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Week 19 of 2026 (May 7 – May 13, 2026) · AWS News
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49 new features AWS announced in the week of May 7 – May 13, 2026
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Wednesday, May 13
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now available for IAM Identity Center domains
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports creating Multi-AZ file systems in shared VPCs
Tuesday, May 12
AWS Lambda supports scheduled scaling for functions on Lambda Managed Instances
Amazon EventBridge Scheduler adds 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed Instances
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports SageMaker Python SDK V3
Karpenter now supports Amazon Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
Amazon Connect Customer now supports embedding Cases and Customer Profiles in custom agent applications
Amazon Redshift launches RG instances powered by AWS Graviton
Amazon CloudFront Premium flat-rate plan now supports configurable usage allowances
Announcing Region Expansion of P5.48xl instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks
Announcing Region Expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker Notebook Instances
Monday, May 11
Announcing Region Expansion of P6-B200 instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks
Announcing Region Expansion of G6e instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks
Announcing Region Expansion of G6 instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks
ENA Express for Amazon EC2 instances now supports traffic between Availability Zones
Announcing Region Expansion of P4de instances on SageMaker Studio notebooks
Friday, May 8
AWS Client VPN now supports Ubuntu OS version 26.04 LTS
Amazon Connect adds default Step-by-Step Guides for After Contact Work
Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now lets you add and remove AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution
Amazon Quick now supports cross-account access for Amazon Athena data sources
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.46 and 8.4.9
Thursday, May 7
Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support additional capabilities for IPv6 query traffic
AWS Marketplace introduces Tax management portal for sellers
Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)
Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds identity and user management features
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Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in five additional AWS Regions
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Adds Threat and Content Domain Categories
AWS HealthOmics now supports caching of cancelled workflow runs
AWS WAF introduces dynamic label interpolation for custom request and response handling
Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support P5.4xl instance types
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds getting started tutorials and in-product release notes
Amazon Route 53 Domains adds support for 34 new Top Level Domains including .app, .dev, and .health.
Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available
AWS Transform adds containerization capability during migrations
IAM Policy Autopilot adds Java support and Terraform-aware policy generation
Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in Europe (London) region
AWS Elemental MediaTailor launches Monetization Functions
AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides client-side encryption
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns adds multi-contact time zone detection
Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) region
Introducing Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances
Introducing Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances
Agents that transact: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now includes Payments (preview)
AWS Resource Explorer is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports instances powered by AMD EPYC processors
Amazon SES Mail Manager now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift now scales data ingestion automatically with concurrency scaling for batch workloads
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports VPC egress for private connectivity to resources in your VPC