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