Issue #225 | 27 April 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora serverless Up to 30% better performance, smarter scaling
▪️ Amazon Corretto April 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Athena simplifies federated queries with managed connectors
▪️ Backup Redshift Serverless and Aurora DSQL support for AWS Organizations backup policies
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore managed harness | Preview
▪️ Clean Rooms configurable Spark properties for PySpark
▪️ Client VPN native AWS Transit Gateway integration
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights JOIN and sub-query commands
▪️ CloudWatch pipelines configuration of processors via AI
▪️ Compute Optimizer +162 new EC2 instance types and 32 new RDS DB instance classes
▪️ Connect +8 metrics to measure and improve AI agent performance
▪️ Connect flow modules now work across all flow types and within other modules
▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns contact priority ordering
▪️ Connect outbound campaigns now supports hourly segment refresh
▪️ Connect touchtone buffering for AI-powered self-service
▪️ Data Exports cross-account delivery
▪️ Deadline Cloud custom scripting for job submission workflows
▪️ DocumentDB in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0
▪️ EBS volume modification enhancement to AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region
▪️ EC2 for SQL Server HA now supports health notifications
▪️ EC2 Managed resource visibility settings
▪️ ECS Managed Instances GPU Health Monitoring and Auto Repair
▪️ EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keys
▪️ EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networking
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk AI-powered environment analysis now supports Windows
▪️ EVS Microsoft Windows Server Licensing
▪️ Glue OAuth 2.0 for Snowflake connectivity
▪️ IoT Greengrass non-root installation
▪️ IVS Low-Latency Streaming server-side ad insertion
▪️ Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GA
▪️ Lambda durable functions +16 AWS Regions
▪️ Lambda mount S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files
▪️ Location Service bulk address validation for the US, Canada, Australia, the UK
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Kerberos Encryption audit event logs
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Windows functional level 2016
▪️ Marketplace Management Portal bank account deletion
▪️ Marketplace streamlines VAT payment for deemed supply transactions
▪️ MSK Replicator enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replication
▪️ MSK Replicator log forwarding for replication visibility
▪️ MSK Replicator replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express Brokers
▪️ MSK Serverless expands to 13 new AWS regions
▪️ Network Firewall Managed Rules enhancement Marketplace Partners
▪️ OpenSearch Service rollback for service software updates
▪️ Partner Central Attributed Revenue Dashboard
▪️ Quick integrates with Visier’s Vee agent for workforce intelligence
▪️ Quick multiple owners for admin-managed SharePoint and Google Drive knowledge bases
▪️ Quick permission verification for ACL-enabled knowledge bases
▪️ RDS Custom latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift supports UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE for Apache Iceberg tables
▪️ S3 +5 additional checksum algorithms
▪️ S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Inventory
▪️ SageMaker AI optimized generative AI inference recommendations
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Qwen3.5 models
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod automatic Slurm topology management
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod on-demand deep health checks
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart +5 Qwen models
▪️ SageMaker multi-region replication from IAM Identity Center
▪️ SageMaker notebooks and data agent for IdC domains
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio multiple code spaces within projects for IAM domains
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio VPC for notebook kernels
▪️ Secrets Manager extends managed external secrets to MongoDB Atlas and Confluent Cloud
▪️ Transform landing zone creation in migration workflows