AWS announcements, Jul 13 – Jul 19, 2026
56 announcements
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Subscribe- 17JulAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom visual transformsAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 17JulAmazon GameLift Streams now supports IAM role credentials for stream sessions
- 17JulAmazon OpenSearch UI now supports one-click dashboard migrationAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 17JulAmazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports partition-level topology for Slurm orchestrated clustersAI and machine learning
- 16JulAmazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports customer managed encryption keysAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 16JulAmazon Managed Grafana achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)Amazon Managed Service for Grafana · Management, governance and cost
- 16JulTrack cost efficiency trends directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with the new Cost Efficiency widgetCloud Financial Management · Management, governance and cost
- 16JulAmazon EC2 now surfaces the public SSM parameters associated with public AMIsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 16JulAmazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tagsAmazon S3 · Storage
- 16JulPostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview EnvironmentAmazon RDS · Databases
- 16JulAWS Sustainability service now includes water withdrawals dataManagement, governance and cost
- 16JulAmazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 16JulAmazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizesAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 16JulAmazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IAAmazon S3 · Storage
- 16JulAWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support to six additional AWS RegionsAWS Backup · Storage
- 16JulAWS Backup extends restore testing support to seven additional AWS RegionsAWS Backup · Storage
- 16JulAWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUsAWS Control Tower · Management, governance and cost
- 16JulAmazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP ModerateDatabases
- 15JulAmazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new query commands and functionsAmazon CloudWatch · Amazon CloudWatch Logs · Management, governance and cost
- 15JulAmazon CloudWatch Logs announces intelligent tiering for storage
- 15JulAmazon MQ now supports configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokersAmazon MQ · Application integration
- 15JulAmazon EC2 G7e instances now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 15JulAmazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashesAmazon Cognito · Security, identity and compliance
- 15JulAmazon RDS and Aurora expand R8gd and M8gd to additional RegionsAmazon Aurora · Databases
- 15JulAmazon MSK Express Brokers adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.2Amazon MSK · Analytics
- 15JulAmazon RDS and Aurora now support R8g and M8g database instances in additional AWS RegionsAmazon RDS · Databases
- 15JulAmazon RDS now supports up to four storage modifications in 24 hoursAmazon RDS · Databases
- 15JulAWS Glue SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regionsAWS Glue · Analytics
- 15JulAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports the Agent Toolkit for AWS with a curated skillAmazon OpenSearch Service · Databases
- 15JulAmazon RDS for Db2 is now available in additional AWS Commercial regionsAmazon RDS · Databases
- 15JulAWS Lambda announces self-managed code storageAWS Lambda · Serverless
- 14JulAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloadsStorage
- 14JulAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports Amazon EBS volume initialization rateAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery · Storage
- 14JulAmazon CloudWatch announces lookup processor for log enrichment
- 14JulAmazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports prepared statements in Logged BatchesAmazon Keyspaces · Databases
- 14JulAWS Lambda console provides a one-click setup prompt for coding agentsDeveloper tools, web and mobile
- 14JulAmazon EC2 M8in, M8idn, M8ib, M8idb instances are now available in additional regionsCompute and containers
- 14JulAWS IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP Class C CertificationAWS IAM Identity Center · Regions, marketplace and partners
- 14JulIntroducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloadsSecurity, identity and compliance
- 14JulConnect Customer Outbound Campaigns now in Cape Town AfricaAmazon Connect
- 14JulAmazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applicationsAnalytics
- 14JulAmazon Aurora DSQL is now available in Europe (Spain)Databases
- 14JulAmazon WorkSpaces Personal simplifies bulk PCoIP to DCV protocol migrationAmazon WorkSpaces · Business applications and end-user computing
- 14JulAWS Security Hub now provides AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assetsAWS Security HUB · AI and machine learning
- 14JulAWS Storage Gateway adds console support for copying file shares across gatewaysAWS Storage Gateway · Migration and transfer
- 14JulAmazon CloudFront Functions now supports logging to CloudFront access logsAmazon CloudFront · Networking and content delivery
- 13JulOpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
- 13JulAmazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) RegionManagement, governance and cost
- 13JulAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now available as a skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWSAmazon DocumentDB · Databases
- 13JulAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for 46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1Amazon DocumentDB · Databases
- 13JulGemma-4-E2B-it for is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 13JulOpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 13JulQwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 13JulVoxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 13JulAmazon Redshift Serverless now preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restoresAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 13JulAmazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for Slurm clustersCompute and containers