Around August 2026 AWS Latest News Blog Catch-Up – Study Session Materials for AWS Trend Check
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こんにちは、臼田です。
みなさん、AWSの最新情報はキャッチアップできていますか？(挨拶
社内で行っている AWSトレンドチェック勉強会 の資料をブログにしました。
AWSトレンドチェック勉強会とは、「日々たくさん出るAWSの最新情報とかをブログでキャッチアップして、みんなでトレンディになろう」をテーマに実施している社内勉強会です。
このブログサイトであるDevelopersIOには日々ありとあらゆるブログが投稿されますが、その中でもAWSのアップデートを中心に私の独断と偏見で面白いと思ったもの(あと自分のブログの宣伝)をピックアップして、だいたい月1で簡単に紹介しています。
Hello, this is Usuda.
Is everyone keeping up with the latest AWS news? (greetings)
I've turned the materials from our internal AWS Trend Check Study Group into a blog post.
The AWS Trend Check Study Group is an internal study group held under the theme of "Let's catch up on the flood of daily AWS news and updates via blog posts, and all become trendy together."
On this blog site, DevelopersIO, all kinds of blog posts are published every day. Among them, I pick up what I personally find interesting — mainly AWS updates (plus some self-promotion of my own posts) — and briefly introduce them about once a month.
In August, we picked up 116 items. Still a lot as usual, but in addition to straightforward AI-related updates, there were also many updates making things like IAM and logs easier to use with AI.
By the way, if you just want to keep up with the latest AWS news, 週刊AWS is recommended, and for generative AI, 週刊生成AI with AWS is great, but reading DevelopersIO blogs gives you a different kind of knowledge, commentary, and fun compared to the official AWS blog, so I choose blogs as my way to catch up. There's also lots of interesting information beyond AWS!
Let's go!
Summary Posts
Summary of AWS Technical Support Notes for July 2026 1/116
Note: One question, one answer format
Classmethod Data Analytics Newsletter (AWS Data Analysis Edition) – August 2026 2/116
Note: Including the introduction of a log analysis-focused engine (Optimized) for Amazon OpenSearch Service
Bedrock
Enabling MCP 2026-07-28 in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway 3/116
Note: Handshakes and such are gone, making it more efficient
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra / Luna on Amazon Bedrock Got a Price Cut 4/116
Note: It got cheaper
Checking IAM Principal-Based Cost Allocation (Amazon Bedrock) from CUR 2.0 5/116
Note: You can aggregate costs per person
[New Feature] Confirmed GPT-5.6 "1M Token Context" Support on Bedrock with Luna 6/116
Note: It's been expanded
Trying Web Search for GPT Models on Amazon Bedrock with GPT-5.6 Luna 7/116
Note: web_search support is great
AgentCore Runtime Instances Released! 8/116
Note: Can use GPU and run for up to 14 days
Connector Type Added to AgentCore Gateway HTTP Targets — Connecting to AgentCore Memory 9/116
Note: Can provide access to Memory via Gateway
Trying the Rate Limiting Feature Added to AgentCore Gateway 10/116
Note: Can be used for per-user quotas
Trying Out OpenAI GPT-5.6 Now Available via bedrock-runtime 11/116
Note:
Trying xAI's Grok 4.6 Available on Amazon Bedrock via Mantle 12/116
Note: Available now
Trying external_web_access Enabled for Amazon Bedrock Web Search with GPT-5.6 Luna 13/116
Note: It can now truly go out to the web
Trying the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Web Search Tool Now Available in the Tokyo Region with Japanese Queries 14/116
Note: Available in AgentCore too
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol on Amazon Bedrock Got a Price Cut 15/116
Note:
AI / Machine Learning
[Update] Storage Interface Added to Strands Agents 16/116
Note: TypeScript has broader coverage
[Update] AWS DevOps Agent Now Supports Connecting Multiple AWS Accounts/Regions to the Same GitHub Organization/User 17/116
Note: Existing installations can be reused
Reviewing a Framework for Deciding Whether and How to Design AI Credit Pricing for SaaS 18/116
Note: Useful for pricing design when incorporating AI features
Deploying Hugging Face Models to Amazon SageMaker AI with "One Click" from the Model Page 19/116
Note: Easily bring models into your own account
[Amazon SageMaker] Getting Qwen3 1.7B to Answer Questions with Markdown Tables Using Serverless Full Fine-Tuning (FFT) 20/116
Note: Advanced full fine-tuning (FFT), compared to LoRA, can be executed with the press of a button
Building a Business Ontology with AWS Context Ontology Accelerator (COA) 21/116
Note: An OSS tool for AI to correctly understand internal data and business rules and make safe decisions
Trying AWS Transform Continuous Modernization 22/116
Note: Continuously scans repositories and fixes deprecated frameworks etc. via PRs
DevOps Agent Permission Guardrails Now Support ReadOnlyAccess Policy 23/116
Note: Can broadly allow Read permissions, making things easier
Trying Out AWS DevOps Agent Now That It Can Update Resources 24/116
Note: Can make changes with an approval step in between
Running Deep Health Checks On-Demand for Amazon SageMaker HyperPod 25/116
Note: There are connectivity checks and stress checks
Quick
[Update] TopicV2 Management API Added to Amazon QuickSight, Enabling CRUD Operations on New Topics via API 26/116
Note: API for operating the new topic side has arrived
[Update] Trying Natural Language Queries Across 4 Datasets with Amazon QuickSight Multi-Dataset Topics 27/116
Note: No longer need to pre-JOIN data before AI data analysis
[Update] Checking Amazon Q's New Ability to Set Per-User Agent Time and Storage Usage Limits 28/116
Note: Easier to manage
[Update] Amazon Q Now Supports Customizable No-Data Messages for Visuals 29/116
Note: You can display things like contact information
[Update] Trying Out the "Approval Policy" Added to Amazon Q Asset Sharing 30/116
Note: When sharing assets within an organization, you can now require an approver's check.
[Update] Amazon Q's Custom Permission Management Has Been Revamped — Profile Assignment Can Now Be Done Entirely in the Console 31/116
Note: Happy to have a screen for it
Kiro
[Update] Kiro IDE 1.0.242 Now Lets You Make Requests to Kiro Directly from the Editor's Right-Click Menu or Quick Fix 32/116
Note: Context is easier to pass now
[Update] Kiro CLI v3's /spec new Gets an Explanation Step and Auto-Executes After Approval in Plan Mode 33/116
Note: Easier to use
[Update] Trying Out "Kiro Crew," Released to Enable OpenClaw-Style Usage in Kiro CLI 34/116
Note: The icon is cute
[Update] Checking Behavior After the Trust Policy for IAM Role Settings in Kiro Web Was Updated 35/116
Note: It has been updated
[Update] Kiro IDE Powers Now Support Agent Plugins Spec, Allowing Plugins Made for Other Tools to Be Installed Directly 36/116
Note: Plugins compliant with the Agent Plugins spec can now be installed directly as Powers in Kiro
[Update] Kiro IDE 1.0.309 Now Supports AGENTS.md in Subdirectories, Allowing Agent Instructions to Be Separated by Directory Tree 37/116
Note: Previously, Kiro IDE only read files placed directly under the workspace root or in ~/.kiro/steering/
[Update] Checking Session Pinning and Cloud Sessions Now Available in Kiro IDE's Agent Focus Mode 38/116
Note: Very appreciated
Contact Center / AI
[Quick Tip] Amazon Connect Has Become Amazon Connect Customer 39/116
Note: Four components: "System to connect calls (Customer)," "AI for planning (Decisions)," "AI for developing people (Talent)," and "AI for protecting systems (Health)"
Amazon Connect Customer's Pricing Plan Names Have Changed to Connect Customer and Customer Basic 40/116
Note: Just name changes this time
Amazon Connect Customer Offers Preview of Manager Assistance Feature That Lets You Check Contact Center Operations Status in Natural Language 41/116
Note: An AI assistant for administrators
Amazon Connect Customer Now Supports Acquiring and Porting Osaka 06 Numbers 42/116
Note:
Amazon Connect Customer Can Now Automatically Extract Arbitrary Information from Conversations Using Generative AI, Viewable During ACW 43/116
Note: Previously only an overall summary was available, but now specific parts can be extracted
Security
Story of How We as CCoE Tried to Streamline GuardDuty Detection Operations in a Multi-Account Environment Using AWS DevOps Agent 44/116
Note: Great insights
Trying AWS WAF's New "Pre-Parse Text Transformation" Feature via CLI 45/116
Note: It parses things nicely
[Update] AWS IAM Identity Center Multi-Region Support Now Extended to Instances Using Identity Center Directory as the ID Source 46/116
Note: Multi-region support even without external IdP integration!
[Update] AWS Managed Microsoft AD Edition Changes Now Possible from the Management Console 47/116
Note: Edition changes that were previously only possible via API can now be done from the console
[Update] IAM Policy Simulator Has Migrated to the IAM Console with Added Features 48/116
Note: Migrated to the IAM console and can now evaluate SCPs and policy exclusions
[Update] AWS Account Access Management via AWS IAM Identity Center Is Now Optional, Enabling Use Exclusively for Application Access 49/116
Note: For use cases where only Kiro, Amazon Managed Grafana, etc. are used
[Update] Trying Out Account Access Manager, Which Allows Direct Assignment of Existing IAM Roles to IAM Identity Center Users 50/116
Note: Existing roles can now be used
[Update] IAM Now Provides a Role Manager That Automatically Configures IAM Roles 51/116
Note: Apparently you can automatically assign existing roles when creating a Lambda, but permissions tend to be broad
[Update] S3 Can Now Identify "Which Policy Denied Access" Just from the Error Message 52/116
Note: Should make IAM Policy Autopilot even more productive
Based on CA/B Forum Decision, Issuance and Renewal of Public Certificates via Email Validation in AWS Certificate Manager Is Planned for Deprecation 53/116
Note: On September 30, 2027, domain ownership verification via email address will be abolished and DNS validation will become the sole method
Trying Out the New Experience on the AWS Sign-In Page 54/116
Note: Hmm, is social login really needed?
[Update] IAM Policy Autopilot Now Supports Terraform Plan Files 55/116
Note:
[Update] Confirming the First CSPU (Monthly Security Patch) for Amazon Corretto After Updating and Checking the Diff 56/116
Note: Security update cycle shortened from quarterly to monthly
Confirming the AWS IAM Role Managed Policy Limit Expansion (20 Policies) 57/116
Note: May be subtly important
Monitoring / Operations / Management
Trying an In-Place Upgrade of Amazon Managed Grafana from v10.4 to v12.4 58/116
Note: Various breaking changes, so be sure to check
[New Feature] Turning CloudWatch Logs Insights Query Results into a Dynamic Lookup Table 59/116
Note: Lookup Tables can now be created directly from query results and automatically updated
[Update] CloudWatch Managed Prometheus Collectors Now Allow Sending Prometheus Metrics Directly to CloudWatch 60/116
Note: This means you no longer need to set up a separate AMP workspace — everything from Prometheus metric collection to PromQL queries can be done entirely within CloudWatch.
[Update] Checking the isBotEvent Bot Detection Field Added to Amazon SES Open/Click Event Notifications 61/116
Note: The field has been added
[Update] ConfigurationOverrides Parameter Added to Amazon SES for Per-Email Individual Control of Open/Click Tracking 62/116
Note: Enables individual control such as not adding tracking for recipients without consent, for GDPR/CNIL compliance
Trying the Three New Processors in Amazon CloudWatch Pipelines: GeoIP, RDS, and XML 63/116
Note: Can parse Aurora audit logs and error logs, and add geographic information
CloudWatch Agent Now Supports journald — Trying It Out on Amazon Linux 2023 64/116
Note: It handles things nicely
[Update] Maximum Account Count Quota for AWS Organizations Can Now Be Checked in AWS Service Quotas 65/116
Note: You can now view it
[Update] AWS Config Now Supports 15 New Resource Types Including Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker 66/116
Note: You can see a lot more now
Computing
A New Allocation Strategy That Lets You Decide Priority Yourself Has Been Added to AWS Batch — Organized with Diagrams 67/116
Note: A strategy that strictly follows list order on-demand, and one that prioritizes capacity first on Spot while handling order on a best-effort basis
Trying Auto Scaling Automatic Replacement with EC2's New "Application Status Check" Feature 68/116
Note: HTTP/HTTPS checks available for about $7.30/month
[Update] Amazon WorkSpaces Personal Now Supports Nested Virtualization 69/116
Note: WSL works now!
AWS ParallelCluster 3.16.0 Released with New Diagnostic Tool pcluster-diag — Trying It Out 70/116
Note: A command-line tool that runs on-demand diagnostic checks on cluster nodes
Trying AWS Batch Support for Amazon ECS Managed Instances with Both GPU and CPU Instances 71/116
Note: GPUs work in a managed way too
[Update] Capacity Reservation Resource Groups Now Support Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML and Interruptible Capacity Reservations 72/116
Note: You can also configure automatic fallback to on-demand when reservations are exhausted
[Update] Trying Out the Ability to Set Supported Instance Types for EC2 AMIs 73/116
Note: run-instances gets blocked
Networking / Infrastructure
Noticing a "Related Resources" Tab Had Been Added to the VPC Details Page Without Realizing It 74/116
Note: Amazing
AWS Direct Connect SLA Removes DX Location-to-Region Association Requirement 75/116
Note: Easier to meet SLA when using Osaka
Trying Transit Gateway's New Feature: Policy-Based Routing (PBR) 76/116
Note: Can control with 5-tuple and also do implicit DROP
AWS Interconnect - multicloud Now Supports OCI — Checking via AWS CLI 77/116
Note: You can now connect directly to OCI!
[Update] AWS Direct Connect Now Lets You Check Routes Sent and Received via BGP for Virtual Interfaces (VIFs) 78/116
Note: Route information exchanged per virtual VIF can be viewed
[Update] AWS Client VPN Desktop Client Gets Major Update to v6.0 with CLI Support 79/116
Note: All operations previously done via GUI can now be executed from the command line
Data Analytics
Trying the New S3 Tables Feature "Variant Data Type" with EMR Serverless 80/116
Note: JSON can be stored directly in a column and extracted with type specification using JSONPath-style paths
[Update] Trying Out AWS Entity Resolution's Advanced Rule Type Now Supporting Real-Time Matching 81/116
Note: Previously only for batch processing
[Update] Trying Amazon Redshift Data API's Long Polling, List Session, and Flexible Batch Execution 82/116
Note: Can wait synchronously with long polling
[Update] All Upfront Added to Amazon Redshift Serverless 3-Year Serverless Reservations, Enabling Up to 50% Cost Savings 83/116
Note: Up to 50% savings with full upfront payment
Trying Amazon OpenSearch Service with OpenSearch 3.7 Support 84/116
Note: New features for vector compression and fast retrieval
[Update] Trying Anomaly Detection with the New FIXED Mode in AWS Glue Data Quality 85/116
Note: Predicts using a constant baseline to reduce false positives
[Update] Trying One-Click Access to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio from the AWS Glue Console 86/116
Note: Easy to navigate
[Update] Trying Out Automatic Delivery of Amazon Redshift System Tables to Amazon S3 Tables 87/116
Note: Query history, connection logs, and more can be automatically backed up
AWS Glue 6.0 Generally Available with 30% Price Reduction and Apache Iceberg v3 Support — Trying It Out 88/116
Note: Also includes breaking changes from the Apache Spark major version upgrade
[Update] Trying Amazon Redshift's New Support for Concurrent Scaling of Streaming Ingestion from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams 89/116
Note: When the main cluster is busy, processing can automatically be offloaded to a "concurrent scaling cluster"
[Update] Amazon MWAA Serverless Now Supports PythonOperator and BashOperator 90/116
Note: Custom processing and shell scripts can now be run
Databases
[Update] Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2025 Now Available 91/116
Note: First major version upgrade since Amazon RDS for SQL Server 2022 launched about 3 years ago
Trying DynamoDB Cost Optimization with AWS Labs OSS "DynamoDB Optima" for Capacity Mode, Table Class, and Utilization 92/116
Note: A DynamoDB cost optimization tool
[Update] Amazon RDS for SQL Server Audit Logs Can Now Be Delivered Directly to CloudWatch Logs 93/116
Note: With CloudWatch Logs added as an output destination for audit logs (previously S3 only), login failure detection and object change tracking can now be easily implemented with metric filters + alarms.
Trying Amazon DynamoDB's New "Vector Data Support" via CLI 94/116
Note: Vector search is possible, but creating vectors is not
Measuring Initial Capacity Performance of Aurora Serverless v2 Update "Up to 12 ACU in Under 1 Second" 95/116
Note: No longer need to keep a high minimum capacity set in advance
Using Vector Search Added to DynamoDB with Vectorization via Streams and Strands Agents 96/116
Note: The appeal of vector search in DynamoDB might be that you can do vector search together with the place where your business data lives?
[Update] Amazon RDS Now Lets You Check Storage Initialization Progress When Restoring from Snapshot via API 97/116
Note: Easy to understand
Trying Out Amazon RDS for MariaDB 12.3 Now Generally Available (GA) 98/116
Note: MariaDB 12.3 is the new Long-Term Support (LTS) version
Verifying Per-Database ACL with db= in Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey 9.1 99/116
Note: User access can be controlled per database
Trying CloudWatch Database Insights Now Supported by Amazon Aurora DSQL 100/116
Note: Database Insights is here!
[Update] Checking the Babelfish 6.1 Update Contents After Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 18.4 Release 101/116
Note: Lots of various updates
[Update] Confirming Aurora DSQL's New Support for Foreign Key Constraints 102/116
Note: Be careful about how you use it
Checking the Version via Data API After Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.13 Becomes GA 103/116
Note: Compatible MySQL version is 8.0.45.
[Update] Amazon RDS DB Snapshot Full Data Size (Full Snapshot Size) Can Now Be Retrieved via API 104/116
Note: Being able to grasp the actual backup size should be useful for cost decision-making
Container & Serverless
[Update] AWS Lambda now supports Python 3.15 and Node.js 26 runtime via AWS CLI — Let's try it out 105/116
Note: Be aware this is in Preview
Tried building a passkey authentication app for Amazon Cognito using the aws-auth skill 106/116
Note: You can easily build complex "Cognito passkey authentication apps" with AI
Tried directly calling AdminDeleteSoftwareToken in Amazon Cognito to reset TOTP settings 107/116
Note: Can be reset in cases such as when a device is lost
Storage
Tried direct access to backup data using the new "Backup Access Point" feature of AWS Backup for S3 108/116
Note: You can retrieve even a single file from a backup
[Update] Mountpoint for Amazon S3 v1.24.0 now allows memory usage control — Let's check it out 109/116
Note: Can operate with a light footprint
Development Tools & CI/CD
July 2026 Floci Update Summary — A month featuring authorization customization and CloudTrail event logging 110/116
Note: Supports authorization checks for S3 and IAM, and CloudTrail S3 data event logging
Tried disabling the session ID using the AWS CLI environment variable AWS_CLI_SESSION_ID_DISABLED 111/116
Note: Apparently you can disable it, but there's almost no benefit to doing so
Tried pushing an image containing a layer over 50 GB to test Amazon ECR's expanded image layer limit of 200 GB 112/116
Note: That's 4x the previous limit!
[Update] The "Open in IDE" feature in the AWS Lambda console now supports Kiro and Cursor 113/116
Note: Open whichever one you prefer
[Update] Tried out the built-in visual file editor now supported in AWS CloudShell 114/116
Note: This is a welcome addition
Other
Tried the task-level timeout support for WDL workflows in AWS HealthOmics 115/116
Note: Automatically stops infinite loop tasks during development to keep costs down
Tried task-level timeout in Nextflow workflows on AWS HealthOmics (confirming a spec that has been supported for a year) 116/116
Note: Timeout settings are great
Summary
Everyone, did you manage to stay on trend? If there's an update that caught your eye, go ahead and try it out right away!
Let's keep catching up at full speed!
