Issue #232 | 15 June 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora DSQL JSONB data type with compression
▪️ Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL major version 18
▪️ Application Migration Service is now AWS Transform MGN
▪️ AWS CLI now supports the Agent Toolkit for AWS
▪️ AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 table configurations update
▪️ AWS Workload Credentials Provider exportable ACM certificates and Secrets Manager
▪️ Bedrock  announces and delists Claude Fable 5
▪️ Bedrock Gemma 4 models
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals infrastructure, logs, and traces context for faster troubleshooting
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights  +23 query commands and functions
▪️ Compute Optimizer idle recommendations for six additional resource types
▪️ Connect Customer launches real-time dashboard alerts from conversational analytics
▪️ Connect Customer now offers AI agent trace details for self-service voice interactions
▪️ Cost Explorer intelligent cost explanations powered by Amazon Q
▪️ DocumentDB engine minor version starting with 5.0.1
▪️ EC2 M9g and M9gd general purpose instances are now available
▪️ EC2 metal-48xl and metal-96xl instances
▪️ ECS Managed Daemons inter-task visibility and communication
▪️ EKS local clusters on Outposts with EC2 instance store
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk now integrates CloudWatch Logs in the Logs tab
▪️ EMR Serverless Run Interactive Workloads
▪️ FinOps Agent is now available in preview
▪️ Lake Formation extends table permissions to access underlying data in S3
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus now supports Native Histograms
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus out of order sample ingestion
▪️ MSK Express Brokers automatic topic creation with Kafka Streams
▪️ MWAA Serverless EventBridge notifications
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless now supports Agentic Search
▪️ OpenSearch Service MCP Apps for agentic observability
▪️ Quick now integrates with Snowflake Cortex AI
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1
▪️ RDS for SQL Server migration cost assessment capabilities now available in AWS Transform
▪️ Redshift reduces manual snapshot cost for Serverless and RG instances
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless fine-tuning for Nvidia Nemotron models
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now support EMR Serverless
▪️ Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer target coverage analysis
▪️ VPC Flow Logs additional metadata

Issue #233 | 22 June

▪️ AgentCore harness in now generally available
▪️ AWS Blocksan open-source framework for composing application backends on AWS | Preview
▪️ AWS Console Private Access now works without internet connectivity
▪️ AWS Continuum for security at machine speed
▪️ AWS Sign-in resource-based policies and resource control policies
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Bedrock Guardrails in policy
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory strictly consistent metadata for long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore new optimization capabilities to continuously improve agents in production
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Web Search Agentic Web Retrieval
▪️ Bedrock Grok 4.3
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails new API targeting agentic AI workflows
▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch cross-account metrics centralization
▪️ CloudWatch Log Analytics for unified log analysis
▪️ CloudWatch native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying and per-GB pricing
▪️ CloudWatch Query Studio is now generally available
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics multilocation canaries
▪️ Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metrics
▪️ Connect Customer interrupt an agent with an urgent contact
▪️ Cost Explorer historical data retention for accounts in billing groups
▪️ DevOps Agent adds release management capability | Preview
▪️ DevOps Agent custom SRE agents and MCP/A2A protocols
▪️ EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Now Supports Cancellation
▪️ EC2 G7 instances are now generally available
▪️ ECS faster service auto scaling
▪️ EKS customer-routed control plane egress
▪️ GameLift Servers Free Network Bandwidth
▪️ GameLift Servers new container fleet improvements
▪️ Glue Data Catalog business context and semantic search | Preview
▪️ Glue Interactive Sessions Spark Connect for interactive workloads
▪️ HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances Tag Propagation for Managed Resources
▪️ Marketplace announces AI-assisted product listing
▪️ Marketplace reduces listing fee for professional services to 0.5%
▪️ Marketplace Storefront is now generally available
▪️ MQ for RabbitMQ private networking connectivity
▪️ MSK Express Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS Oracle Autonomous AI Database Serverless
▪️ Partner Central accelerate co-sell deals with express private offers
▪️ Partner Central agents now accelerate co-selling on every deal
▪️ Partner Central agents now guide new partners from registration to ready-to-sell
▪️ Partner Central lead enrichment and prospecting
▪️ Partner Central new funding benefits for Business Value Realization
▪️ Partner Central validates Foundational Technical Review in minutes
▪️ Partner Competency Connect Customer Services
▪️ Quick autonomous agents, multi-dataset analytics, and redesigned activity feed
▪️ Quick expands integrations with new connectors for Adobe, Figma, WhatsApp, and more
▪️ RDS for MariaDB LTS 12.3
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M9g database instances
▪️ RDS for SQL Server increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes
▪️ RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances
▪️ Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security | Preview
▪️ S3 annotations to provide AI agents and analytics tools with context for data discovery
▪️ S3 Vectors reduces query charges by up to 80% for large vector indexes
▪️ S3 Vectors up to 10,000 similarity search results per query
▪️ SageMaker AI new observability capability For Inference Endpoints
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart all-MiniLM-L12-v2 for semantic search and sentence similarity
▪️ Secrets Manager safe secrets handling in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
▪️ Security Agent adds Kiro Power, Claude Code, simulated validations and new integrations support
▪️ Security Agent support for Threat Modeling
▪️ Transform autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation
▪️ Transform FSx for NetApp ONTAP | Public Preview
▪️ Transform model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads

Issue #234 | 29 June 2026

▪️ Backup enhances Amazon S3 backup copy performance
▪️ Batch now supports customer-ordered instance allocation strategies
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory cross-account access
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks
▪️ CloudWatch Logs managed syslog ingestion
▪️ CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS
▪️ CloudWatch tags on dashboards
▪️ Cognito customer managed key for encryption at rest
▪️ Connect Customer Agentic CX designer (NLX) in preview
▪️ EC2 AMI Watermarks for improved AMI governance
▪️ ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1
▪️ EMR Serverless live configuration updates without application restarts
▪️ GuardDuty AI-powered investigations accelerate threat response | Preview
▪️ HealthOmics ephemeral storage for private workflows
▪️ HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles
▪️ IAM Identity Center separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications
▪️ Lambda MicroVMs isolated execution of user and AI-generated code
▪️ Marketplace Claude Tag is now available in beta
▪️ MSK AI Agent Skills to help developers operate MSK efficiently and accelerate migrations to MSK
▪️ MSK Replicator mTLS authentication
▪️ MWAA Serverless shared VPC configurations
▪️ Neptune CloudFormation for global databases
▪️ Network Firewall default drop action for improved connection reliability
▪️ Network Firewall managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight
▪️ OpenSearch Service now offers AI-assisted migrations
▪️ Outposts self-service lifecycle management
▪️ Parallel Computing Service supports P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServers
▪️ RDS Custom latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift Reserved Instance upfront pricing options for RG instances
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver sharing DNS Views between AWS Accounts
▪️ S3 server access logs to CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables
▪️ SageMaker Notebook G6e instance types
▪️ SageMaker Studio G7e instance types
▪️ Transform AWS commercial regions as migration targets
▪️ WAF support for Bedrock AgentCore Gateway

Issue #235 | 5 July 2026

▪️ AppConfig managed experimentation tools for A/B testing
▪️ Artifact Assurance Assistant for compliance inquiries
▪️ AWS Interconnect  last mile new partner with AT&T in gated preview
▪️ AWS Service Availability Updates
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore default runtime quota limits increase
▪️ BedrockClaude Sonnet 5
▪️ Capability Insights regional availability dashboard
▪️ Clean Rooms intermediate tables for SQL
▪️ CloudFormation and CDK express mode speeds up infrastructure deployments by up to 4x
▪️ CloudFormation and CDK pre-deployment validation on all stack operations
▪️ CloudWatch creating alarms from log queries
▪️ CloudWatch processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics
▪️ CloudWatch Logs enriches log events with AWS resource tags
▪️ Connect Customer rule based redaction for agent screen recording
▪️ Connect Customer rule based redaction for agent screen recording
▪️ Connect Customer up to 7 security profiles with granular access controls per user
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling balanced Availability Zone distribution
▪️ EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances
▪️ EC2 Dedicated Hosts AMD SEV-SNP
▪️ ECS configurable deployment circuit breaker settings
▪️ ECS Express Mode custom task definitions
▪️ ECS real-time deployment observability in the AWS Management Console
▪️ ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing
▪️ EKS version rollback
▪️ ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1
▪️ ElastiCache T4g nodes now available in additional AWS Regions
▪️ End User Messaging RCS rich media and interactive messaging
▪️ GameLift Servers DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity
▪️ GuardDuty sensitive file modification threat detections
▪️ IAM Identity Center programmatic AWS account access for customer managed applications
▪️ MWAA Serverless shared VPC configurations
▪️ Neptune dual stack support with IPv6
▪️ Network Firewall container attribute-based inspection for EKS and ECS
▪️ OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics
▪️ Parallel Computing Service in-place Slurm major version upgrades
▪️ Partner Central Marketplace listings for co-selling
▪️ RDS for Db2 self-managed Active Directory
▪️ RDS IAM Database Authentication with Connection Rate Scaling
▪️ S3 server access logs now deliver to CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables
▪️ SageMaker AI cuts generative AI inference scale-out time by up to half with automatic container image caching
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless model customization for Gemma 4 models
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod AMI versioning and auto-patching
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning
▪️ Security Hub CSPM AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls
▪️ Time Sync Service Microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions
▪️ WAF Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
▪️ WorkSpaces AI agents | GA

Issue #236 | 13 July 2026

▪️ AWS MCP Server OAuth support
▪️ Builder Center Now Offers Free Sandbox Environments
▪️ Certificate Manager ACME protocol for public certificates
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals automatically captures errors, performance anomalies, and deployment events
▪️ CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Dynamic Instrumentation
▪️ CodeBuild Amazon Linux 2023 for on-demand build hosts
▪️ Cognito self-service provisioned API rate limits
▪️ Config +191 additional managed rules
▪️ Connect Customer forecasting, planning, and scheduling for Tasks and Emails
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation
▪️ DMS Schema Conversion now supports offline SQL Server conversion
▪️ DocumentDB R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances
▪️ EC2 EBS volume for Replace Root Volume
▪️ ECS Managed Instances reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%
▪️ EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees by up to 60%
▪️ EMR on EKS Apache Spark troubleshooting agent
▪️ EMR Serverless larger worker sizes to run more compute and memory intensive workloads
▪️ GameLift Streams secure terminal access for stream sessions
▪️ Location Service enhances Places APIs with new address and search options
▪️ MSK Replicator replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers
▪️ Organizations account departure security controls by default for new orgы created via Organizations
▪️ Redshift RG instances now available on the trailing track
▪️ SageMaker data lineage in IAM-based domains
▪️ SageMaker Feature Store batch feature writes and record listing
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod deep health checks for Slurm clusters with continuous provisioning
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod disaggregated prefill and decode
▪️ SageMaker Studio Hugging Face one-click model deployment and customization
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom asset types to the catalog in IAM-based domains
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio importing existing MWAA environments
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows now supports operators for Bedrock, S3 Tables, S3 Vectors, and Glue Catalog
▪️ Secrets Manager managed external secrets support for Paddle and GitLab
▪️ Security Hub impact analysis for exposure findings
▪️ Security Hub Network Scanning to identify publicly reachable resources
▪️ Security Hub unified security management to Microsoft Azure
▪️ Systems Manager simplifies Azure VM management and hybrid node pricing
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB now publishes database state change events to Amazon EventBridge
▪️ VPC Encryption Controls declarative controls

Issue #237 | 20 July 2026

▪️ Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
▪️ Billing and Cost Management new Cost Efficiency widget
▪️ CloudFront Functions logging to CloudFront access logs
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights +25 new query commands and functions
▪️ CloudWatch Logs intelligent tiering for storage
▪️ CloudWatch lookup processor for log enrichment
▪️ Cognito importing users with password hashes
▪️ Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs
▪️ DocumentDB +46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1
▪️ DocumentDB skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
▪️ EC2 public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs
▪️ EKS Auto Mode Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery EBS volume initialization rate
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloads
▪️ GameLift Streams IAM role credentials for stream sessions
▪️ GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads
▪️ IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification
▪️ Lambda one-click setup prompt for coding agents
▪️ Lambda self-managed code storage
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications
▪️ MQ configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokers
▪️ MSK Express Brokers Kafka version 4.2
▪️ OpenSearch Service Agent Toolkit curated skill
▪️ OpenSearch UI one-click dashboard migration
▪️ Partner Central Partner Lead Prospecting
▪️ Partner Central subsidiary connections now support qualification sharing
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2
▪️ RDS up to four storage modifications in 24 hours
▪️ Redshift Serverless preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restores
▪️ S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags
▪️ S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod custom AMIs for Slurm clusters
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod partition-level topology for Slurm orchestrated clusters
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Gemma-4-E2B-it
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart OpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription
▪️ Security Hub AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets
▪️ Storage Gateway copying file shares across gateways
▪️ Sustainability water withdrawals data
▪️ WorkSpaces Personal simplifies bulk PCoIP to DCV protocol migration

Issue #238 | 27 July 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto July 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Amazon RDS for MySQL  v9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
▪️ AWS automatic credit memo application preferences
▪️ AWS Wickr Data Retention Service feature
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group
▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 5
▪️ CloudTrail selectively log network activity events by identity
▪️ CloudWatch coding agent insights
▪️ CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics customer managed encryption keys
▪️ Connect audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC
▪️ Connect Customer metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards
▪️ Connect expanded language support and speech controls
▪️ Data Exports standardized Bedrock product metadata
▪️ Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Lima, Peru
▪️ EC2 Dedicated Hosts host resource groups without self-managed licenses
▪️ ECS Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility
▪️ ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️ EKS EFA and placement groups on EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter
▪️ Entity Resolution advanced real-time matching
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
▪️ Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET is now generally available
▪️ Lambda durable functions now supports customer managed key encryption
▪️ Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink v2.3
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace
▪️ Marketplace self-service seller signature management for India-based sellers
▪️ Network Load Balancer Listener Rules for custom traffic routing
▪️ Open Source aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
▪️ Open Source KNFSD File Cache
▪️ Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization
▪️ Partner Central agents expand funding guidance to all programs
▪️ RDS for SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server 2025
▪️ RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ SageMaker AI Inference now supports G7 instances
▪️ SageMaker AI Inference region expansion of G6 instances
▪️ SageMaker AI inference region expansion of G7e instances
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom visual transforms
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenSearch
▪️ Secrets Manager secret update notifications to EventBridge
▪️ SES introduces pricing plans
▪️ SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets

Issue #239 | 3 August 2026

▪️ AWS Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna pricing update
▪️ Clean Rooms larger worker types up to 32 vCPUs for SQL
▪️ CloudWatch managed Prometheus collectors
▪️ Connect Customer finds example agent evaluations for tailored coaching
▪️ DataSync Enhanced mode adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and object storage locations with Hyper-V agent support
▪️ DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre
▪️ Direct Connect BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh in CloudFormation
▪️ EKS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint
▪️ EKS Provisioned Control Plane faster pod autoscaling
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor configurable ad timeout and concurrency controls
▪️ GameLift Streams Custom Aspect Ratio and Dynamic Resolution
▪️ Glue Data Quality anomaly detection and writing results to the AWS Glue Data Catalog
▪️ Glue Data Quality distribution statistics for data profiling
▪️ Glue VPC support, filter pushdown, and partition support for the REST API connector
▪️ IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory
▪️ IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities
▪️ Lambda Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023
▪️ Location Service Search Nearby support for GrabMaps in Southeast Asia
▪️ Managed Microsoft AD Standard to Enterprise Edition upgrade
▪️ MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg
▪️ MSK Express brokers now delivers Kafka data to S3
▪️ Neptune tag-based access control for IAM
▪️ OpenSearch Service OpenSearch version 3.7
▪️ Parallel Computing Service node lifecycle actions
▪️ RDS for SQL Server restoring TDE databases on Mult-AZ instances
▪️ Redshift Data API long polling, session management, and flexible batch execution
▪️ Redshift Serverless All Upfront pricing for 3-year Serverless Reservations
▪️ S3 Tables Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio richer Git version control to all project tools
▪️ Security Hub MCP App brings exposure findings into your AI-assisted workflow | Preview
▪️ Transit Gateway Policy-Based Routing | GA
▪️ WAF pre-parse text transformations and new text transformations

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

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

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▪️ 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