AWS announcements, Apr 27 – May 3, 2026
65 announcements
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Subscribe- 1MayAmazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in the South America (São Paulo) RegionAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 1MayFreeRTOS 202604 LTS now available with enhanced security and MQTT v5.0AWS IoT · Media, games and IoT
- 1MayAmazon CloudWatch RUM now supports Session Replay for Web ApplicationsAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 1MayOpenSearch UI supports cross-region data access to OpenSearch domainsAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 1MayAmazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC OriginsAmazon CloudFront · Networking and content delivery
- 1MayGeneral availability of AWS for SAP MCP Server in Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 1MayIAM Roles Anywhere now enforces VPC endpoint policies for the CreateSession APIAWS IAM · Security, identity and compliance
- 1MayAmazon Redshift Introduces Concurrency Scaling Support for auto-copy and zero-ETLAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 1MaySpatial Data Management on AWS adds custom transformationsStorage
- 1MayAnnouncing Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation for Elastic Fabric AdapterAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 1MayAmazon RDS for SQL Server supports cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumesAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 1MayAmazon SageMaker AI Now Supports Capacity-Aware Inference with Automatic Instance FallbackAmazon SageMaker Deploy · AI and machine learning
- 30AprAWS Payment Cryptography now supports paper-based key exchangeSecurity, identity and compliance
- 30AprAmazon EKS now supports one-click cluster access through CloudShellAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 30AprAWS Outposts racks now support LagStatus CloudWatch metric
- 30AprAmazon ECS Managed Instances now supports NVIDIA GPU metricsAmazon ECS · Compute and containers
- 30AprAmazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports Prometheus metricsAmazon MQ · Developer tools, web and mobile
- 30AprAWS IoT Core now supports customer managed domains in the AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAWS IoT · AWS IoT Core · Media, games and IoT
- 30AprAmazon Data Firehose is now available in AWS Secret - West Region
- 30AprAWS WickrGov now available in AWS Secret Region
- 30AprAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports On-Behalf-Of (OBO) token exchangeAmazon Bedrock
- 30AprAWS Payment Cryptography adds integration to Multi-party approval for sensitive operationsSecurity, identity and compliance
- 30AprAWS Neuron SDK now available with Neuron Agentic Development for NKI kernel development on TrainiumAWS Inferentia · AI and machine learning
- 30AprAmazon Bedrock AgentCore launches capabilities for optimizing agent performance in previewAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 30AprAWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0AWS Lambda · Serverless
- 30AprAmazon Quick adds Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint extensions and updates the Word extension (Preview)Business applications and end-user computing
- 29AprAmazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.6 in Amazon RDS Database Preview EnvironmentAmazon RDS for MySQL · Databases
- 29AprAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is Now Available in the Canada West (Calgary) RegionAmazon DocumentDB · Databases
- 29AprAmazon CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tagAmazon CloudFront · Networking and content delivery
- 29AprGemma 4 models are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 29AprParaphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, Table Transformer Detection, and Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 29AprAmazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 consoleAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 29AprOpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron Models Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
- 29AprAmazon Quick Adds Custom Sort for Filter ControlsAmazon QuickSight · AI and machine learning
- 29AprAWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports Okta and Microsoft Entra ID integration examplesAWS Transfer Family · Migration and transfer
- 29AprAmazon RDS for Db2 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) RegionsAmazon RDS · Databases
- 29AprAmazon EMR 7.13 now available with Python 3.11Amazon EMR · Analytics
- 29AprAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports JWKS URL configuration for JWT authenticationAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 28AprAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports Node.js for direct code deploymentAmazon Bedrock
- 28AprAWS Glue 5.1 is now available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAWS Glue · Analytics
- 28AprAmazon GameLift Streams now supports Proton 10 runtime
- 28AprAWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV downloadManagement, governance and cost
- 28AprAmazon WorkSpaces Personal enhances PCoIP to DCV protocol migrationAmazon WorkSpaces · Security, identity and compliance
- 28AprAmazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 28AprAmazon Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring (now available in Preview)Amazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 28AprAmazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents (Limited Preview)Amazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 28AprAWS Announces Amazon Connect DecisionsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 28AprAmazon Quick now available as a desktop application for macOS and Windows (Preview)Business applications and end-user computing
- 28AprBuild custom applications using natural language in Amazon Quick (Preview)Business applications and end-user computing
- 28AprAmazon Quick now supports document and visual creation in chatBusiness applications and end-user computing
- 28AprStart using Amazon Quick for free in minutes with Free and Plus pricing plansBusiness applications and end-user computing
- 28AprAmazon Quick expands integrations to include Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable, and moreBusiness applications and end-user computing
- 27AprAmazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroupsAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 27AprAmazon CloudWatch RUM now supports an improved App Monitors overview with health, SLO, and tracing statusAmazon CloudWatch
- 27AprAmazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-24xl Amazon EC2 instance typeCompute and containers
- 27AprAmazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Canada West (Calgary) regionsAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 27AprAWS KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keysAWS Cryptography · AWS KMS · Security, identity and compliance
- 27AprAmazon Connect increases attachment file sizes and adds custom file typesAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 27AprAWS Billing Conductor launches Passthrough Pricing Plan for Billing Transfer usersManagement, governance and cost
- 27AprAmazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ (HA) file systems are now available in 17 additional AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAmazon FSx for OpenZFS · Storage
- 27AprAmazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports G7e and r5d.16xlarge instancesAI and machine learning
- 27AprIntroducing Amazon EC2 M8in and M8ib instancesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 27AprIntroducing Amazon EC2 R8in and R8ib instancesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 27AprAmazon SageMaker Training Plans now provides capacity utilization monitoring through Amazon CloudWatchAmazon SageMaker · Compute and containers
- 27AprIntroducing Amazon EC2 C8ine and M8ine instancesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers