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Week 17 of 2026 (Apr 23 – Apr 29, 2026) · AWS News
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63 new features AWS announced in the week of Apr 23 – Apr 29, 2026
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Wednesday, Apr 29
Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Innovation Release 9.6 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon CloudFront now supports invalidation by cache tag
Paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2, Table Transformer Detection, and Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instruct are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Gemma 4 models are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon CloudWatch adds visual agent configuration to the EC2 console
OpenAI GPT OSS and NVIDIA Nemotron Models Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Quick Adds Custom Sort for Filter Controls
AWS Transfer Family Terraform module now supports Okta and Microsoft Entra ID integration examples
Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions
Amazon EMR 7.13 now available with Python 3.11
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports JWKS URL configuration for JWT authentication
Tuesday, Apr 28
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports Node.js for direct code deployment
AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Cost Optimization Hub now supports CSV download
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal enhances PCoIP to DCV protocol migration
Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in additional regions
Monday, Apr 27
Amazon Redshift Serverless AI-driven scaling is now the default for new workgroups
Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports an improved App Monitors overview with health, SLO, and tracing status
Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Canada West (Calgary) regions
AWS KMS now tracks last usage of all KMS keys
Amazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-24xl Amazon EC2 instance type
Friday, Apr 24
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Supports Rocky 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Ubuntu 24.04
Amazon Quick now integrates with Visier’s Vee agent for workforce intelligence
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress
Amazon Connect now logs supervisor agent activity status changes to AWS CloudTrail
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in additional regions
Thursday, Apr 23
Amazon Athena simplifies federated queries with managed connectors
AWS Client VPN now supports native AWS Transit Gateway integration
AWS Parallel Computing Service now supports Slurm 25.11
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports automatic Slurm topology management
Amazon SageMaker supports notebooks and data agent for IdC domains
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Amazon Connect Talent for AI-powered hiring (now available in Preview)
Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents (Limited Preview)
Amazon Quick now available as a desktop application for macOS and Windows (Preview)
AWS Announces Amazon Connect Decisions
Build custom applications using natural language in Amazon Quick (Preview)
Amazon Quick expands integrations to include Google Workspace, Zoom, Airtable, and more
Amazon Quick now supports document and visual creation in chat
Start using Amazon Quick for free in minutes with Free and Plus pricing plans
Amazon Connect increases attachment file sizes and adds custom file types
AWS Billing Conductor launches Passthrough Pricing Plan for Billing Transfer users
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Single-AZ (HA) file systems are now available in 17 additional AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports G7e and r5d.16xlarge instances
Introducing Amazon EC2 M8in and M8ib instances
Introducing Amazon EC2 R8in and R8ib instances
Introducing Amazon EC2 C8ine and M8ine instances
Amazon SageMaker Training Plans now provides capacity utilization monitoring through Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Connect now provides eight new metrics to measure and improve AI agent performance
AWS Marketplace Management Portal now supports bank account deletion
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports custom scripting for job submission workflows
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers CI/CD CLI for data and AI applications
General availability of AWS for SAP MCP Server in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Attributed Revenue Dashboard Now Available in AWS Partner Central
AWS Elastic Beanstalk AI-powered environment analysis now supports Windows
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now supported in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul, Sydney) and Europe (Paris) Regions
Amazon Quick now supports multiple owners for admin-managed SharePoint and Google Drive knowledge bases
Amazon EC2 X8g instances now available in Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon Redshift supports UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE for Apache Iceberg tables
Amazon Quick now supports permission verification for ACL-enabled knowledge bases
Amazon Quick now supports document-level access controls for SharePoint knowledge bases
Amazon S3 now supports five additional checksum algorithms
AWS Backup expands support for Amazon Aurora PITR to six Regions
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports VPC for notebook kernels