AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
56 new features AWS announced in the week of Oct 22 – Oct 28, 2026
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Wednesday, Oct 28
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports September 2026 Monthly Recommended Patch
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore CLI version 1.0 is now available
Public endpoints for Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS Lambda supports Seekable OCI (SOCI) lazy loading for Lambda Managed Instances
Introducing time series collections for the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless
Quick now supports smart approvals for agentic actions
Amazon EKS Dashboard now provides fleet-wide visibility into certificate authority (CA) rotation
AWS Lambda durable functions now exports live telemetry for execution insights
Amazon ECS Managed Instances adds cross-instance and Spot consolidation
Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports Kubernetes Gateway API
Announcing the AWS Marketplace and Amazon Business unified storefront
AWS Backup adds restore testing support for Amazon Redshift
AWS IAM Identity Center's Identity Store now supports change notifications through Amazon EventBridge
AWS Agent Registry is now available in four additional AWS Regions
Tuesday, Oct 27
Amazon ECS now supports GPU sharing with NVIDIA Multi-Process Service (MPS)
SageMaker MLflow Apps now support MLflow 3.16
Amazon Connect Customer supports inline attachment previews
Amazon Aurora serverless now supports up to 384 ACUs
Amazon ElastiCache expands data tiering to R8gd and R7gd nodes in Europe (Spain) and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad)
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports changing durability on existing clusters
Amazon Corretto October 2026 Patch Updates
Amazon Neptune now supports online index rebuild to reclaim storage
Amazon Bedrock now offers Canada cross-Region inference for Claude Haiku 5.5
Monday, Oct 26
Amazon ECR now supports replication backfill for existing container images
OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances now supports ModifyVolume API
Amazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming now provides a failover slate
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds light mode support for IDC-based domains
Amazon Connect Customer expands testing and simulation to validate flow action outcomes
Amazon Connect Customer now lets you view metrics by customer lifetime value and repeat-caller status
Amazon Connect Customer now measures the outcomes that drive retention and revenue
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports cross-Region trusted identity propagation
AWS EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Launch Before Terminate at account-level to replace instances
AWS Key Management Service now supports ML-KEM for post-quantum key encapsulation
AWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now supports endpoint connection management
Amazon RDS now supports the latest Cumulative Update and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports OAuth for Apache Iceberg REST Catalog APIs
Friday, Oct 23
Web Search on AWS Bedrock now supports domain filtering and user location controls
Amazon Connect Customer Global Resiliency now supports persistent chat across linked AWS Regions
AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Cloud WAN now support 1:1 NAT
Amazon Corretto October 2026 Quarterly Updates
Amazon EMR on EKS reduces EMR charge by 30 percent
Amazon MWAA now available in Mexico (Central) Region
Thursday, Oct 22
Amazon Connect Customer now supports customizing the Customer Profiles app on the agent workspace
AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is now generally available
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces intelligent ingestion for logs and documents in Amazon S3
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports a 5-second default refresh interval
Amazon SageMaker AI announces training session APIs for serverless model customization
AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Bangalore, India
Amazon MSK Connect now supports pausing and resuming connectors
AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile preview with Megaport
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Muse Glimmer, Qwen 3.8 and Ministral 3 models
AgentCore Gateway now supports Bedrock InvokeModel APIs and model fallback
Amazon Lightsail CDN distributions now support web application firewall
AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 4 additional AWS regions
Amazon Quick Now Available in the AWS Singapore Region
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