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