AWS announcements, Apr 20 – Apr 26, 2026
78 announcements
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Subscribe- 24AprAmazon WorkSpaces Personal Supports Rocky 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Ubuntu 24.04Business applications and end-user computing
- 24AprAWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for Kafka event source mappings (ESMs) now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
- 24AprAmazon Quick now integrates with Visier’s Vee agent for workforce intelligenceAI and machine learning
- 24AprAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egressAI and machine learning
- 24AprAmazon Connect now logs supervisor agent activity status changes to AWS CloudTrailAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 24AprAmazon Connect now provides eight new metrics to measure and improve AI agent performanceAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 24AprAmazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 24AprAWS Marketplace Management Portal now supports bank account deletionAWS Marketplace
- 24AprAWS Deadline Cloud now supports custom scripting for job submission workflowsAWS Deadline Cloud · Media, games and IoT
- 23AprAmazon Athena simplifies federated queries with managed connectorsAmazon Athena · Analytics
- 23AprAWS Client VPN now supports native AWS Transit Gateway integrationAWS Client VPN · AWS Transit Gateway · Networking and content delivery
- 23AprAmazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports automatic Slurm topology managementAI and machine learning
- 23AprAWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm 25.11Compute and containers
- 23AprAmazon SageMaker supports notebooks and data agent for IdC domainsAmazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 23AprAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers CI/CD CLI for data and AI applicationsAmazon SageMaker Studio · Analytics
- 23AprAWS Compute Optimizer supports 162 new EC2 instance types and 32 new RDS DB instance classes
- 23AprAttributed Revenue Dashboard Now Available in AWS Partner CentralRegions, marketplace and partners
- 23AprAWS Elastic Beanstalk AI-powered environment analysis now supports WindowsAWS Elastic Beanstalk
- 23AprSecond-generation AWS Outposts racks now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney) and Europe (Paris) RegionsAWS Outposts · Storage
- 23AprAmazon Quick now supports multiple owners for admin-managed SharePoint and Google Drive knowledge basesAI and machine learning
- 23AprAmazon EC2 X8g instances now available in Europe (Ireland) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 23AprAmazon Redshift supports UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE for Apache Iceberg tablesAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 23AprAmazon Quick now supports permission verification for ACL-enabled knowledge basesAI and machine learning
- 23AprAmazon Quick now supports document-level access controls for SharePoint knowledge basesAI and machine learning
- 23AprAmazon S3 now supports five additional checksum algorithmsAmazon S3 · Storage
- 23AprAWS Backup expands support for Amazon Aurora PITR to six RegionsAWS Backup · Storage
- 23AprAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports VPC for notebook kernelsAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 22AprAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports multiple code spaces within projects for IAM domainsDeveloper tools, web and mobile
- 22AprAmazon EC2 C8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Ireland, London), and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 22AprAmazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 22AprEnhancements to AWS Network Firewall Managed Rules from AWS Marketplace PartnersAWS Network Firewall · Networking and content delivery
- 22AprAmazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Qwen3.5 modelsAmazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 22AprAmazon EC2 announces Managed resource visibility settingsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 22AprIntroducing GPU Health Monitoring and Auto Repair for Amazon ECS Managed InstancesAmazon ECS · Compute and containers
- 22AprAWS Secrets Manager extends managed external secrets to MongoDB Atlas and Confluent CloudAWS Secrets Manager
- 22AprAmazon Bedrock AgentCore adds new features to help developers build agents fasterAmazon Bedrock
- 22AprAmazon IVS Low-Latency Streaming now supports server-side ad insertion
- 22AprAmazon EC2 for SQL Server HA now supports health notificationsAWS Health · Amazon CloudFront · Compute and containers
- 22AprAmazon Corretto April 2026 Quarterly UpdatesAmazon Corretto · Developer tools, web and mobile
- 22AprAmazon RDS Custom now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL ServerAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 22AprAWS Lambda durable functions are now available in 16 additional AWS RegionsAWS Lambda · Serverless
- 22AprAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports rollback for service software updatesAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 21AprAmazon SageMaker AI launches optimized generative AI inference recommendationsAmazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 21AprAmazon SageMaker now supports multi-region replication from IAM Identity CenterAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 21AprFive new Qwen models for coding agents and efficient reasoning are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 21AprIntroducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networkingAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 21AprAWS Marketplace streamlines VAT payment for deemed supply transactionsRegions, marketplace and partners
- 21AprAmazon Athena Spark adds support for AWS PrivateLinkAmazon Athena · Analytics
- 21AprAWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 FilesAWS Lambda · Storage
- 21AprAmazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports configuration of processors via AIAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 21AprAWS Glue now supports OAuth 2.0 for Snowflake connectivityAWS Glue · Analytics
- 21AprAmazon MSK Serverless expands to 13 new AWS regionsAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 21AprAWS Transform custom is now available in six additional AWS RegionsDeveloper tools, web and mobile
- 21AprAmazon Location Service now offers bulk address validation for the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom
- 21AprAmazon EC2 G7e instances now available in AWS Local Zones in Los AngelesAWS Local Zones · AI and machine learning
- 21AprAmazon Aurora serverless: Up to 30% better performance, smarter scaling, and still scales to zeroAmazon Aurora · Databases
- 21AprAWS Backup adds Amazon Redshift Serverless and Aurora DSQL support for AWS Organizations backup policiesAWS Organizations · AWS Backup · Storage
- 21AprAmazon Quick Automate announces shared file storage for automationsAI and machine learning
- 21AprAWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GAAWS Lambda · Serverless
- 21AprAmazon Quick Automate now provides APIs to trigger and monitor automation jobsAI and machine learning
- 21AprAmazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports contact priority orderingAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 20AprAmazon EBS expands volume modification enhancement to AWS European Sovereign Cloud RegionAmazon Elastic Block Store · Storage
- 20AprAmazon Quick Automate now supports import and export of automations across AWS accountsAI and machine learning
- 20AprAmazon EVS now offers Microsoft Windows Server LicensingMigration and transfer
- 20AprAmazon Connect expands agentic voice speech-to-speech experiences to three new AWS Regions and ten localesAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 20AprAWS IoT Greengrass v2.17 now supports non-root installation and introduces new light weight componentsAWS IoT Greengrass · Media, games and IoT
- 20AprAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0Amazon DocumentDB · Databases
- 20AprAmazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keysAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 20AprAmazon Connect outbound campaigns now supports hourly segment refreshAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 20AprAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces JOIN and sub-query commandsAmazon CloudWatch Logs · Amazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 20AprAmazon MSK Replicator now supports enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replicationAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 20AprMSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express BrokersAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 20AprAmazon MSK Replicator now supports log forwarding for replication visibilityAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 20AprAmazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 InventoryAmazon S3 · Storage
- 20AprAmazon Connect adds touchtone buffering for AI-powered self-serviceAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 20AprAWS Transform automates landing zone creation in migration workflowsMigration and transfer
- 20AprAWS Managed Microsoft AD is now available on Windows functional level 2016AWS Directory Service · Security, identity and compliance
- 20AprAWS Managed Microsoft AD now supports Kerberos Encryption audit event logsAWS Directory Service · Security, identity and compliance