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Week 11 of 2026 (Mar 12 – Mar 18, 2026) · AWS News
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54 new features AWS announced in the week of Mar 12 – Mar 18, 2026
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Wednesday, Mar 18
Minimax M2.5 and GLM 5 models now available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
Amazon ECR now supports pull through cache for Chainguard
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super now available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon S3 Access Grants are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Amazon Quick Now Available in the AWS Tokyo Region
Amazon Quick Now Available in the AWS Frankfurt Region
Amazon Quick Now Available in the AWS London Region
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in Europe (London) Region
Amazon EC2 C8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region
Amazon Inspector expands agentless EC2 scanning and introduces Windows KB-based findings
AWS Config launches 75 new managed rules
Amazon Redshift increases performance for new queries in dashboards and ETL workloads by up to 7x
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom metadata filters
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.5
Amazon Connect expands agentic speech-to-speech voice experiences to the London (Europe) region and adds three new voices
Tuesday, Mar 17
Amazon Connect voice AI agents now supports 13 new languages
Amazon Connect adds new generative text-to-speech voices and expands to new regions
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio supports aggregated view of data lineage
SageMaker Training Plans now enables extending of existing capacity commitments without workload reconfiguration
AWS Blu Insights is now AWS Transform for mainframe refactor
Monday, Mar 16
Amazon CloudWatch introduces organization-wide EC2 detailed monitoring enablement
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports log ingestion using HTTP-based protocol
SageMaker HyperPod now supports idle resource sharing for dynamic cluster utilization
Amazon Neptune now supports reading S3 data using openCyper
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Now Supports Expanded Multi-Node Cluster Configurations
Friday, Mar 13
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports the AG-UI protocol
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds new SLO capabilities
Accelerate serverless application development with new SAM Kiro power
Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are now available in US East (Ohio) Region
Thursday, Mar 12
OpenSearch UI supports Cross Account Data Access to OpenSearch domains
New LZA MCP Server for AI-assisted configuration management
AWS Elastic Beanstalk launches Deployments tab with in-progress deployment logs
AWS Private CA Connector for SCEP now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS CDK Mixins is now generally available
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Amazon MSK expands Express brokers to Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Taipei) regions
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports shell command execution
Amazon Corretto 26 is now generally available
Amazon RDS enhancements for SQL Server Developer Edition
Simplified permissions for Amazon S3 Tables and Iceberg materialized views
Announcing AWS Partner Central agents to accelerate co-sell
Amazon SimpleDB now supports exporting domain data to Amazon S3
Amazon Connect now enables agents to forward email contacts to external email addresses
Amazon MSK announces support for Standard brokers Graviton-3 instance in Africa (Cape Town) region
AWS Network Firewall Launch in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West)
AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Rust
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory announces streaming notifications for long-term memory
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations with Amazon DynamoDB as the source support new configurations
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports Microsoft Windows Server 2025
Amazon S3 introduces account regional namespaces for general purpose buckets
AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon EKS