Amazon SageMaker Inference: 13 New Features for ML Workloads in 2026

Amazon SageMaker AI dropped 13 inference launches in the first half of 2026, covering both fully managed endpoints and HyperPod Inference deployments. The updates tackle real pain points: inference recommendations, capacity-aware instance pools, tiered KV caching, and disaggregated prefill-decode processing to squeeze better performance out of your ML models.