AWS announcements, Aug 3 – Aug 9, 2026
69 announcements
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Subscribe- 7AugAmazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7AugAmazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports backup and restoreAmazon Timestream · Databases
- 7AugAmazon Cognito now available as a skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWSAmazon Cognito · AI and machine learning
- 7AugAmazon VPC IPAM now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated RPKI for BYOIP prefixesAmazon VPC · Networking and content delivery
- 7AugAWS IAM Identity Center supports one-click multi-Region option for new organization instancesAWS IAM Identity Center · Security, identity and compliance
- 7AugAmazon Bedrock AgentCore adds memory, policy, and harness in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Amazon Bedrock
- 7AugAmazon CloudWatch Alarms now supports wall clock evaluation windowsAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 7AugAmazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 new EC2 instance typesAmazon GameLift · Media, games and IoT
- 7AugAmazon OpenSearch Service announces additional upgrade runway for existing domains and support dates for additional versionsAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 7AugAmazon SES now helps identify automated open and click events in event notificationsAmazon SES · Business applications and end-user computing
- 7AugAWS Parallel Computing Service is now in scope for FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, CSA STAR, and PCICompute and containers
- 6AugAmazon Connect Customer now provides schedule adherence metrics on dashboardsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 6AugAmazon ECS now supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instancesAmazon ECS · Compute and containers
- 6AugAWS Lambda console extends console-to-IDE integration to Kiro and CursorDeveloper tools, web and mobile
- 6AugAWS WAF now supports a Salt Security managed rule group for API and MCP threat detectionAWS WAF · Security, identity and compliance
- 6AugAmazon EC2 G7 instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) RegionAmazon EC2 · AI and machine learning
- 6AugAgentCore runtime instances are now generally availableAmazon Bedrock
- 6AugAmazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton4-based M8g, R8g, and C8gn nodesAmazon ElastiCache
- 6AugAWS Glue Schema Registry is now available in ten more AWS regionsAWS Glue · Amazon MSK · Analytics
- 6AugAWS Deadline Cloud now supports multi-region farm access from a single monitorAWS Deadline Cloud · Media, games and IoT
- 6AugAmazon OpenSearch UI now supports Network Access ControlAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 6AugAmazon Connect Customer adds one-click drill-down on real-time metrics dashboardsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 6AugAWS Transform for migrations automates post-launch actionsMigration and transfer
- 6AugAWS Security Agent now supports email-based MFA for penetration testing
- 6AugAmazon RDS now provides visibility into storage volume initialization statusAmazon RDS · Databases
- 6AugAmazon WorkSpaces Applications now publishes enhanced observability metricsAmazon AppStream 2.0 · Business applications and end-user computing
- 6AugAmazon WorkSpaces now publishes enhanced observability metricsAmazon WorkSpaces · Business applications and end-user computing
- 6AugAWS Marketplace now lets sellers configure net payment terms on private offersAWS Marketplace · Regions, marketplace and partners
- 6AugAmazon MSK now delivers Kafka Authorizer Logs to customersAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 6AugAWS Backup for Amazon S3 now supports direct access to backup dataAmazon S3 · AWS Backup · Storage
- 6AugAWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon Neptune to three additional AWS RegionsAWS Backup · Amazon Neptune · Storage
- 6AugAmazon Quick supports multi-dataset analytical capabiity
- 6AugAnnouncing temporal policies and rate limiting in Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 6AugAmazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regionsCompute and containers
- 5AugAWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPCAWS Lambda · Serverless
- 5AugAmazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region (ca-west-1)Amazon Keyspaces · Databases
- 5AugAWS Glue Data Quality makes ETL anomaly detection free and improves anomaly predictionsAWS Glue · Analytics
- 5AugAWS Marketplace adds AI Insights so buyers can understand pricing before they buyAWS Marketplace · Regions, marketplace and partners
- 5AugAmazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search
- 5AugAWS Glue Data Catalog now supports metadata exports to S3 Tables (Preview)AWS Glue · Analytics
- 5AugAWS IAM Identity Center makes management of AWS account access optional for new organization instancesAWS IAM Identity Center · Security, identity and compliance
- 5AugAmazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloadsAmazon Aurora · Databases
- 4Aug[Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall FunctionalityAmazon VPC · AWS Network Firewall · Networking and content delivery
- 4AugAmazon Connect Customer now lets you export cases to CSV from the agent workspaceAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 4AugAmazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT modelsAmazon Bedrock
- 4AugRun interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with Spark ConnectAmazon EMR · Analytics
- 4AugAWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th categoryAWS Security HUB · Security, identity and compliance
- 4AugAmazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regionsCompute and containers
- 4AugAWS Application and Network Load Balancers now support RFC 9151 compliant security policiesAmazon Elastic Load Balancing · Networking and content delivery
- 4AugAmazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) RegionAmazon S3 · AI and machine learning
- 4AugAmazon Connect Customer now supports capacity planning in 15 or 30 minute intervalsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 4AugAmazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regionsCompute and containers
- 4AugAmazon RDS for SQL Server now support BYOM in additional commercial regionsAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 4AugAmazon RDS for SQL Server supports Developer Edition in additional AWS regionsAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 4AugRDS SQL Server now supports publishing SQL Server Audit logs to CloudWatchAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 3AugAWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally availableAI and machine learning
- 3AugOpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 3AugAmazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7 instance typesAmazon SageMaker · Amazon SageMaker Studio · AI and machine learning
- 3AugAmazon GameLift Streams now supports sharing streams with stream URLs
- 3AugAWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for WDL workflowsAI and machine learning
- 3AugAWS Resilience Hub now provides recommended resilience testsAWS Resilience HUB · Management, governance and cost
- 3AugAWS Organizations now provides maximum account quota visibility in Service QuotasManagement, governance and cost
- 3AugAWS Lambda Provisioned Mode for Amazon SQS event source mappings now supports up to 10,000 event pollers
- 3AugAmazon EC2 I7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) RegionsAmazon EC2 · Storage
- 3AugAmazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuningAmazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 3AugAWS WAF now supports Miggo Security managed rule groups for emerging threats and AI/ML application protectionAWS WAF · Security, identity and compliance
- 3AugAmazon ECR now supports image layers up to 200 GBAmazon ECR · Compute and containers
- 3AugAWS Config now supports 15 new resource typesAWS Config · Management, governance and cost
- 3AugAWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports offline schema transformation to Aurora PostgreSQLAmazon Aurora · Business applications and end-user computing