AWS has announced the general availability of AWS DevOps Agent and AWS Security Agent, alongside updates to its product lifecycle policies. The announcement, made on April 6, 2026, highlights the company’s continued focus on enhancing cloud operations and security measures.
AWS DevOps Agent is designed to aid in cloud operations by investigating incidents, reducing resolution times, and proactively preventing issues. According to AWS, customers like United Airlines, Western Governors University, and T-Mobile have already seen benefits, including accelerated incident response and simplified operations. WGU reported resolution times decreasing from hours to minutes, with preview customers noting up to a 75% reduction in mean time to resolution (MTTR) and a three- to five-fold increase in resolution speed.
AWS Security Agent brings continuous penetration testing into the development lifecycle, functioning as an always-available teammate. LG CNS, HENNGE, and Wayspring are among the early adopters who have reported significant improvements. LG CNS estimates over 50% faster testing at approximately 30% lower costs, with notably fewer false positives.
Both agents are engineered to function across AWS cloud, multicloud, and on-premises environments.
In addition to the agent announcements, AWS has updated its AWS Product Lifecycle Changes guidance, offering customers support for migration and alternatives when service or feature availability changes. Updates made on March 31, 2026, include availability change guides for services in maintenance such as AWS App Runner, AWS Audit Manager, AWS CloudTrail – Lake, AWS Glue – Ray jobs, AWS IoT FleetWise, Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) – Readiness Check, Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Rekognition, and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) – Message Data Protection (MDP).
AWS also provided availability change guides for services in sunset, including AWS Service Management Connector, Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, Amazon WorkMail, and Amazon WorkSpaces – Thin Client, as well as services reaching sunset, such as Amazon Chime SDK – Proxy Sessions.
The company advises customers to consult service documentation or contact AWS Support for specific guidance related to these changes.
Last week’s launches included Amazon ECS Managed Daemons, the new AWS Sustainability console, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Evaluations, AWS Transform custom, Amazon CloudWatch OpenTelemetry Container Insights for Amazon EKS, new compute-optimized instance bundles for Amazon Lightsail, and SHA-256 support for Amazon CloudFront signed URLs and cookies.
Additional updates include resources on architecting for agentic AI development on AWS, optimizing data transfer costs with AWS Network Load Balancer, the AWS World Sports Innovation Cup, techniques to stop AI agent hallucinations, and exploring the global AWS Community through a 3D interactive globe.
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