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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
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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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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
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Issue #243 | 31 August 2026

▪️ Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23
▪️ Aurora DSQL foreign key constraints
▪️ Backup cross-Region and cross-account backup support for FSx for NetApp ONTAP
▪️ Backup cross-Region backup copy and logically air-gapped vault
▪️ Batch supports ECS Managed Instances
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory extracting memories from non-conversational JSON payloads
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory flexible namespace variables
▪️ Capacity Reservation Resource Groups EC2 Capacity Blocks and interruptible Capacity Reservations
▪️ CloudWatch agent adds support for journald logs
▪️ Cognito admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations
▪️ Connect Customer auto-refresh scheduling metrics
▪️ Connect Customer information extraction for agent voice and chat conversations
▪️ Connect Customer points-based scoring in performance evaluations
▪️ Connect Customer unplanned shrinkage in agent schedules
▪️ Connect Customer update the customer profile
▪️ ECS automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity
▪️ EKS multiple external OIDC identity providers per cluster
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recovery
▪️ GameLift Servers enhanced DDoS Protection now available
▪️ IAM Roles Anywhere Java plugin for the AWS SDK
▪️ IoT Core native InfluxDB routing for time-series data
▪️ Lambda full IAM resource-based policies
▪️ Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink
▪️ Lambda Node.js 26 and Python 3.15 | Preview
▪️ Mountpoint for Amazon S3 memory usage controls
▪️ MSK Replicator  OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER)
▪️ ParallelCluster on-node diagnostics tool
▪️ RDS for Oracle July 2026 Release Update
▪️ RDS latest CU for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ Redshift 10MiB records from Kinesis Data Streams
▪️ Redshift Agent Toolkit for AWS for AI-assisted data warehouse management
▪️ RedshiftKinesis data streams concurrency scaling
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod enhances support for Ray
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models
▪️ SageMaker MLflow customer managed keys
▪️ Secrets Manager managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and Netskope
▪️ Transform now in scope for FedRAMP Class C
Issue #244 | 7 September 2026

▪️Agent Registry agents and MCP servers in Quick
▪️Agent Registry centralized agent discovery and governance | GA
▪️Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview
▪️Aurora MySQL multi-source replication and delayed replication
▪️Automated Security Response AI Toolkit for custom remediations
▪️Backup protect more than 1K S3 buckets per account
▪️Bedrock AgentCore Identity managed consent portal
▪️Bedrock Claude Fable 5.1
▪️Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base automatic sync scheduling for data source connectors
▪️Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base ServiceNow as a native data source connector
▪️Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base user-managed setup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources
▪️CloudFront API support for flat-rate pricing plans
▪️CloudWatch Database Insights self-managed PostgreSQL
▪️CloudWatch warm-up periods for alarms
▪️Cognito M2M authorization without a user pool domain
▪️Connect Customer agentic CX designer | GA
▪️Connect Customer automated performance evaluations to Malay
▪️Connect Customer dashboards now support compact mode
▪️Connect Global Resiliency cross-region routing of contacts across two active AWS regions
▪️Deadline Cloud sharing job bundles
▪️DocumentDB direct major version upgrades to version 8.0
▪️EC2 specifying compatible instance types on AMIs
▪️ECS Early Success Criteria for service deployments
▪️ECS Managed Daemons now support non-critical daemons
▪️Elastic Beanstalk AD domain join Windows Server environments
▪️Elemental MediaTailor in-console analytics dashboard for ad monetization and streaming performance
▪️EMR on EKS job run concurrency controls
▪️Gateway Load Balancer TCP Reset for faster failure recovery
▪️Interconnect multicloud connectivity with Microsoft Azure | Preview
▪️Kinesis Data Streams data delivery to general purpose S3 buckets
▪️Kinesis Data Streams dry run feature to validate API requests
▪️Kinesis Data Streams streaming tables, delivering data to Iceberg tables on S3 Tables
▪️Lambda SnapStart for container image functions
▪️Marketplace auto-renewals for private offers
▪️Marketplace reduces listing fee for PS in multi-product solutions
▪️MCP Server serverless capability for Lambda functions
▪️MSK Connect restarting connectors
▪️MWAA Airflow version 3.3.1
▪️MWAA built-in monitoring with CloudWatch
▪️Partner Revenue Measurement User Agent string capability
▪️Quick build custom apps with natural language
▪️Quick new tool settings and MCP sync support for connectors
▪️Quick Quick Max: 5x the usage for power users
▪️RDS Custom latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️RDS for SQL Server additional SQL trace flags
▪️Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters
▪️Redshift Apache Iceberg v3 tables
▪️Redshift IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing
▪️S3 PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints
▪️SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD adds notebook promotion and AI-assisted manifest generation
▪️SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows Python and Bash operators
▪️SES S/MIME email signing
▪️Transfer Family SFTP Connectors now support continuing file transfers during credential rotation
▪️Workload Credentials Provider one-click install for Linux and Windows
▪️WorkSpaces Applications NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances
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Issue #245 | 14 Sep 2026

▪️ API Gateway 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinations
▪️ API Gateway mutual TLS for backend integrations
▪️ AWS Builder ID recovery options and MFA for 3rd party logins
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory direct ingestion to long-term memory
▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control
▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Confluence Data Center as a native connector
▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-6 Astra
▪️ CloudFormation contract tests v2 for resource types
▪️ CloudFront Dynamic Image Transformation
▪️ CloudWatch network health indicator for TGW inter-Region peering using synthetic monitors
▪️ CloudWatch Network Monitor NHI for Transit Gateway peering
▪️ Connect Customer Profiles customers enter or exit segments events
▪️ Connect Customer set specific capacity limits
▪️ DevOps Agent bidirectional Slack communication for investigations
▪️ EBS Volume Clones copying volumes across accounts
▪️ ECS expands IAM condition key support for RunTask and StartTask APIs
▪️ Elemental Dynamic Multiview for live video
▪️ Elemental Inference generates contextual metadata from live video in real time
▪️ Elemental MediaLive A/B forensic watermarking
▪️ Elemental MediaLive frame-accurate pipeline locking for streams without timecode
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor Low-Latency HLS ad insertion
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor Yield Optimization to automatically fill ad breaks with Amazon Ads demand
▪️ EMR extends support at no additional cost for customers migrating off older releases
▪️ Entity Resolution record-level confidence scores for ML matching
▪️ GuardDuty optional threat detection rules
▪️ HealthOmics real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
▪️ HealthOmics resource fallback order for WDL workflows
▪️ Lambda direct read configuration for S3 Files
▪️ Lambda durable functions integrates with Pydantic AI
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances 90-minute function timeout
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances Graviton5-powered
▪️ Marketplace sellers now receive qualified demo and private offer requests in minutes
▪️ MQ RabbitMQ 4.3
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless is now available on v0 by Vercel
▪️ Outposts second-generation single-rack
▪️ Quick activity feed now available on iOS and Android mobile devices 
▪️ Quick always-on agents, a sharper feed, and enterprise controls
▪️ Quick desktop app on macOS and Windows is GA
▪️ S3 Object Lock variable retention with event holds
▪️ SageMaker Feature Store individual feature updates to lower write latency
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod model caching for faster inference autoscaling and reduced cold starts
▪️ Storage Gateway FIPS-compliant private connectivity for S3 File Gateway
▪️ Systems Manager now diagnoses more issues that cause EC2 instances to be unmanaged
▪️ Timestream for InfluxDB 3 custom plugins
▪️ Transform for .NET now generates unit tests for modernized code
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Issue #246 | 22 Sep 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto 27 is now generally available
▪️ Amazon EVS FedRAMP Class C
▪️ AWS regional resiliency for root user sign-in
▪️ Batch bulk job cancellation and termination
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore new AgentCore Runtime
▪️ Bedrock Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI
▪️ Billing and Cost Management  Monitor cost anomalies
▪️ Billing Conductor custom rates and usage tier pricing configurations
▪️ Builder Center mobile app on iOS and Android
▪️ Client VPN MacOS 27 Golden Gate
▪️ Connect Customer agents bid on preferred shifts
▪️ Connect Customer can now import evaluation form PDFs using AI
▪️ Connect Customer create, manage, and search custom metrics through APIs
▪️ Connect Customer custom metrics now supports tag-based access control
▪️ Connect Talent is now generally available
▪️ Continuum credential testing and accessible domain suggestions
▪️ Direct Connect flat-rate pricing for dedicated connections
▪️ EC2 T8i instances
▪️ ECS deployment observability for ECS Managed Daemons
▪️ ECS Express Mode Graviton (ARM64) workloads
▪️ ECS real-time deployment observability
▪️ ECS S3 Files on EC2 compute type
▪️ Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode
▪️ Elemental MediaTailor Monetization Functions response hooks
▪️ End User Messaging Dynamic Flows in WhatsApp
▪️ End User Messaging SMS deliverability with automatic failover
▪️ Glue zero-ETL now captures archived Salesforce records
▪️ Glue zero-ETL target table property ownership and conflict detection
▪️ HealthOmics now supports IAM session policies
▪️ PCS custom GRES, hardware topology, and MIG
▪️ PrivateLink Tunnel Endpoints to access network segments
▪️ Q Console Analyze your CloudTrail events using natural language
▪️ Quick individual sheets and builds analyses from an image
▪️ Resilience Hub adds three new capabilities
▪️ RTB Fabric configurable Availability Zone affinity
▪️ SageMaker AI instance preference lists for training and processing jobs
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio ODBC for Power BI
▪️ SES tenant-level deliverability insights
▪️ SNS message payloads up to 1 MiB
▪️ Step Functions new AWS service integrations automatically
▪️ STS token size limits and session token size monitoring
▪️ Transfer Family source IP preservation for SFTP servers behind NLB
▪️ WorkSpaces NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances
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Issue #247 | 28 Sep 2026

▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 5.5
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna
▪️ Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Salesforce and Zendesk as native data source connectors
▪️ Billing and Cost Management billing context for your account through a new API
▪️ Billing Transfer automatic billing group creation for two-level transfers
▪️ CloudWatch Omni AI-first observability for agents and applications
▪️ Connect Customer agent-to-agent collaboration
▪️ Connect Customer routing step data in the analytics data lake
▪️ DataSync monitoring dashboard for tracking task executions across your account
▪️ DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency across continents and +5 Regions
▪️ Elastic Disaster Recovery Graviton-based source servers
▪️ ElastiCache Global Datastore tagging and tag-based access control
▪️ EMR 7.14 is now available
▪️ EMR Long Term Support with Apache Spark 4.1
▪️ EMR on EKS interactive workloads with Spark Connect
▪️ EMR on EKS IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters
▪️ End User Messaging voice calling on WhatsApp
▪️ End User Messaging and SES AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server
▪️ EventBridge relaunched event buses for enterprise scale
▪️ GameLift Servers +5 Regions and 8 Local Zones
▪️ Glue Data Quality context-specific rule recommendations in seconds
▪️ IAM outbound identity federation supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion
▪️ Network Security Manager is now generally available
▪️ RDS Multi-AZ for SQL Server Developer Edition
▪️ RDS Custom latest CU for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL post-quantum TLS key exchange
▪️ Route 53 Resolver second-generation AWS Outposts racks
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway for scalable LLM inference
▪️ Security Hub AI Inventory Azure self-hosted instance support
▪️ Transcribe customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources
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Issue #248 | 5 Oct 2026

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL 18.6
▪️ Aurora and RDS AMD-based R8a instances
▪️ Aurora DSQL partial indexes
▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL querying Apache Iceberg and Parquet data
▪️ Aurora Serverless scales up by 16 ACUs within a second
▪️ AWS Service Availability Updates
▪️ AWS phone number verification for account contacts
▪️ AWS CLI bulk skill updates and version checks for the Agent Toolkit for AWS
▪️ Backup logically air-gapped vault support for FSx for NetApp ONTAP
▪️ Bedrock Claude Sonnet 5.5
▪️ Bedrock Grok 4.7
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol
▪️ Bedrock UltraFast mode for OpenAI GPT-6 Astra
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Gateway private TLS certificates for VPC endpoints
▪️ Bedrock Managed Agents agents built with OpenAI, running natively on AWS | Preview
▪️ Budgets email verification for notification subscribers
▪️ CloudTrail Event Coverage for data plane operations
▪️ CloudWatch Logs automatic indexing of frequently queried fields
▪️ CloudWatch Logs Insights estimate bytes scanned before running a query
▪️ Connect Customer data tables with up to 20,000 values for real-time configuration changes
▪️ Corretto September 2026 Patch Updates
▪️ Corretto 8 September 2026 Patch Updates
▪️ DataSync shared VPCs
▪️ Deadline Cloud ECS containers on Linux Service-Managed Fleets
▪️ Deadline Cloud expressions in job templates
▪️ DocumentDB 5 MongoDB aggregation stages and change stream capabilities in version 8.0.2
▪️ DocumentDB retryable writes
▪️ DynamoDB filtered export to S3
▪️ EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations postponing start dates
▪️ ECS VPC Lattice support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployments
▪️ EKS Kubernetes version 1.37
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey OpenTelemetry metrics and detailed monitoring
▪️ ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey public endpoints
▪️ EMR Serverless terabyte-scale shuffle with Serverless Storage
▪️ Glue system-managed write protection for Apache Iceberg materialized views
▪️ Glue Data Catalog table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg V3
▪️ GuardDuty centralized management using Organizations declarative policies
▪️ Health version catalog for software lifecycle management
▪️ IAM Identity Center Identity Store APIs accept resource ARNs
▪️ Kinesis Video Streams VPC endpoints with PrivateLink
▪️ Managed Grafana Grafana 13.2 workspaces
▪️ Marketplace AI agent skill for usage-based metering integration
▪️ Partner Revenue Measurement multi-Partner support for Resource Tagging
▪️ PCS scaling logs
▪️ Quick Hierarchy Filter for guided dashboard drill-down
▪️ Quick live data from your datasets in apps
▪️ RDS full snapshot size information in the Console and API
▪️ RDS AMD-based M8a instances
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment MySQL 26.7
▪️ RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support minor versions 13.23, 12.22 and 11.22
▪️ Redshift federated permissions for secure logging access
▪️ Redshift cross-Region queries for your data lake
▪️ Rekognition Face Liveness Feedback Codes
▪️ Route 53 Global Resolver DNS analytics and insights, including DNS Firewall
▪️ Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security | GA
▪️ S3 Tables all Apache Iceberg V3 data types
▪️ S3 Tables up to 100 table buckets per Region
▪️ S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering for up to 5x higher recall on filtered search
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio Iceberg REST Catalog connections and IAM authentication for DocumentDB
▪️ Secrets Manager actionable security posture recommendations in the console
▪️ Security Hub remediation plans to prioritize and fix security exposures
▪️ Security Hub GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring included in the Threat Analytics plan
▪️ Systems Manager sharing documents through Resource Access Manager
▪️ Transfer Family downloading multiple files and folders in web apps
▪️ Transfer Family automatic approval of SFTP connector quota increases up to 1,000
▪️ Transfer Family custom CloudWatch log groups for managed workflows
▪️ Transform Apache Kafka migration assessments for MSK
▪️ Well-Architected Agent AI-powered evolution of Trusted Advisor and the Well-Architected Tool | Preview
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Issue #249 | 12 Oct 2026
▪️ Aurora and RDS AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper for faster switchovers and failovers | GA
▪️ AWS Capabilities by Region feature-level availability notifications and advanced filters
▪️ Batch EKS access entry authentication
▪️ Batch job metrics in CloudWatch
▪️ Bedrock GLM 5.3 by Z.ai
▪️ Bedrock Claude Haiku 5.5
▪️ Bedrock Ultrafast mode for OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol
▪️ Bedrock TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5
▪️ Bedrock reasoning summaries for OpenAI models
▪️ Billing and Cost Management Bedrock product attributes in Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards
▪️ Certificate Manager ACME issuance through PrivateLink
▪️ Client VPN device posture assessment
▪️ Config 77 new resource types
▪️ Connect Customer automated checks to improve performance evaluation forms
▪️ Continuum for Penetration Testing continuous penetration testing in your CI/CD pipeline | Public Preview
▪️ Control Tower AFT plan-only customization runs
▪️ EC2 shared tags for Amazon Machine Images
▪️ GameLift Servers CPU burstability for container fleets
▪️ GuardDuty RDS Protection detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS
▪️ IAM Identity Center network access controls for Identity Store
▪️ Lambda OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event sources
▪️ Network Firewall wildcard support for container attribute filters
▪️ Nova 2.5 Sonic with improved reasoning for voice agents
▪️ Private CA detailed certificate issuance logs
▪️ Quick brand templates for on-brand presentations and documents
▪️ RDS for Oracle minor version upgrade prechecks and a new event to reduce patching downtime
▪️ Redshift creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized views
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom Tooling blueprints
▪️ Security Hub export findings to S3 in CSV or JSON
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Issue #250 | 19 October 2026

▪️ Agent Registry custom metadata for registry records
▪️ Agent Toolkit for AWS AWS AI/ML skill for SageMaker AI
▪️ Application Recovery Controller Region switch adds four new capabilities
▪️ AWS Blockchain Snapshots for Ethereum and Solana node bootstrapping
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Memory consumption-based pricing for short-term memory
▪️ Billing and Cost Management ACH direct debit for sign-up and invoice payments in the US
▪️ Braket FedRAMP Class C
▪️ CloudFront Lambda Web Functions as an origin
▪️ CloudFront dual-stack VPC origins
▪️ CloudWatch log routing and chained log parsers
▪️ Connect Customer prefilled step-by-step guides for after contact work
▪️ DataSync Enhanced mode supports FSx for OpenZFS, NFS 4.2, and object metadata controls
▪️ DCV 2026.0 with RHEL 10 support and new clients
▪️ Deadline Cloud find accessible resources in the Deadline Cloud monitor
▪️ DynamoDB Streams timestamp-based stream processing
▪️ ECS LiveTaskCount metric and no charge for RunningTaskCount
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey ElastiCache Insights dashboard in CloudWatch
▪️ EMR native data quality checks in Apache Spark jobs
▪️ End User Messaging registration improvements for faster, higher-quality submissions
▪️ End User Messaging Brand Profiles
▪️ End User Messaging managed OTP verification end-to-end
▪️ End User Messaging guided wizard for RCS registration videos
▪️ HealthOmics resource fallback order for Nextflow workflows
▪️ HealthOmics third-party container registries for private workflows
▪️ HealthOmics shared VPCs
▪️ Lambda Lambda Web Functions to handle HTTP requests directly
▪️ Lambda recursive loop detection for EventBridge Custom event buses
▪️ Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Go | GA
▪️ Lambda durable functions up to 30,000 operations and 1 MB checkpoint payloads
▪️ License Manager Ubuntu Pro license conversions through AWS Marketplace
▪️ Location Service interactive API Playground for Places, Routes and Maps
▪️ Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow AI agent skills
▪️ OpenSearch Service index-level encryption
▪️ Oracle Database@AWS aggregate and default routes for ODB peering
▪️ RDS latest Cumulative Update for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 19 RC1
▪️ RDS Proxy SQL Server 2022
▪️ Resilience Hub DevOps Agent to review findings and test results
▪️ Route 53 Domains registrations, transfers, and renewals for Premium Domains
▪️ S3 on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Muse Spark Open by Meta
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Beam by Reflection, also on AWS Trainium
▪️ SageMaker JumpStart Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
▪️ SageMaker Studio sign up with Google, GitHub, or Apple credentials
▪️ Secrets Manager managed external secrets for Databricks and Twilio
▪️ Security Hub resource criticality for exposure prioritization
▪️ Security Hub CSPM Cyber Risk Institute profile version 2.2
▪️ Time Sync Service microsecond-accurate time on 135 more EC2 instance types
▪️ Transfer Family custom ports for public SFTP servers
▪️ Transfer Family SVG logos and ICO favicons for web apps
▪️ Transfer Family SFTP server host keys in Secrets Manager
▪️ Transform Azure SDK to AWS SDK code conversion for .NET applications | GA
▪️ Transform Aurora PostgreSQL cross-Region deployment for full-stack Windows modernization
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Issue #251 | 26 October 2026

▪️ Aurora and RDS On-Demand Capacity Reservations
▪️ Bedrock prompt shortening in Advanced Prompt Optimization
▪️ Bedrock structured outputs for Claude models
▪️ Bedrock Web Search domain filtering and user location controls
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Gateway Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and model fallback
▪️ Bedrock Guardrails Standard tier for contextual grounding checks
▪️ Clean Rooms Databricks as a data source
▪️ CloudFormation force rollback for stack update rollbacks
▪️ CloudWatch Alarms tags in alarm action payloads
▪️ Connect Customer two new agent workspace layouts
▪️ Connect Customer Global Resiliency resiliency readiness across linked Regions
▪️ Connect Customer Global Resiliency persistent chat across linked Regions
▪️ Connect Customer Profiles customizable layouts in the agent workspace
▪️ Continuum code vulnerabilities | GA
▪️ Corretto October 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Direct Connect 100G expansion in Manchester, England
▪️ Direct Connect 100G expansion in Bangalore, India
▪️ DynamoDB global tables disassociate replicas without deleting data
▪️ EC2 Image Builder faster builds on existing Auto Scaling Group instances
▪️ ECS ECS Gateway, managed ingress for ECS services
▪️ ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey zero-downtime online migration
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router high bitrate mode up to 500 Mbps
▪️ EMR on EKS 30% lower EMR charge
▪️ EMR Serverless IPv6 and dual-stack connectivity
▪️ GuardDuty optional threat detection rules for Runtime Monitoring
▪️ IAM service reference adds global condition keys, service names, and data plane classification
▪️ IAM Identity Center optimistic locking for users and groups
▪️ IAM Identity Center keeps identities and assignments when changing source from Active Directory
▪️ Interconnect last mile with Megaport | Preview
▪️ MSK Connect pause and resume connectors
▪️ Network Firewall Route 53 Resolved IP Validation
▪️ Neuron TorchNeuron, native PyTorch for Trainium | Preview
▪️ Neuron 2.33 with TorchNeuron, Neuron Observer, and more
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless 5-second default refresh interval
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless intelligent ingestion for logs and documents in S3
▪️ Partner Central Solution Matching Engine performance insights
▪️ Partner Central Program Navigator, Case Study Generator, and streamlined specialization review
▪️ Polly Generative engine upgrade with 14 new voices and 2 new languages
▪️ RDS Custom latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS for SQL Server snapshots on read replicas
▪️ SageMaker AI custom sequence lengths for serverless model customization
▪️ SageMaker AI serverless customization for Muse Glimmer, Qwen 3.8, and Ministral 3
▪️ SageMaker AI training session APIs for serverless model customization
▪️ Transform existing landing zones for migrations
▪️ Transform builds new networks and modernizes security groups
▪️ Transform storage migration assessments for S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx
▪️ Transit Gateway and Cloud WAN 1:1 NAT on attachments
▪️ WorkSpaces AI agent access to cloud desktops through managed MCP
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Issue #252 | 2 November 2026

▪️ Aurora PostgreSQL post-quantum TLS key exchange
▪️ Aurora Serverless up to 384 ACUs
▪️ Backup restore testing for Redshift
▪️ Bedrock OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 | GA
▪️ CloudFront viewer ISP and post-quantum TLS details for origins
▪️ Connect Customer outcome scoring for retention and revenue
▪️ Connect Customer metrics by customer lifetime value and repeat-caller status
▪️ Connect Customer testing and simulation validates flow action outcomes
▪️ Connect Customer inline attachment previews
▪️ Connect Customer versioning and aliasing for flows
▪️ Connect Customer automatically saves in-progress emails as drafts
▪️ Corretto October 2026 Patch Updates
▪️ DataSync Enhanced mode supports FSx for Windows File Server, FSx for NetApp ONTAP, and OpenShift Virtualization
▪️ EC2 Auto Scaling account-level Launch Before Terminate
▪️ ECR replication backfill for existing container images
▪️ ECS GPU sharing with NVIDIA Multi-Process Service
▪️ ECS Managed Instances cross-instance and Spot consolidation
▪️ EKS fleet-wide certificate authority rotation visibility in the EKS Dashboard
▪️ EKS Auto Mode Kubernetes Gateway API
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey change durability on existing clusters
▪️ Elemental MediaConnect Router endpoint connection management
▪️ Glue Data Catalog OAuth for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
▪️ IAM Identity Center cross-Region trusted identity propagation
▪️ IAM Identity Center Identity Store change notifications through EventBridge
▪️ IVS Low-Latency Streaming failover slate
▪️ KMS ML-KEM for post-quantum key encapsulation
▪️ Lambda durable functions live telemetry exporter for execution insights
▪️ Lambda Managed Instances Seekable OCI (SOCI) lazy loading
▪️ Managed Grafana in-place upgrade to Grafana 13.2
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus MSK consumer-group metrics in managed collectors
▪️ Marketplace unified storefront with Amazon Business
▪️ Marketplace list once and sell through multiple subsidiary accounts
▪️ MSK TLS 1.3 for data in transit
▪️ MSK Connect update connector plugins and worker configurations
▪️ Neptune online index rebuild to reclaim storage
▪️ OpenSearch Serverless time series collections
▪️ Quick smart approvals for agentic actions
▪️ RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ RDS for Oracle September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch
▪️ RDS for Oracle optional automatic minor version upgrades for JVM, Spatial, Locator, and OLAP
▪️ RDS for Oracle and SQL Server storage autoscaling on additional storage volumes
▪️ Redshift automated cross-Region backups
▪️ SageMaker AI MLflow 3.16 in MLflow Apps
▪️ SageMaker AI SOCI-indexed images start training jobs in seconds
▪️ SageMaker AI GPU partitioning for real-time inference endpoints
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio light mode for IDC-based domains
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom designations for project members
▪️ Step Functions workflows as AI agent tools through AgentCore Gateway
▪️ WAF automatic SDK integration for CloudFront distributions
▪️ WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances ModifyVolume API
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