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Week 3 of 2026 (Jan 15 – Jan 21, 2026) · AWS News
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40 new features AWS announced in the week of Jan 15 – Jan 21, 2026
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Wednesday, Jan 21
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod introduces enhanced lifecycle scripts debugging
AWS Clean Rooms adds support for join and partition hints in SQL
Amazon Connect can now automatically select random samples of agent contacts for evaluation
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports AWS KMS customer managed keys for encrypting local disks
Amazon Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions
AWS introduces additional policy details to access denied error messages
Announcing availability of second-generation AWS Outposts racks in 20 more countries
AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports web apps
Amazon RDS for SQL Server enhances differential and transaction log restores support
Tuesday, Jan 20
Amazon ECR now supports cross-repository layer sharing to optimize storage and improve push performance
SageMaker Unified Studio adds cross-Region subscriptions support for IDC based domains
AWS expands managed integrations for AWS IoT Device Management service coverage to the Middle East (UAE) region
AWS Glue is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Amazon RDS for Oracle extends support for bare metal instances to Standard Edition 2
Friday, Jan 16
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions
Amazon Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Opus 4.5 and Haiku 4.5
Amazon MWAA now available in additional Region
AWS Outposts racks support multiple LGW routing domains
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in additional AWS Regions
Thursday, Jan 15
Amazon S3 on Outposts is now available on second-generation AWS Outposts racks
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports machine learning training using Foundry Nuke CopyCat
AWS Clean Rooms now supports parameters in PySpark analysis templates
AWS Databases are now available on v0 by Vercel
Announcing Amazon EC2 Memory optimized X8i instances
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Amazon Quick Suite launches expanded size, faster ingestion, and richer data type support for SPICE datasets
Amazon EC2 G7e instances are now generally available
Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments reduces downtime to under five seconds
Amazon Corretto January 2026 Quarterly Updates
Amazon Quick Sight expands dashboard customization in tables and pivot tables
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights on-demand analysis now available in four additional Regions
Amazon EVS now supports VCF and VMware ESX software version selection
Amazon S3 Storage Lens is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Connect now provides agent scheduling metrics in data lake
Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
AWS Lambda announces cross-account access for DynamoDB Streams
Amazon Redshift Serverless adds queue-based query resource management
Amazon EBS now supports up to four Elastic Volumes modifications in 24 hours
AWS Data Exports adds granular operation visibility for Amazon Bedrock model usage