AWS Releases
Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
Tracking 681 AWS releases · Updated
- Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsaws-s3aws-iam ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0: New resources, breaking change, and enhancements
HashiCorp's AWS provider has released version 6.42.0, introducing multiple new resources and enhancements across various AWS services. A notable breaking change affects `aws_mq_configuration` resource destruction, now requiring explicit `mq:DeleteConfiguration` IAM permissions or opting into `skip_destroy`. This release adds new data sources and list resources for services including EC2, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and EBS, benefiting engineers managing cloud infrastructure via Terraform.
breaking feature patch announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.41.0 adds new resources and enhancements
HashiCorp has released version 6.41.0 of the AWS provider for Terraform, introducing numerous new resources and enhancing existing ones. Key additions include new resources for API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudWatch, NAT Gateway, and SNS, along with improvements to ECS task definitions, Opensearch domains, and various API Gateway and Autoscaling configurations. These updates provide broader IaC coverage for AWS services and address several bug fixes, benefiting engineers and architects managing AWS infrastructure.
feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraaws ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.40.0 Adds New Data Sources and Resources
HashiCorp has released version 6.40.0 of the AWS Terraform provider, introducing several new data sources and resources, including expanded support for AWS OpenSearch Serverless and S3 Files. Key enhancements include new attributes for MSK cluster connectivity and AWS Config resources, alongside several bug fixes. These updates primarily benefit engineers and architects managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, providing more granular control and broader service coverage.
feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsgadeprecationengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-dynamodbaws-eks ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.39.0: New Data Sources and Bug Fixes
This release introduces several new data sources for IAM, NetworkManager, and AWS UXC, alongside new list and regular resources for EKS, Organizations, SageMaker, and Workmail. Enhancements include attribute additions and support for resource identities across various services. Several bug fixes are also included, notably addressing issues with EKS access entry tags, service principal names, DynamoDB table creation timeouts, and Elasticache Serverless Cache parameters.
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AWS ships hundreds of service updates a month across EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, EKS and the rest of the catalogue — far more than anyone can follow by reading the official What's New feed. ReleaseBytes ingests announcements from AWS's official release channels and the Terraform AWS provider changelog, summarises each one in plain English, and tags anything that is a breaking change, security advisory or deprecation so you can see at a glance whether it affects your workloads.
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