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 682 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
AWS Billing Conductor Adds Billing Transfer Inventory and Notifications
AWS Billing Conductor now provides a new Billing Transfer Inventory page in the console to help customers identify accounts that have accepted billing transfer invites but lack pro forma billing data access. This feature enhances visibility into billing data gaps, ensuring accounts are properly configured. Customers can also opt-in to daily notifications via AWS User Notifications and Amazon EventBridge for summaries of incomplete billing transfers, with notifications delivered through various channels.
feature - AWS What's New infraaws ·
AWS Transform adds network modernization and multi-format import
AWS Transform now offers a network modernization engine to optimize constructs like naming, sizing, and security, surfacing conflicts before deployment. It also accepts network configuration files in any format, streamlining migrations. These features are available in all AWS Transform Target Regions, reducing manual effort and accelerating deployment.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Local Zone available in Istanbul, Türkiye
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye, making its infrastructure closer to end users. This expansion aims to reduce latency, meet data residency needs, and support modern cloud workloads. The zone offers access to EC2 instances, S3, EBS, ECS, EKS, VPC, Direct Connect, and Application Load Balancer, and is accessible via the EC2 console or API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Transfer Family web apps support federated IAM Identity Center permissions
AWS Transfer Family web apps now support federated permissions with IAM Identity Center across multiple AWS Regions. This change reduces latency and improves reliability by allowing web apps to be created in Regions where IAM Identity Center configurations have been replicated, eliminating the need to reconfigure user credentials. Administrators can manage permissions using existing identities, and users can sign in with their current credentials. The feature is available now.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3aws-eksaws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod adds data capture for inference workloads
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports data capture for inference workloads, recording request and response payloads to Amazon S3. This feature provides crucial visibility for generative AI deployments, enabling drift detection, troubleshooting, and model improvement without custom logging pipelines. It is available for SageMaker HyperPod clusters using the EKS orchestrator in all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerenergyaws-s3 ·
Amazon MWAA Adds Support for Apache Airflow 3.2
Amazon MWAA now supports Apache Airflow 3.2, offering new data-aware scheduling and developer productivity enhancements for data pipelines on AWS. This update allows for more precise pipeline control through asset partitioning and improves human-in-the-loop capabilities with enhanced audit history. The new version is available for new environments and upgrades from Airflow 2.11+ via the AWS Management Console.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityinfraawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-lambda ·
Amazon Inspector now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region
AWS announces the expansion of its automated vulnerability management service, Amazon Inspector, to the Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region. This move extends security coverage to customers in this new region, enabling continuous vulnerability assessments and automated scanning of EC2 instances, container images, and Lambda functions. New users are eligible for a 15-day free trial to evaluate the service's capabilities and associated costs.
announcement feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS adds pause and continue controls for service deployments
Amazon ECS now allows pausing and continuing service deployments at specific stages, enabling manual approvals, operational checks, or automated workflows. This feature uses a new PAUSE deployment lifecycle hook and the ContinueServiceDeployment API, offering interactive control over native deployment strategies. It is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and supports various deployment configurations via multiple AWS tools.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Grafana adds dual-stack (IPv6/IPv4) connectivity
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports dual-stack connectivity, allowing workspaces to communicate over both IPv4 and IPv6. This simplifies network management for customers by eliminating the need for overlapping address spaces and supports migration to IPv6 while retaining IPv4 compatibility. The feature is available for Grafana version 10.4 and later in all AWS regions where the service is generally available.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-dynamodb ·
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations expand to Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
AWS Glue zero-ETL integrations are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, simplifying data pipelines and reducing latency for analytics and ML workloads. This feature supports data replication from various sources to analytics data stores with automatic schema mapping and change data capture. It benefits data engineering teams by reducing infrastructure management overhead and enabling near real-time data replication.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Lightsail CDN supports IPv6-only instances as origins
Amazon Lightsail CDN distributions now support IPv6-only instances as origins, allowing customers to serve content globally with low latency. This expands content delivery options for applications running on cost-effective IPv6-only instances, previously limited to IPv4 or dual-stack origins. The feature enhances accessibility for all end users, regardless of their network's IPv6 connectivity.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerautomotive ·
Amazon EVS increases host limit to 32 per environment
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports up to 32 ESXi hosts per environment, doubling the previous limit. This allows customers to scale up to a larger single cluster or manage fewer environments, reducing operational overhead. The enhanced support is available in all EVS regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-dynamodbaws-sns ·
AWS SAM CLI adds CloudFormation Language Extensions support
AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CloudFormation Language Extensions, allowing developers to reduce duplication in their infrastructure as code templates while maintaining local development workflows. This feature enables defining resources once and iterating locally, accelerating serverless development by catching errors before cloud deployment. The update processes Language Extensions in memory for local operations, benefiting developers who frequently define similar resources.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgahealthcareaws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift supports ALTER TABLE and writes for Iceberg tables
Amazon Redshift now allows writing directly to Apache Iceberg tables via the AWS Glue Data Catalog and supports ALTER TABLE DDL statements for schema modifications. This simplifies data pipelines by enabling transformations in the data lake that are queryable by any engine, eliminating the need to delete and recreate tables. These enhancements ensure cross-engine interoperability with engines like EMR and Athena and are available in all AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New awsmediaaws-ec2aws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS integrates with EBS volumes in AWS GovCloud Regions
Amazon ECS now supports Amazon EBS volumes within AWS GovCloud Regions, simplifying the deployment of storage-intensive applications like ETL and media transcoding. Users can configure EBS volume details within ECS task definitions and API requests. This integration offers access to EBS features such as encryption and snapshots for containerized workloads across EC2, Fargate, and managed instances.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio IDEs support GPU capacity reservation
Amazon SageMaker Studio IDEs now support GPU capacity reservations via SageMaker Flexible Training Plans (FTP). This provides predictable access to high-performance GPU resources with potential cost savings of up to 65% compared to On-Demand instances. The feature is available for users running ML workflows in JupyterLab or Code Editor within Studio, offering a self-serve procurement experience.
feature - AWS What's New securityinfraawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Secrets Manager Agent adds pre-fetching and IAM role assumption
The AWS Secrets Manager Agent now supports pre-fetching secrets at startup and assuming IAM roles for retrieval. These features reduce application latency, optimize costs by using the BatchGetSecretValue API, and enhance security through role-based cross-account access. The updates are available in all AWS Regions where Secrets Manager is offered and benefit developers managing secrets in multi-account architectures.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs increases query result limit to 100,000
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports retrieving up to 100,000 query results, an increase from the previous limit of 10,000. This enhancement allows customers to view, visualize, and export larger result sets directly, simplifying data analysis and reducing the need for complex query splitting. The update is available in all commercial AWS regions and supports pagination via the GetQueryResults API.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsgaengineeraws-s3 ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.45.0: New Observability and Security Hub resources
HashiCorp has released version 6.45.0 of its AWS provider, introducing several new resources for AWS Observability and Security Hub. Enhancements include support for Ruby 4.0 runtime in Lambda functions and S3 filesystem mounts, alongside improvements to Secrets Manager and Timestream configurations. Bug fixes address issues with ElastiCache engine versions and Grafana workspace network access controls, impacting users managing these AWS services with Terraform.
feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.44.0: New resources and enhancements
HashiCorp's AWS provider has been updated to version 6.44.0, introducing multiple new resources and enhancements across various AWS services. Key additions include new data sources and resources for AWS Glue, Application Auto Scaling, and DynamoDB, alongside improvements to existing configurations like EC2 Client VPN and FSx file systems. These updates aim to provide broader coverage and more refined control over AWS infrastructure management via Terraform, impacting engineers and architects managing cloud resources.
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