AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
43 new features AWS announced in the week of Oct 1 – Oct 7, 2026
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Wednesday, Oct 7
Amazon EC2 C8gb instances now generally available in additional regions
AWS Config now supports 77 new resource types
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
Tuesday, Oct 6
AWS Certificate Manager now supports ACME issuance through AWS PrivateLink
Monday, Oct 5
Amazon Redshift adds support for creating and refreshing Apache Iceberg materialized views
GLM 5.3 by Z.ai is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports network access controls for Identity Store
Amazon EC2 Hpc8a instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore)
AWS Control Tower AFT now supports plan-only customization runs
Amazon EC2 introduces shared tags for Amazon Machine Images
AWS Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is generally available
AWS Client VPN now supports device posture assessment
AWS Private CA now provides detailed certificate issuance logs
Announcing Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic with improved reasoning for voice agents
Friday, Oct 2
Amazon ECS adds Amazon VPC Lattice support for blue/green, linear, and canary deployments
AWS Health introduces the version catalog for software lifecycle management
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports partial indexes
Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.37
AWS Brazil automates distribution of non-Brazilian software product licenses to Brazilian customers
Amazon OpenSearch Service introduces validation advisory for domain configuration changes
The AWS MCP Server is now available in six additional AWS Regions
AgentCore Gateway supports private TLS certificates for VPC endpoints
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey now supports OpenTelemetry metrics and detailed monitoring
GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring is now included in the AWS Security Hub Threat Analytics plan
Thursday, Oct 1
AWS Well-Architected Agent is now available in preview
Amazon Redshift now supports cross-Region queries for your data lake
Amazon Q Developer now delivers enhanced visualizations in the AWS Management Console
Amazon DynamoDB introduces filtered export to Amazon S3
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in additional Regions
Amazon GuardDuty now supports centralized management using AWS Organizations declarative policies
Amazon Corretto 8 September 2026 Patch Updates
Amazon S3 Object Lock variable retention with event holds is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Security Hub introduces remediation plans to prioritize and fix security exposures
AWS Transfer Family now supports custom CloudWatch log groups for managed workflows
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports table optimization, statistics, and crawlers for Apache Iceberg V3
AWS Budgets now supports email verification for notification subscribers
Serverless Storage on Amazon EMR Serverless now supports terabyte-scale shuffle
Announcing DNS analytics and insights for Route 53 Global Resolver and DNS Firewall
Amazon EKS Auto Mode now supports advanced compute configuration
AWS IAM Identity Center extends multi-Region support to more AWS Regions
Improve your secrets security posture with actionable recommendations in the AWS Secrets Manager console
Amazon S3 Tables now support up to 100 table buckets per AWS Region in an AWS account
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