Issue #231 | 8 June 2026

▪️ Amazon Inspector improved agent-based scanning for EC2
▪️ Amazon Location Service public transit and intermodal routing
▪️ ARC Region Aurora scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover
▪️ AWS Compute Optimizer 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations
▪️ AWS MCP Server cross-account and cross-role access
▪️ AWS Step Functions AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Identity bring your own secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore Runtime introduces interactive shells for terminal access into agent sessions
▪️ Bedrock CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs
▪️ Bedrock GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI | GA
▪️ Bedrock redesigned console optimized for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs
▪️ CloudWatch querying metrics data up to two weeks old
▪️ Cognito multi-Region replication
▪️ Config now supports internal service linked rules
▪️ Connect AI assistant is now available in the UI builder
▪️ Connect Customer now optimizes placement of ad-hoc activities in agent schedules
▪️ Connect Customer schedule update notifications
▪️ Connect Customer up to 5,000 agents per schedule
▪️ Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration
▪️ Deadline Cloud persistent storage for Service Managed Fleets
▪️ Deadline Cloud plugin sync for service-managed fleets
▪️ Direct Connect VIF Rate Limiters to help prevent network congestion
▪️ ECS Managed Instances AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia
▪️ ECS with AWS Fargate 32vCPU compute configurations
▪️ EKS and Amazon EKS Distro version 1.36
▪️ EKS Capabilities CloudWatch Vended Logs
▪️ ElastiCache for Valkey now supports durability
▪️ Glue Data Catalog Client Hive 3 and discovery of multiple catalogs
▪️ HealthLake CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) requirements
▪️ HealthOmics Nextflow version 26.04
▪️ HealthOmics Nextflow version pinning at run time
▪️ IoT Core new logs to troubleshoot connectivity and authentication
▪️ IoT Device Management MQTT session data to connectivity status API
▪️ Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) CDC iterator position
▪️ PCS production-ready Deep Learning AMI
▪️ Quick Research now supports customer managed keys
▪️ Quick Research now supports customer managed keys
▪️ Quick VPC connectivity for MCP connections
▪️ RDS for Db2 IBM Db2 v12.1 and Db2 Community Edition
▪️ RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media
▪️ SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance
▪️ SageMaker AI multi-turn reinforcement learning for AI agent model customization
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent conversation history
▪️ SageMaker Data Agent integrates business context into conversations
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod EFA-only network interfaces
▪️ SageMaker HyperPod troubleshooting skills for AI coding assistants
▪️ SageMaker Studio now sets up in seconds with model customization ready from the start
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio a localized experience in twelve languages
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio notebook scheduling
▪️ SES tenant-level suppression lists