AWS announcements, Aug 17 – Aug 23, 2026
66 announcements
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Subscribe- 21AugAWS Neuron 2.32 introduces expanded NKI programming, MXFP8 training kernels, and variable-size collectives for Trn2 and TrnAI and machine learning
- 21AugAmazon Bedrock announces reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 SolAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 21AugAmazon Connect Customer now lets managers chat with their data
- 21AugAWS Deadline Cloud now tracks automatic download status in the Deadline Cloud MonitorAWS Deadline Cloud
- 21AugAmazon EKS Capability for Argo CD now supports custom configurationAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 21AugAWS Glue 6.0 delivers 30% price reduction and Iceberg v3 supportAWS Glue · Analytics
- 21AugAmazon SES now supports open and click tracking override parametersAmazon SES · Business applications and end-user computing
- 20AugAWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, NevadaAWS Local Zones · Regions, marketplace and partners
- 20AugAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports extracting memories from non-conversational JSON payloadsAI and machine learning
- 20AugAmazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 20AugAmazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports customer managed keysAmazon Timestream · Databases
- 20AugAmazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling of streaming ingestion workloads from Amazon Kinesis data streamsAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 20AugAmazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) RegionAmazon EC2 · AI and machine learning
- 20AugAmazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access PointsAmazon CloudFront · Networking and content delivery
- 20AugAmazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle managementAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 20AugAWS Partner Central agents MCP Server now supports OAuth with AWS Sign-InAWS Marketplace · AWS IAM · Security, identity and compliance
- 20AugARC Region switch adds Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block
- 20AugGenerative AI Inference Recommendation for Amazon SageMaker now available in the SageMaker AI StudioAmazon SageMaker Deploy · Amazon SageMaker · AI and machine learning
- 20AugAmazon Aurora DSQL now supports Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights
- 20AugAWS Direct Connect introduces inbound prefix controls and higher prefix scaleAWS Direct Connect · Networking and content delivery
- 20AugAmazon Redshift introduces long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables integrationAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 20AugAWS Marketplace now supports category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery for partnersAWS Marketplace · Management, governance and cost
- 19AugLaunching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock
- 19AugWeb Search in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds domain and published date filtering, expands to Europe and Asia PacificAmazon Bedrock
- 19AugAmazon EC2 enables AMI creation with local snapshots from instances on OutpostsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 19AugAmazon CloudWatch log Centralization now supports log group tag propagationAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 19AugAmazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access controlAmazon DynamoDB
- 19AugAmazon SageMaker notebooks now support trusted identity propagationAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 19AugAmazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processorsAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 19AugAWS Security Agent (now part of AWS Continuum) now supports budget controls and finding revalidation
- 19AugAWS Elemental MediaConnect Router now supports configurable recovery latency modes
- 19AugAWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon BedrockCloud Financial Management · Management, governance and cost
- 19AugAmazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud RegionsAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 19AugAWS Marketplace launches support for Amazon LightsailAmazon Lightsail · Compute and containers
- 19AugAWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
- 19AugAWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 5 additional AWS regionsAWS Lambda · Serverless
- 19AugAmazon Quick adds deny by default for custom permissionsAI and machine learning
- 19AugAmazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers in-console monitoring capabilitiesAmazon AppStream 2.0 · Business applications and end-user computing
- 19AugAWS IAM now supports 20 managed policies per role by defaultAWS IAM
- 19AugAWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS-compliant private connectivity for Tape and Volume GatewayAWS Storage Gateway · AWS PrivateLink · Networking and content delivery
- 19AugAmazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 19AugAmazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 with Cross Region Inferencing
- 18AugAmazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI models in India
- 18AugAWS IAM identity federation to external services is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud RegionAWS IAM · AWS Security Token Service · Security, identity and compliance
- 18AugAmazon Corretto August 2026 Critical Security Patch UpdatesAmazon Corretto · Developer tools, web and mobile
- 18AugAgentCore payments is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCoreAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 18AugAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports data profiling and anomaly detectionAmazon SageMaker · Analytics
- 18AugAmazon MWAA Serverless now supports PythonOperator and BashOperatorAmazon MWAA · Analytics
- 18AugAmazon EC2 R8i instances are now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 18AugIAM Policy Autopilot now supports Terraform plan filesAWS IAM · Developer tools, web and mobile
- 18AugPostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview EnvironmentAmazon RDS · Databases
- 18AugAmazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 18AugAmazon WorkSpaces now supports Nested VirtualizationAmazon WorkSpaces · Business applications and end-user computing
- 18AugAmazon S3 Metadata and annotations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAmazon S3 · Storage
- 17AugAmazon Bedrock expands API support and introduces Cross Region Inferencing for OpenAI models
- 17AugAmazon ECR now supports 25 replication rules per registryAmazon ECR · Compute and containers
- 17AugAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports batch instance terminationAmazon EC2 Auto Scaling · Compute and containers
- 17AugAmazon MSK now supports configuring custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clustersAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 17AugAmazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 17AugAmazon Connect Customer dashboards now support reporting on routing steps and agent proficienciesAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 17AugAWS Network Firewall Now Supports Stateful Rule Hit Counts
- 17AugAmazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are now generally availableBusiness applications and end-user computing
- 17AugAmazon OpenSearch Service now supports automatic semantic enrichment for VPC domainsAmazon OpenSearch Service · Analytics
- 17AugAWS Console-to-Code adds 26 services and cross-region recordingAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 17AugAmazon Location Service now supports POI category and density filtering in map styles
- 17AugAWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editorAWS CloudShell · Developer tools, web and mobile