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Issue #218 | 9 March 2026

▪️ Batch configurable scale down delay
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Policy | GA
▪️ Bedrock Mistral AI Devstral 2
▪️ CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on APM is enabled by Default
▪️ Config +30 resource types
▪️ Connect Health Agentic AI Built for Healthcare
▪️ Database Savings Plans OpenSearch Service and Neptune Analytics
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis
▪️ Elemental MediaLive Now Supports SRT Listener Mode
▪️ EventBridge Scheduler a higher default quota for the CreateSchedule API
▪️ GameLift Servers launches DDoS Protection
▪️ HealthLake data transformation agent for automated CCDA-to-FHIR data conversion | Preview
▪️ IAM simplified role creation and setup in service workflows
▪️ Lambda Kiro Power durable functions development
▪️ Lightsail OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant
▪️ OpenSearch Ingestion
     ▫️Prometheus as a sink
     ▫️unified ingestion endpoint for OpenTelemetry data
▪️ OpenSearch Service capacity optimized blue/green deployments
▪️ Organizations Multi-party approval with approval team baselining
▪️ Redshift
     ▫️new array functions for semi-structured data processing
     ▫️reusable templates for COPY operations
▪️ Redshift Serverless datashare permissions during restore
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod
     ▫️API-driven Slurm configuration
     ▫️comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio
     ▫️AWS Glue 5.1 for data processing jobs
     ▫️light mode support for IAM-based domains
     ▫️metadata sync with third-party catalogs
     ▫️remote connection from Kiro IDE
▪️ Security Hub Shield network security director findings
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Issue #219 | 16 March 2026

▪️ AWS Builder ID Sign in with GitHub and Amazon
▪️ Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for EKS
▪️ Backup RDS Multi-AZ clusters to 17 Regions
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory streaming notifications for long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime stateful MCP server features
▪️ Bedrock observability of First Token Latency and Quota Consumption
▪️ CDK Mixins is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals adds new SLO capabilities
▪️ CloudWatch Logs increased query concurrency and API limits
▪️ Connect AI-powered manager assistance (Preview)
▪️ Connect AI-powered predictive insights
▪️ Connect case data in analytics data lake
▪️ Connect conversational analytics for email
▪️ Connect integrated workflows for managers to coach agents
▪️ Connect select different From email addresses when sending emails
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs
▪️ Glue zero-ETL integrations with DynamoDB
▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere post-quantum digital certificates
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust
▪️ LZA MCP Server AI-assisted configuration management
▪️ Neptune Database adds native spatial data support
▪️ Network Firewall Launch in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️ OpenSearch Service in-place volume increases for all volume sizes
▪️ OpenSearch UI Cross Account Data Access to OpenSearch domains
▪️ PrivateLink Private CA Connector for SCEP
▪️ Quick Suite User Preferences for chat personalization
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver is now generally available
▪️ S3 account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio faster data preview in Visual ETL
▪️ SAM Kiro power serverless application development
▪️ WorkSpaces Microsoft Windows Server 2025
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Issue #220 | 23 March 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available
▪️ Amazon Inspector  Windows KB-based findings
▪️ AWS Partner Central agents to accelerate co-sell
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports shell command execution
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports the AG-UI protocol
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime WebRTC real-time bidirectional streaming
▪️ Bedrock Minimax M2.5 and GLM 5
▪️ Bedrock NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
▪️ Blu Insights is now AWS Transform for mainframe refactor
▪️ CloudWatch Logs log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol
▪️ CloudWatch organization-wide EC2 detailed monitoring enablement
▪️ Config  +75 new managed rules
▪️ Connect new generative text-to-speech voices and expands to new regions
▪️ Connect enables agents to forward email contacts to external email addresses
▪️ Connect voice AI agents now supports 13 new languages
▪️ DataSync AWS Secrets Manager for all location types
▪️ EC2 Fleet interruptible Capacity Reservations
▪️ EC2 NIXL with EFA to accelerate LLM inference at scale
▪️ ECR pull through cache for Chainguard
▪️ EKS 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect adds support for NDI® inputs
▪️ Lambda now supports Availability Zone metadata
▪️ Neptune reading S3 data using openCyper
▪️ Neuron support for Dynamic Resource Allocation with Amazon EKS
▪️ OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.5
▪️ RDS Custom for SQL Server adds ability to view and schedule new OS updates
▪️ Redshift new queries in dashboards and ETL workloads by up to 7x performance
▪️ S3 Tables Simplified permissions and materialized views
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod idle resource sharing for dynamic cluster utilization
▪️ SageMaker Training Plans extending of existing capacity commitments without workload reconfiguration
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom metadata filters
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio supports aggregated view of data lineage
▪️ Security Agent downloading penetration testing reports
▪️ Security Agent now available with Service Quotas
▪️ SimpleDB exporting domain data to Amazon S3
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Expanded Multi-Node Cluster Configurations
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Issue #221 | 30 March 2026

▪️ AppConfig enhanced targeting during feature flag rollout
▪️ Aurora DSQL connector that simplifies building Ruby applications
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL creating and connecting to a database in seconds
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL now available with the AWS Free Tier
▪️ Batch AMI status and supports AWS Health Planned Lifecycle Events
▪️ Batch quota management and preemption for SageMaker Training jobs
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Chrome policies and custom root CA
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime managed session storage for persistent agent FS state | Preview
▪️ Bedrock Palmyra Vision 7B from Writer
▪️ CloudWatch Logs data protection, OpenSearch PPL/ SQL for the Infrequent Access ingestion class
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion GenAI +10 regions
▪️ GameLift Servers next-generation EC2 instance families
▪️ HealthImaging study-level fine-grained access control
▪️ HealthOmics batch run operations
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances file descriptor limit to 4K
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances up to 32 GB of memory and 16 vCPUs
▪️ Management Console settings to control service and Region visibility
▪️ Parallel Computing Service slurmdbd and cgroups settings
▪️ Polly +10 voices, 2 regions, and Bidirectional Streaming API
▪️ Route 53 Profiles granular IAM permissions for resource and VPC associations
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless reinforcement fine-tuning for 12 additional models
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod continuous provisioning for Slurm-orchestrated clusters
▪️ SageMaker Studio Kiro and Cursor IDEs as remote IDEs
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio remote connection from Cursor IDE
▪️ Serverless Accelerate AI-assisted development with Agent Plugin
▪️ Step Functions +28 new service integrations, including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
▪️ Storage Gateway Terraform modules now support Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB Now Supports Advanced Metrics
▪️ Transfer Family AS2 now supports receipts of MDNs asynchronously
▪️ Valkey automatic query caching with Advanced JDBC Wrapper
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Issue #222 | 6 Apr 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL new connectors .NET and Rust apps
▪️ AWS DevOps Agent is now generally available
▪️ AWS Sustainability Console carbon emissions tracking
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations is now generally available
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails cross-account safeguards | GA
▪️ CloudFront BYOIP for IPv6 through VPC IPAM integration
▪️ CloudFront SHA-256 for signed URLs and signed cookies
▪️ CloudWatch Security Hub CSPM findings with org-wide enablement
▪️ CloudWatch Logs lookup query command
▪️ CloudWatch multi-account and region log centralization based on data source
▪️ CloudWatch OpenTelemetry metrics in public preview
▪️ CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS (Preview)
▪️ CloudWatch PromQL querying with Query Studio Preview
▪️ CloudWatch S3 Express One Zone metrics
▪️ Cluster Insights OpenSearch Service Console and EventBridge events
▪️ Connect tag-based access control for quick responses
▪️ Connect testing and simulation capabilities to chats
▪️ Deadline Cloud configurable job scheduling modes for queues
▪️ Deadline Cloud new fleet scaling configurations for render farms
▪️ Direct Connect CloudWatch metrics for BGP monitoring
▪️ Direct Connect now supports CloudFormation
▪️ ECS Managed Daemons for ECS Managed Instances
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports EC2 instance store
▪️ ElastiCache Serverless IPv6 and dual stack connectivity
▪️ End User Messaging Notify
▪️ End User Messaging RCS for Business
▪️ HealthOmics VPC-connected workflows
▪️ Kiro Powers Spark troubleshooting and upgrade agents
▪️ Lightsail compute-optimized instance bundles
▪️ Location Service GrabMaps with enhanced APIs for Southeast Asia
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Multi-Region replication for Opt-In regions
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink Flink 2.2
▪️ Marketplace sellers can now self-serve refunds and agreement cancellations
▪️ OpenSearch Service agentic AI for log analytics
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS sub-millisecond network latency for high performance applications
▪️ Organizations organization paths in API responses
▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement Marketplace Metering for certain Marketplace products
▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement User Agent string for certain AWS services
▪️ Private CA utilization metrics in CloudWatch
▪️ RDS for Oracle cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS for Oracle on AWS Outposts
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent charting capabilities and support for materialized views
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent geo-specific inference for Japan and Australia
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent SageMaker Unified Studio Query Editor
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Observability for AWS Glue jobs via CloudWatch metrics
▪️ Secrets Manager custom input for AWS KMS keys
▪️ Service Availability Updates
▪️ SES Mail Manager enhanced security and email processing
▪️ Transform automated codebase analysis | GA
▪️ Transform new AWS-managed transformations to modernize code at scale
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications improves multi-session fleet management
Issue #223 | 13 Apr 2026

▪️  Agent Registry centralized agent discovery and governance | Preview
▪️  Bedrock AgentCore Browser OS-level interaction capabilities
▪️  Bedrock Claude Mythos Preview (Gated Research Preview)
▪️  Bedrock cost allocation by IAM user and role
▪️  Bedrock Data Automation custom vocabulary
▪️  Billing and Cost Management Dashboards Now Supports Scheduled Email Delivery
▪️  Certificate Manager native certificate search
▪️  CloudWatch drop and conditional processing
▪️  CloudWatch new compliance and governance capabilities
▪️  Cost Explorer Natural Language Query capabilities powered by Amazon Q
▪️  Deadline Cloud monitor creation in multiple regions
▪️  EC2 Capacity Manager tag-based dimensions
▪️  EKS EC2 Auto Scaling warm pools
▪️  IoT Greengrass SDK for C, C++, and Rust applications
▪️  IVS Real-Time Streaming redundant ingest
▪️  Lambda expands response streaming support to all commercial AWS Regions
▪️  Location Service contour line density, traffic visualization, and 3D terrain
▪️  Marketplace Discovery API for programmatic access to catalog data
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless Zstandard (zstd) codec for index compression
▪️  OpenSearch Service Graviton4 based i8ge instances
▪️  OpenSearch Service Managed Prometheus and agent tracing
▪️  Open Source Smithy-Java client framework | GA
▪️  Private CA customer managed permissions for cross-account sharing
▪️  Quick Sparklines for Inline Trend Visualization in Tables
▪️  RDS Blue/Green Deployments now supports Amazon RDS Proxy
▪️  RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️  RTB Fabric health checks for real-time bidding workloads
▪️  S3 buckets accessible as file systems
▪️  S3 Lifecycle pauses actions on objects that are unable to replicate
▪️  S3 new security best practice to new and existing buckets by default
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod gang scheduling for distributed training workloads
▪️  SageMaker serverless workflows to Identity Center domains
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio notebook import/export and developer acceleration
▪️  Timestream for InfluxDB Customer-Defined Maintenance Windows
▪️  Transfer Family IPv6 for connectors and web apps
▪️  Verified Permissions policy store aliases and named policies and policy templates
▪️  WorkSpaces Advisor now available for AI-powered troubleshooting
▪️  WorkSpaces Personal unique DNS names for PrivateLink
Issue #224 | 20 Apr 2026

▪️  Amazon FSx copying file system backups across AWS opt-in Regions
▪️  Aurora DSQL connector that simplifies building PHP applications
▪️  Bedrock Claude Opus 4.7
▪️  CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries with parameters
▪️  CloudWatch RUM available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️  Deadline Cloud AI-powered troubleshooting assistant for render jobs
▪️  EC2 C8gn, M8gn, R8gn higher EBS-optimized performance
▪️  EC2 C8in and C8ib instances
▪️  ECR Pull Through Cache Now Supports Referrer Discovery and Sync
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️  Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports IPv6
▪️  Interconnect last mile | GA
▪️  Interconnect multicloud | GA
▪️  Managed Grafana creating Grafana 12.4 workspaces
▪️  OpenSearch Serverless Derived Source for storage optimization
▪️  Quick document-level access controls for ACL support for S3
▪️  Quick document-level access controls for Google Drive knowledge bases
▪️  Quick multi-account sign-in within the same browser
▪️  Quick Sheet Tooltips for Rich, Contextual Data Exploration
▪️  Redshift key performance optimization for Top-K queries
▪️  SageMaker HyperPod flexible instance groups
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Qwen3.5-9B, and Qwen3.5-27B
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart optimized deployments for foundation models
▪️  Secrets Manager hybrid post-quantum TLS to protect secrets from quantum threats
▪️  Transform is now available in Kiro and VS Code
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
Issue #226 | 4 May 2026

▪️ Amazon Connect Decisions
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Identity On-Behalf-Of (OBO) token exchange
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore optimizing agent performance | Preview
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime Node.js for direct code deployment
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents | Limited Preview
▪️ Billing Conductor Passthrough Pricing Plan for Billing Transfer users
▪️ CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tag
▪️ CloudFront WebSocket Support for VPC Origins
▪️ CloudWatch RUM improved App Monitors overview with health, SLO, and tracing status
▪️ CloudWatch visual agent configuration to the EC2 console
▪️ Connect increases attachment file sizes and adds custom file types
▪️ Connect now logs supervisor agent activity status changes to AWS CloudTrail
▪️ Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring | Preview
▪️ Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download
▪️ EC2 C8ine and M8ine instances
▪️ EC2 R8in and R8ib instances
▪️ ECS Managed Instances now supports NVIDIA GPU metrics
▪️ EKS one-click cluster access through CloudShell
▪️ Elastic Fabric Adapter Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation
▪️ GameLift Streams Proton 10 runtime
▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere now enforces VPC endpoint policies for the CreateSession API
▪️ KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keys
▪️ Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0
▪️ MQ for RabbitMQ now supports Prometheus metrics
▪️ Neuron SDK Neuron Agentic Development for NKI kernel development on Trainium
▪️ OpenSearch Service JWKS URL configuration for JWT authentication
▪️ OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption
▪️ OpenSearch UI cross-region data access to OpenSearch domains
▪️ Outposts racks now support LagStatus CloudWatch metric
▪️ Payment Cryptography paper-based key exchange
▪️ Quick Automate APIs to trigger and monitor automation jobs
▪️ Quick Automate import and export of automations across AWS accounts
▪️ Quick Automate shared file storage for automations
▪️ Quick build custom applications | Preview
▪️ Quick Custom Sort for Filter Controls
▪️ Quick desktop application for macOS and Windows | Preview
▪️ Quick document-level access controls for SharePoint knowledge bases
▪️ Quick Free and Plus pricing plans
▪️ Quick  Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable integrations
▪️ Quick Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word extensions | Preview
▪️ Quick now supports document and visual creation in chat
▪️ RDS for SQL Server cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
▪️ RDS for SQL Server read replica with additional storage volumes
▪️ Redshift Concurrency Scaling Support for auto-copy and zero-ETL
▪️ Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroups
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod G7e and r5d.16xlarge instances
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Gemma 4 models
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, Table Transformer Detection, and Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct
▪️ SageMaker Training Plans capacity utilization monitoring through CloudWatch
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD CLI for data and AI applications
▪️ Spatial Data Management adds custom transformations
▪️ Transfer Family Terraform Okta and Microsoft Entra ID integration examples
▪️ Transform BI migration agents for Power BI and Tableau to Amazon Quick
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal enhances PCoIP to DCV protocol migration
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Issue #227 | 11 May 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL JSON data type with compression
▪️ AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper provides client-side encryption
▪️ AWS Agent Toolkit  help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS
▪️ AWS Capabilities by Region availability notifications
▪️ AWS India UPI Scan and Pay for sign-up and payments
▪️ AWS MCP Server is now generally available
▪️ Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory metadata for long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview)
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime bring-your-own file system from Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights querying by log group tags
▪️ CloudWatch RUM Session Replay for Web Applications
▪️ Connect adds default Step-by-Step Guides for After Contact Work
▪️ Connect Cases customer profile identity resolution
▪️ Connect Outbound Campaigns adds multi-contact time zone detection
▪️ Console Mobile App interactive graphs, AI log summaries, and natural language logs search to CloudWatch Alarms
▪️ Directory Service directory security settings with STIG-aligned controls for Managed AD
▪️ EC2 Instance Store CSI driver now generally available in EKS add-ons
▪️ ElastiCache +13 CloudWatch metrics for network capacity planning and engine diagnostics
▪️ ElastiCache real-time aggregations
▪️ ElastiCache real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search
▪️ ElastiCache real-time hybrid search with vector and full-text
▪️ ElastiCache  Valkey 9.0
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk TLS listeners for Network Load Balancers
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor ad trickplay personalization and compact DASH manifest optimization via dynamic transcoding
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor automatic secure server-to-server integration with Google's ad platforms
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor launches Monetization Functions
▪️ Entity Resolution incremental Machine Learning based matching workflows
▪️ EventBridge data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail
▪️ IAM higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providers
▪️ IAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generation
▪️ IoT Core Device Location adds Confidence Level Configuration and Measurement Type support
▪️ Marketplace introduces Tax management portal for sellers
▪️ Marketplace programmatic procurement with Agreements API
▪️ MQ in-place major version upgrades for RabbitMQ 4
▪️ Neptune 1-click connect with CloudShell
▪️ OpenSearch Service expands Cluster Insights with a new insight
▪️ OpenSearch Service VPC egress for private connectivity to resources in your VPC
▪️ Payment Cryptography cross account key sharing
▪️ Payment Cryptography Multi-party approval for sensitive operations
▪️ Quick Dataset Q&A for conversational analytics against enterprise data
▪️ Quick generates dashboards from natural language prompts
▪️ Quick New Relic for observability-driven AI agents
▪️ Quick tables bucket as a data source
▪️ Quick upgrades the extension for Microsoft Outlook (Preview)
▪️ RDS for SQL Server instances powered by AMD EPYC processors
▪️ Redshift scales data ingestion automatically with concurrency scaling for batch workloads
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver add and remove AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution
▪️ Route 53 Resolver additional capabilities for IPv6 query traffic
▪️ SageMaker AI agent experience for model customization
▪️ SageMaker AI Capacity-Aware Inference with Automatic Instance Fallback
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart 4 new Qwen models
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio adds identity and user management features
▪️ SAM  BuildKit support for Lambda functions packaged as container images
▪️ SAM WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway
▪️ Site-to-Site VPN modifying tunnel bandwidth on existing VPN connections
▪️ VPC Lattice resource configurations now support private domain-name targets
▪️ WorkSpaces AI agents operate desktop applications (Preview)
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications host-to-client URL redirection
Issue #228 | 18 May 2026

▪️  Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture | Preview
▪️  Application Recovery Controller zonal shift with Karpenter
▪️  Application Recovery Controller Lambda event source mapping
▪️  AWS HealthOmics caching of cancelled workflow runs
▪️  AWS RTB Fabric custom domains for real-time bidding workloads
▪️  Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization and Migration Tool
▪️  Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available
▪️  CloudFormation and CDK Reference stack outputs across accounts and Regions
▪️  CloudFront OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer)
▪️  CloudFront Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer)
▪️  CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan now supports configurable usage allowances
▪️  CloudWatch Logs increased query result limits
▪️  Connect Cases edit related items and delete cases from the agent workspace
▪️  Connect Customer embedding Cases and Customer Profiles in custom agent applications
▪️  Connect Customer permission for agents to view only their own performance evaluations
▪️  EC2 ENA Express now supports traffic between Availability Zones
▪️  EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances | GA
▪️  EventBridge Scheduler +619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances
▪️  FSx for OpenZFS creating Multi-AZ file systems in shared VPCs
▪️  Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview
▪️  Lambda scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances
▪️  Managed Grafana in-place upgrade to Grafana version 12.4
▪️  Organizations higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)
▪️  Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creation
▪️  Quick cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources
▪️  Redshift RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
▪️  Route 53 Domains +34 Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.
▪️  SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Qwen3.6
▪️  SageMaker Data Agent IAM Identity Center domains
▪️  SageMaker Feature Store SageMaker Python SDK V3
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart New models for image generation and text embeddings
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart speech recognition and text-to-speech new models
▪️  SageMaker JumpStart Two new models for coding
▪️  SageMaker Unified Studio getting started tutorials and in-product release notes
▪️  Security Agent full repository code reviews
▪️  Transform agent builder toolkit Kiro power for building customized transformation agents
▪️  Transform agentic AI assistant to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
▪️  Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex
▪️  Transform containerization capability during migrations
▪️  Transform customer-owned artifact stores
▪️  WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling
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