AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
49 new features AWS announced in the week of Oct 8 – Oct 14, 2026
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Wednesday, Oct 14
Amazon CloudWatch announces log routing and chained log parsers
Amazon SageMaker Studio simplifies getting started for new AI/ML builders with social sign-in
AWS HealthOmics expands container registry support for private workflows
AWS Lambda recursive loop detection now supports Amazon EventBridge Custom event buses
AWS License Manager now supports license type conversions for Ubuntu Pro purchased through AWS Marketplace
AWS HealthOmics introduces resource fallback order for Nextflow workflows
AWS Backup now supports Amazon FSx file systems in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Announcing Blockchain Snapshots on AWS for node bootstrapping
AWS Transfer Family console supports SVG logos and ICO favicons for web apps
AWS Transfer Family now supports AWS Secrets Manager storage for SFTP server host keys
Amazon RDS Proxy now supports SQL Server 2022
Amazon S3 is now available on the Vercel Marketplace and v0 by Vercel
AWS Security Hub now supports resource criticality for prioritization
Tuesday, Oct 13
Amazon ECS adds LiveTaskCount and removes the charge for RunningTaskCount metric
AWS Lambda durable functions increases durable operation and checkpoint payload limits
AWS Agent Registry now supports custom metadata for registry records
Amazon DCV releases version 2026.0 with RHEL 10 support and new clients
AWS Deadline Cloud now helps users find their accessible resources in the Deadline Cloud monitor
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports configurable time-to-live for long-term memory
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports FSx for OpenZFS, NFS 4.2, and object metadata controls
Amazon Route 53 now supports registrations, transfers, and renewals for Premium Domains
Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU for Microsoft SQL Server
Monday, Oct 12
Amazon CloudFront now supports AWS Lambda Web Functions as an origin
Amazon EC2 G7 instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions
Amazon Connect Customer now prefills step-by-step guides for after contact work
Announcing consumption-based pricing for short-term memory in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS Transfer Family supports custom ports for public SFTP servers
Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey introduces ElastiCache Insights
Amazon EMR now supports native data quality checks in Apache Spark jobs
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption
Sunday, Oct 11
AWS now lets customers sign up for AWS and pay invoices using ACH direct debit
Friday, Oct 9
AWS Security Hub now exports findings to S3 in CSV or JSON format
Amazon EC2 C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 M8id instances now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Amazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
Amazon Bedrock now supports reasoning summaries for OpenAI models
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Connect Customer now provides automated checks to improve performance evaluation forms
Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Quick now supports brand templates for on-brand presentations and documents
Amazon EC2 C8gd and M8gd instances are now available in additional regions
TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 model now available on Amazon Bedrock
Thursday, Oct 8
AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributes
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports minor version upgrade prechecks and a new RDS event to help reduce patching downtime
AWS Network Firewall adds wildcard support for container attribute filters
Amazon GameLift Servers adds CPU burstability for container fleets
Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databases
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