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69 new features AWS announced in the week of Sep 24 – Sep 30, 2026

Wednesday, Sep 30

Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU
AWS CLI now supports bulk skill updates and version checks for the Agent Toolkit for AWS
Amazon S3 Vectors introduces metadata pre-filtering for up to 5x higher recall on filtered search
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating Grafana 13.2 workspaces
Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra now supports UltraFast mode on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports scaling logs
Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads
Amazon Aurora and RDS now support AMD-based R8a instances
Amazon RDS now supports AMD-based M8a instances
Amazon Bedrock expands Claude models in-region support in the UK (London)
Aurora PostgreSQL now supports querying of Apache Iceberg and Parquet data
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 26.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Uncover blind spots in AWS data plane operations with CloudTrail Event Coverage
Amazon Quick adds Hierarchy Filter for guided dashboard drill-down
Amazon Quick now supports live data from your datasets in apps
Partner Revenue Measurement adds Multi-Partner support to Resource Tagging
AWS accounts now support phone number verification
AWS Transfer Family now automatically approves SFTP connector quota increases up to 1,000
AWS IAM Identity Center Identity Store APIs now accept resource ARNs in addition to resource IDs
Amazon Redshift simplifies access to secure logging with federated permissions
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now supports VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink
AWS Marketplace launches an AI agent skill for usage-based metering integration
Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types

Tuesday, Sep 29

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports expressions in job templates
Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, is now available in preview
Amazon RDS now adds full snapshot size information to the Console and API
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports ECS containers on Linux Service-Managed Fleets
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Connect Customer now lets business users manage more reference data to adjust contact center configurations in real time
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications introduces unified graphics images
AWS Service Availability Updates
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 13.23-rds.20260514, 12.22-rds.20260514 and 11.22-rds.20260514
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24
Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to India, South Korea, and Singapore
AWS Transform now supports Apache Kafka migration assessments for Amazon MSK
AWS Systems Manager now supports sharing documents through AWS Resource Access Manager
AWS DataSync now supports shared VPCs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically indexes frequently queried fields
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now lets you estimate bytes scanned before running a query
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall support for Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security is now Generally Available (GA)

Monday, Sep 28

Amazon EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Now Supports Postponing Start Dates
Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness now returns Feedback Codes
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS
Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Corretto September 2026 Patch Updates
AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for 5 MongoDB aggregation stages and change stream capabilities in version 8.0.2
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports retryable writes
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports two new connection capabilities: Iceberg REST Catalog connections and IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB

Friday, Sep 25

Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions
AWS IAM outbound identity federation now supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Graviton-based source servers
AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now offer AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server
AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides billing context for your account through a new API

Thursday, Sep 24

Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses for enterprise scale
AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud region
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange
AWS Network Security Manager is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia) Region
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway for scalable LLM inference
Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS with Spark Connect
Amazon GameLift Servers now available in 5 new regions and 8 Local Zones
Amazon RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Developer Edition