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Week 36 of 2026 (Sep 3 – Sep 9, 2026) · AWS News
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55 new features AWS announced in the week of Sep 3 – Sep 9, 2026
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Wednesday, Sep 9
Amazon Connect Customer now lets you set specific capacity limits for different types of Tasks and Emails
AWS Transform for .NET modernization is now generally available via CLI
AWS Lambda now supports Graviton5-powered EC2 instances on Lambda Managed Instances
AWS Lambda now supports 90-minute function timeout on Lambda Managed Instances
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control
Amazon Quick adds always-on agents, a sharper feed, and enterprise controls
Amazon Quick activity feed now available on iOS and Android mobile devices
Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data source connector
Amazon EBS Volume Clones now supports copying volumes across accounts
AWS Systems Manager now diagnoses more issues that cause EC2 instances to be unmanaged
AWS Private CA EKS add-on and Connector for AD now available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now sends events when customers enter or exit segments
AWS Entity Resolution adds record-level confidence scores for ML matching
Tuesday, Sep 8
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB 3 now supports custom plugins
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports individual feature updates to lower write latency
AWS Transform is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon API Gateway now supports mutual TLS for backend integrations
Friday, Sep 4
Amazon MWAA Serverless is now available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base introduces user-managed setup for SharePoint, OneDrive, and Confluence data sources
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports ServiceNow as a native data source connector
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports automatic sync scheduling for data source connectors
Amazon EC2 now supports specifying compatible instance types on AMIs
Thursday, Sep 3
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support non-critical daemons
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances are now available in four additional regions
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
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Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports direct ingestion to long-term memory
AWS HealthOmics introduces resource fallback order for WDL workflows
AWS Builder ID adds recovery options and multi-factor authentication for third-party logins
AWS announces Nx Plugin for AWS for scaffolding full-stack applications
Amazon EMR extends support at no additional cost for customers migrating off older releases
Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
Amazon S3 Object Lock now supports variable retention with event holds
Amazon GuardDuty adds optional threat detection rules
Amazon ECS introduces Early Success Criteria for service deployments
AWS MCP Server adds a serverless capability for AWS Lambda functions
Amazon EC2 C8g instances now available in additional regions
Amazon SageMaker AI Batch Transform now supports G6e instances
Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans
Introducing Amazon Quick Max: 5x the usage for power users who want the most out of Quick
AWS Gateway Load Balancer now supports TCP Reset for faster failure recovery
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU instances
Amazon Redshift rg.large instances now support single-node clusters
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4.8 (compatible with MySQL 8.4.8) is now generally available
Amazon Aurora MySQL now supports multi-source replication and delayed replication
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Workflows support Python and Bash operators
Amazon MWAA adds built-in monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon Linux 2027 is now available in public preview
Amazon SES now supports S/MIME email signing
Amazon S3 now supports PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints
AWS Transform announces general availability of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP support