AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
58 new features AWS announced in the week of Oct 15 – Oct 21, 2026
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Wednesday, Oct 21
AWS Transform adds storage migration assessments for Amazon S3, EBS, EFS, and FSx
AWS Service Reference Information now supports global condition keys, service names, and data plane classification
AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Manchester, England
Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS now support On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Amazon Cognito extends multi-Region replication to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Neuron 2.33 adds native PyTorch support, Neuron Observer, and other new features
Amazon Connect Customer launches two new layouts for agent workspace
Amazon S3 server access log delivery to Amazon CloudWatch Logs now available in five additional AWS Regions
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports custom sequence lengths for serverless model customization jobs
AWS Network Firewall now supports Route 53 Resolved IP Validation
AWS Transform now builds new networks and modernizes security groups
Tuesday, Oct 20
Announcing Amazon ECS Gateway, a managed ingress solution for your ECS services
Amazon DynamoDB global tables now support disassociating replicas
Amazon WorkSpaces simplifies secure AI agent access to enterprise cloud desktops with less infrastructure to operate and manage
AWS announces TorchNeuron: Native PyTorch Support for AWS Trainium (Public Beta)
Structured outputs for Claude models available on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Clean Rooms now supports Databricks as a data source
AWS IAM Identity Center simplifies identity source changes from Active Directory
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now supports Standard tier for contextual grounding checks
AWS Partner Central launches Program Navigator, Case Study Generator, and streamlined specialization review
AWS Transform for migrations expands support for existing landing zones
Amazon Bedrock Advanced Prompt Optimization now supports prompt shortening
Amazon CloudWatch Alarms now supports tags in alarm actions payload
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey now supports online migration with zero downtime
Monday, Oct 19
Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now provides business users visibility into resiliency readiness across linked Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Omni is now available in additional AWS Regions
EC2 Image Builder now integrates with ASG for faster image builds
Amazon GuardDuty adds optional threat detection rules for Runtime Monitoring
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports optimistic locking for users and groups in its identity store
AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now supports high bitrate mode
Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest Cumulative Update and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports snapshots on read replicas
Friday, Oct 16
Amazon CloudWatch log centralization now available in AWS GovCloud and additional commercial Regions
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports IPv6 and dual-stack connectivity
AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon Connect Customer now enables you to use flow modules in agentic CX designer
Beam model by Reflection is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and AWS Trainium
AWS Transform announces Azure-to-AWS cloud-native code conversion
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now supported in the AWS Mexico (Central) Region
Amazon Braket now in scope for FedRAMP Class C
Thursday, Oct 15
Amazon EC2 T8i instances are now available in South America (São Paulo)
AWS Transform for migrations is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore)
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Go is now generally available
Muse Spark Open model now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
AWS HealthOmics now supports shared VPCs
Amazon Time Sync Service adds support for microsecond-accurate time on 135 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions
AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports Aurora PostgreSQL cross-region deployment in 7 more Regions
Amazon MSK Connect and AWS Glue Schema Registry are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region
Amazon CloudFront announces dual-stack support for VPC origins
PostgreSQL 19 RC1 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon Redshift long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables is now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Metadata now available in six additional AWS Regions
AWS Security Hub CSPM now supports the Cyber Risk Institute profile version 2.2
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Collector now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow now offers AI agent skills
Launch AWS DevOps Agent to review findings and test results from AWS Resilience Hub
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