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Week 35 of 2026 (Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2026) · AWS News
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64 new features AWS announced in the week of Aug 27 – Sep 2, 2026
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Wednesday, Sep 2
Web Search on Amazon Bedrock is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon Connect Customer expands automated performance evaluations to Malay
Amazon Quick adds new tool settings and Model Context Protocol (MCP) sync support for connectors
Amazon Connect Customer announces general availability of agentic CX designer
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks now in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS CloudFormation now supports contract tests v2 for resource types
AWS Config now supports 60 new resource types
Amazon MemoryDB now supports AWS PrivateLink in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS User Experience Customization (UXC) is now available in all commercial AWS Regions
AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio CI/CD adds notebook promotion and AI-assisted manifest generation
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports additional SQL trace flags
Tuesday, Sep 1
Amazon Quick now lets you build custom apps with natural language -
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a managed consent portal
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports sharing job bundles
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to validate API requests
Monday, Aug 31
Amazon DocumentDB now supports direct major version upgrades to version 8.0
Partner Revenue Measurement expands service coverage for User Agent string capability
AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces in-console analytics dashboard for ad monetization and streaming performance
AWS Agent Registry agents and MCP servers now available in Amazon Quick
Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing
Friday, Aug 28
Amazon EC2 C8gn instances are now available in AWS Europe (Paris) region
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports fine-grained access control
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports flexible namespace variables
AWS Transform now in scope for FedRAMP Class C
Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in additional AWS Regions
Thursday, Aug 27
Cosmos3-Edge, Cosmos3-Nano, and Cosmos3-Super models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon Redshift streaming can now ingest 10MiB records from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon Redshift integrates with Agent Toolkit for AWS for AI-assisted data warehouse management
Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in additional regions
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AWS Marketplace reduces listing fee for professional services in multi-product solutions
Amazon Connect Customer dashboards now support compact mode
Amazon MWAA supports Apache Airflow version 3.3.1
AWS Marketplace now supports auto-renewals for private offers
Claude Fable 5.1, Anthropic's new frontier model is now available on AWS
Claude Fable 5.1, Anthropic's new frontier model is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon CloudWatch now supports warm-up periods for alarms
Amazon RDS Custom now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in 8 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Connect Global Resiliency now supports cross-region routing of contacts across two active AWS regions
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd memory optimized instances are now available
Amazon Cognito now supports machine-to-machine authorization without a user pool domain
AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in all commercial AWS Regions
Amazon Aurora serverless is now available with 30% better performance and smarter scaling in additional AWS Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds new Cluster Insights for faster diagnosis of cluster status
AWS Agent Registry for centralized agent discovery and governance is now generally available
AWS announces AWS Interconnect - multicloud connectivity with Microsoft Azure in preview
Amazon MSK Connect now supports restarting connectors
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is now available in three new AWS Regions
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Active Directory domain join for Windows Server environments
Amazon EMR on EKS now supports job run concurrency controls
Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.45) is generally available
Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for journald logs
SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery introduces Recovery Plans for orchestrated application recovery
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to two new regions
Amazon Connect Customer expands conversational analytics capabilities in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon Connect Customer now automatically refreshes scheduling metrics
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports copying backups across AWS Regions and accounts
AWS Backup adds cross-Region and cross-account backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
Amazon EVS now supports i7i.metal-48xl Amazon EC2 instance type
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports foreign key constraints