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Week 5 of 2026 (Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2026) · AWS News
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39 new features AWS announced in the week of Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2026
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Wednesday, Feb 4
Structured outputs now available in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in US West (Oregon) region
Cartesia Sonic 3 text-to-speech model is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon ECS adds Network Load Balancer support for Linear and Canary deployments
Apache Spark lineage now available in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for IDC based domains
Introducing Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances
Amazon EC2 and VPC now display related resources for security groups
Amazon EKS simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift now supports autonomics for multi-cluster environments
Tuesday, Feb 3
Amazon RDS now provides an enhanced console experience to connect to a database
AWS Lake Formation is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Amazon Connect launches an appeals workflow for agent performance evaluations
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports indexes on the NUMERIC data type
AWS IAM Identity Center enables account access and application use in multiple AWS Regions
Monday, Feb 2
DeepSeek OCR, MiniMax M2.1, and Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct models are now available on SageMaker JumpStart
Build Production-Ready Drug Discovery and Robotics Pipelines with NVIDIA NIMs on SageMaker JumpStart
Announcing memory-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail
AWS STS now supports validation of select identity provider specific claims from Google, GitHub, CircleCI and OCI
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.45 and 8.4.8
Friday, Jan 30
Amazon RDS now supports IPv6 for VPC endpoints of RDS Service APIs
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports integration with Kiro powers
Amazon Connect launches improved wait time estimates
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon ECS now publishes container health status as a CloudWatch metric
Thursday, Jan 29
Announcing increased 1 MB payload size support in Amazon EventBridge
Amazon Bedrock now supports server-side custom tools using the Responses API
Amazon Cognito introduces inbound federation Lambda triggers
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) introduces pre-warming with WarmThroughput for your tables
Change the server-side encryption type of Amazon S3 objects
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Amazon Quick Suite Enables Easy Resolution of Ambiguous Map Locations
Oracle Database@AWS is now available in the Canada Central and Sydney AWS Regions
Amazon CloudFront announces mutual TLS support for origins
AWS announces Flexible Cost Allocation in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Connect now provides APIs to test and simulate voice interactions
AWS HealthImaging adds JPEG XL support
Amazon GameLift Streams expands streaming capability to six new regions
Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Europe (Spain) and Europe (Frankfurt) Regions
AWS announces Deployment Agent SOPs in AWS MCP Server (preview)
Amazon GameLift Servers now supports automatic scaling to and from zero instances