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AWS releases

September 2026 digest

36 releases

Date	Release	Product	Type
Sep 23	Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency now supports additional AWS Regions and cross-continent configurationsunverified Amazon Aurora and DynamoDBUpdate	Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB	Update
Sep 23	Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Salesforce and Zendesk as native data source connectorsunverified Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Sep 23	Amazon EMR on EKS now supports IPv6 Amazon EKS clustersunverified Amazon Athena and EMRUpdate	Amazon Athena and EMR	Update
Sep 23	Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestionunverified Amazon Kinesis and MSKUpdate	Amazon Kinesis and MSK	Update
Sep 22	AWS Glue Data Quality delivers context-specific rule recommendations in secondsunverified AWS Glue and Lake FormationUpdate	AWS Glue and Lake Formation	Update
Sep 22	Amazon EMR 7.14 is now availableunverified Amazon Athena and EMRUpdate	Amazon Athena and EMR	Update
Sep 22	Amazon EMR introduces Long Term Support with Apache Spark 4.1unverified Amazon Athena and EMRUpdate	Amazon Athena and EMR	Update
Sep 22	Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Sep 22	Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US) Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Sep 22	OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock Amazon BedrockGA	Amazon Bedrock	GA
Sep 18	Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock Amazon BedrockGA	Amazon Bedrock	GA
Sep 18	The new AgentCore Runtime is now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Sep 17	Amazon Quick adds Generate Sheet and image-based analysis creation Amazon Quick SuiteUpdate	Amazon Quick Suite	Update
Sep 16	Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 15	AWS Glue zero-ETL now captures archived Salesforce records AWS Glue and Lake FormationUpdate	AWS Glue and Lake Formation	Update
Sep 15	Amazon SageMaker AI now supports instance preference lists for training and processing jobs Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 15	Analyze your CloudTrail events using natural language in Amazon Q Console Kiro and Amazon QUpdate	Kiro and Amazon Q	Update
Sep 14	AWS Glue zero-ETL adds target table property ownership and conflict detection AWS Glue and Lake FormationUpdate	AWS Glue and Lake Formation	Update
Sep 14	Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 14	Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 14	granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 14	Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 11	Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Sep 11	Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections for Microsoft Power BI and other analytics tools Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 11	Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for faster inference autoscaling and reduced cold starts Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 10	Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available on v0 by Vercel Amazon OpenSearch ServiceUpdate	Amazon OpenSearch Service	Update
Sep 9	Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data source connector Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Sep 9	Amazon Quick activity feed now available on iOS and Android mobile devices Amazon Quick SuiteUpdate	Amazon Quick Suite	Update
Sep 9	Amazon Quick adds always-on agents, a sharper feed, and enterprise controls Amazon Quick SuiteUpdate	Amazon Quick Suite	Update
Sep 9	Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows Amazon Quick SuiteGA	Amazon Quick Suite	GA
Sep 9	Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Sep 8	Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports individual feature updates to lower write latency Amazon SageMakerUpdate	Amazon SageMaker	Update
Sep 8	OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock Amazon BedrockGA	Amazon Bedrock	GA
Aug 21	AWS Glue 6.0 now available with 30% lower price and full Apache Iceberg v3 support AWS Glue and Lake FormationGA	AWS Glue and Lake Formation	GA
Aug 6	Runtime instances: persistent compute for production AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Amazon BedrockUpdate	Amazon Bedrock	Update
Aug 5	Amazon DynamoDB now supports real-time vector search at any scale Amazon Aurora and DynamoDBGA	Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB	GA

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