AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
111 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2025
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Tuesday, Dec 2
Announcing Amazon EC2 General purpose M8azn instances (Preview)
Announcing the Apache Spark upgrade agent for Amazon EMR
Announcing Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time conversational AI
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports Amazon S3 access
Amazon RDS for SQL Server launches optimize CPU with new generation instances for up to 55% lower price
Announcing Amazon EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances (Preview)
Amazon EC2 P6e-GB300 UltraServers accelerated by NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 are now generally available
Amazon S3 Storage Lens adds performance metrics, support for billions of prefixes, and export to S3 Tables
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Developer Edition
Announcing new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz Instances
Introducing Amazon Nova 2 Omni in Preview
Introducing AWS DevOps Agent (preview), frontier agent for operational excellence
Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 family now available first on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon S3 Vectors is now generally available with 40 times the scale of preview
Amazon EMR Serverless eliminates local storage provisioning for Apache Spark workloads
Amazon S3 Batch Operations introduces performance improvements
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Policy (preview), Evaluations (preview) and more
Build agents to automate production UI workflows with Amazon Nova Act (GA)
AWS Security Agent (Preview): AI agent for proactive app security
Amazon RDS for Oracle and SQL Server now support up to 256 TiB storage with additional storage volumes
AWS Support transformation: AI-powered operations with the human expertise you trust
AWS Lambda announces durable functions for multi-step applications and AI workflows
Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection now supports Amazon EC2 and Amazon ECS
Announcing Amazon EC2 Trn3 UltraServers for faster, lower-cost generative AI training
Announcing New Compute-Optimized Amazon EC2 C8a Instances
Amazon Bedrock adds 18 fully managed open weight models, the largest expansion of new models to date
Announcing Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances (Preview)
Introducing AWS AI Factories
AWS Security Hub is now generally available with near real-time risk analytics
Amazon S3 increases the maximum object size to 50 TB
Amazon Nova Forge: Build your own Frontier Models using Nova
Announcing Amazon Nova 2 foundation models now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon CloudWatch launches unified management and analytics for operational, security, and compliance data
Announcing Database Savings Plans with up to 35% savings
Amazon S3 Tables now support automatic replication of Apache Iceberg tables
Amazon API Gateway adds MCP proxy support
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bi-directional streaming
Announcing new memory optimized Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now exports asset metadata as queryable dataset
Amazon S3 Tables now offer the Intelligent-Tiering storage class
Amazon CloudWatch GenAI observability now supports Amazon AgentCore Evaluations
Amazon SageMaker AI announces serverless MLflow capability for faster AI development
Monday, Dec 1
AWS Transform for mainframe now supports application reimagining
AWS Transform launches an AI agent for full-stack Windows modernization
AWS launches AWS Transform custom to accelerate organization-wide application modernization
AWS Transform adds new agentic AI capabilities for enterprise VMware migrations
AWS Transform expands .NET transformation capabilities and enhances developer experience
AWS Transform for mainframe delivers new testing automation capabilities
Sunday, Nov 30
Amazon Connect agent workspace now supports custom visual themes
Amazon Connect now provides native testing and simulation capabilities
Amazon Connect now supports multiple knowledge bases and integrates with your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
Amazon Connect now provides improved analytics and monitoring for AI agents
Amazon Connect now supports AI agent assistance and summarization for Agentforce Service
Amazon Connect launches AI-powered predictive insights (Preview)
Amazon Connect adds support for third-party speech-to-text and text-to-speech AI models for end-customer self-service
Amazon Connect introduces agentic self-service with more natural, expressive, and adaptive voice interactions
Amazon Connect now supports creation of custom metrics for use in dashboards and APIs
Amazon Connect Chat now supports agent-initiated workflows
Amazon Connect enhances its agent assistance capabilities
Amazon Connect now provides AI-powered case summaries
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports multi-step, multi-channel customer engagement journey builder
Amazon Connect launches Model Context Protocol (MCP) support
Amazon Connect now provides granular access controls for performance evaluations
Amazon Connect now enables business users to create custom UIs to adjust contact center configurations in real time
Amazon Connect introduces new criteria to automatically select relevant contacts for performance evaluation
Amazon Connect now provides automated performance evaluations for self-service interactions
Amazon Connect launches automated email responses using conditional keywords and phrases
Amazon Connect now streams messages for AI-powered interactions
Amazon Connect Chat now supports in-flight data redaction and message processing
Amazon CloudWatch incident reports now support Five Whys analysis
AWS Partner Central is now available in the AWS Management Console
AWS Marketplace introduces agent mode and AI-enhanced search to accelerate solution discovery
Introducing multi-product solutions in AWS Marketplace
Announcing Amazon EKS Capabilities
Introducing Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver for secure anycast DNS resolution (preview)
Announcing AWS Lambda Managed Instances, a capability to run functions on your Amazon EC2 instances
AWS expands AI Competency with new Agentic AI categories
AWS Glue now supports Apache Iceberg based materialized views
AWS Marketplace introduces express private offers for fast personalized pricing
Amazon SageMaker Catalog provides automatic data classification using AI agents
AWS Clean Rooms supports synthetic dataset generation training custom ML training
New automated integration for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM in AWS Marketplace
AWS announces preview of AWS Interconnect - multicloud
AWS Marketplace now supports variable payments for professional services
Multimodal retrieval for Bedrock Knowledge Bases now generally available
AWS Launches Resilience Software Competency to help customers build highly available applications
AWS announces a preview of the AWS MCP Server
AWS announces IAM Policy Autopilot to help builders generate IAM policies from code
AWS announces gated preview of AWS Interconnect - last mile
Announcing AWS AI League 2026 Championship
Wednesday, Nov 26
SageMaker HyperPod now supports Managed tiered KV cache and intelligent routing
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom Kubernetes labels and taints
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports a new cost effective warm storage tier
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports unused NAT Gateway recommendations
Improved AWS Health event triage
AWS announces support for Apache Iceberg V3 deletion vectors and row lineage
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports programmatic node reboot and replacement
The AWS API MCP Server is now available on AWS Marketplace
Amazon CloudWatch now supports deletion protection for logs
Amazon S3 Block Public Access now supports organization-level enforcement
Amazon Route 53 announces accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records
Introducing AWS Glue 5.1
Amazon S3 Metadata expands to 22 additional AWS Regions
Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now support write operations with AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access controls
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports Flexible Training Plans capacity for Inference
Amazon EMR and AWS Glue now support audit context support with Lake Formation
Amazon Bedrock introduces Reserved Service tier
Amazon Quick Research now includes trusted third-party industry intelligence
AWS Knowledge MCP Server now supports topic-based search
Amazon Lex now supports LLMs as the primary option for natural language understanding
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