AWS Weekly

Issue #248 | 5 Oct 2026

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL 18.6
▪️ 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

Issue #233 | 22 June

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

Issue #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