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Monthly digest · September 2026

Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra on Bedrock, Direct Connect flat-rate pricing

257 announcements · 48 GA · 4 previews · 4 price changes · 33 Region expansions

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Claude Fable 5.1 modelGA — Anthropic frontier model for long-running coding and research, via Bedrock and Claude Platform (opens the AWS announcement)
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra modelGA — Context window of up to 1 million input tokens, plus browser and computer use (opens the AWS announcement)
Bedrock Managed AgentsPreview — Agents run on OpenAI's Agents API with per-agent IAM roles and durable sessions (opens the AWS announcement)
CloudWatch Omni observabilityGA — AI observability across accounts, Regions and Azure; in N. Virginia, Oregon and Ireland (opens the AWS announcement)
Direct Connect flat-rate pricingPrice — Fixed monthly fee for 10G and 100G dedicated connections, with no data transfer out charges (opens the AWS announcement)

AI and machine learning 42

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol GAUpgrade to GPT-6 Sol for agentic coding and computer use, with explicit prompt caching (opens the AWS announcement)
GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna GAOpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock, both supporting up to 1M tokens of context (opens the AWS announcement)
Claude Opus 5.5 GAAnthropic's latest Opus model, offered via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS (opens the AWS announcement)
GPT-6 Astra UltraFast mode GAPremium speed tier with up to 6x faster inference, up to 300 tokens per second (opens the AWS announcement)
Grok 4.7 GASpaceXAI frontier model for coding and agentic tasks, with US Geo and Global inference (opens the AWS announcement)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 GAUpgrade over Sonnet 5 for coding and knowledge work, via Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway GPU-aware routing as an EKS add-on, cutting first-token latency by up to 82% (opens the AWS announcement)
Kimi K3 GAMoonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter open model with 1-million-token context on Amazon Bedrock (opens the AWS announcement)
AgentCore Runtime GANext generation adds elastic memory reclaiming and consistent cold starts of about 2 seconds (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Talent GAAI hiring solution with voice interviews, assessments and candidate scoring (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod model caching GAPre-loads model weights and container images on nodes, with about 60% faster scale-out (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick apps Apps can use live data from Quick datasets, applying each user's permissions (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick hierarchy filter Single filter control drills through up to five related dimension levels (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness Returns Feedback Codes explaining low liveness scores, such as poor lighting or closed eyes (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Transcribe Customer-managed KMS keys can encrypt custom vocabularies, vocabulary filters and language models (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base GANative Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors sync articles and community posts (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS HealthOmics Supports IAM session policies to restrict permissions for individual runs without extra IAM roles (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SageMaker AI Serverless customization of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with SFT, DPO and RFT (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SageMaker AI Prioritized instance preference lists for training and processing jobs (opens the AWS announcement)
Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base GATwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 creates multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS DevOps Agent Supports bidirectional Slack communication, running investigations from @mentions in connected private channels (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS HealthOmics Publishes 14 real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch during workflow runs (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Adds APIs and console support to debug document-level access control (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Adds a Confluence Data Center connector that crawls pages and blogs with incremental sync (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store Updates individual features in a record without rewriting the whole record, lowering write latency (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory New IngestData API sends content straight to long-term memory without a short-term event (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS HealthOmics Resource fallback directive sets an ordered list of accelerators, with CPU fallback, for WDL workflows (opens the AWS announcement)
Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base User-managed setup lets users sign in with their own credentials for SharePoint, OneDrive and Confluence sources (opens the AWS announcement)
Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Adds native ServiceNow connector that crawls knowledge articles and service catalog items (opens the AWS announcement)
Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base Daily, weekly or monthly automatic sync schedules for all native data source connectors (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick connectors Adds per-tool enable and consent settings plus MCP sync for connectors (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity Adds managed consent portal, removing need for custom OAuth callback infrastructure (opens the AWS announcement)
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4, Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B GATwo models added to SageMaker JumpStart for agentic coding and text-to-video (opens the AWS announcement)
Ministral 3 3B and 8B Instruct GATwo compact vision-capable Mistral AI models added to SageMaker JumpStart (opens the AWS announcement)
Gemma 4 31B models GAGemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVFP4 variants added to SageMaker JumpStart (opens the AWS announcement)
granite-speech, kanana-2, OpenFold3 GAThree models added to SageMaker JumpStart for speech, Korean-English agents, and biomolecular prediction (opens the AWS announcement)
SageMaker AI Batch Transform Supports G6e instances with up to eight NVIDIA L40S GPUs in five Regions (opens the AWS announcement)
New regions: Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5 in UK (London) (opens the AWS announcement), Claude on Amazon Bedrock in India, South Korea, Singapore (opens the AWS announcement), Claude Sonnet 5.5 in AWS GovCloud (US) (opens the AWS announcement), Claude Opus 5.5 in AWS GovCloud (US) (opens the AWS announcement), Claude Fable 5.1 in AWS GovCloud (US) (opens the AWS announcement)

Compute and containers 29

Databases 29

Aurora PostgreSQL GAQuery Apache Iceberg and Parquet data through foreign tables without ETL, at no additional charge (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey Public endpoints allow connections from outside AWS using IAM authentication over TLS 1.3 (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon DocumentDB 8.0.2 Adds retryable writes, 5 aggregation stages, change stream enhancements and query planner improvements (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Aurora serverless Scales up to 16 ACUs within a second, continuing up to 256 ACUs (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon DocumentDB Retryable writes supported from engine version 8.0.2, except updateMany and deleteMany (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports post-quantum TLS key exchange through the ssl_groups parameter on versions 18 and higher (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore Supports resource tagging and tag-based access control, with tags propagating to every Region (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server GAMulti-AZ with Always On Availability Groups supported for Developer Edition (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon ElastiCache Node type and engine upgrades finish up to 41% faster with up to 29% lower P99 latency (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 Runs custom Python plugins on InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise, fetched from your repositories (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Aurora MySQL Adds multi-source replication and delayed replication on version 8.4.8 and higher (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for MySQL 26.7 PreviewPre-release of MySQL 26.7 available in the RDS Database Preview Environment (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS snapshots Full snapshot size shown in the console and the DescribeDBSnapshots API (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Adds support for PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19 and 14.24 (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Extended Support minor versions 13.23, 12.22 and 11.22 released (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for MySQL Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908 released (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 PreviewAvailable in the RDS Database Preview Environment, with autovacuum fixes and stability improvements (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server Supports SQL Server 2022 CU26 KB5093420 (RDS version 16.00.4265.3.v1) (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Supplemental Patch Bundle for July 2026 Release Update on 19c and 26ai (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for MariaDB Adds minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9 and 12.3.3 with post-quantum TLS key exchange (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports latest CU and GDR updates for SQL Server 2016 through 2025 (opens the AWS announcement)
Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 GAAdds post-quantum TLS, transaction timeout, multi-source and delayed replication (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server Supports 18 additional SQL trace flags through database parameter groups (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server Adds SQL Server 2019 CU32+GDR and 2022 CU25+GDR updates fixing four CVEs (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon RDS M8a instances AMD EPYC-based M8a instances for RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Aurora and RDS R8a instances AMD EPYC-based R8a instances for Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB (opens the AWS announcement)
New regions: DynamoDB MRSC global tables in 5 more Regions (opens the AWS announcement), Keyspaces in 11 more Regions (opens the AWS announcement), MemoryDB in GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East) (opens the AWS announcement)

Business applications and end-user computing 28

Amazon Connect Customer AI agents collaborate with each other and external agents over the A2A protocol (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick Adds cloud-run scheduled agents, improved feed, admin controls, and more agent hours (Professional 8, Enterprise 18) (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick desktop app GARuns on macOS and Windows with agents that keep working in the background, in 7 Regions (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Live Sync and Touchpoint GAReal-time web guidance during calls and an embeddable voice and chat surface (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect agentic CX designer GANo-code canvas for designing and deploying AI-powered voice and digital self-service (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick GABuilds custom apps from natural language descriptions, with no code required (opens the AWS announcement)
WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances G7 Adds Graphics G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell GPUs, 1 to 8 GPUs (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer data tables Tables hold up to 20,000 values, with export, bulk edit and instance-to-instance moves (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Unified graphics images work across G4dn, G5, G6 and G7 instance families (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS End User Messaging Adds two-way voice calling inside WhatsApp on registered business phone numbers (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SES Virtual Deliverability Manager Adds tenant-level deliverability metrics, dashboard view and a TENANT_NAME dimension in BatchGetMetricData (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer Imports evaluation form PDFs from third-party quality tools and recreates them with AI (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon WorkSpaces Graphics G7 NVIDIA Blackwell GPU bundles with up to 2.1x graphics performance over G6 (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer custom metrics Tag-based access control governs who can view, create or modify each metric (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer custom metrics Seven new API operations to create, manage and search custom metrics (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer Agents can bid on preferred shifts, with schedulers setting agent ranking (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS End User Messaging Phone pools automatically fail over to the next best number when SMS delivery is disrupted (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS End User Messaging Social GASupports dynamic WhatsApp flows whose screens call your own HTTPS endpoint (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer Sets separate capacity limits for Task and Email workload types (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick activity feed Available on iOS and Android, with context shared between desktop and mobile (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles Sends events to Kinesis Data Streams when profiles join or leave a segment (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick Max PriceNew plan with 5x the usage and storage of Plus, monthly or annual billing (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SES Signs outgoing email with S/MIME using certificates stored in AWS Certificate Manager (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer Routing step data added to the analytics data lake for Athena and Quick analysis (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications Adds Graphics G7 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in three US Regions (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer Automated performance evaluations of human and AI agents now cover Malay (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Connect Customer dashboards Adds compact mode to show more operational data without scrolling (opens the AWS announcement)
New region: Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns in AWS GovCloud (US-West) (opens the AWS announcement)

Analytics 22

Amazon EMR Long Term Support GALTS releases get 36 months of support, starting with emr-spark-8.1.0 on Spark 4.1 (opens the AWS announcement)
Apache Iceberg system-managed materialized views Only AWS Glue can write view data and definition, blocking other writers (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Redshift New DEBUG permission shows unredacted secure logging records for federated permissions queries (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transform Migration assessments now cover on-premises Apache Kafka to Amazon MSK (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Adds Iceberg REST Catalog connections and IAM authentication for Amazon DocumentDB (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon EMR on EKS Supports interactive Apache Spark sessions with Spark Connect from SageMaker Unified Studio and your own IDEs (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams GAService-managed partition keys distribute records across shards without specifying keys, for On-Demand streams (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon EMR on EKS GAWorkloads can run on IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters, from emr-7.14.0 and emr-spark-8.0.0 (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Glue Data Quality GANew Advanced mode uses generative AI to recommend rules in seconds (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Quick Generate Analysis Adds Generate Sheet and creating an analysis from a dashboard image (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Glue zero-ETL for Salesforce Captures archived Salesforce records in target tables, flagged by the isArchived field (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Glue zero-ETL Detects table property conflicts and tracks which integration owns each target table (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Supports ODBC connections for Power BI and other tools via Athena ODBC driver (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Entity Resolution Adds per-record confidence scores for ML matching, replacing the group-level score (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon MWAA Console shows CloudWatch metrics dashboard, alarms table and one-click recommended alarms (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Adds DryRun parameter to validate API requests without executing them, for five APIs (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon EMR 7.14 GAUpgrades Spark to 3.5.8 and Iceberg to 1.10.1; EMR Serverless Spark storage limit rises to 1 TiB (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Usable on v0 by Vercel to build search and RAG apps from natural language prompts (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Redshift rg.large Single-node clusters supported on P204 or later patch versions (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon MWAA Supports Apache Airflow 3.3.1, with upgrades from version 3.2 or later (opens the AWS announcement)
New regions: Redshift RG instances in Europe (Zurich) (opens the AWS announcement), MWAA Serverless in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) (opens the AWS announcement)

Management, governance and cost 17

AWS CloudTrail Event Coverage Console view shows which services and resource types have data event logging enabled (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Automatically indexes frequently queried fields at no additional cost, retained 30 days (opens the AWS announcement)
CloudWatch Logs Insights Estimate bytes a query would scan before running it, with no query charges (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Systems Manager Share SSM Documents with an organization or OUs through AWS RAM (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Resilience Hub Adds EKS labels input sources, dependency insights, and policy sharing through AWS Organizations (opens the AWS announcement)
BCM Dashboards Detected Anomalies widget Shows cost anomalies with impact, root cause and duration alongside other cost widgets (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Billing Conductor Custom rates and usage tier thresholds in SKU-scoped pricing rules (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS CloudTrail Investigate account activity with natural language questions in Amazon Q Console (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring Network health indicator covers Transit Gateway inter-Region peering paths in synthetic monitors (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Systems Manager diagnosis Identifies six more causes of unmanaged EC2 instances, including IAM permissions and SSM Agent version (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Config Supports 60 additional resource types including Bedrock, EC2, SageMaker and Organizations (opens the AWS announcement)
CloudWatch Database Insights Supports monitoring self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2 (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon CloudWatch alarm warm-up GAAlarms can delay evaluation for 1 to 2,880 minutes after creation (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Managed Grafana New workspaces can use Grafana 13.2, with Git Sync, dynamic dashboards and PromQL for CloudWatch (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Billing and Cost Management New ListBillingViewSegments API returns account billing context over a specified time period (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Billing Transfer Billing groups are created automatically for two-level transfers via a new Billing Conductor preference (opens the AWS announcement)
New region: User Experience Customization in All commercial Regions (opens the AWS announcement)

Security, identity and compliance 13

AWS Network Security Manager GACentrally enforces AWS WAF and Shield Advanced protections across an organization, in US East (N. Virginia) (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Account Management Primary contact phone numbers can be verified by SMS one-time passcode (opens the AWS announcement)
Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall GAPalo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security rules block malicious DNS traffic from VPCs (opens the AWS announcement)
IAM outbound identity federation Interface VPC endpoints reach OIDC discovery APIs privately through AWS PrivateLink (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Security Hub AI Inventory Discovers and catalogs AI assets on self-hosted Microsoft Azure instances (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Continuum Tests login credentials and suggests accessible domains before a penetration test runs (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS STS Single 4,096-byte session token limit and new token size monitoring (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS root user sign-in Sign-in served across US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Builder ID Adds recovery email and MFA device registration for third-party sign-ins such as Google or Apple (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon GuardDuty Custom Detection Rules 35 opt-in rules for CloudTrail management events producing 26 finding types, with dry-run mode (opens the AWS announcement)
IAM Identity Center Identity Store APIs APIs accept resource ARNs wherever they previously accepted resource IDs (opens the AWS announcement)
New regions: Continuum for Penetration Testing in 6 more Regions (opens the AWS announcement), Private CA connectors in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) (opens the AWS announcement)

Serverless 12

AWS Lambda Managed Instances Supports 90-minute timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping invocations, up from 15 minutes (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Lambda SnapStart GASupports container image functions, cutting startup times from seconds to sub-second (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon SNS Message payloads up to 1 MiB, up from 256 KiB (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Step Functions GANew AWS SDK integrations added automatically within weeks of release, starting with Lambda MicroVMs (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Lambda Direct read for Amazon S3 Files can be enabled or disabled regardless of function memory (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Lambda durable functions Integrates with Pydantic AI so agents resume from the last completed step (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon API Gateway REST APIs can present an ACM certificate to backends for mutual TLS (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS MCP Server Serverless capability lets coding agents diagnose Lambda functions and connected resources (opens the AWS announcement)
SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows Adds PythonOperator and BashOperator for running custom code in serverless workflows (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Lambda Managed Instances Supports Graviton5 C9g, C9gd, M9g and M9gd instances, up to 25% faster than Graviton4 (opens the AWS announcement)
New regions: Lambda durable functions in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (opens the AWS announcement), Lambda recursive loop detection in Europe Sovereign Cloud (opens the AWS announcement)

Storage 12

Amazon S3 Object Lock GAVariable retention with event holds starts the WORM retention period when a future event occurs (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon S3 Vectors Metadata pre-filtering returns up to 5x more matching vectors, plus $startsWith prefix operator (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon S3 Tables Adds geometry, geography, unknown, nanosecond timestamp types and column default values from Iceberg V3 (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transfer Family web apps Download multiple files and folders at once as a zip archive (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Backup Logically air-gapped vaults now support Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP backups (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transfer Family Preserves client source IP for SFTP servers behind a Network Load Balancer using Proxy Protocol v2 (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Storage Gateway FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints over AWS PrivateLink for S3 File Gateway (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon EBS Volume Clones Copies volumes across AWS accounts, re-encrypting with a KMS key in the target account (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon S3 PrivateLink support for FIPS 140-3 validated endpoints in 7 Regions (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Backup Supports backup and restore of more than 1,000 Amazon S3 buckets per account (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transfer Family SFTP connectors Quota increases up to 1,000 connectors per account per Region are approved automatically (opens the AWS announcement)
New region: S3 Express One Zone in 7 more Regions (opens the AWS announcement)

Media, games and IoT 11

AWS Elemental MediaPackage Dynamic Multiview Composes multiple live video sources into viewer-selected tiled layouts as standard HLS and DASH (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Deadline Cloud Job templates support Python-style expressions and new boolean, list and frame-range parameter types (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Deadline Cloud Jobs can run ECS Docker containers on Linux service-managed fleets (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Elemental MediaTailor Monetization Functions Adds post-ADS response and pre-manifest insertion lifecycle hooks, both fail-open (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Elemental MediaLive Video Aligned Locking syncs video pipelines using visual signatures instead of timecode (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Elemental MediaTailor Supports Low-Latency HLS ad insertion using HLS Interstitials (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Elemental Inference Generates contextual metadata from live video in real time, including IAB categories and GARM signals (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Elemental MediaLive Adds A/B forensic watermarking to trace unauthorized redistribution of live video (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Elemental MediaTailor Yield Optimization Fills unused livestream ad breaks with Amazon Ads demand for APS Streaming TV publishers (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Deadline Cloud Supports sharing job bundles with everyone who has access to a queue (opens the AWS announcement)
New region: GameLift Servers in 5 more Regions and 8 Local Zones (opens the AWS announcement)

Developer tools, web and mobile 10

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode Runs multiple applications on shared Amazon EKS-powered infrastructure, with a new GitHub Action (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS builder getting-started experience Simplified sign-up with automatic project setup, up to $200 in credits and per-project spend limits (opens the AWS announcement)
Nx Plugin for AWS GAVersion 1.0 open source toolkit with generators for scaffolding full-stack apps, agents, APIs and infrastructure (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS CloudFormation Contract tests v2 for resource types adds live-state checks and schema compatibility checks (opens the AWS announcement)
SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD Adds notebook promotion across environments and an AI agent skill for generating manifests (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS CLI Agent Toolkit commands Adds check-skill-updates and update-skill --all to update agent skills in one command (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Corretto Patch updates for versions 25, 21, 17 and 11, including tzdata 2026d (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES Publish AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server, for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Kiro (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Builder Center GAMobile app released for iOS and Android with articles, events and push notifications (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Corretto 27 GAOpenJDK 27 feature release with G1 as default garbage collector, supported through April 2027 (opens the AWS announcement)

Migration and transfer 10

AWS DataSync Supports shared VPCs, so one endpoint serves multiple accounts through AWS RAM (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS DataSync Console dashboard tracks task executions, transfer rates and errors across your account (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Supports Graviton-based (arm64) source servers, recovering them onto Graviton instances (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transform for .NET Generates unit tests for modernized code, opt-in, in AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transform for .NET CLI GARuns .NET modernization with a one-line CLI command, including 50,000 free agent minutes monthly (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon EMR Extends support at no extra cost for older releases while customers migrate, into 2027 (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transfer Family SFTP Connectors Transfers continue during credential rotation using an ordered list of Secrets Manager version stages (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Transform GAAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a storage target for block storage migrations (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon EVS In scope for FedRAMP Class C in all United States Regions (opens the AWS announcement)
New region: Transform in AWS GovCloud (US-West) (opens the AWS announcement)

Networking and content delivery 9

AWS PrivateLink Tunnel Endpoints New VPC endpoint type tunnels into a shared CIDR range in another VPC (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Interface VPC endpoints with AWS PrivateLink provide private connectivity from a VPC (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon Route 53 Resolver GALocal recursive DNS on second-generation Outposts; $0.65 per rack per hour from December 22, 2026 (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS RTB Fabric Configurable Availability Zone affinity for responder gateways via client routing policy (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon API Gateway REST API execution logs up to 1 MB, deliverable to CloudWatch Logs, S3 or Firehose (opens the AWS announcement)
Dynamic Image Transformation for CloudFront Adds smart cropping with custom labels, tiered device-based optimization, a transformation playground, and ECS-Lambda fe (opens the AWS announcement)
Amazon CloudFront flat-rate plans PricePlans can be subscribed and managed through API, CLI, SDKs, CloudFormation and CDK (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Gateway Load Balancer Sends TCP Reset on unhealthy target, deregistration or idle timeout expiry (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Client VPN Client version 6.0+ supports MacOS 27 Golden Gate (opens the AWS announcement)

Regions, marketplace and partners 5

Partner Revenue Measurement Multiple Partners can receive revenue attribution for the same resource through new tag keys (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Marketplace metering agent skill GAAI coding assistant skill guides sellers through building and testing usage-based SaaS metering (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Marketplace demo requests Sellers receive demo and private offer requests as qualified opportunities within minutes (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Marketplace PriceLowers listing fee to 0% for professional services in qualifying multi-product solutions (opens the AWS announcement)
AWS Marketplace private offers GASupports auto-renewals with seller-defined pricing terms and buyer opt-in or opt-out (opens the AWS announcement)

Application integration 2

Other announcements 1

AWS service availability changes Two services move to maintenance, four enter sunset, and Mechanical Turk reaches end of support (opens the AWS announcement)

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