AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
59 new features AWS announced in the week of Aug 6 – Aug 12, 2026
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Wednesday, Aug 12
Amazon Quick now supports approval policies for sharing
Amazon Quick now supports per-user resource limits
AWS Global View now offers an interactive map view for AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones
Amazon EKS now supports advanced Kubernetes control plane configuration parameters
AWS IAM now provides role manager to set up IAM roles automatically
Amazon Quick adds deny by default for custom permissions
Amazon Connect Customer supports manual assignment of queued agent-first callbacks
Amazon Quick now supports data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview
AWS Deadline Cloud Now Supports EBS Persistent Volume Cost Tracking
Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Tuesday, Aug 11
Amazon Quick agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) region
Amazon Bedrock expands IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpoint
LocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS Glue adds one-click access to SageMaker Unified Studio from the AWS console
Amazon Connect Customer launches performance dashboard for Cases
AWS Clean Rooms supports exporting privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3
Monday, Aug 10
FLUX.2-small-decoder and gemma-4-12B-it models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
langcache-embed-v3-small, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOnOCR-2-1B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) region
GLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 and GLM-OCR models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon GameLift Streams Now Offers Service-managed Shader Caching
Amazon EC2 introduces application status checks
Amazon MSK now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaft
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports up to 10,000 collections per collection group
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now preserves UEFI boot mode for Linux servers
Friday, Aug 7
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan) region
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports backup and restore
Amazon Cognito now available as a skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
AWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instances
Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated RPKI for BYOIP prefixes
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds memory, policy, and harness in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 new EC2 instance types
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now supports wall clock evaluation windows
Amazon OpenSearch Service announces additional upgrade runway for existing domains and support dates for additional versions
Amazon SES now helps identify automated open and click events in event notifications
AWS Parallel Computing Service is now in scope for FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, CSA STAR, and PCI
Thursday, Aug 6
Amazon Connect Customer now provides schedule adherence metrics on dashboards
Amazon ECS now supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instances
AWS Lambda console extends console-to-IDE integration to Kiro and Cursor
AWS WAF now supports a Salt Security managed rule group for API and MCP threat detection
Amazon EC2 G7 instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region
AgentCore runtime instances are now generally available
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn nodes
AWS Glue Schema Registry is now available in ten more AWS regions
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports multi-region farm access from a single monitor
Amazon OpenSearch UI now supports Network Access Control
AWS Transform for migrations automates post-launch actions
Amazon Connect Customer adds one-click drill-down on real-time metrics dashboards
Amazon RDS now provides visibility into storage volume initialization status
Amazon WorkSpaces now publishes enhanced observability metrics
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes enhanced observability metrics
AWS Marketplace now lets sellers configure net payment terms on private offers
Amazon MSK now delivers Kafka Authorizer Logs to customers
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 now supports direct access to backup data
AWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon Neptune to three additional AWS Regions
Announcing temporal policies and rate limiting in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regions
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