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Week 21 of 2026 (May 21 – May 27, 2026) · AWS News
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34 new features AWS announced in the week of May 21 – May 27, 2026
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Wednesday, May 27
Announcing Region Expansion of P6-B200 instances on SageMaker Notebook Instances
Announcing Region Expansion of P5.48xl instances on SageMaker Notebook Instances
Announcing Region Expansion of P4de instances on SageMaker Notebook Instances
Amazon Bedrock expands support for Service Quotas
AWS Elemental Inference now supports Smart Subtitles for automated live captioning
SageMaker Notebook Instances now support P5.4xl instance types
SageMaker Notebook Instances now support P5en.48xl instance types
Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark 4.0.2 in general availability
AWS Glue large and memory optimized workers now available in Europe (Spain) Region
Amazon Connect Customer now uses generative AI to automatically evaluate self-service interactions
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Slurm clusters now support specifying minimum capacity requirements with continuous provisioning
Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports integration with Kiro Powers
AWS Backup adds OTP verification for Multi-party approval on logically air-gapped vaults
Tuesday, May 26
Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon Connect Customer launches granular access controls for the agent login/logout report
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 now available with NKI 0.4.0 and 22 new NKI Library kernels
Amazon RDS now supports ENA Express for Multi-AZ replication
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Saturday, May 23
AWS Glue Data Catalog Client for Apache Hive Metastore now supports Hive 3 and discovery of multiple catalogs
Friday, May 22
Amazon SageMaker expands domain management across domain types
Amazon SageMaker adds business metadata and governance in IAM-based domains
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports WorkSpace Migration for Linux WorkSpaces
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) expands to Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and Asia Pacific (Thailand) Regions
AWS Clean Rooms now supports mutable payment configurations for collaborations
Thursday, May 21
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds new query commands and functions
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex & M7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet job retries
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs for inference endpoints
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 is now generally available
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Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Amazon VPC IPAM now supports tags on IPAM pool allocations
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup supports Amazon S3 continuous backups
Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Quick Research now supports customer managed keys