Issue #238 | 27 July 2026

▪️ Amazon Corretto July 2026 Quarterly Updates
▪️ Amazon RDS for MySQL  v9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
▪️ AWS automatic credit memo application preferences
▪️ AWS Wickr Data Retention Service feature
▪️ Bedrock AgentCore unified observability with traces and logs in a single log group
▪️ Bedrock Claude Opus 5
▪️ CloudTrail selectively log network activity events by identity
▪️ CloudWatch coding agent insights
▪️ CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
▪️ CloudWatch Synthetics customer managed encryption keys
▪️ Connect audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC
▪️ Connect Customer metrics for agent queues on analytics dashboards
▪️ Connect expanded language support and speech controls
▪️ Data Exports standardized Bedrock product metadata
▪️ Direct Connect announces 100G expansion in Lima, Peru
▪️ EC2 Dedicated Hosts host resource groups without self-managed licenses
▪️ ECS Action Logs for deployment and orchestration visibility
▪️ ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
▪️ EKS EFA and placement groups on EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter
▪️ Entity Resolution advanced real-time matching
▪️ Kinesis Data Streams scaling down ingest capacity with warm throughput
▪️ Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET is now generally available
▪️ Lambda durable functions now supports customer managed key encryption
▪️ Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers
▪️ Managed Service for Apache Flink v2.3
▪️ Managed Service for Prometheus 1.5B active metrics and 200K rules per workspace
▪️ Marketplace self-service seller signature management for India-based sellers
▪️ Network Load Balancer Listener Rules for custom traffic routing
▪️ Open Source aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
▪️ Open Source KNFSD File Cache
▪️ Organizations increases RCP quota to 2,000 per organization
▪️ Partner Central agents expand funding guidance to all programs
▪️ RDS for SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server 2025
▪️ RDS latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
▪️ SageMaker AI Inference now supports G7 instances
▪️ SageMaker AI Inference region expansion of G6 instances
▪️ SageMaker AI inference region expansion of G7e instances
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio custom visual transforms
▪️ SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenSearch
▪️ Secrets Manager secret update notifications to EventBridge
▪️ SES introduces pricing plans
▪️ SES simplifies sending emails over SMTP using Mail Manager
▪️ WorkSpaces Applications OneDrive and Google Drive on Multi-Session fleets