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Week 31 of 2026 (Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2026) · AWS News
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50 new features AWS announced in the week of Jul 30 – Aug 5, 2026
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Wednesday, Aug 5
AWS Lambda announces scalable network bandwidth up to 3,000 Mbps for functions outside a VPC
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region (ca-west-1)
AWS Glue Data Quality makes ETL anomaly detection free and improves anomaly predictions
AWS Marketplace adds AI Insights so buyers can understand pricing before they buy
Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports metadata exports to S3 Tables (Preview)
AWS IAM Identity Center makes managment of AWS account access optional for new organization instances
Amazon Aurora serverless now scales faster to support agentic AI and other bursty workloads
Tuesday, Aug 4
[Preview Announcement] Re-introducing Forward Proxy as AWS Network Firewall Functionality
Amazon Connect Customer now lets you export cases to CSV from the agent workspace
Amazon Bedrock launches Web Search for OpenAI GPT models
Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EC2 with Spark Connect
AWS Security Hub Extended adds supply chain security as its 10th category
Monday, Aug 3
AWS Transform continuous modernization is now generally available
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna now support 1 million token context windows on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7 instance types
AWS HealthOmics now supports task-level timeout for WDL workflows
AWS Resilience Hub now provides recommended resilience tests
Saturday, Aug 1
Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns adds abandonment rate pacing controls
Friday, Jul 31
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Teradata Vantage
Amazon Aurora DSQL adds multi-Region cluster support in four more Regions
Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers Reserved Instances for R8i and M8i instances
AWS Lambda now supports Java 8, 11, and 17 on Amazon Linux 2023
AWS CodeDeploy now available in five additional AWS regions
Thursday, Jul 30
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio brings richer Git version control to all project tools
AWS Direct Connect now supports BGP route visibility on Virtual Interfaces
Amazon Redshift RG large and 12xlarge instances now available on the trailing track
IAM Policy Simulator moves to the IAM console and adds additional capabilities
Amazon Bedrock announces up to 80% lower prices for OpenAI GPT‑5.6 models
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Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions
AWS Application and Network Load Balancers now support RFC 9151 compliant security policies
Amazon S3 Vectors is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region
Amazon Connect Customer now supports capacity planning in 15 or 30 minute intervals
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in AWS Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions
AWS Organizations now provides maximum account quota visibility in Service Quotas
Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions
Amazon SageMaker AI serverless model customization now supports full fine-tuning
AWS Transform for full-stack Windows modernization now supports offline schema transformation to Aurora PostgreSQL
AWS WAF now supports Miggo Security managed rule groups for emerging threats and AI/ML application protection
AWS Config now supports 15 new resource types
Amazon Web Services now introduces Context Ontology Accelerator
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region
Amazon EC2 C7i instances now available in additional regions
AWS announces general availability of Policy-Based Routing on AWS Transit Gateway
Amazon MSK Express brokers now delivers Apache Kafka data to Amazon S3
Amazon MSK Express brokers now deliver data to streaming tables for Apache Iceberg
Grok 4.3 from xAI is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Gemma 4 models are now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
AWS Managed Microsoft AD now supports Standard to Enterprise Edition upgrade
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.7