AWS announcements, Feb 16 – Feb 22, 2026
35 announcements
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Subscribe- 20FebAmazon MSK Serverless expands to three new AWS regionsAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 20FebAmazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2026 Release Update and Spatial Patch BundleAmazon RDS for Oracle · Databases
- 19FebAWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS RegionAWS IAM Identity Center · Security, identity and compliance
- 19FebAmazon EC2 G7e instances now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 19FebAurora DSQL launches new Go, Python, and Node.js connectors that simplify IAM authenticationDatabases
- 19FebAmazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) RegionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 19FebAmazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.19Amazon MQ · Developer tools, web and mobile
- 19FebAmazon SNS now supports sending SMS in additional AWS RegionsAmazon SNS · Serverless
- 19FebAmazon EC2 M8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 18FebAWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelinesAWS Certificate Manager · Security, identity and compliance
- 18FebAmazon Aurora DSQL now integrates with Kiro powers and AI agent skillsDatabases
- 18FebMistral AI Devstral 2 now available on Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 18FebAmazon Connect Cases now supports AWS Service QuotasAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 18FebAmazon Managed Grafana now supports AWS KMS customer managed keysAmazon Managed Service for Grafana · Management, governance and cost
- 18FebAWS Clean Rooms announces support for remote Apache Iceberg REST catalogsAWS Clean Rooms · Analytics
- 18FebAmazon OpenSearch Service expands support for Graviton4 (c8g,m8g & r8g ) instancesAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 18FebAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports storage optimized i7i instancesAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 17FebAmazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 17FebAmazon Bedrock reinforcement fine-tuning adds support for open-weight models with OpenAI-compatible APIsAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 17FebAmazon Aurora MySQL 3.12 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.44) is now generally availableAmazon RDS · Databases
- 17FebAmazon Connect now includes agent time-off requests in draft schedulesAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 17FebAmazon EventBridge Scheduler adds resource count metrics for quota monitoringApplication integration
- 17FebAmazon Connect now supports multi-line text fields on case templatesAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 17FebAmazon EC2 C8a instances now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 17FebAmazon MSK now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity for existing clustersAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 17FebClaude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 16FebAWS HealthImaging launches additional metrics for monitoring data storesAI and machine learning
- 16FebAnnouncing new high performance computing Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instancesAmazon EC2 · Elastic Fabric Adapter · Compute and containers
- 16FebAnnouncing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0Databases
- 16FebAmazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Israel (Tel Aviv) RegionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 16FebAWS Backup announces PrivateLink support for SAP HANA on AWSAWS Backup · Storage
- 16FebAWS Glue 5.1 is now available in 18 additional regionsAWS Glue · Analytics
- 16FebKiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAI and machine learning
- 16FebAmazon Aurora now supports Server-Side Encryption by defaultAmazon Aurora · Databases
- 16FebAmazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instancesCompute and containers