AWS announcements, May 4 – May 10, 2026
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Subscribe- 8MayAWS Client VPN now supports Ubuntu OS version 26.04 LTSAWS Client VPN · Networking and content delivery
- 8MayAmazon Connect adds default Step-by-Step Guides for After Contact WorkAmazon Connect
- 8MayAmazon Route 53 Global Resolver now lets you add and remove AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolutionAmazon Route 53 · Networking and content delivery
- 8MayAWS Service Catalog is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary) regions
- 8MayAmazon Quick now supports cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sourcesAmazon QuickSight · AI and machine learning
- 8MayAmazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9Amazon RDS for MySQL · Databases
- 8MayIAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generationDeveloper tools, web and mobile
- 7MayAmazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support additional capabilities for IPv6 query trafficAmazon Route 53 · Networking and content delivery
- 7MayAWS Marketplace introduces Tax management portal for sellersRegions, marketplace and partners
- 7MayAmazon EC2 G6 instances now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)Amazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7MayAmazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7MayAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds identity and user management featuresAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 7MayAmazon EC2 G7e instances now available in Europe (London) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7MayAWS Capabilities by Region now supports availability notificationsMigration and transfer
- 7MayAWS Elemental MediaTailor launches Monetization FunctionsAWS Elemental MediaTailor · Media, games and IoT
- 7MayAWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides client-side encryptionAmazon RDS · Databases
- 7MayAmazon Connect Outbound Campaigns adds multi-contact time zone detectionAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 7MayAmazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7MayAmazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clustersCompute and containers
- 7MayIntroducing Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instancesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7MayAWS India customers can now use UPI Scan and Pay for sign-up and payments
- 7MayIntroducing Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instancesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7MayAgents that transact: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview)Amazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 7MayAWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West)AWS Resource Explorer · Management, governance and cost
- 7MayAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports instances powered by AMD EPYC processorsAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 7MayAmazon SES Mail Manager now available in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAmazon SES
- 7MayAmazon Redshift now scales data ingestion automatically with concurrency scaling for batch workloadsAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 7MayAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports VPC egress for private connectivity to resources in your VPCAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 6MayAWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports modifying tunnel bandwidth on existing VPN connectionsAWS Site-to-Site VPN · Networking and content delivery
- 6MayAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bring-your-own file system from Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFSAmazon Bedrock
- 6MayAmazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) RegionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 6MayAmazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) RegionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 6MayAmazon ElastiCache now supports real-time aggregations
- 6MayAmazon ElastiCache now supports real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search
- 6MayAmazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search with vector and full-text
- 6MayAWS Marketplace now supports programmatic procurement with Agreements APIAWS Marketplace · Regions, marketplace and partners
- 6MayAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory announces metadata for long-term memory
- 6MayAmazon Neptune now supports 1-click connect with CloudShellAmazon Neptune · Databases
- 6MayAWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports TLS listeners for Network Load BalancersAWS Elastic Beanstalk
- 6MayAWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports ad trickplay personalization and compact DASH manifest optimization via dynamic transcodingAWS Elemental MediaTailor · Media, games and IoT
- 6MayAnnouncing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWSDeveloper tools, web and mobile
- 6MayThe AWS MCP Server is now generally availableDeveloper tools, web and mobile
- 6MayAWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) RegionAWS Transfer Family · Migration and transfer
- 6MayAWS Directory Service expands directory security settings with STIG-aligned controls for Managed ADAWS Directory Service · Security, identity and compliance
- 5MayAnnouncing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCacheAmazon ElastiCache · Databases
- 5MayAWS Elemental MediaTailor now provides automatic secure server-to-server integration with Google's ad platformsAWS Elemental MediaTailor · Media, games and IoT
- 5MayAWS SAM CLI adds BuildKit support for AWS Lambda functions packaged as container imagesAWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) · AWS Lambda · Developer tools, web and mobile
- 5MayAWS SAM now supports WebSocket APIs for Amazon API GatewayAmazon API Gateway · AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) · Developer tools, web and mobile
- 5MayAmazon ElastiCache adds thirteen new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for network capacity planning and engine diagnosticsAmazon ElastiCache · Databases
- 5MayAmazon WorkSpaces now lets AI agents operate desktop applications (Preview)Amazon WorkSpaces · Business applications and end-user computing
- 5MayAWS IoT Core for Device Location adds Confidence Level Configuration and Measurement Type support
- 5MayAmazon MQ now supports in-place major version upgrades for RabbitMQ 4Amazon MQ · Application integration
- 5MayAmazon Quick now integrates with New Relic for observability-driven AI agentsBusiness applications and end-user computing
- 5MayEC2 Instance Store CSI driver now generally available in EKS add-onsAmazon EC2 · Amazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 5MayAmazon Connect Cases now supports customer profile identity resolutionAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 5MayAmazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Amazon Bedrock · Security, identity and compliance
- 5MayAmazon OpenSearch Service expands Cluster Insights with a new insightAmazon OpenSearch Service · Databases
- 5MayAWS Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backupsAmazon EKS · AWS Backup · Compute and containers
- 5MayAWS IAM now provides higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providersAWS IAM
- 4MayAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights supports querying by log group tagsAmazon CloudWatch · Amazon CloudWatch Logs · Management, governance and cost
- 4MayAmazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports host-to-client URL redirectionAmazon AppStream 2.0 · Business applications and end-user computing
- 4MayAWS Console Mobile App adds interactive graphs, AI log summaries, and natural language logs search for CloudWatch AlarmsAmazon CloudWatch · Amazon CloudWatch Logs
- 4MayAWS Entity Resolution launches support for incremental Machine Learning based matching workflowsAWS Entity Resolution · Business applications and end-user computing
- 4MayAmazon FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) RegionAmazon FSx for Windows File Server · Amazon FSx for OpenZFS · Storage
- 4MayAmazon Quick generates dashboards from natural language promptsAmazon QuickSight · Analytics
- 4MayAmazon VPC Lattice resource configurations now support private domain-name targetsNetworking and content delivery
- 4MayAmazon Aurora DSQL now supports the JSON data type with compressionDatabases
- 4MayAmazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 4May4 new Qwen models for multimodal reasoning, agentic coding, and multilingual applications are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- 4MayAmazon Quick introduces Dataset Q&A for conversational analytics against enterprise data
- 4MayAmazon EventBridge supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrailServerless
- 4MayAmazon Quick now supports S3 tables bucket as a data source
- 4MayAmazon Quick upgrades the extension for Microsoft Outlook (Preview)Business applications and end-user computing
- 4MayAmazon SageMaker AI launches AI agent experience for model customization
- 4MayAWS Payment Cryptography announces support for cross account key sharingSecurity, identity and compliance
- 4MayAmazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8i and R8i instancesAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 4MayAmazon RDS for SQL Server supports read replica with additional storage volumesAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases