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64 new features AWS announced in the week of Apr 16 – Apr 22, 2026
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Wednesday, Apr 22
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports multiple code spaces within projects for IAM domains
Amazon EC2 C8i-flex instances are now available in Europe (Ireland, London), and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regions
Amazon EC2 C8i instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (New Zealand) regions
Enhancements to AWS Network Firewall Managed Rules from AWS Marketplace Partners
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Qwen3.5 models
Introducing GPU Health Monitoring and Auto Repair for Amazon ECS Managed Instances
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds new features to help developers build agents faster
Amazon EC2 for SQL Server HA now supports health notifications
Amazon Corretto April 2026 Quarterly Updates
Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in 16 additional AWS Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports rollback for service software updates
Tuesday, Apr 21
Amazon SageMaker AI launches optimized generative AI inference recommendations
Amazon SageMaker now supports multi-region replication from IAM Identity Center
Five new Qwen models for coding agents and efficient reasoning are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Introducing the Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes gateway for hybrid Kubernetes networking
AWS Marketplace streamlines VAT payment for deemed supply transactions
Monday, Apr 20
Amazon EBS expands volume modification enhancement to AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region
Amazon Quick Automate now supports import and export of automations across AWS accounts
Amazon EVS now offers Microsoft Windows Server Licensing
Amazon Connect expands agentic voice speech-to-speech experiences to three new AWS Regions and ten locales
AWS IoT Greengrass v2.17 now supports non-root installation and introduces new light weight components
Friday, Apr 17
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) region
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports flexible instance groups
AWS Neuron SDK 2.29.0 now available with NKI and Neuron Explorer out of Beta, a new CPU Simulator, and an expanded NKI Library
Amazon ECR Pull Through Cache Now Supports Referrer Discovery and Sync
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports on-demand deep health checks
Thursday, Apr 16
Amazon CloudWatch RUM now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rules
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 file systems are now available in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region
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Amazon Athena Spark adds support for AWS PrivateLink
AWS Lambda functions can now mount Amazon S3 buckets as file systems with S3 Files
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports configuration of processors via AI
AWS Glue now supports OAuth 2.0 for Snowflake connectivity
Amazon MSK Serverless expands to 13 new AWS regions
Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in AWS Local Zones in Los Angeles
Amazon Aurora serverless: Up to 30% better performance, smarter scaling, and still scales to zero
AWS Backup adds Amazon Redshift Serverless and Aurora DSQL support for AWS Organizations backup policies
Amazon Quick Automate announces shared file storage for automations
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java GA
Amazon Quick Automate now provides APIs to trigger and monitor automation jobs
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now supports contact priority ordering
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0
Amazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keys
Amazon Connect outbound campaigns now supports hourly segment refresh
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights introduces JOIN and sub-query commands
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports log forwarding for replication visibility
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports enhanced consumer offset synchronization for bidirectional replication
MSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express Brokers
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Inventory
Amazon Connect adds touchtone buffering for AI-powered self-service
AWS Transform automates landing zone creation in migration workflows
AWS Managed Microsoft AD is now available on Windows functional level 2016
AWS Managed Microsoft AD now supports Kerberos Encryption audit event logs
AWS Deadline Cloud announces AI-powered troubleshooting assistant for render jobs
Amazon Connect flow modules now work across all flow types and within other modules
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating Grafana 12.4 workspaces
AWS Clean Rooms now supports configurable Spark properties for PySpark
SageMaker JumpStart now offers optimized deployments for foundation models
Introducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances
Amazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browser
Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Amazon Bedrock