AWS announcements, Aug 10 – Aug 16, 2026
42 announcements
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Subscribe- 14AugAmazon Quick now supports per-user resource limitsAI and machine learning
- 14AugAmazon Quick now supports data loss prevention with Microsoft PurviewAI and machine learning
- 14AugAmazon Quick now supports approval policies for sharingAI and machine learning
- 14AugAmazon Quick now supports customizable no data messages for visualsAmazon QuickSight · AI and machine learning
- 14AugAmazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle APEX version 26.1Amazon RDS for Oracle · Databases
- 14AugAmazon SES click tracking now supports custom URL paths for mobile app deep linkingAmazon SES · Business applications and end-user computing
- 14AugAWS Billing and Cost Management introduces Managed DashboardsAWS Management Console · Cloud Financial Management · Business applications and end-user computing
- 13AugAWS Client VPN now supports CLI, administration controls, and faster connectionsAWS Client VPN · Networking and content delivery
- 13AugAmazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 13AugClaude Opus 5 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)Amazon Bedrock
- 13AugSpot Placement Score now includes Local ZonesAmazon EC2
- 13AugDaybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI are now available to eligible customers on Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 13AugAWS Certificate Manager supports switching from e-mail to DNS validationAWS Certificate Manager · Security, identity and compliance
- 13AugAmazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messagesAmazon S3 · Storage
- 13AugAWS Clean Rooms supports minimum aggregation thresholds in custom analysis rulesAWS Clean Rooms · Analytics
- 12AugAWS Global View now offers an interactive map view for AWS Regions and AWS Local ZonesAWS Local Zones · AWS Management Console · Compute and containers
- 12AugAmazon EKS now supports advanced Kubernetes control plane configuration parametersAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 12AugAWS IAM now provides role manager to set up IAM roles automaticallyAWS IAM · Management, governance and cost
- 12AugAmazon Connect Customer supports manual assignment of queued agent-first callbacksAmazon Connect
- 12AugAWS Deadline Cloud Now Supports EBS Persistent Volume Cost TrackingAWS Deadline Cloud
- 12AugAmazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Amazon Bedrock
- 11AugAmazon Quick agentic AI capabilities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
- 11AugAmazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 11AugAmazon Bedrock expands IAM principal cost allocation to the bedrock-mantle endpointAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 11AugLocateAnything-3B, Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B, and Qwen3.5-122B-A10B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 11AugNVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
- 11AugAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Jenkins and SonarQubeAWS Secrets Manager
- 11AugAWS Glue adds one-click access to SageMaker Unified Studio from the AWS consoleAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 11AugAmazon Connect Customer launches performance dashboard for CasesAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 11AugAWS Clean Rooms supports exporting privacy-enhanced analysis logs for SQLAWS Clean Rooms · Analytics
- 11AugAmazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3Amazon RDS · Databases
- 10AugFLUX.2-small-decoder and gemma-4-12B-it models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 10Auglangcache-embed-v3-small, Mellum2-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, and LightOnOCR-2-1B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 10AugGLM-5.2 FP8, NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-12B-v2 and GLM-OCR models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 10AugAmazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS South America (São Paulo) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 10AugAmazon GameLift Streams Now Offers Service-managed Shader CachingAmazon GameLift · Media, games and IoT
- 10AugAWS Marketplace now supports category-based notification subscriptions and multi-channel delivery for buyers
- 10AugAWS Identity and Access Management streamlines assignment of IAM roles to workforce users with account access manager
- 10AugAmazon EC2 introduces application status checksAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 10AugAmazon MSK now supports in-place migration from Apache ZooKeeper to KRaftAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 10AugAmazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports up to 10,000 collections per collection groupAmazon OpenSearch Service · Serverless
- 10AugAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now preserves UEFI boot mode for Linux serversAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery · Storage