CCloud Releases
Home
Following

Cloud Releases

Service catalogues and updates come from each provider's public product listing and announcements.

Explore

  • Home
  • Latest updates
  • Following

About

  • About
  • Contact
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use

Providers

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Cloudflare

Not affiliated with any cloud provider. Product names and logos belong to their owners.

  1. Providers
  2. ›Amazon Web Services
  3. ›Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
  4. ›Update

Region•Oct 12, 2026

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)AWS · Storage

The Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now available in 4 additional AWS Regions: Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Africa (Cape Town).

Amazon S3 Express One Zone is a high-performance, single-Availability Zone storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. S3 Express One Zone delivers data access speed up to 10x faster and request costs up to 80% lower than S3 Standard. It enables workloads such as machine learning training, interactive analytics, and key-value caching in AI search engines to achieve fast data access with high durability and availability.

With this expansion, S3 Express One Zone is now available in 19 AWS Regions. For pricing details, visit the S3 pricing page. To learn more, visit the product page and documentation.

Read the original announcement↗

More from Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

All Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) updates →

  1. Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

    Amazon S3 Vectors metadata pre-filtering is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Pre-filtering evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective.

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)•Region•Oct 9, 2026

  2. Amazon S3 Object Lock variable retention with event holds is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions

    Amazon S3 Object Lock support for variable retention with event holds is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West).

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)•Region•Oct 1, 2026

  3. Amazon S3 Tables now support up to 100 table buckets per AWS Region in an AWS account

    , increased from 10. This allows you to create up to 1 million tables per AWS Region in an AWS account.

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)•Region•Oct 1, 2026

  4. Amazon S3 Vectors introduces metadata pre-filtering for up to 5x higher recall on filtered search

    Amazon S3 Vectors now supports pre-filtering, which evaluates metadata filters before running similarity search, returning up to 5x more of the matching vectors when your filter is selective.

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)•Feature•Sep 30, 2026

  5. Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types

    Amazon S3 Tables add support for geometry, geography, unknown, and nanosecond timestamp data types, along with column default values, as defined in the Apache Iceberg Version 3 (V3) specification.

    Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)•Feature•Sep 30, 2026