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Week 33 of 2026 (Aug 13 – Aug 19, 2026) · AWS News
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52 new features AWS announced in the week of Aug 13 – Aug 19, 2026
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Wednesday, Aug 19
Launching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon EC2 enables AMI creation with local snapshots from instances on Outposts
Amazon CloudWatch log Centralization now supports log group tag propagation
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports attribute-based access control
Amazon SageMaker notebooks now support trusted identity propagation
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud Regions
AWS Marketplace launches support for Amazon Lightsail
AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 5 additional AWS regions
Amazon Quick adds deny by default for custom permissions
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now offers in-console monitoring capabilities
AWS IAM now supports 20 managed policies per role by default
AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS-compliant private connectivity for Tape and Volume Gateway
Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei) region
Tuesday, Aug 18
AWS IAM identity federation to external services is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region
Amazon Corretto August 2026 Critical Security Patch Updates
AgentCore payments is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports data profiling and anomaly detection
Amazon MWAA Serverless now supports PythonOperator and BashOperator
Monday, Aug 17
Amazon ECR now supports 25 replication rules per registry
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports batch instance termination
Amazon MSK now supports configuring custom domain names for MSK Provisioned clusters
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region
Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support reporting on routing steps and agent proficiencies
Friday, Aug 14
Amazon Quick now supports per-user resource limits
Amazon Quick now supports data loss prevention with Microsoft Purview
Amazon Quick now supports approval policies for sharing
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1
Amazon Quick now supports customizable no data messages for visuals
Thursday, Aug 13
AWS Client VPN now supports CLI, administration controls, and faster connections
Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge instance sizes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Claude Opus 5 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are now generally available
Spot Placement Score now includes Local Zones
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Amazon EC2 R8i instances are now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) region
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Zurich) region
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports Nested Virtualization
Amazon S3 Metadata and annotations are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Network Firewall Now Supports Stateful Rule Hit Counts
Amazon Quick Microsoft 365 extensions are now generally available
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports automatic semantic enrichment for VPC domains
AWS Console-to-Code adds 26 services and cross-region recording
AWS CloudShell now includes a built-in visual file editor
Amazon SES click tracking now supports custom URL paths for mobile app deep linking
AWS Billing and Cost Management introduces Managed Dashboards
Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI are now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Certificate Manager supports switching from e-mail to DNS validation
Amazon S3 adds additional policy details to access denied error messages
AWS Clean Rooms supports minimum aggregation thresholds in custom analysis rules