AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
27 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 12 – Nov 18, 2026
- Aurora PostgreSQL with express configuration now supported in CloudFormation
- Grok 4.7 now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)
- Amazon RDS for Oracle reduces downtime for automatic minor version upgrades and scheduled maintenance
- AWS Security Hub CSPM now supports centralized configuration with AWS Organizations declarative policies
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports OAuth 2.0 discovery URLs
- AWS Secrets Manager now supports cross-account replication
- Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports layout customization for designations
- AWS Marketplace now supports VAT credit notes for deemed supply refunds
- AWS Systems Manager simplifies onboarding of Google Cloud VMs for centralized management
- Amazon Cognito now supports OAuth 2.0 token exchange
- Amazon MWAA now supports fine-grained access control with IAM Identity Center and multi-team environments
- Apache Airflow UI available in Amazon MWAA Serverless
- Amazon Connect Customer supports merging and linking related cases in the agent workspace
- Amazon SNS now supports push notifications in four additional AWS Regions
- AWS Quick enhances granular governance with the ability to restrict structured data sources
- Amazon Route 53 Domains now supports self-service restore for expired and deleted domains
- EC2 Image Builder console now integrates with the DevOps Agent for troubleshooting and resource creation
- Amazon FSx for Lustre lowers the entry cost of Intelligent-Tiering file systems by 75%
- AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive
- AWS Backup now supports resource modifiers for Amazon EKS restores
- AWS Cloud WAN now supports BGP communities on Direct Connect attachments for routing policy
- Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink introduces enhanced snapshots
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8id and R8id instances
- AWS Glue announces automatic version upgrades for Apache Spark jobs
- Amazon Connect Customer now supports batch actions on up to 100 cases at once
- Amazon Route 53 now supports record set protection
- The next generation AgentCore runtime is now the default