AWS announcements, Aug 24 – Aug 30, 2026
57 announcements
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Subscribe- 29AugAmazon Kinesis Data Streams announces data delivery to general purpose Amazon S3 buckets
- 28AugAmazon Kinesis Data Streams announces streaming tables, delivering data to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3 Tables
- 28AugAmazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 28AugAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access controlAI and machine learning
- 28AugAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports flexible namespace variablesAI and machine learning
- 28AugAWS Transform now in scope for FedRAMP Class CMigration and transfer
- 28AugAmazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon EC2 · AI and machine learning
- 28AugAmazon EMR on EKS now supports job run concurrency controlsAmazon EMR · Analytics
- 28AugAmazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.45) is generally availableAmazon Aurora · Databases
- 28AugAmazon CloudWatch agent adds support for journald logsAmazon CloudWatch · Management, governance and cost
- 28AugSpaceXAI Grok 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)Amazon Bedrock
- 27AugCosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 27AugMuse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStartAmazon SageMaker JumpStart · AI and machine learning
- 27AugAmazon Redshift streaming can now ingest 10MiB records from Amazon Kinesis Data StreamsAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 27AugAmazon Redshift integrates with Agent Toolkit for AWS for AI-assisted data warehouse managementAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 27AugAmazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 27AugAmazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to two new regionsAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 27AugAmazon Connect Customer expands conversational analytics capabilities in the Africa (Cape Town) RegionAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 27AugAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery introduces Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recoveryAWS Elastic Disaster Recovery · Storage
- 27AugAmazon Connect Customer now automatically refreshes scheduling metricsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 27AugAmazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports copying backups across AWS Regions and accountsAmazon FSx NetApp ONTAP · Storage
- 27AugAWS Backup adds cross-Region and cross-account backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAPAWS Backup · Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP · Storage
- 27AugAmazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 instance typeMigration and transfer
- 27AugAmazon Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints
- 26AugAmazon Cognito adds admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurationsAmazon Cognito · Security, identity and compliance
- 26AugAmazon Connect Customer now supports unplanned shrinkage in agent schedulesAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 26AugMountpoint for Amazon S3 adds memory usage controlsAmazon S3 · Storage
- 26AugAmazon Connect Customer now supports points-based scoring in performance evaluationsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 26AugAWS Glue 5.1 is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud RegionAWS Glue · Analytics
- 26AugAWS Backup adds cross-Region backup copy and logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon DocumentDB in nine additional AWS RegionsAmazon DocumentDB · AWS Backup · Storage
- 25AugAmazon EC2 C8id and M8id instances are now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 25AugAmazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in additional AWS RegionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 25AugAWS IoT Core now supports native InfluxDB routing for time-series dataAWS IoT Core · Amazon Timestream · Databases
- 25AugAWS Batch now supports Amazon ECS Managed Instances
- 25AugCapacity Reservation Resource Groups now support Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks and interruptible Capacity ReservationsAmazon EC2 · AI and machine learning
- 25AugAWS Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLinkAWS Lambda · Networking and content delivery
- 25AugAmazon Connect Customer now lets you update the customer profile on a case or add a profile after a case is openedAmazon Connect · Application integration
- 25AugAmazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24Amazon RDS · Databases
- 25AugIAM Roles Anywhere now provides a Java plugin for the AWS SDKAWS IAM · Security, identity and compliance
- 25AugAWS Lambda introduces managed runtimes in public preview for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15AWS Lambda · Serverless
- 25AugAmazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) regionAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 25AugAmazon RDS now supports the latest CU for Microsoft SQL ServerAmazon RDS for SQL Server · Databases
- 25AugAmazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2026 Release UpdateAmazon RDS for Oracle · Databases
- 25AugAWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets support for Cisco Security Platform and NetskopeAWS Secrets Manager
- 25AugAWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policiesAWS Lambda · Security, identity and compliance
- 25AugAmazon GameLift Servers enhanced DDoS Protection now availableAmazon GameLift · Media, games and IoT
- 24AugAmazon ECS now automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivityAmazon ECS · Compute and containers
- 24AugAWS Glue now supports catalog federation for remote Apache Iceberg catalogs in AWS GovCloud (US) regionsAWS Glue · AWS Lake Formation · Analytics
- 24AugSageMaker MLflow now supports customer managed keysAmazon SageMaker MLOps · AI and machine learning
- 24AugAmazon EKS now supports multiple external OIDC identity providers per clusterAmazon EKS · Compute and containers
- 24AugAmazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23Amazon Aurora · Amazon RDS · Databases
- 24AugMSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) authentication for replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSKAmazon MSK · Analytics
- 24AugAmazon SageMaker HyperPod enhances support for RayAI and machine learning
- 24AugAmazon Connect Customer now supports information extraction for agent voice and chat conversationsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 24AugAWS ParallelCluster 3.16 adds an on-node diagnostics toolCompute and containers
- 24AugOpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)Amazon Bedrock
- 24AugAmazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor version 8.4.11Amazon RDS · Databases