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Week 8 of 2026 (Feb 19 – Feb 25, 2026) · AWS News
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35 new features AWS announced in the week of Feb 19 – Feb 25, 2026
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Wednesday, Feb 25
AWS Outposts racks now support additional Amazon CloudWatch metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora DSQL launches Playground for interactive database exploration
Aurora DSQL launches new support for Tortoise, Flyway, and Prisma
Aurora DSQL launches new integrations for Visual Studio Code SQLTools and DBeaver
Amazon EC2 R8a instances now available in the Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region
Amazon Location Service introduces LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications extends support for 4K resolution
Announcing new metal sizes for Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances
AWS Backup extends support for Amazon Neptune to five additional AWS Regions
Tuesday, Feb 24
Amazon Bedrock now supports server-side tool execution with AgentCore Gateway
AWS Compute Optimizer now applies AWS-generated tags to EBS snapshots created during automation
Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports running tasks together in chunks
Amazon EC2 R7a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Monday, Feb 23
Amazon S3 now provides AWS source region information in server access logs
AWS Trusted Advisor now delivers more accurate unused NAT Gateway checks powered by AWS Compute Optimizer
Amazon Redshift Serverless introduces 3-year Serverless Reservations
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Friday, Feb 20
Amazon MSK Serverless expands to three new AWS regions
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2026 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle
Thursday, Feb 19
AWS IAM Identity Center is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) AWS Region
Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region
Aurora DSQL launches new Go, Python, and Node.js connectors that simplify IAM authentication
Amazon MQ now supports ActiveMQ minor version 5.19
Amazon EC2 M7i instances are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
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Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions
Amazon EC2 C7i and C7i-flex instances are now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS AppConfig integrates with New Relic for automated rollbacks
Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) region
Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
MediaConvert Introduces new video probe API and UI
Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS in additional AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 M8i-flex instances are now available in additional AWS regions