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Week 9 of 2026 (Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2026) · AWS News
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39 new features AWS announced in the week of Feb 26 – Mar 4, 2026
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Wednesday, Mar 4
Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regions
AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides comprehensive observability for Restricted Instance Groups
Amazon Lightsail now offers OpenClaw, a private self-hosted AI assistant
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus as a sink
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports unified ingestion endpoint for OpenTelemetry data
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler now provides a higher default quota for the CreateSchedule API
Amazon GameLift Servers launches DDoS Protection
Tuesday, Mar 3
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds metadata sync with third-party catalogs
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports AWS Glue 5.1 for data processing jobs
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio launches support for remote connection from Kiro IDE
Policy in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now generally available
Monday, Mar 2
OpenSearch OR2 and OM2 instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions
AWS Config now supports 30 new resource types
Sunday, Mar 1
AWS announces pricing for VPC Encryption Controls
Saturday, Feb 28
AWS Elemental MediaLive Now Supports SRT Listener Mode
Friday, Feb 27
Amazon Lightsail expands blueprint selection with a new WordPress blueprint
EC2 Image Builder enhances lifecycle policies with wildcard support and simplified IAM
ARC Region switch adds three new capabilities: post-recovery workflows, RDS orchestration and AWS provider support for Terraform
Amazon Bedrock batch inference now supports the Converse API format
AWS Network Firewall now supports firewall state change notifications through Amazon EventBridge
Thursday, Feb 26
Amazon Bedrock announces OpenAI-compatible Projects API
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports API-driven Slurm configuration
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now integrates with Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations
AWS Marketplace now supports multiple purchases of SaaS and Professional Services products
Amazon Connect now supports dynamic dialing mode switching for outbound campaigns
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Amazon CloudWatch logs centralization rules now support customizable destination log group structure
AWS now supports Bacs Direct Debit as a payment method for UK customers
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds new insights for improved cluster stability
Oracle Database@AWS is now available in the Dublin AWS Region
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, and 14.22
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6 dual-stack endpoints in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch now provides lock contention diagnostics for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
Amazon Cognito enhances client secret management with secret rotation and custom secrets
Application Performance Monitoring Enabled by Default in CloudWatch Observability EKS Add-on
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are available in additional regions
Introducing Amazon EC2 I8g.metal-48xl instances
Amazon SNS now supports push notifications in the Europe (Spain) Region
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java now available in Developer Preview