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188 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 19 – Nov 25, 2025

Tuesday, Nov 25

Manage Amazon SageMaker HyperPod clusters with the new Amazon SageMaker AI MCP Server
Introducing AWS Network Firewall Proxy in preview
Announcing AWS Glue zero-ETL for self-managed Database Sources
AWS Lambda adds support for Node.js 24
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports rule labeling for enhanced reporting
Amazon SageMaker AI Inference now supports bidirectional streaming
AWS Service Quotas adds now support for automatic quota management
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports EAGLE speculative decoding
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports pre-processing queries
Amazon Quick Suite introduces scheduling for Quick Flows
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces Agentic Search

Monday, Nov 24

OpenSearch Service Enhances Log Analytics with New PPL Experience
Amazon CloudFront announces support for mutual TLS authentication
AWS IoT Core now supports IoT thing registry data retrieval from IoT rules
Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HLS Interstitials for live streams
AWS Glue announces catalog federation for remote Apache Iceberg catalogs
Amazon Quick Suite Embedded Chat is now available
Claude Opus 4.5 now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon U7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Lambda announces enhanced error handling capabilities for Kafka event processing
Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in five additional AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift now supports federated permissions across multi-warehouse architectures
AWS IoT Core enhances IoT rules-SQL with variable setting and error handling capabilities
Amazon Connect flow modules now support custom inputs, outputs, and version management
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports Spot Instances
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) for generative AI tasks
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.3
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL introduces dynamic data masking
Amazon CloudFront integrates with VPC IPAM to support BYOIP

Friday, Nov 21

Amazon EMR Serverless now supports Apache Spark 4.0.1 (preview)
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark is now available in Amazon SageMaker notebooks
AWS Payments Cryptography announces support for post-quantum cryptography to secure data in transit
AWS Device Farm supports Managed Appium Endpoint and Environment Features
EC2 Image Builder now supports auto-versioning and enhances Infrastructure as Code experience
Automated Reasoning checks now include natural language test Q&A generation
AWS WAF announces Web Bot Auth support
Aurora DSQL launches new Python, Node.js, and JDBC Connectors that simplify IAM authorization
Amazon EMR 7.12 now supports the Apache Iceberg v3 table format
Amazon Connect now enables agents to send follow-up replies to email contacts
Amazon Aurora DSQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume
Amazon Connect launches monitoring of contacts queued for callback
AWS announces Flexible Cost Allocation on AWS Transit Gateway
Amazon Athena adds cost and performance controls for Capacity Reservations
Amazon Location Service introduces Address Form Solution Builder
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection accelerates anomaly identification
AWS Transfer Family announces Terraform module to integrate with a custom identity provider
AWS Security Incident Response now provides agentic AI-powered investigation
Introducing one-click onboarding of existing datasets to Amazon SageMaker
Introducing Amazon SageMaker Data Agent for analytics and AI/ML development
Amazon ECR now supports managed container image signing
AWS introduces new VPC Encryption Controls and further raises the bar on data encryption
AWS CloudFormation StackSets now supports deployment ordering
AWS License Manager introduces license asset groups for centralized software asset management
AWS Organizations now supports upgrade rollout policy for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS
Announcing AWS Compute Optimizer automation rules
Amazon EKS add-ons now supports the AWS Secrets Store CSI Driver provider
Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS announce fully managed MCP servers in preview
CloudWatch Database Insights adds cross-account cross-region monitoring
Amazon EKS introduces Provisioned Control Plane
Amazon OpenSearch Service OR2 and OM2 now available in additional Regions
AWS Control Tower now supports seven new compliance frameworks and 279 additional AWS Config rules
Announcing notebooks with a built-in AI agent in Amazon SageMaker
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Resource Governor
Amazon Route 53 DNS service adds support for IPv6 API service endpoint
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports IPv6
AWS Glue supports AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK for zero-ETL integrations
Amazon Simple Email Service is now available in two new AWS Regions
Amazon Athena launches auto-scaling solution for Capacity Reservations
Announcing flexible AMI distribution capabilities for EC2 Image Builder
AWS Application Load Balancer now supports Health Check Logs
Amazon Aurora DSQL now provides an integrated query editor in the AWS Management Console
Announcing Amazon ECS Express Mode
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports running IDEs and Notebooks to accelerate AI development
Oracle Database@AWS now supports AWS KMS integration with Oracle Transparent Data Encryption
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation now supports synchronous image processing
AWS Lambda announces new capabilities to optimize costs up to 90% for Provisioned mode for Kafka ESM
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds GitHub Action and MCP server improvements
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights now supports Neuron UltraServers on Amazon EKS
AWS Network Firewall now supports flexible cost allocation via Transit Gateway
AWS Glue launches Amazon DynamoDB connector with Spark DataFrame support
AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx Intelligent-Tiering
Amazon Connect now supports multi skill agent scheduling
AWS Security Token Service Now Supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon EC2 Fleet adds new encryption attribute for instance type selection
AWS Transfer Family web apps now support VPC endpoints
AWS Control Tower introduces a controls-dedicated experience
Amazon Lex extends wait & continue feature in 10 new languages
Announcing AWS Lambda Kafka event source mapping integration in Amazon MSK Console
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds Sub-Minute GPU Metrics for Amazon EKS
AWS Security Incident Response now offers metered pricing with free tier
Amazon RDS for Oracle is now available with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) License Included instances in Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Amazon Quick Sight dashboard customization now includes tables and pivot tables
Amazon Lightsail expands blueprint selection with updated support for Nginx Blueprint
AWS Application and Network Load Balancers Now Support Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS
Amazon CloudWatch Introduces In-Console Agent Management on EC2
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon ECR dual-stack endpoints now support AWS PrivateLink
Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS now offer enhanced AI-powered troubleshooting in the Console
Amazon API Gateway REST APIs now supports private integration with Application Load Balancer

Thursday, Nov 20

Amazon Connect now offers persistent agent connections for faster call handling
Validate and enforce required tags in CloudFormation, Terraform and Pulumi with Tag Policies
Recycle Bin adds support for Amazon EBS Volumes
Amazon RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Web Edition
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless adds AWS PrivateLink for management console
AWS Cloud WAN adds Routing Policy for advanced traffic control and flexible network deployments
Amazon EC2 Mac instances now support Apple macOS Tahoe
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports up to 50 enhanced fan-out consumers
AWS Glue supports additional SAP entities as zero-ETL integration sources
Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 4.2
AWS announces availability of Microsoft SQL Server 2025 images on Amazon EC2
AWS Application Load Balancer launches Target Optimizer
Amazon Braket introduces spending limits feature for quantum processing units
Amazon MSK Serverless expands availability to South America (São Paulo) region
Amazon EC2 C7i instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region
AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports BGP logging for VPN tunnels
AWS Step Functions enhances Local Testing with TestState API
EC2 Auto Scaling introduces instance lifecycle policy
AWS CloudTrail launches Insights for data events to automatically detect anomalies in data access
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports root volume replacement through instance refresh
Amazon Braket adds new quantum processor from Alpine Quantum Technologies (AQT)
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports long-running sessions with corporate identities
AWS Site-to-Site VPN is collaborating with eero to simplify remote connectivity
Amazon CloudWatch application map now supports un-instrumented services discovery
Amazon CloudFront now supports CBOR Web Tokens and Common Access Tokens
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon CloudFront announces 3 new CloudFront Functions capabilities
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions
Amazon CloudFront now supports TLS 1.3 for origin connections
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds EMR on EKS support with SSO capabilities
Amazon Quick Sight expands Dashboard Theme Customization
Amazon Aurora DSQL now provides statement-level cost estimates in query plans
AWS India customers can now use UPI to sign-up and automate monthly payments
Amazon S3 now supports attribute-based access control
Amazon EC2 introduces AMI ancestry for complete AMI lineage visibility
Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers 4-RPU Minimum Capacity across more aws regions
AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm REST API

Wednesday, Nov 19

Amazon Connect now provides conversational analytics for voice and chat bots
Amazon Bedrock is now available in additional Regions
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns supports ring time configuration for unanswered calls
AWS IAM enables identity federation to external services using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports backup and restore through the AWS Management Console
AWS Channel Partners can now resell using Billing Transfer
Get Invoice PDF API is now generally available.
Amazon Inspector supports organization-wide management through AWS Organizations policies
AWS NAT Gateway now supports regional availability
Savings Plans and Reserved Instances Group Sharing is now generally available
AWS Secrets Manager announces managed external secrets
Amazon DynamoDB now supports multi-attribute composite keys in global secondary indexes
Accelerate infrastructure development with AWS CloudFormation intelligent authoring in IDEs
AWS PrivateLink now supports cross-region connectivity for AWS Services
AWS Network Firewall Now Supports Managed Rules from AWS Partners available in AWS Marketplace
AWS Introduces E-Invoice delivery for AWS customers using SAP Ariba and Coupa procurement portals
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails adds support for coding use cases
AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces VPN Concentrator
Amazon ECR introduces archive storage class for rarely accessed container images
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection expands AWS managed monitoring
Amazon VPC IPAM now supports policies to enforce IP allocation strategy
AWS Organizations introduces direct account transfers between organizations
AWS Announces Elemental MediaConnect Router
AWS Network Load Balancer simplifies deployments with support for Weighted Target Groups
AWS Marketplace adds A2A server support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime
AWS Data Exports for FOCUS 1.2 is now generally available
Amazon S3 now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange on S3 endpoints
AWS IAM launches aws:SourceVpcArn condition key for region-based access control
Amazon API Gateway now supports response streaming for REST APIs
Amazon CloudWatch now supports scheduled queries in Logs Insights
Amazon API Gateway adds Developer Portal capabilities
AWS Cost Explorer now provides 18-month forecasting and explainable AI-powered forecasts
AWS Lambda announces new tenant isolation mode to simplify building tenant-aware applications
AWS launches Billing Transfer for multi-organization billing and cost management
Announcing enhanced cost management capabilities in Amazon Q Developer
Streamline integration with Amazon and AWS Partner products using AWS IAM temporary delegation
Amazon CloudWatch real user monitoring (RUM) adds support for iOS and Android applications
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available
Amazon MSK Console now supports viewing Kafka topics with new public APIs
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server now supports File Server Resource Manager
AWS enables developers to use console credentials for AWS CLI and SDK authentication
Amazon SageMaker Catalog introduces column-level metadata forms and rich descriptions
Amazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Europe (Zurich) Region
Amazon Bedrock Custom Model Import now supports OpenAI GPT OSS models
Amazon SageMaker Catalog enforces metadata rules for glossary terms for asset publishing
Amazon S3 adds new bucket-level setting to standardize encryption types used in your buckets
Amazon API Gateway now supports additional TLS security policies for REST APIs
AWS Directory Service now supports AWS PrivateLink for private VPC connectivity
AWS CloudTrail adds data event aggregation to simplify security monitoring
Amazon OpenSearch Service launches Cluster Insights for improved operational visibility
Amazon Route 53 DNS service now supports AWS PrivateLink