AWS announcements, Oct 5 – Oct 11, 2026
40 announcements
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Subscribe- 11OctAWS now lets customers sign up for AWS and pay invoices using ACH direct debitAWS Account Billing · Management, governance and cost
- 9OctAWS Security Hub now exports findings to S3 in CSV or JSON formatAWS Security HUB · Security, identity and compliance
- 9OctAmazon EC2 C9g, C9gd, M9g, and M9gd instances are now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 9OctAmazon EC2 M8id instances now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Sydney)Amazon EC2
- 9OctAmazon EC2 R8gd instances are now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 9OctAmazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 9OctAmazon Bedrock now supports reasoning summaries for OpenAI modelsAmazon Bedrock
- 9OctAnthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US)
- 9OctAmazon Connect Customer now provides automated checks to improve performance evaluation formsAmazon Connect · Business applications and end-user computing
- 9OctAmazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsAmazon S3 · Storage
- 9OctAWS Lambda supports OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event sources
- 9OctAmazon Quick now supports brand templates for on-brand presentations and documentsAI and machine learning
- 9OctAmazon EC2 C8gd and M8gd instances are now available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 9OctAmazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom Tooling blueprints
- 9OctTwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5 model now available on Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock
- 8OctOpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol now supports Ultrafast mode on Amazon Bedrock
- 8OctAWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, and Dashboards now support Amazon Bedrock product attributesAWS Cost Explorer · Amazon Bedrock · Management, governance and cost
- 8OctAmazon RDS for Oracle now supports minor version upgrade prechecks and a new RDS event to help reduce patching downtimeAmazon RDS for Oracle · Databases
- 8OctAWS Network Firewall adds wildcard support for container attribute filtersAWS Network Firewall · Networking and content delivery
- 8OctAmazon GameLift Servers adds CPU burstability for container fleetsAmazon GameLift · Media, games and IoT
- 8OctAmazon GuardDuty RDS Protection now detects data exfiltration and destruction in Aurora and RDS databasesAmazon GuardDuty · Amazon Aurora · Databases
- 7OctAmazon EC2 C8gb instances now generally available in additional regionsAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 7OctAWS Config now supports 77 new resource typesAWS Config · Management, governance and cost
- 7OctAWS Capabilities by Region now offers availability notifications for individual features and advanced filters
- 7OctClaude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWSAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 7OctClaude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)Amazon Bedrock
- 6OctAWS Batch now publishes job metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
- 6OctAWS Certificate Manager now supports ACME issuance through AWS PrivateLinkAWS Certificate Manager · Security, identity and compliance
- 5OctAmazon Redshift adds support for creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized viewsAmazon Redshift · Analytics
- 5OctGLM 5.3 by Z.ai is now generally available on Amazon BedrockAmazon Bedrock · AI and machine learning
- 5OctAWS IAM Identity Center now supports network access controls for Identity StoreAWS IAM Identity Center · Security, identity and compliance
- 5OctAmazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore)Amazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 5OctAWS Control Tower AFT now supports plan-only customization runsAWS Control Tower
- 5OctAWS Continuum for Penetration Testing now supports continuous penetration testing integrated directly into your CI/CD pipeline
- 5OctAmazon EC2 introduces shared tags for Amazon Machine ImagesAmazon EC2 · Compute and containers
- 5OctAWS Client VPN now supports device posture assessmentAWS Client VPN · Networking and content delivery
- 5OctAWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally availableAmazon RDS · Amazon Aurora · Databases
- 5OctAWS Batch now supports Amazon EKS access entry authentication
- 5OctAWS Private CA now provides detailed certificate issuance logsAWS CloudTrail · Amazon Athena · Security, identity and compliance
- 5OctAnnouncing Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic with improved reasoning for voice agents