AWS, Friday, August 21st, 2026
Amazon Connect Customer Now Lets Managers Chat With Their Data
Amazon Connect Customer adds a plain-language interface that answers questions across 150+ contact centre metrics.
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AWS, Thursday, August 20th, 2026
AWS Partner Central Agents MCP Server Now Supports OAuth With AWS Sign-In
Partners can reach AWS Partner Central agents from tools like Amazon Quick and Kiro using OAuth through AWS Sign-In.
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ARC Region Switch Adds Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica Execution Block
ARC Region switch automates failover orchestration for Amazon RDS databases running Oracle Data Guard across Regions.
more → AWS, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Amazon EC2 Enables AMI Creation With Local Snapshots From Instances on Outposts
EC2 can now build AMIs with snapshots stored locally on an Outpost, helping customers meet data residency requirements.
more → AWS, Wednesday, August 19th, 2026
Amazon CloudWatch Pipelines Adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML Processors
CloudWatch pipelines gains three ingest-time processors: an RDS log parser, an XML parser and GeoIP enrichment.
more → AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 Extensions Are Now Generally Available
Amazon Quick's extensions for Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook reach general availability, running AI tasks inside M365.
more → AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Amazon MSK Now Supports Configuring Custom Domain Names for MSK Provisioned Clusters
Amazon MSK adds cluster-level custom domain names for Provisioned clusters in both ZooKeeper and KRaft modes.
more → AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Amazon Location Service Now Supports POI Category and Density Filtering in Map Styles
Amazon Location Service adds server-side control over which point-of-interest categories and how many appear on a map.
more → AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Amazon Connect Customer Dashboards Now Support Reporting on Routing Steps and Agent Proficiencies
Amazon Connect adds routing step and agent proficiency reporting so supervisors can tune how contacts are matched to agents.
more → AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
Amazon Bedrock Expands API Support and Introduces Cross-Region Inferencing for OpenAI Models
Bedrock adds Responses, Converse and Chat Completions API support plus cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models.
more → AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
AWS Console-to-Code Adds 26 Services and Cross-Region Recording
Console-to-Code expands from 6 to 32 supported services and adds cross-Region and cross-tab action recording.
more → AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026
AWS CloudShell Now Includes a Built-In Visual File Editor
AWS CloudShell adds a GUI file editor launched with a single 'edit' command, with no setup required.
more → InfoQ, Monday, August 17th, 2026
AWS Introduces Native Vector Search for DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB recently introduced native vector search, allowing developers to store embeddings alongside application data and run approximate nearest-neighbor queries directly from DynamoDB without using a separate vector database.
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AWS, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
AWS Client VPN Now Supports CLI, Administration Controls, and Faster Connections
A rebuilt AWS VPN Client v6.0.x adds CLI support, enterprise admin controls and faster connections.
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AWS, Thursday, August 13th, 2026
AWS Certificate Manager Supports Switching From e-mail to DNS Validation
AWS Certificate Manager lets customers switch existing public certificates from email to DNS validation.
more → AWS, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026
AWS IAM Now Provides Role Manager to Set up IAM Roles Automatically
AWS IAM role manager reaches general availability, creating default service roles automatically in the console.
more → AWS, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
AWS Clean Rooms Supports Exporting Privacy-Enhanced Analysis Logs for SQL
AWS Clean Rooms can export privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL queries to Amazon S3.
more → AWS, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Amazon RDS for MariaDB Now Supports MariaDB 12.3
Amazon RDS for MariaDB adds support for MariaDB 12.3, the community's latest long-term support release.
more → AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood, Kiro Crew, and More (August 10, 2026)
AWS weekly roundup covers the AWS Heroes Summit, Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, Dogwood and Kiro Crew.
more → AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
AWS Marketplace Now Supports Category-Based Notification Subscriptions and Multi-Channel Delivery for Buyers
AWS Marketplace buyers can now pick notification categories and route them through AWS User Notifications.
more → AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
AWS Identity and Access Management Streamlines Assignment of IAM Roles to Workforce Users With Account Access Manager
AWS IAM's new account access manager assigns IAM roles to workforce users and groups from IAM Identity Center.
more → AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Now Supports up to 10,000 Collections Per Collection Group
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless raises the ceiling to 10,000 collections per collection group, up from 1,500.
more → AWS, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
AgentCore Runtime Instances Are Now Generally Available
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime instances reach general availability for running agents on customer EC2.
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AWS, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
AWS Security Agent Now Supports Email-Based MFA for Penetration Testing
AWS Security Agent extends automated penetration testing to applications using email-based MFA.
more → AWS, Thursday, August 6th, 2026
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 Now Supports Direct Access to Backup Data
AWS Backup for Amazon S3 adds direct read-only access to backup data without a restore.
more → AWS, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Amazon DynamoDB Now Supports Real-Time Vector Search
Amazon DynamoDB adds generally available real-time vector search.
more → AWS, Wednesday, August 5th, 2026
Amazon Aurora Serverless Now Scales Faster to Support Agentic AI and Other Bursty Workloads
Amazon Aurora serverless scales to 12 ACUs within a second to serve bursty agentic AI workloads.
more → AWS, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
Amazon Bedrock Launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT Models
Amazon Bedrock launches server-side Web Search so OpenAI GPT models can ground answers in current web data.
more → AWS, Tuesday, August 4th, 2026
AWS Security Hub Extended Adds Supply Chain Security as Its 10th Category
AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as a tenth category with Chainguard and Socket.
more → AWS, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna Now Support 1 Million Token Context Windows on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna gain 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock.
more → AWS, Monday, August 3rd, 2026
AWS Transform Continuous Modernization is Now Generally Available
AWS Transform continuous modernization reaches general availability for at-scale technical debt remediation.
more → AWS, Friday, July 31st, 2026
AWS Lambda Now Supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023
Lambda adds AL2023 runtimes for older Java versions so customers can decouple OS and language upgrades.
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AWS, Friday, July 31st, 2026
Amazon CloudWatch Announces Managed Prometheus Collectors
CloudWatch can now scrape Prometheus metrics from EKS, EC2, ECS, MSK, and OpenSearch without customer-managed agents.
more → InfoQ, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
AWS Lambda's Self-Managed Code Storage Lifts the Account Quota, Not the Function Size Limit
AWS Lambda now supports self-managed S3 code storage, removing account quotas but keeping per-function size limits.
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AWS, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
AWS Direct Connect Now Supports BGP Route Visibility on Virtual Interfaces
Direct Connect customers can now see which routes AWS accepted from and advertised to their on-premises routers.
more → AWS, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Amazon OpenSearch Service Now Supports OpenSearch Version 3.7
OpenSearch 3.7 brings 1-bit scalar quantization on Faiss and Lucene, cutting vector storage and memory needs.
more → AWS, Thursday, July 30th, 2026
Balancing Speed and Safety: A Control Framework for AI Coding Agents
AWS proposes a control framework for AI coding agents that can open dozens of pull requests across repositories in an afternoon.
more → AWS, Wednesday, July 29th, 2026
AWS Announces AWS Interconnect Multicloud Connectivity With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in GA
AWS Interconnect for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure reaches general availability for direct multicloud network links.
more → AWS, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
AWS DataSync Enhanced Mode Adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and Object Storage Locations With Hyper-V Agent Support
DataSync Enhanced mode extends agent-based transfers to HDFS, Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage.
more → AWS, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane Now Delivers Faster Pod Autoscaling
EKS raises Horizontal Pod Autoscaler sync concurrency to up to 40 times the Kubernetes default.
more → AWS, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
AWS KMS or AWS CloudHSM: Choose the Right Key Management Solution
AWS sets out when hardware-backed CloudHSM is warranted versus the fully managed KMS service.
more → AWS, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
Amazon S3 Tables Now Support the Variant Data Type for Apache Iceberg V3
S3 Tables adds the Iceberg V3 Variant type so semi-structured JSON can be written without predefining a schema.
more → AWS, Tuesday, July 28th, 2026
How AgentCore Gateway Supports the MCP 2026-07-28 Spec
The Model Context Protocol's largest revision since launch makes MCP stateless, and Bedrock AgentCore Gateway now supports it.
more → AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Restoring TDE Databases on Multi-AZ Instances
Native backup and restore of TDE-enabled SQL Server databases now works on Multi-AZ instances and read replicas.
more → AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AWS Glue Data Quality Now Supports Anomaly Detection and Writing Results to the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Glue Data Quality adds anomaly detection for catalog-based evaluations and can write results back to catalog tables.
more → AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Amazon Neptune Now Supports Tag-Based Access Control for IAM
Neptune adds tag-based access control so IAM and SCP conditions can gate data-plane operations.
more → AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
Beyond RAG: Task-Aware Knowledge Compression for Enterprise AI on AWS
AWS shows how compressing knowledge bases into task-specific representations beats retrieval on analytical work.
more → AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AWS Shield Advanced Is Embracing the AWS WAF Anti-DDoS Managed Rule Group: What Changes and How to Prepare
AWS explains how Shield Advanced customers should migrate to the WAF Anti-DDoS managed rule group.
more → AWS, Monday, July 27th, 2026
AWS Security Hub MCP App Brings Exposure Findings Into Your AI-Assisted Workflow (Preview)
AWS previews a local MCP server that pulls Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop for investigation.
more → AWS, Monday, July 20th, 2026
AWS Weekly Roundup: One-Click Lambda Setup Prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 Models on Bedrock, and More
AWS's weekly roundup highlights a one-click Lambda setup prompt for coding agents and OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Amazon Bedrock.
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