AWS — Volume 342, Issue 1

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Volume 342, Issue 1 · 15 articles from 4 issues

In This Issue

Amazon MSK Now Supports Configuring Custom Domain Names for MSK Provisioned Clusters (AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Amazon MSK adds cluster-level custom domain names for Provisioned clusters in both ZooKeeper and KRaft modes. Read more

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd Instances Powered by AWS Graviton5 Processors Are Now Generally Available (AWS, Monday, August 31st, 2026)

AWS launches memory-optimized EC2 R9g and R9gd instances on Graviton5, claiming up to 25% better compute performance than R8g. Read more

AWS Clean Rooms Supports Exporting Privacy-Enhanced Analysis Logs for SQL (AWS, Tuesday, August 11th, 2026)

AWS Clean Rooms can export privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQL queries to Amazon S3. Read more

AgentCore Runtime Instances Are Now Generally Available (AWS, Thursday, August 6th, 2026)

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime instances reach general availability for running agents on customer EC2. Read more

AWS Certificate Manager Supports Switching From e-mail to DNS Validation (AWS, Thursday, August 13th, 2026)

AWS Certificate Manager lets customers switch existing public certificates from email to DNS validation. Read more

Amazon Bedrock Expands API Support and Introduces Cross-Region Inferencing for OpenAI Models (AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Bedrock adds Responses, Converse and Chat Completions API support plus cross-Region inference for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models. Read more

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Now Supports up to 10,000 Collections Per Collection Group (AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026)

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless raises the ceiling to 10,000 collections per collection group, up from 1,500. Read more

AWS Introduces Native Vector Search for DynamoDB (InfoQ, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

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. Read more

AWS CloudShell Now Includes a Built-In Visual File Editor (AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

AWS CloudShell adds a GUI file editor launched with a single 'edit' command, with no setup required. Read more

AWS IAM Now Provides Role Manager to Set up IAM Roles Automatically (AWS, Wednesday, August 12th, 2026)

AWS IAM role manager reaches general availability, creating default service roles automatically in the console. Read more

AWS Client VPN Now Supports CLI, Administration Controls, and Faster Connections (AWS, Thursday, August 13th, 2026)

A rebuilt AWS VPN Client v6.0.x adds CLI support, enterprise admin controls and faster connections. Read more

AWS Identity and Access Management Streamlines Assignment of IAM Roles to Workforce Users With Account Access Manager (AWS, Monday, August 10th, 2026)

AWS IAM's new account access manager assigns IAM roles to workforce users and groups from IAM Identity Center. Read more

Agentic Security: Detection and Response at Machine Speed (AWS, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026)

AWS argues autonomous AI agents are the biggest shift in security posture since cloud and outlines machine-speed detection and response. Read more

Amazon Connect Customer Dashboards Now Support Reporting on Routing Steps and Agent Proficiencies (AWS, Monday, August 17th, 2026)

Amazon Connect adds routing step and agent proficiency reporting so supervisors can tune how contacts are matched to agents. Read more

Incident Response Guide for AWS CloudTrail Investigations - Part 2 (AWS, Thursday, September 3rd, 2026)

Part two continues AWS's CloudTrail investigation guide, building on the S3 ransomware and cryptomining scenarios from part one. Read more