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AWS News May 18 - May 24
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- AWS News Weekly
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- May 25, 2026
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- 866
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Summary
This week: Aurora MySQL 8.4 reaches GA with stronger security defaults, ECS deployments gain pause-and-continue controls for approval workflows, and Security Hub now detects unused IAM access across your organization. Plus DocumentDB Serverless gets major performance boosts, SAM CLI supports CloudFormation Language Extensions, and a new Istanbul Local Zone brings single-digit millisecond latency to Türkiye. Secrets & Identity Secrets Manager Agent : Pre-fetching for batch caching, IAM role assumption for cross-account Secrets Manager : Managed rotation for Datadog API keys and Snowflake tokens Security Hub : Detects unused IAM access across org, generates least-privilege policies Compute & Containers ECS : Pause/continue deployment controls with 14-day timeouts, approval workflows ECS + EBS : Now available in GovCloud regions Elastic VMware Service : 32 ESXi hosts per environment (2x increase) Lightsail CDN : IPv6-only instance origins supported Data & Analytics Redshift : Direct writes to Iceberg tables, ALTER TABLE for partitioning DocumentDB Serverless : v8.0 with 7x query latency, 30x faster vector index builds Aurora MySQL 8.4 : GA with TLS 1.2/1.3 enforced, automated upgrade prechecks CloudWatch Logs Insights : 13 new commands (base64 decode, logfmt parse, geo distance) Keyspaces : Expanded to new Asia Pacific regions ML & AI SageMaker Studio : GPU reservation via Flexible Training Plans, up to 65% savings SageMaker HyperPod : Inference payload capture to S3 for training/evaluation SageMaker endpoints : OpenAI-compatible APIs (works with LangChain, Strands) SageMaker Unified Studio : Glue Data Quality rules, auto connector provisioning, business metadata Bedrock : Custom tagging for inference calls (team, project, environment) Infrastructure & Networking Local Zo…