AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
45 new features AWS announced in the week of Jul 23 – Jul 29, 2026
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Wednesday, Jul 29
Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns adds dynamic source addresses
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Instance Refresh in CloudFormation
Amazon Redshift Data API announces long polling, session management, and flexible batch execution
AWS Glue announces VPC support, filter pushdown, and partition support for the REST API connector
AWS WAF adds pre-parse text transformations and new text transformations
AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA
Amazon Connect Customer now automatically finds example agent evaluations for tailored coaching
Amazon EFS now supports cross-account Replication in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to Identity Center directory
Tuesday, Jul 28
AWS Lambda durable functions now supports custom Durable Execution SDK
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane now delivers faster pod autoscaling
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
AWS Console Home now supports the Cost and Usage widget in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and object storage locations with Hyper-V agent support
Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3
Monday, Jul 27
Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control for IAM
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection and writing results to the AWS Glue Data Catalog
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports distribution statistics for data profiling
Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for the cluster OIDC endpoint
AWS Security Hub MCP App brings exposure findings into your AI-assisted workflow (Preview)
AWS Elemental MediaTailor adds configurable ad timeout and concurrency controls for improved ad fill and faster startup
Friday, Jul 24
Amazon Connect now supports audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC
Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow version 2.11.2
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support host resource groups without self-managed licenses
AWS HealthLake identifies and links duplicate patient, provider, and organization records (Preview)
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
Amazon SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager
Claude Opus 5 is now available on AWS
Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers All Upfront pricing for 3-year Serverless Reservations
Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and User Activity Monitoring now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS announces aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
Thursday, Jul 23
AWS now supports automatic credit memo application preferences
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
AWS Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now delivers unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regions
Amazon EVS is now available in additional Regions
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Announcing region expansion of G7e instances on SageMaker AI inference
Announcing region expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker AI Inference
AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports node lifecycle actions
AWS Wickr announces Data Retention Service feature
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions
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