AWS announcements, May 11 – May 17, 2026
57 announcements
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Subscribe- 15MayAmazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query result limitsAmazon CloudWatch · Amazon CloudWatch Logs · Management, governance and cost
- 15MayAmazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) pull through cache now supports additional upstream registries in all AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) RegionAmazon ECR · Compute and containers
- 15MayAmazon EMR Serverless is now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon EMR · Analytics
- 15MayAWS Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creationRegions, marketplace and partners
- 15MayAmazon Connect Cases now lets you edit related items and delete cases from the agent workspaceAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 15MayAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224Amazon RDS · Databases
- 15MayAmazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place upgrade to Grafana version 12.4Amazon Managed Service for Grafana · Management, governance and cost
- 15MayAWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in previewAWS Direct Connect · Networking and content delivery
- 15MayAWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)AWS Organizations · AWS IAM
- 14MayAmazon CloudFront announces support for OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer)Amazon CloudFront · Networking and content delivery
- 14MayAmazon CloudFront announces Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer)Amazon CloudFront · Networking and content delivery
- 14MayAmazon Bedrock Introduces Advanced Prompt Optimization and Migration ToolAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 14MayAnnouncing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instancesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 14MayAmazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 14MaySageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Qwen3.6Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 14MayAWS Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and CodexMigration and transfer
- 14MayAWS Transform introduces the agent builder toolkit Kiro power for building customized transformation agentsMigration and transfer
- 14MayAWS Transform now supports customer-owned artifact storesMigration and transfer
- 14MayTwo new models for agentic coding and efficient AI are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 14MayAmazon Aurora DSQL now supports change data capture (Preview)Databases
- 14MayNew models for image generation and text embeddings are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 14MayARC Region switch adds Lambda event source mapping execution block for event handling during failover
- 14MayThree new models for speech recognition and text-to-speech are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 14MayReference stack outputs across accounts and Regions with AWS CloudFormation and CDK
- 14MayAmazon Connect Customer launches permission for agents to view only their own performance evaluationsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 14MayAmazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 14MayAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23Amazon RDS · Databases
- 14MayAWS Transform adds agentic AI assistant to the AWS Toolkit for Visual StudioMigration and transfer
- 14MayAWS RTB Fabric supports custom domains for real-time bidding workloadsNetworking and content delivery
- 13MayAmazon SageMaker Data Agent now available for IAM Identity Center domainsAmazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 13MayAmazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports creating Multi-AZ file systems in shared VPCsAmazon FSx for OpenZFS · Storage
- 13MayAmazon RDS for Oracle now supports M8i and R8i instances with Oracle SE2 License IncludedAmazon RDS for Oracle · Amazon RDS
- 12MayAWS Lambda supports scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed InstancesAWS Lambda · Serverless
- 12MayAmazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed InstancesApplication integration
- 12MayAWS Security Agent now supports full repository code reviews
- 12MayAmazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports SageMaker Python SDK V3Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 12MayKarpenter now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shiftAmazon Route 53 · Amazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 12MayAmazon Connect Customer now supports embedding Cases and Customer Profiles in custom agent applicationsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 12MayAmazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS GravitonAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 12MayAmazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan now supports configurable usage allowancesAmazon CloudFront · Networking and content delivery
- 12MayAnnouncing Region Expansion of P5.48xl instances on SageMaker Studio notebooksAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker Studio · AI and machine learning
- 12MayAnnouncing Region Expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker Notebook InstancesAmazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 11MayAnnouncing Region Expansion of P6-B200 instances on SageMaker Studio notebooksAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker Studio · AI and machine learning
- 11MayAnnouncing Region Expansion of P4de instances on SageMaker Studio notebooksAmazon SageMaker Studio · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 11MayAnnouncing Region Expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker Studio notebooksAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker Studio · AI and machine learning
- 11MayAnnouncing Region Expansion of G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooksAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker Studio · AI and machine learning
- 11MayENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability ZonesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 11MayAmazon Aurora DSQL is now available in five additional AWS RegionsDatabases
- 11MayAmazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Adds Threat and Content Domain CategoriesAmazon Route 53 · Networking and content delivery
- 11MayAWS HealthOmics now supports caching of cancelled workflow runsAmazon Genomics CLI · Amazon Omics
- 11MayAmazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support P5.4xl instance typesAmazon SageMaker Studio · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 11MayAWS WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling
- 11MayAmazon EC2 C8g, M8g, and R8g instances now available in AWS Secret Region
- 11MayAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds getting started tutorials and in-product release notesAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 11MayAmazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.Amazon Route 53 · Media, games and IoT
- 11MayClaude Platform on AWS is now generally availableAI and machine learning
- 11MayAWS Transform adds containerization capability during migrationsCompute and containers