IAM Policy Autopilot now supports Java applications and Terraform-aware policy generation, enabling developers to generate less permissive AWS IAM policies from code across Java, Python, TypeScript, and Go.

Covestro deployed AI agents MARIS and PARIS on Amazon Bedrock to transform master data governance in SAP, reducing material record creation time from 12 hours to 6 minutes through conversational self-service automation.

AWS Partner Central agents use generative AI to help partners streamline opportunity management, accelerate deal velocity, and automate tasks like funding recommendations and customer profiling through console or programmatic access.

Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now allows dynamic addition and removal of AWS Regions for anycast DNS resolution, providing flexible control over DNS query resolution locations without recreating configurations.

AWS now provides six pre-built CloudFormation templates that deploy purpose-built CloudWatch dashboards for monitoring Amazon WorkSpaces personal and applications fleets, enabling faster incident resolution and proactive performance monitoring.

AWS Marketplace launches a new Tax management portal enabling sellers to self-service view, download, and manage invoices directly through AWS Partner Central with advanced search and filtering capabilities.

AWS Service Catalog is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and Canada West (Calgary) regions, enabling organizations to create, govern, and distribute approved Infrastructure as Code products for AWS deployment.

Red Hat build of Karpenter automates compute provisioning for ROSA by intelligently right-sizing EC2 instances based on workload requirements, reducing costs and operational overhead while enabling efficient resource utilization and continuous cluster optimization.

AWS DevOps Agent enables autonomous incident investigation and root cause analysis by integrating CloudWatch, Splunk, GitHub, and Slack to automatically diagnose issues, generate mitigation plans, and reduce mean time to resolution from hours to minutes.

Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS64 on inbound endpoints and IPv6 forwarding through internet gateways, enabling seamless hybrid DNS resolution across IPv4 and IPv6 networks at no additional cost.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports cross-Region S3 data consolidation, enabling you to ingest and unify data from S3 buckets across multiple AWS Regions into a single OpenSearch Service domain or collection for streamlined analytics and search.

Amazon ECS now supports linear and canary deployment strategies with CloudWatch alarms and automatic rollback capabilities for safer, gradual application updates.

Precisely Connect enables real-time, direct replication of mainframe data to Amazon S3, eliminating intermediaries and simplifying modernization while enabling advanced analytics through AWS services.

Halliburton uses Amazon Bedrock and generative AI to transform manual seismic workflow configuration into natural language conversations, reducing workflow creation time by over 95% while maintaining 84-97% success rates.

AWS Transform and Claude Code together enable organizations to modernize legacy mainframe applications by reverse-engineering COBOL/PL/I code into business rules, then forward-engineering those rules into cloud-native microservices across any technology stack.

Grupo UPAX modernized its Talento Zeus Human Capital Management application from EC2/Oracle to AWS serverless architecture, reducing infrastructure costs by 90% while increasing deployment frequency from 20 to 400 monthly changes and supporting 56,000+ users.

Amazon Redshift now extends concurrency scaling to automatically handle high-volume data ingestion workloads, allowing COPY queries from S3 to scale without impacting query performance during peak demand.

Amazon SES Mail Manager is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, expanding its coverage to 30 AWS regions with centralized email traffic management and advanced routing capabilities.

Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now detects customer time zones using all phone numbers and addresses on a profile, ensuring messages are only sent during hours that overlap across all detected time zones.

Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) for graphics-intensive and machine learning workloads.

Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai) regions, offering up to 43% higher performance and 1.5x more memory capacity than previous X2i instances for memory-intensive workloads.

Amazon EC2 G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs are now available in Europe (London), offering 2.3x better inference performance than G6e for AI, LLM, and spatial computing workloads.

Organizations should start AI adoption with specific customer problems and build foundations iteratively based on real use cases, rather than spending years on speculative foundation-building before delivering business value.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8a and R8a instances powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors, delivering up to 70% higher throughput and enabling reduced SQL Server licensing costs through CPU optimization features.

AWS launches Amazon EC2 R8idn and R8idb instances with sixth-generation Intel Xeon processors, delivering up to 43% better compute performance and industry-leading network and storage bandwidth for memory-intensive workloads.

AWS launches Amazon EC2 M8idn and M8idb instances with sixth-generation Intel Xeon processors, delivering up to 43% better compute performance and offering the highest network and EBS bandwidth among EC2 instances for network and storage-intensive workloads.

AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now provides column-level client-side encryption via KMS plugin, enabling Java applications to encrypt sensitive data before it reaches the database without code changes, protecting against credential compromise and SQL injection attacks.

Amazon EC2 M8gn and M8gb instances powered by AWS Graviton4 processors are now available in AWS Europe (Ireland), offering up to 30% better performance with high network and storage bandwidth for compute-intensive workloads.

AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports monetization functions, enabling customers to customize ad decision server requests and manage session data through external APIs and data transformations without building middleware.

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio adds new identity and user management features enabling administrators to configure single sign-on, manage users across IAM and Identity Center domains, and allow federated access with individual user session tracking.

AWS Security Blog's April 2026 digest covers AI security, identity management, threat detection, data protection, and compliance updates with practical guidance, code samples, and security bulletins for securing modern cloud workloads.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bring-your-own file system from Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS, allowing developers to attach storage directly to agent runtimes for seamless file operations without custom mount code.

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters, eliminating the need for manual lifecycle scripts and significantly reducing cluster creation time while providing production-ready environments for AI/ML training workloads.

AWS Resource Explorer, a managed resource search and discovery capability, is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) regions for simplified resource management.

AWS Capabilities by Region now offers free availability notifications that automatically alert builders when AWS services and features become available in their target regions across 37 AWS Regions.

Aurora PostgreSQL now integrates with Amazon S3 Vectors through AWS Lambda to enable SQL-based similarity search on billion-scale vector datasets while combining results with relational data in single queries.

AWS launches Gravity, an AI-powered analytic for the WNBA that quantifies player defensive impact by measuring how much attention players draw from opposing defenses beyond league average expectations.

AWS Transform Discovery Tool Anonymizer is a Python CLI tool that enables regulated customers to anonymize sensitive infrastructure metadata in discovery exports before uploading to AWS Transform Assessments, with bidirectional mapping for de-anonymization of results.

AWS Glue enables managed migration of Aurora PostgreSQL data to Aurora DSQL through snapshot export to S3, schema discovery via crawlers, and PySpark-based ETL jobs that handle data transformations including UUID primary key conversion and data type corrections.

AWS Skill Builder now offers Lab Maker, an AI-powered feature that generates instant, personalized hands-on labs for popular AWS services based on natural language descriptions, enabling learners to develop practical cloud skills exactly when they need them.

AWS achieved three Indonesian national standard (SNI) certifications for the Jakarta Region, making it the first cloud provider to hold all four SNI certifications for information security, cloud security, privacy, and quality management.

AWS offers EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and SageMaker training plans to help customers secure reserved GPU capacity for short-term machine learning workloads at 40-75% discounts compared to on-demand pricing.

Amazon SageMaker AI enables training large language models with verifiable reward-based reinforcement learning using GRPO to improve mathematical reasoning accuracy by 3.7x without subjective human evaluation.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0, featuring built-in full-text and hybrid search, up to 40% higher throughput for pipelined workloads, hash field expiration, and multi-database support for real-time and AI-driven applications.

AWS India customers can now use UPI Scan and Pay for convenient, secure sign-ups and invoice payments by scanning QR codes with their mobile UPI apps.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time aggregation queries that enable developers to filter, group, and summarize data directly in-memory cache with microsecond latencies, eliminating the need for separate analytics engines.

Amazon ElastiCache now enables real-time hybrid search combining vector similarity and full-text search in a single query, delivering more relevant results with microsecond latency across billions of embeddings.

Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), offering 2x performance improvement over P5en instances for AI training and inference workloads.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0, featuring built-in search capabilities, up to 40% higher pipelined throughput, hash field expiration, multi-database support in cluster mode, and polygon geospatial queries for advanced real-time and AI-driven workloads.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports full-text, exact-match, numeric range, and hybrid search capabilities directly in cache with microsecond latency and millions of queries per second, enabling use cases like catalog discovery, recommendations, and real-time leaderboards without separate search...