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 infraawsengineermediaaws-ec2 ·
EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i Instances Now in Hyderabad Region
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex, M7i-flex, and M7i instances, powered by custom Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These instances offer improved performance and price-performance benefits over previous generations and comparable x86 processors from other cloud providers. They are suitable for a wide range of workloads, from general-purpose applications to compute-intensive tasks like ML and video streaming, with options for various instance sizes and bare metal configurations.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Unified Studio automates Glue connector provisioning for cross-subnet job retries
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now automatically provisions AWS Glue connectors across subnets, enhancing data pipeline resilience. This feature reduces unplanned downtime and SLA breaches by enabling automatic job retries on alternate subnets during failures, without manual engineer intervention. It's available for all SageMaker Unified Studio users in supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineermediaaws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Inference Supports OpenAI-Compatible APIs
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, allowing direct integration with tools like OpenAI SDK and LangChain by simply changing the endpoint URL. This feature simplifies connecting to SageMaker endpoints, enabling users to leverage existing code and authentication with custom models and VPCs. It offers flexibility in instance choice, data privacy, model execution, and autoscaling, with authentication managed via AWS credentials. The capability is available today in multiple AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon Aurora MySQL 8.4 Generally Available
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports community MySQL 8.4, aligning version numbers and simplifying operations. This release enhances security defaults, enforcing TLS and updating authentication plugins, while also introducing automated upgrade prechecks for smoother transitions. It is available globally for users seeking high performance and availability with full MySQL compatibility.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawssecurity-advisoryengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server adds latest GDR updates
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports recent General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server, including critical security patches. This enhancement is available for SQL Server 2019 and 2022 instances, offering improved security and stability. Users can apply these updates via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI.
patch security - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon QuickSight now supports customer-managed keys
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to encrypt data using their own AWS Key Management Service (KMS) customer-managed keys (CMK). This feature enhances security and compliance for organizations by providing greater control over encryption and auditability via CloudTrail. It is now generally available in all AWS Regions where QuickSight is offered, requiring CMKs to be created in the same account and region, and supporting only symmetric KMS keys.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrockaws-iam ·
Amazon Bedrock adds request-level usage attribution
Amazon Bedrock now supports request-level usage attribution for InvokeModel and InvokeModelWithResponseStream APIs, allowing granular tracking of inference usage across teams and applications. This enhancement provides deeper visibility into consumption patterns, aids cost optimization, and simplifies internal reporting without requiring new resources. The feature is available in all Amazon Bedrock commercial regions and builds upon existing attribution capabilities.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-s3 ·
AWS Deadline Cloud: Browse job attachments in monitor
AWS Deadline Cloud now allows users to browse job attachment files directly within the monitor. This enhancement simplifies managing input and output files for render jobs by enabling users to view and download individual assets from Amazon S3, improving workflow efficiency for graphics and visual effects teams. This feature is now generally available within the Deadline Cloud monitor.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationaws-s3 ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.46.0: New resources, enhancements, and bug fixes
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.46.0 introduces several new resources, including ones for AWS Bedrock Agent, IAM Access Keys, and Observability, enhancing IaC capabilities for these services. It also includes significant enhancements to existing resources like AWS Bedrock Agent Runtime and CloudFront distributions, along with crucial bug fixes for S3 buckets and X-Ray resource policies. This release impacts engineers and architects managing AWS infrastructure through Terraform, with specific attention to `aws_xray_resource_policy` requiring recreation for `policy_name` changes.
feature patch announcement - AWS What's New securityawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Security Hub detects unused IAM permissions
AWS Security Hub now identifies unused IAM permissions, roles, and credentials across your organization, centralizing identity risk management within the existing console. This feature helps security teams reduce identity risk at scale by correlating unused permissions with actual resource exposure. It is automatically enabled via a service-linked IAM Access Analyzer in each member account and included with Security Hub Essentials at no additional cost.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon DocumentDB Serverless available on version 8.0
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Serverless is now available on version 8.0, offering an on-demand, auto-scaling configuration. This feature can reduce costs by up to 90% by scaling capacity based on application demand, benefiting users managing database costs. Version 8.0 also includes significant performance improvements and enhanced compatibility with MongoDB API versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0. Serverless is available for new and existing clusters, with an upgrade path from version 5.0.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitect ·
AWS Security Hub Extended adds 21 partner solutions in 9 categories
AWS Security Hub Extended now offers 21 curated partner solutions across nine security categories, including new additions for endpoint, identity, and data security. This expansion provides customers greater flexibility in selecting solutions tailored to their enterprise needs, with unified billing and support benefits. The new solutions are available today in all commercial AWS Regions, enabling better risk identification and response across security domains.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-sagemakeraws-iam ·
SageMaker Unified Studio adds data quality rule authoring and evaluation
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports authoring and evaluating data quality rules, leveraging AWS Glue Data Quality. This integration allows data professionals to define rules, assess data quality in catalog tables and ETL jobs, and identify issues early to prevent bad data from impacting downstream workflows. The feature is available in all SageMaker Unified Studio regions for both IAM Identity Center and IAM-based domains.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-dynamodb ·
AWS releases ExtendDB, an open-source DynamoDB API adapter
AWS has launched ExtendDB, an open-source project implementing the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. This allows developers to use the DynamoDB programming model in environments outside of AWS, such as on-premises or developer laptops, without code rewrites. The initial release supports PostgreSQL as a backend and is available under the Apache 2.0 license, inviting community contributions. ExtendDB is beneficial for local development, testing, and deploying DynamoDB-compatible workloads in diverse environments.
announcement feature - 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.
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