AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
59 new features AWS announced in the week of May 28 – Jun 3, 2026
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Wednesday, Jun 3
AWS IoT Device Management adds MQTT session data to connectivity status API
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now supports conversation history
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports notebook scheduling
AWS Step Functions adds AgentCore-powered agentic reasoning step
OpenAI GPT-5.4 generally available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 32-day lookback for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations
ARC Region switch adds Amazon Aurora scaling and Amazon Neptune global database failover
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now provides CDC iterator position
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports a localized experience in twelve languages
Amazon SageMaker AI launches multi-turn reinforcement learning for AI agent model customization
AWS Config now supports 9 new resource types
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia
Amazon RDS for Db2 launches support for IBM Db2 v12.1 and Db2 Community Edition
AWS IoT Core adds new logs to troubleshoot connectivity and authentication
Amazon Connect Customer launches real-time dashboard alerts from conversational analytics
Tuesday, Jun 2
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.36
AWS Config now supports internal service linked rules
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports persistent storage for Service Managed Fleets
Amazon SageMaker Studio now sets up in seconds with model customization ready from the start
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports Athena and Redshift integration
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports Bring Your Own Media
Monday, Jun 1
AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version pinning at run time
AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version 26.04
Amazon Connect Customer now optimizes placement of ad-hoc activities in agent schedules
Amazon Connect Customer now supports up to 5,000 agents per schedule
Quick Research now supports customer managed keys
Amazon Connect Customer now provides schedule update notifications
Amazon Quick now supports VPC connectivity for MCP connections
Amazon SageMaker adds permissions boundaries for SCP compliance
AWS PCS now provides a production-ready Deep Learning AMI
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now allows you to bring your own secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) Region
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports EFA-only network interfaces
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now offers troubleshooting skills for AI coding assistants
AWS Direct Connect now supports VIF Rate Limiters to help prevent network congestion
Amazon Bedrock adds Amazon CloudWatch metrics for OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs
GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex from OpenAI are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon SES now supports tenant-level suppression lists
Sunday, May 31
Amazon Inspector launches improved agent-based scanning for EC2
Friday, May 29
Amazon SES now offers inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring
AWS HealthLake now supports CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule (CMS-0057-F) requirements
Amazon Connect Customer now supports scheduling tasks up to 90 days in advance
AWS Interconnect - multicloud now offers a free 500 Mbps tier
Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers 4-RPU Minimum Capacity in 7 additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2026 Release Update and Supplemental Patch Bundle
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in two additional AWS Regions
Amazon CloudWatch now supports querying metrics data up to two weeks old
Thursday, May 28
Monitor AWS Budgets directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with new Budgets widget
AWS IoT Core adds APIs for MQTT connection management
AWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes
AWS announces general availability of the next generation of AWS Resilience Hub
Amazon Connect Customer expands generative AI-powered post-contact summaries to eight new languages
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available on AWS
DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds support for Windows Desktop OS
The next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now generally available
AWS Partner Central now supports deal sizing using total contract value (TCV)
Amazon Connect’s AI assistant is now available in the UI builder
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