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Week 34 of 2026 (Aug 20 – Aug 26, 2026) · AWS News
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52 new features AWS announced in the week of Aug 20 – Aug 26, 2026
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Wednesday, Aug 26
Amazon Cognito adds admin API operation to reset user TOTP configurations
Amazon Connect Customer now supports unplanned shrinkage in agent schedules
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 adds memory usage controls
Amazon Connect Customer now supports points-based scoring in performance evaluations
AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region
AWS Backup adds cross-Region backup copy and logically air-gapped vault support for Amazon DocumentDB in nine additional AWS Regions
Tuesday, Aug 25
Amazon EC2 R8id instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 C8id and M8id instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
AWS IoT Core now supports native InfluxDB routing for time-series data
Capacity Reservation Resource Groups now support Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks and interruptible Capacity Reservations
AWS Lambda MicroVMs now supports AWS PrivateLink
Monday, Aug 24
Amazon ECS now automatically detects and repairs container instances with impaired agent connectivity
AWS Glue now supports catalog federation for remote Apache Iceberg catalogs in AWS GovCloud (US) regions
SageMaker MLflow now supports customer managed keys
Amazon EKS now supports multiple external OIDC identity providers per cluster
Amazon Aurora now supports PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23
Friday, Aug 21
AWS Neuron 2.32 introduces expanded NKI programming, MXFP8 training kernels, and variable-size collectives for Trn2 and Trn
Amazon Bedrock announces reduced pricing for OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol
Amazon Connect Customer now lets managers chat with their data
AWS Deadline Cloud now tracks automatic download status in the Deadline Cloud Monitor
Amazon EKS Capability for Argo CD now supports custom configuration
Thursday, Aug 20
AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports customer managed keys
Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd and R8gd instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift now supports concurrency scaling of streaming ingestion workloads from Amazon Kinesis data streams
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports extracting memories from non-conversational JSON payloads
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Amazon Connect Customer now lets you update the customer profile on a case or add a profile after a case is opened
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24
IAM Roles Anywhere now provides a Java plugin for the AWS SDK
AWS Lambda introduces managed runtimes in public preview for Node.js 26 and Python 3.15
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region
Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2026 Release Update
AWS Lambda functions now support full IAM resource-based policies
Amazon GameLift Servers enhanced DDoS Protection now available
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod enhances support for Ray
MSK Replicator now supports OAuth 2.0 (SASL/OAUTHBEARER) authentication for replication from external Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK
Amazon Connect Customer now supports information extraction for agent voice and chat conversations
AWS ParallelCluster 3.16 adds an on-node diagnostics tool
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor version 8.4.11
AWS Glue 6.0 delivers 30% price reduction and Iceberg v3 support
Amazon SES now supports open and click tracking override parameters
Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Amazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle management
Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
AWS Partner Central agents MCP Server now supports OAuth with AWS Sign-In
ARC Region switch adds Amazon RDS Switchover Read Replica execution block
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights
AWS Direct Connect introduces inbound prefix controls and higher prefix scale
Amazon Redshift introduces long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables integration
AWS Marketplace now supports category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery for partners