Release & Changelog Watcher — September 24, 2026

Findings

1. [1] 2026-09-24 Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses for enterprise scale

   Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses with a new enhanced Custom event bus that lets you build event-driven applications that decouple teams and can scale with your organization. Create a custom event bus, share it across accounts, and now teams can publish and consume events with strict ordering, open event formats, built-in retention, and support for advanced event transformations. The EventBridge…

2. [2] 2026-09-24 AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud region

   AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Lambda durable functions enable developers to build reliable multi-step applications and AI workflows within the Lambda developer experience. Lambda durable functions extend the Lambda programming model with new primitives in your event handler, such as "step" and "wait", allowing you to checkpoint progress, automatically recover from failures,…

3. [3] 2026-09-24 Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908

   Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for MySQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to three additional years of fixes for critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and bugs beyond a major version's end of standard support date, giving you more time to upgrade to a new major version. You can…

4. [4] 2026-09-24 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment

   Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 is available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 19 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 refines the query performance and autovacuum management capabilities introduced in earlier releases and includes bug fixes and stability improvements since Beta 3. Fixes include…

5. [5] 2026-09-24 Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange

   Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL introduces support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-quantum cryptography options for encrypting your data in-transit. RDS for PostgreSQL versions 18 and higher support modification of the ssl_groups parameter. You can select cryptographic groups from the RDS for PostgreSQL allow list to align with your organization's security standards. Amazon RDS for…

6. [6] 2026-09-24 AWS Network Security Manager is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia) Region

   Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Network Security Manager, a comprehensive network security management solution designed to simplify security policy deployment and enforcement at scale. Network Security Manager supports AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced, with support for AWS Network Firewall soon to follow. AWS Network Security Manager enables security teams to consistently enforce firewall and DDoS protection…

7. [7] 2026-09-24 Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway for scalable LLM inference

   Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway is a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing system that deploys as a single EKS managed add-on on existing SageMaker HyperPod infrastructure with zero application changes. By replacing unintelligent round-robin load balancing with real-time inference-signal-driven routing, it reduces first-token latency by up to 82% and p99 TTFT reductions of 97–98% in mixed-hardware and burst traffic scenarios. The Gateway…

8. [8] 2026-09-24 Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS with Spark Connect

   Amazon EMR on EKS now supports interactive Apache Spark sessions with Spark Connect. Data engineers and data scientists can develop and debug Apache Spark applications interactively from managed notebooks in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio and their own IDEs, such as Jupyter and Visual Studio Code, with Spark running on the Amazon EKS clusters they already operate.   An interactive session…

9. [9] 2026-09-24 Amazon GameLift Servers now available in 5 new regions and 8 Local Zones

   Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. High latency caused by geographic distance between players and servers remains one of the most common challenges in multiplayer game development. This expansion helps game developers and studios address that challenge by bringing Amazon GameLift Servers to 5 new AWS Regions…

10. [10] 2026-09-24 Amazon RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Developer Edition

    Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Multi-AZ deployments using Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server Developer Edition. Multi-AZ deployments maintain a synchronous standby replica in a different Availability Zone and provide automatic failover during infrastructure failure. You can use this capability to build and test high availability configurations in non-production environments using Developer Edition,…

11. [11] 2026-09-24 Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore now supports tagging and tag-based access control

    Amazon ElastiCache now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control (TBAC) for Global Datastore. Previously, ElastiCache supported tagging on all resources except Global Datastore, which prevented customers from applying a single, consistent permission and cost-allocation model across their ElastiCache fleet. With this launch, you can use AddTagsToResource, RemoveTagsFromResource, and ListTagsForResource on a Global Datastore, and reference those tags as conditions…

Sources

1. [1] Amazon EventBridge relaunches event buses for enterprise scale
2. [2] AWS Lambda durable functions are now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud region
3. [3] Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor versions 5.7.44-rds.20260902 and 8.0.46-rds.20260908
4. [4] Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
5. [5] Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports post-quantum TLS key exchange
6. [6] AWS Network Security Manager is now generally available in US East (N. Virginia) Region
7. [7] Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway for scalable LLM inference
8. [8] Run interactive workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS with Spark Connect
9. [9] Amazon GameLift Servers now available in 5 new regions and 8 Local Zones
10. [10] Amazon RDS supports Multi-AZ for SQL Server Developer Edition
11. [11] Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore now supports tagging and tag-based access control