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Week 25 of 2026 (Jun 18 – Jun 24, 2026) · AWS News

AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)

41 new features AWS announced in the week of Jun 18 – Jun 24, 2026

Wednesday, Jun 24

Amazon EC2 announces AMI Watermarks for improved AMI governance
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports live configuration updates without application restarts
AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift is now generally available
Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now supports sharing DNS Views between AWS Accounts
Amazon Neptune now supports AWS CloudFormation for global databases
Amazon CloudWatch now supports tags on dashboards
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region

Tuesday, Jun 23

SageMaker Notebook Instances now support G6e instance types
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.1
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports cross-account access
AWS HealthOmics now supports ephemeral storage for private workflows
Amazon Cognito now supports customer managed key for encryption at rest

Monday, Jun 22

AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles
AWS introduces Lambda MicroVMs for isolated execution of user and AI-generated code
AWS Transform for migrations now supports all AWS commercial regions as migration targets
AWS Network Firewall updates default drop action for improved connection reliability
Amazon Connect Customer launches Agentic CX designer (NLX) in preview

Friday, Jun 19

Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam

Thursday, Jun 18

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports multilocation canaries
Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters
Amazon ECS announces faster service auto scaling
Amazon EC2 G7 instances are now generally available
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking connectivity

Automated Reasoning checks in Amazon Bedrock Guardrails add new policy refinement workflows

Claude Tag is now available in beta via Claude Enterprise in AWS Marketplace

Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers AI-assisted migrations

Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e instance types

Amazon MSK now offers AI Agent Skills to help developers operate MSK efficiently and accelerate migrations to MSK

MSK Replicator now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication for replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Express brokers

AWS Parallel Computing Service supports P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServers

Nested virtualization is now available on additional Intel platforms and US Gov Cloud regions

Amazon Connect Customer launches the ability to interrupt an agent with an urgent contact

all-MiniLM-L12-v2 for semantic search and sentence similarity is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EBS volume recommendations with additional performance metrics

Ministral-3-14B-Instruct for multimodal reasoning and agentic AI is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress

Amazon SageMaker AI Announces New observability capability For Inference Endpoints

Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

Amazon GameLift Servers adds new container fleet improvements

Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases the maximum size and provisioned performance of General Purpose (gp3) volumes

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Supports Ubuntu 24.04