Amazon Polly expands Generative TTS engine with 10 new voices, 2 new regions, and Bidirectional Streaming API

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-polly-expands-TTS-new-voices-and-bidirectional-streaming/

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of 10 new highly expressive Amazon Polly Generative voices across 8 locales: Tiffany (American English), Brian (British English), Aria (New Zealand English), Jasmine (Singapore...

AWS HealthImaging is now available in Europe (London)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-healthimaging-europe-london/

AWS HealthImaging is now available in the AWS Europe (London) Region. AWS HealthImaging is a HIPAA-eligible service that empowers healthcare providers, life sciences organizations, and their software partners to store, analyze, and share medical...

AWS MCP Server (Preview) now with enhanced monitoring and semantic search capability

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-mcp-server-preview-enhanced-monitoring/

Today, AWS announces that the AWS MCP Server (preview) now publishes operational metrics to Amazon CloudWatch and introduces scalable Agent SOPs discovery using semantic similarity. Agent SOPs are pre-built, tested workflows that guide AI...

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime adds WebRTC support for real-time bidirectional streaming

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-bedrock-webrtc/

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports WebRTC for real-time bidirectional streaming between clients and agents, adding to the existing WebSocket protocol support. With WebRTC, developers can build voice agents for browser and mobile...

Amazon EKS announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and new 8XL scaling tier for Provisioned Control Plane clusters

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/amazon-eks-announces-sla-8xl-scaling-tier/

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now offers a 99.99% Service Level Agreement (SLA) for clusters running on Provisioned Control Plane, up from the 99.95% SLA offered on standard control plane. Amazon EKS is also introducing the 8XL...

AWS Firewall Manager launches in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-firewall-manager-launches-ap-nz/

AWS Firewall Manager announces that it is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. AWS Firewall Manager helps cloud security administrators and site reliability engineers protect applications while reducing the operational overhead...

AWS Neuron announces support for Dynamic Resource Allocation with Amazon EKS

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/neuron-eks-dra-support/

AWS announces the Neuron Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) driver for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), bringing Kubernetes-native hardware-aware scheduling to AWS Trainium-based instances. The Neuron DRA driver publishes rich device...

AWS DataSync now supports AWS Secrets Manager for all location types

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-datasync-secrets-manager/

AWS DataSync now supports AWS Secrets Manager for credential management across all location types, including Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Previously, Secrets Manager...

Amazon Redshift supports federated permissions with IAM Identity Center in multiple AWS Regions

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/redshift-federated-permissions-idc-mrr/

Amazon Redshift federated permissions are now supported with AWS IAM Identity Center (IdC) in multiple AWS Regions. You can extend IdC from your primary AWS Region to additional Regions for improved performance through proximity to users and...

AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Sydney, Australia

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-direct-connect-sydney-sy5/

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location at Equinix SY5 in Sydney, Australia. You can now establish private, direct network access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local...