Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, expanding high-performance GPU computing options for AI workloads.
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Every ClipRaptor briefing sourced from AWS What's New, with a direct link to the original publisher page. Page 6 of 9: briefings 151-180, published Aug 17, 2026 to Aug 20, 2026.
Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control (OAC) for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points
Amazon CloudFront now supports Origin Access Control for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points, allowing customers to restrict access to designated CloudFront distributions without custom Lambda@Edge functions.
Amazon EKS now supports certificate authority (CA) rotation with automated lifecycle management
Amazon EKS now offers automated certificate authority (CA) rotation with lifecycle management to maintain secure cluster operations as original CAs near expiration.
AWS Partner Central agents MCP Server now supports OAuth with AWS Sign-In
AWS now allows partners to access Partner Central agents via OAuth through AWS Sign-In, eliminating the need for additional authentication software or manual proxy setups.
Generative AI Inference Recommendation for Amazon SageMaker now available in the SageMaker AI Studio
Amazon SageMaker AI Studio now offers Generative AI Inference Recommendations to help users select optimal inference configurations for production workloads with minimal manual effort.
Amazon Redshift introduces long-term system table retention with Amazon S3 Tables integration
Amazon Redshift now allows long-term retention of system table data by integrating with Amazon S3 Tables, enabling compliance and auditing without custom ETL pipelines.
AWS Direct Connect introduces inbound prefix controls and higher prefix scale
AWS Direct Connect now allows customers to allocate up to 1,000 IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes per virtual interface, increasing the previous limit of 100 prefixes.
AWS Marketplace now supports category-based notifications and multi-channel delivery for partners
AWS Marketplace partners can now route notifications by category and channel, replacing a single inbox with targeted delivery via email, mobile app, or chat platforms.
Launching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock
AWS has expanded Web Search on Amazon Bedrock to allow direct retrieval of public web content for real-time responses, while maintaining an option to restrict searches to an internal AWS index for sensitive use cases.
Web Search in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds domain and published date filtering, expands to Europe and Asia Pacific
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore’s Web Search tool now allows domain and published-date filtering, enabling agents to restrict sources and time windows per request, and is expanding to Europe and Asia Pacific regions.
Amazon CloudWatch log Centralization now supports log group tag propagation
AWS CloudWatch Centralization now propagates log group tags from source to destination accounts, enabling consistent cost tracking, ownership identification, and compliance enforcement across centralized logs.
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines adds GeoIP, RDS, and XML processors
AWS added three new processors to CloudWatch pipelines to parse RDS logs, XML payloads, and enrich IP addresses with geographic data, improving log queryability without extra cost.
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports third-party models on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now monitors third-party foundation models on Amazon Bedrock, including Anthropic Claude, alerting users to unusual spending patterns automatically.
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud Regions
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding its managed data ingestion service to 19 regions for processing and indexing data into Amazon OpenSearch...
AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
AWS opened a fourth Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region on 14 May 2025, adding new AI and ML capacity and improving fault tolerance for customers in eu-west-2.
AWS announces a new Availability Zone in the Europe (London) Region
AWS has launched a fourth Availability Zone in its Europe (London) Region, expanding cloud capacity and introducing next-generation AI and ML infrastructure for customers.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs is now available in 5 additional AWS regions
AWS Lambda MicroVMs expands to five new regions, bringing VM-level isolation and near-instant execution to 10 total regions for secure, stateful code deployment.
Amazon Quick adds deny by default for custom permissions
AWS Quick introduces deny-by-default for custom AI permissions, automatically restricting new capabilities unless explicitly allowed by administrators.
Amazon Bedrock now supports SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 with Cross Region Inferencing
AWS now offers SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.6 on Amazon Bedrock with cross-region inference, enabling higher throughput and lower costs while supporting US data residency requirements.
Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI models in India
Amazon Bedrock now offers OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 models (Terra and Luna) in India with in-country inference, enabling data residency compliance while supporting cross-region scaling.
AWS IAM identity federation to external services is now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud Region
AWS IAM now supports outbound identity federation in the European Sovereign Cloud Region, enabling secure authentication with external services using short-lived JWTs instead of long-term credentials.
Amazon Corretto August 2026 Critical Security Patch Updates
Amazon Web Services released critical security patches for multiple Amazon Corretto OpenJDK versions on August 18, 2026, addressing vulnerabilities in production-ready distributions.
AgentCore payments is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS has launched AgentCore payments in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling AI agents to autonomously discover, access, and pay for APIs, MCPs, and content with built-in security and observability.
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports data profiling and anomaly detection
AWS adds data profiling and anomaly detection to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, enabling automated statistical analysis and drift detection for datasets at rest and in transit.
Amazon MWAA Serverless now supports PythonOperator and BashOperator
AWS has expanded Amazon MWAA Serverless to include PythonOperator and BashOperator, enabling direct execution of Python functions and shell scripts without additional infrastructure.
Amazon EC2 R8i instances are now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) region
AWS launched Amazon EC2 R8i instances in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region, featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than prior Intel-based instances.
IAM Policy Autopilot now supports Terraform plan files
AWS announced IAM Policy Autopilot now generates IAM policies from Terraform plan files, enabling more precise access controls for infrastructure deployments without manual policy writing.
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon RDS now offers PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 in its Database Preview Environment, enabling users to test pre-release features including improved query performance and autovacuum management before general availability.
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports Nested Virtualization
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports nested virtualization, allowing developers to run hypervisor-dependent tools directly on Windows and Linux workspaces without additional hardware.
Amazon ECR now supports 25 replication rules per registry
Amazon ECR has raised the replication rule limit per registry from 10 to 25, allowing customers to distribute container images across more regions and accounts without consolidating configurations.