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AWS announced the email-to-DNS migration path on 13 August 2026 with three hard deadlines attached. The ACM User Guide chapter that documents the migration mentions none of them.
AWS made AgentCore payments generally available on 18 August 2026 in 12 Regions. The pricing page says no additional charge, then bills an API that does not exist and omits both gas fees and a mandatory subscription.
Zendesk now writes two free tiers into its own rate card because containment is not resolution. Five conversational-AI patterns that cut support cost in 2026, and the deflection trap that erases the saving.
AWS raised the Amazon ECR replication rule limit to 25 per registry on 17 August 2026. The quota table shows ap-east-2 still capped at 10, and the 25 unique-destination ceiling is unchanged.
AWS says deny by default is available wherever Amazon Quick is. Its own region table lists 26 regions and marks 8 for agentic features. Mumbai, Ohio and Singapore are not among them.
Amazon Quick's Microsoft Purview DLP shipped 14 August 2026. The user guide caps you at 1 active configuration, skips files over 500 MB, and gives warn no user-visible effect during a knowledge base sync.
Version 1.0.0 of the Anthropic Python SDK landed on PyPI on 20 August 2026. It removes temperature, top_p and top_k from every Messages method, yet the Claude Messages API reference still documents all three.
AWS gave Aurora DSQL a CloudWatch Database Insights metric on 20 August 2026. The mode model does not list DSQL and the AWS Price List API carries no Aurora DSQL Database Insights SKU.
AWS Glue 6.0 went generally available on 21 August 2026 with a 30% price reduction. The cut is version-gated, several meters are excluded, and Iceberg v3 tables cannot be read by Athena SQL.
AWS Lambda MicroVMs went from 5 regions to 10 on 19 August 2026. The AWS pricing API shows Frankfurt and Singapore running about 26% above N. Virginia, and six of the ten regions sit on a 400 GB account quota.
AWS added a task-hours cap to Security Agent on 19 August 2026. The smallest allowed value is 20 hours, and the Price List API rates pen testing at $50.00 per hour, so the floor is $1,000 a test.
AWS announced the rebuilt VPN Client on 13 August 2026, after 6.0.0, 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 had shipped. The rebuild relocates configuration, there is no auto-update, and the requirements now list only Windows 11.
AWS shipped five read-only Managed Dashboards on 14 August 2026 at no additional cost. You cannot schedule one directly, and the duplicate you need runs Cost Explorer API calls billed at $0.01 per request.
Bedrock now attributes bedrock-mantle cost by IAM user or role. The user guide says the finest grain is per usage type per day, tags are not retroactive, and existing CUR 2.0 exports must be recreated.
Anthropic's browser use tool went GA on 19 August 2026. Declaring it costs about 6,600 input tokens per request against 4,500 for computer use, and its own docs contradict the release notes.
Anthropic added allowed_domains and blocked_domains to Claude Managed Agents web tools on 20 August 2026. The Console organization-level list does not reach agent sessions and each list caps at 64 entries.
AWS Clean Rooms can now export Spark logs for SQL queries. The logs are redacted: record counts round down to an order of magnitude, values under 100 report as zero, and error text and stack traces are removed.
Clean Rooms can now enforce minimum aggregation on ad-hoc SQL. The user guide lists a COUNT exemption, a clash with differential privacy, and a cut-down SQL surface the announcement never mentions.
Cloudflare's Bot Preference Sync, announced 21 August 2026, writes robots.txt from your Search, Agent and Training settings. It is category-wide only and replaced Managed Robots.txt on 15 September.
AWS shipped log group tag propagation for CloudWatch Centralization on 19 August 2026. The opt-in carries a rename requirement, a non-adjustable 5 TPS tagging ceiling, and a health field that stays green.
AWS says the three new CloudWatch pipelines processors cost nothing extra. The pipelines documentation says S3 and third-party sources are metered after processing, so every enriched byte is billed as a Custom log.
The 17 August 2026 announcement says recordings now survive across browser tabs. The Amazon Q Developer guide, live on the same day, says the session ends when the tab closes.
Amazon shipped six Corretto lines on 18 August 2026, four weeks after the July release. On five of them the OpenJDK update digits never move, so version-based inventory cannot tell patched from unpatched.
DeepSeek released V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on 21 August 2026 at V4-Flash pricing. Images bill as input tokens with a 384-token ceiling each, and the peak window covers the entire Indian working morning.
