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Week 26 of 2026 (Jun 25 – Jul 1, 2026) · AWS News
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55 new features AWS announced in the week of Jun 25 – Jul 1, 2026
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Wednesday, Jul 1
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore increases default runtime quota limits
ECS Service Connect now supports Zone-Aware routing
Amazon ECS now provides real-time deployment observability in the AWS Management Console
AWS Artifact now includes Assurance Assistant for compliance inquiries
AWS Partner Central now supports AWS Marketplace listings for co-selling
Amazon RDS announces Cross-Region Automated Backups in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now available in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon ECS now supports configurable deployment circuit breaker settings
Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections
Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports custom task definitions
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollback
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS Security Agent now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and South America (São Paulo)
Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports self-managed Active Directory
Amazon OpenSearch Service optimized for log analytics
Tuesday, Jun 30
Amazon Connect Customer now supports rule based redaction for agent screen recording
Amazon RDS Enhances IAM Database Authentication with Connection Rate Scaling
AWS Parallel Computing Service supports in-place Slurm major version upgrades
Amazon ElastiCache T4g nodes now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Neptune announces dual stack support with IPv6
Monday, Jun 29
AWS WAF adds support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
Amazon MWAA Serverless now supports shared VPC configurations
Amazon S3 server access logs now deliver to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon S3 Tables
Friday, Jun 26
Amazon EC2 R8g instances now available in additional regions
Thursday, Jun 25
Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region
OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon Bedrock receive FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approval in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS Network Firewall now supports managed threat intelligence rules from VisionHeight
Kiro achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)
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Amazon Connect Customer now supports assigning up to 7 security profiles with granular access controls per user
Amazon Time Sync Service adds support for Microsecond accurate time on 26 additional EC2 instance types in all commercial regions
Announcing general availability of Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports reservations then balanced Availability Zone distribution
AWS Network Firewall now supports container attribute-based inspection for Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS
Amazon SageMaker AI cuts generative AI inference scale-out time by up to half with automatic container image caching
AWS Security Hub CSPM launches AI Security Best Practices standard with 31 automated controls
IAM Identity Center now enables programmatic AWS account access for customer managed applications
Claude Sonnet 5 is now available on AWS
CloudWatch Application Signals now supports Dynamic Instrumentation
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for Gemma 4 models
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd compute optimized instances are now available
AWS announces AWS Interconnect - last mile new partner with AT&T in gated preview
Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)
OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon GameLift Servers announces DDoS Protection client SDKs for C# and Unity
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics
AWS Service Availability Updates
AWS Clean Rooms now supports intermediate tables for SQL
Amazon EC2 C8in instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon Redshift adds Reserved Instance upfront pricing options for RG instances
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers US-based, US citizen 24/7 technical support for all customers by default
AWS Backup enhances Amazon S3 backup copy performance
Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon RDS now supports the latest GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region