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 #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