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