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Developer changelog updates for Jul 22, 2026
Daily archive for Jul 22, 2026: product-level counts, tags, and every published update from this date.
Updates in Jul 22, 2026
Added links to additional binary downloads in the changelog
Compute-optimized C7a instances are now available in the US West (N. California) region.
General‑purpose EC2 M8a instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region.
M8id instances now available in the Europe (Ireland) region, expanding instance offerings
Network Load Balancer now supports listener rules to route traffic to target groups based on source IP address type (IPv4 vs IPv6).
Introduced real‑time matching with advanced rule sets (Exact, ExactManyToMany, AND/OR) via the GenerateMatchId API.
Added support for encrypting Lambda durable execution data with customer‑managed AWS KMS keys.
Security and critical updates released for Corretto 26.0.2, 25.0.4, 21.0.12, 17.0.20, 11.0.32, and 8u502.
AWS Organizations quota for resource control policies (RCPs) increased from 1,000 to 2,000 per organization.
Introduced a new Copilot usage metrics impact dashboard for enterprise administrators and organization owners
Adds support for G7 instances (ml.g7.xlarge to ml.g7.48xlarge) in SageMaker AI inference, delivering up to 4.6x faster performance than G6.
GitHub Enterprise Server will reject support bundle uploads starting August 18 2026
Added support for EC2 placement groups (cluster, spread, partition) in EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter node pools.
Default metric ingestion now uses Datadog v3 intake for Datadog destinations, with configurable flags to enable or disable v3 globally or per endpoint.
Secrets Manager now publishes secret value change events directly to Amazon EventBridge.
AWS Direct Connect adds 100 Gbps dedicated connections at the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru.
Auto mode now utilizes the new Cursor Router engine