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19 Aug 2026 edition
AWS

Launching External Web Access for Web Search on Amazon Bedrock

Earlier this month, we announced Web Search on Amazon Bedrock, a built-in server-side tool that allows you to ground model responses with current web knowledge, while maintaining data within your secured AWS environment…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-java-v2: AWS SDK for Java v2 2.54.0

2.54.0 2026-08-19 AWS Batch Features AWS Batch now supports managing CloudWatch Container Insights on compute environments via CreateComputeEnvironment and UpdateComputeEnvironment. AWS Elemental MediaLive Features AWS…

Source: AWS SDK Java v2 Releases aws-sdk-java-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-js-v3: v3.1114.0

3.1114.0(2026-08-19) New Features client-eks: Adds support for EKS cluster certificate authorities (CA) (a1316eae) client-bedrock-agentcore-control: AgentCore Memory now supports Flexible Namespaces (65c89d6d)…

Source: AWS SDK JS v3 Releases aws-sdk-js-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-sdk-go-v2: Release (2026-08-19)

Module Highlights github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/accountaccess: v1.1.0 Feature: Adds throttling exceptions to operation outputs that were previously inconsistent with other operations.…

Source: AWS SDK Go v2 Releases aws-sdk-go-v2-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-cdk: v2.266.0

Features adding controlPlaneScalingConfig to Cluster (#36863) (94e5c1a) update L1 CloudFormation resource definitions (#38578) (ccd2633) Bug Fixes ec2: add DependsOn VPCGatewayAttachment to IPv6 default route (#37893)…

Source: AWS CDK Releases aws-cdk-automation
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-cli: 2.36.27

Tagging 2.36.27 release.

Source: AWS CLI Releases aws-cli-automation
AWS

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in GovCloud Regions

Starting today, customers can use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West), for ingesting data into their Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections.…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS

AWS Marketplace launches support for Amazon Lightsail

Today, AWS Marketplace announces support for launching select Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon Lightsail. Customers who want simple, predictable pricing and a streamlined instance-creation experience can now…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS

Amazon Quick adds deny by default for custom permissions

Amazon Quick custom permissions now include deny by default, a governance setting that automatically restricts new AI capabilities before they reach users. Previously, new AI capabilities were available to all users on…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS

AWS IAM now supports 20 managed policies per role by default

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) has increased the default quota for managed policies per role from 10 to 20. This higher default quota reduces the need to make Service Quota requests when following IAM best…

Source: AWS What's New aws@amazon.com
AWS GitHub

aws/aws-cli: 2.36.26

Tagging 2.36.26 release.

Source: AWS CLI Releases aws-cli-automation
AWS

Set up your AI coding agent to build with AWS Step Functions

AWS Step Functions has added a Copy agent prompt button to the console that configures your AI coding agent with Step Functions skills and an MCP server in one step. Paste the prompt into Claude Code, Kiro CLI, Cursor,…

Source: AWS Compute Blog D Surya Sai