AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
Loading announcements
Week 29 of 2026 (Jul 16 – Jul 22, 2026) · AWS News
Feed
Search
About
AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
51 new features AWS announced in the week of Jul 16 – Jul 22, 2026
2026
▼
Wednesday, Jul 22
Amazon EC2 C7a instances are now available in the US West (N. California) Region
Amazon EC2 M8a instances now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Amazon EC2 M8id instances are now available in Europe (Ireland) region
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports Listener Rules for custom traffic routing
AWS Entity Resolution now supports advanced real-time matching
AWS Lambda durable functions now supports customer managed key encryption
Amazon Corretto July 2026 Quarterly Updates
AWS Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7 instances
Amazon EKS now supports EFA and placement groups on Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter
AWS Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Lima, Peru
Tuesday, Jul 21
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in additional regions
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Amazon OpenSearch
Monday, Jul 20
AWS Partner Central agents expand funding guidance to all programs
AWS HealthOmics now available in two additional AWS Regions
AWS Data Exports now provides standardized Amazon Bedrock product metadata
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions
Selectively log network activity events by identity in AWS CloudTrail
Friday, Jul 17
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds custom visual transforms
Amazon OpenSearch UI now supports one-click dashboard migration
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports partition-level topology for Slurm orchestrated clusters
Thursday, Jul 16
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports customer managed encryption keys
Amazon Managed Grafana achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US)
Track cost efficiency trends directly in Billing and Cost Management Dashboards with the new Cost Efficiency widget
Amazon EC2 now surfaces the public SSM parameters associated with public AMIs
Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags
Newer
Week 29
▼
Older
Amazon ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon SES introduces pricing plans
Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace
Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
AWS Marketplace now supports self-service seller signature management for India-based sellers
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025
Amazon Connect delivers more natural agentic voice experiences with expanded language support and speech controls
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Connect Customer launches metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets
Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece
Introducing KNFSD File Cache - Now in Preview
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
AWS Sustainability service now includes water withdrawals data
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region
Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes
Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA
AWS Backup extends logically air-gapped vault support to six additional AWS Regions
AWS Backup extends restore testing support to six additional AWS Regions
AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform now re-applies customizations when accounts move between OUs
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate