuum credential testing and accessible domain suggestions ▪️ Direct Connect flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections ▪️ EC2 T8i instances ▪️ ECS deployment observability for ECS Managed Daemons ▪️ ECS Express Mode Graviton (ARM64) workloads ▪️ ECS real-time deployment observability ▪️ ECS S3 Files on EC2 compute type ▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode ▪️ Elemental MediaTailor Monetization Functions response hooks ▪️ End User Messaging Dynamic Flows in WhatsApp ▪️ End User Messaging SMS deliverability with automatic failover ▪️ Glue zero-ETL now captures archived Salesforce records ▪️ Glue zero-ETL target table property ownership and conflict detection ▪️ HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies ▪️ PCS custom GRES, hardware topology, and MIG ▪️ PrivateLink Tunnel Endpoints to access network segments ▪️ Q Console Analyze your CloudTrail events using natural language ▪️ Quick individual sheets and builds analyses from an image ▪️ Resilience Hub adds three new capabilities ▪️ RTB Fabric configurable Availability Zone affinity ▪️ SageMaker AI instance preference lists for training and processing jobs ▪️ SageMaker AI serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3 ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio ODBC for Power BI ▪️ SES tenant-level deliverability insights ▪️ SNS message payloads up to 1 MiB ▪️ Step Functions new AWS service integrations automatically ▪️ STS token size limits and session token size monitoring ▪️ Transfer Family source IP preservation for SFTP servers behind NLB ▪️ WorkSpaces NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances

Issue #245 | 14 Sep 2026 ▪️ API Gateway 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinations ▪️ API Gateway mutual TLS for backend integrations ▪️ AWS Builder ID recovery options and MFA for 3rd party logins ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory direct ingestion to long-term memory ▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control ▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Confluence Data Center as a native connector ▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 ▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-6 Astra ▪️ CloudFormation contract tests v2 for resource types ▪️ CloudFront Dynamic Image Transformation ▪️ CloudWatch network health indicator for TGW inter-Region peering using synthetic monitors ▪️ CloudWatch Network Monitor NHI for Transit Gateway peering ▪️ Connect Customer Profiles customers enter or exit segments events ▪️ Connect Customer set specific capacity limits ▪️ DevOps Agent bidirectional Slack communication for investigations ▪️ EBS Volume Clones copying volumes across accounts ▪️ ECS expands IAM condition key support for RunTask and StartTask APIs ▪️ Elemental Dynamic Multiview for live video ▪️ Elemental Inference generates contextual metadata from live video in real time ▪️ Elemental MediaLive A/B forensic watermarking ▪️ Elemental MediaLive frame-accurate pipeline locking for streams without timecode ▪️ Elemental MediaTailor Low-Latency HLS ad insertion ▪️ Elemental MediaTailor Yield Optimization to automatically fill ad breaks with Amazon Ads demand ▪️ EMR extends support at no additional cost for customers migrating off older releases ▪️ Entity Resolution record-level confidence scores for ML matching ▪️ GuardDuty optional threat detection rules ▪️ HealthOmics real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch ▪️ HealthOmics resource fallback order for WDL workflows ▪️ Lambda direct read configuration for S3 Files ▪️ Lambda durable functions integrates with Pydantic AI ▪️ Lambda Managed Instances 90-minute function timeout ▪️ Lambda Managed Instances Graviton5-powered ▪️ Marketplace sellers now receive qualified demo and private offer requests in minutes ▪️ MQ RabbitMQ 4.3 ▪️ OpenSearch Serverless is now available on v0 by Vercel ▪️ Outposts second-generation single-rack ▪️ Quick activity feed now available on iOS and Android mobile devices  ▪️ Quick always-on agents, a sharper feed, and enterprise controls ▪️ Quick desktop app on macOS and Windows is GA ▪️ S3 Object Lock variable retention with event holds ▪️ SageMaker Feature Store individual feature updates to lower write latency ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod model caching for faster inference autoscaling and reduced cold starts ▪️ Storage Gateway FIPS-compliant private connectivity for S3 File Gateway ▪️ Systems Manager now diagnoses more issues that cause EC2 instances to be unmanaged ▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB 3 custom plugins ▪️ Transform for .NET now generates unit tests for modernized code

Issue #244 | 7 September 2026 ▪️Agent Registry agents and MCP servers in Quick ▪️Agent Registry centralized agent discovery and governance | GA ▪️Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview ▪️Aurora MySQL multi-source replication and delayed replication ▪️Automated Security Response AI Toolkit for custom remediations ▪️Backup protect more than 1K S3 buckets per account ▪️Bedrock AgentCore Identity managed consent portal ▪️Bedrock Claude Fable 5.1 ▪️Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base automatic sync scheduling for data source connectors ▪️Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base ServiceNow as a native data source connector ▪️Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base user-managed setup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources ▪️CloudFront API support for flat-rate pricing plans ▪️CloudWatch Database Insights self-managed PostgreSQL ▪️CloudWatch warm-up periods for alarms ▪️Cognito M2M authorization without a user pool domain ▪️Connect Customer agentic CX designer | GA ▪️Connect Customer automated performance evaluations to Malay ▪️Connect Customer dashboards now support compact mode ▪️Connect Global Resiliency cross-region routing of contacts across two active AWS regions ▪️Deadline Cloud sharing job bundles ▪️DocumentDB direct major version upgrades to version 8.0 ▪️EC2 specifying compatible instance types on AMIs ▪️ECS Early Success Criteria for service deployments ▪️ECS Managed Daemons now support non-critical daemons ▪️Elastic Beanstalk AD domain join Windows Server environments ▪️Elemental MediaTailor in-console analytics dashboard for ad monetization and streaming performance ▪️EMR on EKS job run concurrency controls ▪️Gateway Load Balancer TCP Reset for faster failure recovery ▪️Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Microsoft Azure | Preview ▪️Kinesis Data Streams data delivery to general purpose S3 buckets ▪️Kinesis Data Streams dry run feature to validate API requests ▪️Kinesis Data Streams streaming tables, delivering data to Iceberg tables on S3 Tables ▪️Lambda SnapStart for container image functions ▪️Marketplace auto-renewals for private offers ▪️Marketplace reduces listing fee for PS in multi-product solutions ▪️MCP Server serverless capability for Lambda functions ▪️MSK Connect restarting connectors ▪️MWAA Airflow version 3.3.1 ▪️MWAA built-in monitoring with CloudWatch ▪️Partner Revenue Measurement User Agent string capability ▪️Quick build custom apps with natural language ▪️Quick new tool settings and MCP sync support for connectors ▪️Quick Quick Max: 5x the usage for power users ▪️RDS Custom latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️RDS for SQL Server additional SQL trace flags ▪️Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters ▪️Redshift Apache Iceberg v3 tables ▪️Redshift IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing ▪️S3 PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints ▪️SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD adds notebook promotion and AI-assisted manifest generation ▪️SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows Python and Bash operators ▪️SES S/MIME email signing ▪️Transfer Family SFTP Connectors now support continuing file transfers during credential rotation ▪️Workload Credentials Provider one-click install for Linux and Windows ▪️WorkSpaces Applications NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances

Issue #243 | 31 August 2026 ▪️ Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 ▪️ Aurora DSQL foreign key constraints ▪️ Backup cross-Region and cross-account backup support for FSx for NetApp ONTAP ▪️ Backup cross-Region backup copy and logically air-gapped vault ▪️ Batch supports ECS Managed Instances ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory extracting memories from non-conversational JSON payloads ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory flexible namespace variables ▪️ Capacity Reservation Resource Groups EC2 Capacity Blocks and interruptible Capacity Reservations ▪️ CloudWatch agent adds support for journald logs ▪️ Cognito admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations ▪️ Connect Customer auto-refresh scheduling metrics ▪️ Connect Customer information extraction for agent voice and chat conversations ▪️ Connect Customer points-based scoring in performance evaluations ▪️ Connect Customer unplanned shrinkage in agent schedules ▪️ Connect Customer update the customer profile ▪️ ECS automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity ▪️ EKS multiple external OIDC identity providers per cluster ▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recovery ▪️ GameLift Servers enhanced DDoS Protection now available ▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere Java plugin for the AWS SDK ▪️ IoT Core native InfluxDB routing for time-series data ▪️ Lambda full IAM resource-based policies ▪️ Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink ▪️ Lambda Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 | Preview ▪️ Mountpoint for Amazon S3 memory usage controls ▪️ MSK Replicator  OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) ▪️ ParallelCluster on-node diagnostics tool ▪️ RDS for Oracle July 2026 Release Update ▪️ RDS latest CU for Microsoft SQL Server ▪️ Redshift 10MiB records from Kinesis Data Streams ▪️ Redshift Agent Toolkit for AWS for AI-assisted data warehouse management ▪️ RedshiftKinesis data streams concurrency scaling ▪️ SageMaker HyperPod enhances support for Ray ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models ▪️ SageMaker MLflow customer managed keys ▪️ Secrets Manager managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope ▪️ Transform now in scope for FedRAMP Class C

Issue #242 | 24 August 2026 ▪️ AgentCore payments | GA ▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL CloudWatch Database Insights ▪️ ARC Region RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block  ▪️ AWS Glue 6.0 30% price reduction and Iceberg v3 support ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore domain and published date filtering, expands to Europe and Asia Pacific ▪️ Bedrock Cross Region Inferencing for OpenAI models ▪️ Bedrock External Web Access for Web Search ▪️ Bedrock OpenAI models in India ▪️ Bedrock reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol ▪️ Bedrock SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 ▪️ CloudFront Origin Access Control (OAC) for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points ▪️ CloudShell built-in visual file editor ▪️ CloudWatch GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors ▪️ CloudWatch log Centralization now supports log group tag propagation ▪️ Connect Customer now lets managers chat with their data ▪️ Connect reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies ▪️ Console-to-Code adds 26 services and cross-region recording ▪️ Corretto August 2026 Critical Security Patch Updates ▪️ Cost Anomaly Detection third-party models on Amazon Bedrock ▪️ Deadline Cloud automatic download status in the Deadline Cloud Monitor ▪️ Deadline Cloud EBS Persistent Volume Cost Tracking ▪️ Direct Connect inbound prefix controls and higher prefix scale ▪️ DynamoDB Streams attribute-based access control ▪️ EC2 AMI creation with local snapshots from instances on Outposts ▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling batch instance termination ▪️ ECR 25 replication rules per registry ▪️ EKS Capability for Argo CD custom configuration ▪️ EKS CA rotation with automated lifecycle management ▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router configurable recovery latency modes ▪️ IAM 20 managed policies per role by default ▪️ IAM identity federation to external services in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region ▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot Terraform plan files ▪️ Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 5 additional AWS regions ▪️ Location Service POI category and density filtering in map styles ▪️ Marketplace category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery for partners ▪️ Marketplace support for Amazon Lightsail ▪️ MSK configuring custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters ▪️ MSK in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft ▪️ MWAA Serverless PythonOperator and BashOperator ▪️ Network Firewall Stateful Rule Hit Counts ▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud Regions ▪️ OpenSearch Service automatic semantic enrichment for VPC domains ▪️ Partner Central agents MCP Server now supports OAuth with AWS Sign-In ▪️ Quick approval policies for sharing ▪️ Quick customizable no data messages for visuals ▪️ Quick data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview ▪️ Quick deny by default for custom permissions ▪️ Quick Microsoft 365 extensions | GA ▪️ Quick per-user resource limits ▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 ▪️ Redshift long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables integration ▪️ SageMaker AI Studio Generative AI Inference Recommendation ▪️ SageMaker trusted identity propagation ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio data profiling and anomaly detection ▪️ Security Agent budget controls and finding revalidation ▪️ SES open and click tracking override parameters ▪️ Storage Gateway FIPS-compliant private connectivity for Tape and Volume Gateway ▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB customer managed keys ▪️ WorkSpaces Applications in-console monitoring capabilities ▪️ WorkSpaces now supports Nested Virtualization

Issue #241 | 17 August 2026 ▪️ Bedrock Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI ▪️ Bedrock expands IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint ▪️ Billing and Cost Management Managed Dashboards ▪️ Certificate Manager switching from e-mail to DNS validation ▪️ Clean Rooms exporting privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL ▪️ Clean Rooms minimum aggregation thresholds in custom analysis rules ▪️ Client VPN CLI, administration controls, and faster connections ▪️ CloudWatch Alarms wall clock evaluation windows ▪️ Connect Customer manual assignment of queued agent-first callbacks ▪️ Connect Customer performance dashboard for Cases ▪️ Connect Customer schedule adherence metrics on dashboards ▪️ EC2 introduces application status checks ▪️ EKS advanced Kubernetes control plane configuration parameters ▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery  UEFI boot mode for Linux servers ▪️ GameLift Streams Service-managed Shader Caching ▪️ Global View an interactive map view for AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones ▪️ Glue one-click access to SageMaker Unified Studio from the AWS console ▪️ IAM role assignment to workforce users with account access manager ▪️ IAM role manager to set up IAM roles automatically ▪️ Local Zones Spot Placement Score ▪️ Marketplace category-based notification subscriptions and multi-channel delivery for buyers ▪️ OpenSearch Serverless up to 10,000 collections per collection group ▪️ Quick adds deny by default for custom permissions ▪️ Quick approval policies for sharing ▪️ Quick data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview ▪️ Quick Microsoft 365 extensions | GA ▪️ Quick now supports approval policies for sharing ▪️ Quick now supports per-user resource limits ▪️ Quick per-user resource limits ▪️ RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 ▪️ RDS for Oracle Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1 ▪️ S3 additional policy details to access denied error messages ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart FLUX.2-small-decoder and gemma-4-12B-it models ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart langcache-embed-v3-small, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOnOCR-2-1B models ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B ▪️ SageMaker JumpStart NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model ▪️ Secrets Manager managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQube ▪️ SES click tracking now supports custom URL paths for mobile app deep linking

Issue #240 | 10 August 2026 ▪️ Application and Network Load Balancers RFC 9151 compliant security policies ▪️ Aurora Serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads ▪️ Backup S3 now supports direct access to backup data ▪️ Bedrock AgentCore temporal policies and rate limiting ▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows ▪️ Bedrock Web Search for OpenAI GPT models ▪️ Cognito skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS ▪️ Connect Customer capacity planning in 15 or 30 minute intervals ▪️ Connect Customer export cases to CSV from the agent workspace ▪️ Connect Customer one-click drill-down on real-time metrics dashboards ▪️ Context Ontology Accelerator ▪️ DynamoDB real-time vector search ▪️ ECR image layers up to 200 GB ▪️ ECS fractional GPU scheduling with EC2 G6f instances ▪️ EMR on EC2 with Spark Connect interactive workloads ▪️ GameLift Streams sharing streams with stream URLs ▪️ Glue Data Catalog metadata exports to S3 Tables | Preview ▪️ Glue Data Quality makes ETL anomaly detection free and improves anomaly predictions ▪️ HealthOmics task-level timeout for WDL workflows ▪️ IAM Identity Center AWS account access is now optional for new organization instances ▪️ IAM Identity Center one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances ▪️ Lambda console-to-IDE integration to Kiro and Cursor ▪️ Lambda Provisioned Mode SQS event source mappings now supports up to 10,000 event pollers ▪️ Lambda network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps ▪️ Marketplace AI Insights so buyers can understand pricing before they buy ▪️ Marketplace lets sellers configure net payment terms on private offers ▪️ MSK Kafka Authorizer Logs to customers ▪️ Network Firewall Functionality Re-introducing Forward Proxy ▪️ OpenSearch Service upgrade runway for existing domains ▪️ OpenSearch UI Network Access Control ▪️ Organizations maximum account quota visibility in Service Quotas ▪️ Parallel Computing Service FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, CSA STAR, and PCI ▪️ Quick multi-dataset analytical capabiity ▪️ RDS SQL Server publishing SQL Server Audit logs to CloudWatch ▪️ RDS visibility into storage volume initialization status ▪️ Resilience Hub recommended resilience tests ▪️ SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuning ▪️ SageMaker Studio G7 instance types ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Teradata Vantage ▪️ Security Agent email-based MFA for penetration testing ▪️ Security Hub Extended supply chain security as its 10th category ▪️ SES identify automated open and click events in event notifications ▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB backup and restore ▪️ Transform automates post-launch actions ▪️ Transform continuous modernization is now generally available ▪️ Transform offline schema transformation to Aurora PostgreSQL ▪️ VPC IPAM  BGP route protection monitoring and delegated RPKI for BYOIP prefixes ▪️ WAF Miggo Security managed rule groups for emerging threats and AI/ML application protection ▪️ WAF Salt Security managed rule group for API and MCP threat detection ▪️ WorkSpaces Applications enhanced observability metrics ▪️ WorkSpaces publishes enhanced observability metrics

Issue #239 | 3 August 2026 ▪️ AWS Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA ▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna pricing update ▪️ Clean Rooms larger worker types up to 32 vCPUs for SQL ▪️ CloudWatch managed Prometheus collectors ▪️ Connect Customer finds example agent evaluations for tailored coaching ▪️ DataSync Enhanced mode adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and object storage locations with Hyper-V agent support ▪️ DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre ▪️ Direct Connect BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces ▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh in CloudFormation ▪️ EKS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint ▪️ EKS Provisioned Control Plane faster pod autoscaling ▪️ Elemental MediaTailor configurable ad timeout and concurrency controls ▪️ GameLift Streams Custom Aspect Ratio and Dynamic Resolution ▪️ Glue Data Quality anomaly detection and writing results to the AWS Glue Data Catalog ▪️ Glue Data Quality distribution statistics for data profiling ▪️ Glue VPC support, filter pushdown, and partition support for the REST API connector ▪️ IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory ▪️ IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities ▪️ Lambda Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023 ▪️ Location Service Search Nearby support for GrabMaps in Southeast Asia ▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Standard to Enterprise Edition upgrade ▪️ MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg ▪️ MSK Express brokers now delivers Kafka data to S3 ▪️ Neptune tag-based access control for IAM ▪️ OpenSearch Service OpenSearch version 3.7 ▪️ Parallel Computing Service node lifecycle actions ▪️ RDS for SQL Server restoring TDE databases on Mult-AZ instances ▪️ Redshift Data API long polling, session management, and flexible batch execution ▪️ Redshift Serverless All Upfront pricing for 3-year Serverless Reservations ▪️ S3 Tables Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3 ▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio richer Git version control to all project tools ▪️ Security Hub MCP App brings exposure findings into your AI-assisted workflow | Preview ▪️ Transit Gateway Policy-Based Routing | GA ▪️ WAF pre-parse text transformations and new text transformations

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