March 2 – March 9, 2026

AWS Shield network security director findings are now available in AWS Security Hub. This update integrates network security insights into the Security Hub platform allowing teams to view DDoS related findings alongside other alerts in one place. It enables quicker analysis and response to network threats by leveraging the familiar Security Hub interface and its automation features for compliance.

AWS simplifies IAM role creation and setup in service workflows. New guided processes automatically propose and configure IAM roles with tailored permissions for specific workflows. Administrators save time and reduce the likelihood of security gaps from overly broad or insufficient permissions.

Multi-party approval now supports approval team baselining. Governance administrators can create and save baseline approval teams applied automatically to workflows ensuring consistency across processes. It helps organizations enforce standardized security and operational controls for managing approvals at enterprise scale.

Amazon Lightsail now offers OpenClaw using Lightsail instances, keeping all AI interactions and data processing within their own AWS account and network boundaries, providing full control over the AI model and data flows, which is critical for meeting regulatory requirements around data privacy and confidentiality in sensitive industries. Also AWS added a new Lightsail WordPress blueprint that simplifies the deployment of WordPress sites, enabling teams to get content management systems up and running quickly while adhering to recommended AWS configurations for high availability.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis. This capability automatically reviews environments to identify optimization opportunities in resource usage scaling behaviors and potential issues affecting application health. Technical leaders receive clear recommendations that help improve performance and reliability without requiring deep manual analysis.

Kiro power brings advanced features and optimizations to Lambda durable functions making it faster and simpler to develop complex stateful serverless applications that maintain execution context across invocations. Development teams experience accelerated timelines for building reliable workflows that handle long running processes in event driven architectures.

Database Savings Plans now supports Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics. Customers can now include these two services in their Database Savings Plans commitments allowing for discounted pricing on usage of OpenSearch for search capabilities and Neptune for graph analytics workloads. This extension provides cost optimization opportunities for organizations that rely on these managed services for data intensive applications.