# May 2026 AWS announcement triage checklist (July 2026)

Use when a What’s New item hits Slack. Verify dates/Regions on the official What’s New page before changing production.

| Announcement (May 2026)                | GA date    | Adopt? | Owner | Notes                                                                                 |
| -------------------------------------- | ---------- | ------ | ----- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| AWS MCP Server + Agent Toolkit         | 2026-05-06 |        |       | Regions at GA: **us-east-1**, **eu-central-1**; no MCP fee — pay for API/Bedrock/etc. |
| AWS for SAP MCP on AgentCore           | 2026-05-01 |        |       | Container free; pay AgentCore + OData traffic                                         |
| Amazon Quick ↔ New Relic agents        | 2026-05-05 |        |       | Only if New Relic + Quick already in stack                                            |
| Next-gen Resilience Hub                | 2026-05-28 |        |       | Opt-in migration; 15 commercial Regions                                               |
| EventBridge Scheduler +619 SDK actions | 2026-05-12 |        |       | Replace Lambda-only wrappers                                                          |
| HealthLake CMS-0057-F APIs             | 2026-05-29 |        |       | Payer deadline **2027-01-01** — not a certification                                   |
| EMR Serverless Spark Connect           | May 2026   |        |       | EMR release **7.13+**; interactive vs batch                                           |

## Filters

1. Solves a **current** pain?
2. **GA** (not preview) with SLA you accept?
3. Migration effort vs TCO?

## Monday smoke (MCP)

- Sandbox account only
- IAM scoped to read-only or named services
- CloudTrail + CloudWatch on before first write API