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Week 33 of 2025 (Aug 13 – Aug 19, 2025) · AWS News
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54 new features AWS announced in the week of Aug 13 – Aug 19, 2025
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Tuesday, Aug 19
Amazon Bedrock now provides simplified access to OpenAI open weight models
Amazon MSK expands support for Graviton3 based M7g instances for Standard brokers in 8 more AWS Regions
Amazon Connect now supports multi-user web, in-app and video calling
Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions
New Memory-Optimized Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex Instances
TwelveLabs’ Pegasus 1.2 model now available in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Kerberos authentication with self-managed Active Directory
Monday, Aug 18
Amazon QuickSight expands limits on calculated fields
AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Barcelona, Spain
Amazon Connect now supports recurring activities in agent schedules
Amazon Connect now provides out-of-the box embedding of Tasks and Emails into your websites and applications
Amazon RDS io2 Block Express now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Friday, Aug 15
Amazon Athena now supports CREATE TABLE AS SELECT with Amazon S3 Tables
Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
Amazon DynamoDB now supports more granular throttle error exceptions
Amazon DynamoDB now supports a CloudWatch Contributor Insights mode exclusively for throttled keys
AWS Certificate Manager supports AWS PrivateLink
Thursday, Aug 14
SageMaker HyperPod now supports fine-grained quota allocation of compute resources
Amazon U7i instances now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta)
Amazon OpenSearch UI is now available in seven new regions
PostgreSQL 18 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Wednesday, Aug 13
Amazon DocumentDB announces Extended Support for Version 3.6
Amazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity
Announcing expanded support for Cilium with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS IAM Identity Center introduces support for user background sessions with Amazon SageMaker Studio
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Announcing Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.10 as long-term support (LTS) release
New streamlined fulfillment experience for AMI-based products in AWS Marketplace
Amazon S3 introduces a new way to verify the content of stored datasets
Amazon Bedrock now supports Batch inference for Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 and OpenAI GPT-OSS models
AWS Batch now supports default instance type options
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports resilience testing with AWS Fault Injection Service
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds support resource policies
Amazon Neptune now integrates with Cognee for graph-native memory in GenAI Applications
AWS Billing and Cost Management Console adds new recommended actions
Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports cross-region automated backups for encrypted databases
Amazon Connect Cases now supports rules to automatically update cases upon creation
AWS Managed Microsoft AD increases directory sharing limits
Amazon VPC now supports IPv4 ingress routing for large IP Pools
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 11.4.8, 10.11.14 and 10.6.23
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances are now available in additional AWS regions
SageMaker HyperPod now supports Topology Aware Scheduling of LLM tasks
AWS Batch now supports AWS Graviton-based Spot compute with AWS Fargate
AWS Cloud Map adds support for cross-account service discovery
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports decreasing your SSD storage capacity
AWS Systems Manager Automation enhances runbook execution control and updates free tier
Accelerate Amazon WorkSpaces deployment with streamlined Bring Your Own License (BYOL) process
Amazon Q Business launches Agentic RAG to enhance accuracy and explainability
Amazon Braket introduces support for program sets
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.6, 16.10, 15.14, 14.19, and 13.22
AWS Config now supports 10 new resource types
Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul)
AWS Security Incident Response now supports membership coverage for individual AWS organizational units