AWS IoT Greengrass v2.17 now supports non-root installation and introduces new light weight components AWS IoT Greengrass v2.17 now supports non-root user operation on Linux, reduces memory usage with lite components, and adds uninstall lifecycle capability.

Amazon EVS now offers Microsoft Windows Server Licensing Amazon EVS now offers Microsoft Windows Server licensing entitlements. Migrate or create Windows Server VMs in EVS and obtain licensing from AWS. Pay per vCPU-hour for only what you use, with flexible add/remove options anytime.

Amazon EBS expands volume modification enhancement to AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region Amazon EBS now supports up to 4 Elastic Volumes modifications per volume in a 24-hour window in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany). Modify size, type, and performance without detaching volumes.

AWS Managed Microsoft AD is now available on Windows functional level 2016 AWS Managed Microsoft AD now runs on Windows functional level 2016 with enhanced security and LAPS for automated local admin password management. Auto-upgraded in all regions except UAE and Bahrain.

Amazon EKS enhances cluster governance with new IAM condition keys Amazon EKS now supports 7 additional IAM condition keys for cluster APIs, enabling organizations to enforce security policies like private endpoints, KMS encryption, K8s versions, and deletion protection centrally.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0 Amazon DocumentDB now supports in-place upgrade from version 5.0 to 8.0 with no cluster changes or downtime. Version 8.0 offers up to 7x faster queries, 5x better compression, and new features.

Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Inventory Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports S3 Inventory, enabling scheduled reports (daily/weekly) as an alternative to synchronous List API. Reports include object metadata, encryption status, and support CSV, ORC, or Parquet formats.

Amazon Connect flow modules now work across all flow types and within other modules Amazon Connect now supports flow modules across all flows, enabling reusable logic beyond inbound experiences. Modules can nest within other modules for complex functionality. Available in all AWS regions.

AWS Clean Rooms now supports configurable Spark properties for PySpark AWS Clean Rooms now supports configurable Spark properties for PySpark jobs, letting customers optimize workloads by customizing memory, concurrency, and timeout settings for better performance and cost efficiency.

Amazon ECR Pull Through Cache Now Supports Referrer Discovery and Sync Amazon ECR now auto-discovers and syncs OCI referrers (signatures, SBOMs, attestations) from upstream registries via pull through cache. Previously manual, this enables seamless image verification workflows.

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports flexible instance groups Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports flexible instance groups, letting customers specify multiple instance types and subnets in one group. This eliminates managing separate groups per instance/zone combination, reducing overhead.

Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) region AWS launches U7i High Memory EC2 instances in Singapore with up to 12TB DDR5 RAM and 896 vCPUs. Powered by 4th-gen Intel Xeon, they offer 100Gbps EBS/network bandwidth, ideal for SAP HANA and large databases.

SageMaker JumpStart now offers optimized deployments for foundation models SageMaker JumpStart now offers optimized deployments with pre-configured settings for 30+ foundation models, enabling customers to deploy based on use case and optimize for cost, throughput, or latency.

Amazon Managed Grafana now supports creating Grafana 12.4 workspaces Amazon Managed Grafana now supports version 12.4 with Drilldown apps, scenes-powered dashboards, enhanced CloudWatch plugin features, improved table visualization, and trendline transformations. Available in all AWS regions.

AWS Deadline Cloud announces AI-powered troubleshooting assistant for render jobs AWS Deadline Cloud launches AI troubleshooting assistant to diagnose render job failures. It analyzes logs, detects issues, and provides solutions for popular creative apps, running via Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region Amazon EC2 X8aedz instances now available in Europe (Stockholm). Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors with 5GHz max frequency. Ideal for EDA workloads & databases. Features 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio, 2-96 vCPUs.

Amazon CloudWatch RUM now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Amazon CloudWatch RUM now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud, enabling EU customers to monitor web and mobile app performance while maintaining data sovereignty and compliance requirements.

Amazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browser AWS announces multi-session support for Amazon QuickSight, allowing users to access up to 5 accounts simultaneously in one browser. Account names now appear in URLs for easy navigation. Available in all supported regions.

Amazon Quick now supports multi-account sign-in within the same browser AWS announces multi-session support for Amazon QuickSight, allowing users to access up to 5 accounts simultaneously in one browser. Account names now appear in URLs for easy navigation. Available in all supported regions.

Introducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances AWS launches EC2 C8in and C8ib instances with 6th-gen Intel Xeon processors and Nitro cards, offering 43% better performance than C6in. C8in provides 600 Gbps networking; C8ib offers 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth. Available in select regions.

Introducing Amazon EC2 C8in and C8ib instances AWS launches EC2 C8in and C8ib instances with 6th-gen Intel Xeon processors, offering 43% better performance than C6in. C8in provides 600 Gbps networking; C8ib offers 300 Gbps EBS bandwidth. Available in select US, EU, and APAC regions.

Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 file systems are now available in four additional AWS Regions Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 now available in 4 new regions: Hyderabad, Jakarta, Zurich, São Paulo. Built on AWS Graviton, offers up to 1 GB/s per TB throughput at lower cost.

Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 file systems are now available in four additional AWS Regions Amazon FSx for Lustre Persistent-2 now available in 4 new regions: Hyderabad, Jakarta, Zurich, São Paulo. Built on AWS Graviton, offers up to 1 GB/s per TB throughput at lower cost.

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in two additional AWS Regions Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia), enabling closer user proximity, in-country data residency, and lower latency access.

Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Amazon WorkSpaces Core are now available in two additional AWS Regions Amazon WorkSpaces Personal and Core now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia), enabling closer user proximity, in-country data residency, and lower latency access.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), enabling organizations with data sovereignty needs to protect workloads with fast recovery, RPOs in seconds, RTOs in minutes.

Amazon CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement rules CloudWatch now supports cross-region telemetry auditing and enablement for AWS services like EC2, VPC, and CloudTrail from a single region. Create organization-wide rules that auto-apply to all regions.

Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Amazon Bedrock Amazon Bedrock now offers Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic's most capable model, with enhanced agentic coding, professional work capabilities, and improved long-running task performance, served through enterprise-grade infrastructure.

AWS Payment Cryptography now available in South America (São Paulo) AWS Payment Cryptography now available in South America (São Paulo), enabling lower-latency payment operations. The managed service handles payment-specific cryptography and is PCI compliant, available in 14 regions globally.

Amazon Quick Introduces Sheet Tooltips for Rich, Contextual Data Exploration Amazon QuickSight now supports sheet tooltips, letting authors create rich, contextual pop-ups with visuals, text, and images that appear when hovering over data points—automatically filtered to that specific data.

AWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - multicloud AWS launches Interconnect-multicloud for simple, high-speed private connections between cloud providers. Google Cloud available now, Azure in 2026. Features dedicated bandwidth, built-in resiliency, single-fee pricing.

AWS announces general availability of AWS Interconnect - last mile AWS launches Interconnect - last mile with Lumen, enabling customers to connect branch offices and data centers to AWS via console in clicks. Features automated setup, 1-100 Gbps scaling, MACsec encryption, and SLA backing.

Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East). Features 8x NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 2.1TB GPU memory, 6.4Tbps EFA networking. Ideal for training trillion-parameter AI models.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports hybrid post-quantum TLS to protect secrets from quantum threats AWS Secrets Manager now supports hybrid post-quantum key exchange using ML-KEM to protect against future quantum threats, automatically enabled in latest clients.

AWS Transform is now available in Kiro and VS Code AWS Transform, an agentic migration tool that compresses enterprise transformations from years to months, now integrates with Kiro and VS Code. Custom transformations help reduce tech debt at scale with AWS-managed patterns or custom definitions.

Amazon EC2 C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized performance AWS doubles EBS performance on EC2 C8gn, M8gn, and R8gn instances (48xlarge/metal-48xl): now 120 Gbps bandwidth and 480,000 IOPS vs. 60 Gbps/240,000 IOPS. Available at no extra cost in all regions.

NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Qwen3.5-9B, and Qwen3.5-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Super-120B, Qwen3.5-9B, and Qwen3.5-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, offering agentic reasoning, multilingual coding, and advanced AI capabilities.

Amazon Quick now supports document-level access controls for ACL support for S3 Amazon Quick now supports document-level ACLs for S3 knowledge bases, enabling granular permission control. Configure via global ACL files or document metadata. Must be set at creation; available in all Quick regions.

Amazon Quick now supports document-level access controls for Google Drive knowledge bases Amazon QuickSight now supports document-level ACLs for Google Drive, maintaining native permissions when indexing. It uses indexed ACLs for filtering plus real-time permission checks at query time.

Amazon Redshift introduces key performance optimization for Top-K queries Amazon Redshift now optimizes top-k queries by skipping irrelevant data blocks, processing only minimal needed data. This dramatically speeds up queries with ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses on sorted data.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now supports saved queries with parameters CloudWatch Logs Insights saved queries now support parameters (up to 20 per query with optional defaults), enabling reusable templates with placeholders for values like log levels or service names.

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Derived Source for storage optimization Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Derived Source, reducing storage by reconstructing _source fields on-the-fly from indexed values instead of storing separate copies. Ideal for time-series and log analytics.

Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups across AWS opt-in Regions Amazon FSx now supports copying file system backups across opt-in Regions (disabled by default) for Windows File Server, Lustre, and OpenZFS, enabling cross-region disaster recovery beyond default regions.

Aurora DSQL launches connector that simplifies building PHP applications AWS released Aurora DSQL Connector for PHP (PDO_PGSQL), automating IAM token generation and SSL config. Features include connection pooling, OCC retry with backoff, and AWS profile support.

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region AWS launches R8i and R8i-flex EC2 instances in GovCloud (US-West), powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. They offer 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth vs prior gen.

Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Powered by custom Intel Xeon 6, they offer 15% better price-performance and up to 60% faster speeds vs M7i.

AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports IPv6 AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports IPv6 for data replication and control plane connections, enabling disaster recovery in IPv6-only or dual-stack environments without requiring IPv4 addresses. Available in all AWS Regions where DRS operates.

AWS IoT is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) and Europe (Milan) AWS Regions AWS IoT Core and IoT Device Management are now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) and Europe (Milan) regions, enabling faster response times, better data residency, and lower costs for local customers.

Amazon EC2 X8i instances are now available in Europe (Paris) AWS launches EC2 X8i instances with custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering 43% better performance, 1.5x more memory (up to 6TB), and 3.3x bandwidth vs X2i. Ideal for SAP HANA, databases, analytics. Available in 6 regions.

AWS RTB Fabric supports health checks for real-time bidding workloads AWS RTB Fabric now supports health checks for EC2 Auto Scaling groups, automatically routing traffic to healthy instances to eliminate failed real-time bidding transactions and prevent revenue loss for AdTech companies.