AWS new features in September 2026

Everything AWS shipped in September 2026: 33 releases, grouped by product, each linked to AWS's release notes.

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Amazon Bedrock10

Amazon BedrockSep 23, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Salesforce and Zendesk as native data source connectors

AWS announces Salesforce and Zendesk data source connectors for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers can now sync Salesforce knowledge articles and Zendesk articles and community posts directly into their managed knowledge base.

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Amazon BedrockSep 22, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS

AWS now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next.

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Amazon BedrockSep 22, 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)

AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next.

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Amazon BedrockSep 22, 2026

OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex tasks and software development.

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Amazon BedrockSep 18, 2026

Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock continues to expand its open weight model portfolio with the same security and governance that customers rely on. Today, Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI is generally available on Amazon Bedrock, giving you a powerful new option for coding and knowledge work.

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Amazon BedrockSep 18, 2026

The new AgentCore Runtime is now available in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Today, AWS announces the availability of the next generation of AgentCore Runtime , the serverless microVM compute within Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The new Runtime delivers elastic memory management that reclaims unused memory throughout the session so you pay for actual usage rather than the peak, and consistent cold start times regardless of container...

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Amazon BedrockSep 11, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0

AWS announces the availability of TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 as an embedding model in Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, enabling customers to create multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content.

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Amazon BedrockSep 9, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base adds APIs and console support for debugging document-level access control

AWS announces the CheckIngestedDocumentAcl and GetIngestedDocumentAcl APIs for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, giving customers a self-service way to debug document access issues and audit document-level permissions.

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Amazon BedrockSep 9, 2026

Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data source connector

AWS announces the Confluence Data Center data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers running self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances can now crawl blogs and pages from their Confluence spaces directly into their managed knowledge base.

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Amazon BedrockSep 8, 2026

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock

Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality writing and design, and advanced computer and browser use to demanding business workflows.

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Amazon SageMaker9

Amazon SageMakerSep 16, 2026

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports serverless model customization for the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model using supervised fine-tuning (SFT), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT).

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Amazon SageMakerSep 15, 2026

Amazon SageMaker AI now supports instance preference lists for training and processing jobs

Today, Amazon SageMaker AI announces instance preference lists for training and processing jobs, making it easier and faster to find compute capacity for your workloads. Many AI training, fine-tuning, and data processing workloads run comparably well on any of several instance types or sizes.

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Amazon SageMakerSep 14, 2026

Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Google DeepMind's Gemma-4-31B-it-assistant and NVIDIA's Gemma-4-31B-IT-NVFP4 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers.

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Amazon SageMakerSep 14, 2026

Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

Mistral AI's Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512 and Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers.

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Amazon SageMakerSep 14, 2026

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

NVIDIA's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 and Alibaba's Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-Diffusers models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers.

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Amazon SageMakerSep 14, 2026

granite-speech-4.1-2b, kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and OpenFold3 models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

BM's granite-speech-4.1-2b, Kakao's kanana-2-30b-a3b-instruct, and the OpenFold Consortium's OpenFold3 models are now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, expanding the portfolio of foundation models available to AWS customers.

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Amazon SageMakerSep 11, 2026

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for faster inference autoscaling and reduced cold starts

Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching, an inference optimization that pre-loads model weights and container images onto cluster nodes so pods start in seconds instead of minutes. When running LLM inference at scale for workloads like chat assistants, agentic pipelines, RAG, and document analysis, cold start is a real bottleneck.

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Amazon SageMakerSep 11, 2026

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections for Microsoft Power BI and other analytics tools

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports ODBC connections, so data users can connect Microsoft Power BI and other ODBC-compatible tools directly to governed data in SageMaker Unified Studio projects using the Amazon Athena ODBC driver.

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Amazon SageMakerSep 8, 2026

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports individual feature updates to lower write latency

Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed capability that makes it easy to compute, store, and retrieve features for training and deploying AI models. SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature-level writes, a new capability for updating individual features in a record.

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Amazon Quick Suite4

Amazon Quick SuiteSep 17, 2026

Amazon Quick adds Generate Sheet and image-based analysis creation

Amazon Quick now expands Generate Analysis with two new ways to create dashboards faster. You can generate a single sheet inside an existing analysis by describing it in natural language, and you can generate a new analysis from an image of an existing dashboard.

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Amazon Quick SuiteSep 9, 2026

Amazon Quick activity feed now available on iOS and Android mobile devices

The Amazon Quick activity feed is now available on the Amazon Quick mobile app for iOS and Android, keeping you connected to your most important work from anywhere. The activity feed is your single, prioritized view of everything that needs your attention across your enterprise communications and tools, so you don't have to check each one separately.

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Amazon Quick SuiteSep 9, 2026

Amazon Quick adds always-on agents, a sharper feed, and enterprise controls

Today, Amazon Quick offers new capabilities that make it easier to organize your work, govern it across an organization, and trust the answers it produces. These capabilities build on Amazon Quick across desktop and mobile, bringing enterprise-grade management, richer collaboration, and always-on intelligence to teams wherever they work.

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Amazon Quick SuiteSep 9, 2026

Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows

The Amazon Quick desktop app is now generally available on macOS and Windows. The desktop app brings the full power of Amazon Quick to your computer, working directly with your local files and staying connected to your calendar, email, and business apps in the background.

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Amazon Athena and EMR3

Amazon Athena and EMRSep 23, 2026

Amazon EMR on EKS now supports IPv6 Amazon EKS clusters

Today, AWS announces that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports running workloads on IPv6 Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Amazon EMR on EKS enables data platform and analytics teams to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Flink on Amazon EKS.

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Amazon Athena and EMRSep 22, 2026

Amazon EMR 7.14 is now available

Amazon EMR 7.14 is now available with new features across Amazon EMR on EC2, Amazon EMR on EKS, and Amazon EMR Serverless, along with version upgrades for additional applications. This release also upgrades Apache Spark to 3.5.8 and Apache Iceberg to 1.10.1.

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Amazon Athena and EMRSep 22, 2026

Amazon EMR introduces Long Term Support with Apache Spark 4.1

Amazon EMR introduces Long Term Support (LTS) releases, starting with emr-spark-8.1.0 and Apache Spark 4.1. With LTS, designated versions of the AWS runtime for Apache Spark receive 36 months of support. Amazon EMR provides LTS releases with fixes for critical and high severity security, bug, and data-corruption issues, subject to availability.

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AWS Glue and Lake Formation3

AWS Glue and Lake FormationSep 22, 2026

AWS Glue Data Quality delivers context-specific rule recommendations in seconds

AWS Glue Data Quality now generates data quality rules in seconds, reducing the time to establish data quality checks for your tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You get a ready-to-use set of rules with full coverage across every column, with no manual setup, so you can move from raw data to trusted data faster while authoring pipelines.

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AWS Glue and Lake FormationSep 15, 2026

AWS Glue zero-ETL now captures archived Salesforce records

AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations for Salesforce now capture archived records in your target tables, giving you a complete replica of your Salesforce data for analytics and reporting. Archived records are identified and reflected accurately through the isArchived field, so your analytical data stays fully in sync with your Salesforce source.

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AWS Glue and Lake FormationSep 14, 2026

AWS Glue zero-ETL adds target table property ownership and conflict detection

AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations now detect table property conflicts and track integration ownership. When you configure a source table and target catalog, Glue associates the resulting table properties with the owning integration, so two integrations can no longer be pointed at the same target table without your knowledge.

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Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB1

Amazon Aurora and DynamoDBSep 23, 2026

Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency now supports additional AWS Regions and cross-continent configurations

Starting today, Amazon DynamoDB global tables with multi-Region strong consistency (MRSC) is available in five additional AWS Regions: Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore), bringing the total number of supported Regions to 15.

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Amazon Kinesis and MSK1

Amazon Kinesis and MSKSep 23, 2026

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces Service-Managed Partition Keys for simplified data ingestion

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports service-managed partition keys for On-Demand Standard and On-Demand Advantage streams, automatically distributing records across shards without requiring customers to specify partition keys to publish data.

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Kiro and Amazon Q1

Kiro and Amazon QSep 15, 2026

Analyze your CloudTrail events using natural language in Amazon Q Console

AWS CloudTrail, a service that records API activity across your AWS account for security auditing, compliance, and operational troubleshooting, now integrates with Amazon Q Console to help you investigate your AWS account activity using natural language.

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Amazon OpenSearch Service1

Amazon OpenSearch ServiceSep 10, 2026

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available on v0 by Vercel

You can now build full-stack search and AI applications in minutes using Amazon OpenSearch Serverless on v0 by Vercel, an AI-powered platform that transforms your ideas into production-ready web applications.

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