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Week 28 of 2026 (Jul 9 – Jul 15, 2026) · AWS News
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59 new features AWS announced in the week of Jul 9 – Jul 15, 2026
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Wednesday, Jul 15
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new query commands and functions
Amazon MQ now supports configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokers
Amazon EC2 G7e instances now available in additional regions
Amazon Cognito now supports importing users with password hashes
Amazon RDS and Aurora now support R8g and M8g database instances in additional AWS Regions
Amazon RDS and Aurora expand R8gd and M8gd to additional Regions
Amazon MSK Express Brokers adds support for Apache Kafka version 4.2
Amazon RDS now supports up to four storage modifications in 24 hours
AWS Glue SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports the Agent Toolkit for AWS with a curated skill
Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in additional AWS Commercial regions
AWS Lambda announces self-managed code storage
Tuesday, Jul 14
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports Amazon EBS volume initialization rate
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery reduces recovery time for AWS-to-AWS workloads
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports prepared statements in Logged Batches
AWS Lambda console provides a one-click setup prompt for coding agents
Amazon EC2 M8in, M8idn, M8ib, M8idb instances are now available in additional regions
Monday, Jul 13
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now available as a skill in the Agent Toolkit for AWS
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for 46 new MongoDB operators in version 8.0.1
Gemma-4-E2B-it for is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
OpenAI privacy-filter for PII detection and masking is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Friday, Jul 10
Amazon EC2 network/EBS instances now available in additional regions
Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Apache Spark troubleshooting agent
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning
Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
Amazon EC2 G7 instances are now available in the AWS US East (N. Virginia) Region
Thursday, Jul 9
OAuth support for the AWS MCP Server
Amazon EC2 C8id, M8id, and R8id instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
Amazon EC2 now supports using an EBS volume for Replace Root Volume
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AWS IAM Identity Center achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification
Introducing Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection for AWS AI workloads
Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns now in Cape Town Africa
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now offers AI Agent Skills to simplify building and operating Flink applications
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal simplifies bulk PCoIP to DCV protocol migration
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in Europe (Spain)
AWS Security Hub now provides AI inventory for organization-wide visibility of AI assets
AWS Storage Gateway adds console support for copying file shares across gateways
Amazon CloudFront Functions now supports logging to CloudFront access logs
Qwen3 embedding and reranking models for retrieval are now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime for real-time speech transcription is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon Redshift Serverless now preserves zero-ETL and Amazon S3 event integrations during snapshot restores
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) for Slurm clusters
AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports offline SQL Server conversion
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports R8g.24xlarge and R8g.48xlarge instances
AWS DMS Schema Conversion now supports AI agent automation
AWS Organizations now applies account departure security controls by default for new organizations created via AWS Organizations console
AWS Partner Central subsidiary connections now support qualification sharing
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now publishes database state change events to Amazon EventBridge
AWS Client VPN extends availability to four additional AWS Regions
AWS Partner Central introduces Partner Lead Prospecting
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom asset types to the catalog in IAM-based domains
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports deep health checks for Slurm clusters with continuous provisioning
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports batch feature writes and record listing
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to MSK Standard brokers
AWS Config now supports 191 additional managed rules