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Week 20 of 2026 (May 14 – May 20, 2026) · AWS News
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49 new features AWS announced in the week of May 14 – May 20, 2026
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Wednesday, May 20
Amazon Bedrock expands support for request-level usage attribution
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports browsing job attachments in the monitor
AWS Security Hub now uncovers identity risks from unused access
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on DocumentDB 8.0
Security Hub Extended expands to 21 curated partner solutions across 9 categories
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports data quality rule authoring and evaluation
AWS announces ExtendDB, an open source DynamoDB-compatible adapter
AWS Billing Conductor Improves Account Visibility with Billing Transfer Inventory
ECS supports native integration with Amazon EBS volumes in GovCloud Regions
AWS Transform now modernizes networks during migrations
Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye
AWS Transfer Family web apps now support federated permissions with IAM Identity Center across AWS Regions
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports data capture for inference workloads
Tuesday, May 19
Amazon ECS introduces pause and continue controls for service deployments
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports dual-stack connectivity (IPv6 and IPv4)
Monday, May 18
AWS Management Console now displays AWS Local Zones in the Region Selector
AWS Glue zero-ETL is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region
Amazon Lightsail CDN distributions now support IPv6-only instances as origins
Amazon EVS enables support for 32 hosts per environment
AWS SAM CLI adds AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions support to accelerate local serverless development
Friday, May 15
Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces increased query result limits
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) pull through cache now supports additional upstream registries in all AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region
Amazon EMR Serverless is now available in additional AWS Regions
AWS Partner Central agents now accelerates opportunity creation
Amazon Connect Cases now lets you edit related items and delete cases from the agent workspace
Thursday, May 14
Amazon CloudFront announces Passthrough Mode for mutual TLS (Viewer)
Amazon CloudFront announces support for OCSP Revocation for Mutual TLS (Viewer)
Amazon Bedrock Introduces Advanced Prompt Optimization and Migration Tool
Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region
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Amazon Redshift adds ALTER TABLE for Iceberg tables and writes via the AWS Glue Data Catalog mount
Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports GPU capacity reservation through SageMaker Flexible Training Plans
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL announces Extended Support minor versions 11.22-rds.20260224, 12.22-rds.20260224, and 13.23-rds.20260224
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports in-place upgrade to Grafana version 12.4
AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in preview
AWS Organizations now supports higher quotas for service control policies (SCPs)
SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Qwen3.6
AWS Transform agents now available in Kiro, Claude, Cursor, and Codex
AWS Transform introduces the agent builder toolkit Kiro power for building customized transformation agents
AWS Transform now supports customer-owned artifact stores
New models for image generation and text embeddings are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
ARC Region switch adds Lambda event source mapping execution block for event handling during failover
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports change data capture (Preview)
Three new models for speech recognition and text-to-speech are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Two new models for agentic coding and efficient AI are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region
Amazon Connect Customer launches permission for agents to view only their own performance evaluations
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23
AWS RTB Fabric supports custom domains for real-time bidding workloads