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
- AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
AWS SageMaker adds NVIDIA Blackwell P6-B200 instances for AI training
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now offer general availability of EC2 P6-B200 instances, featuring 8 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and Intel's Emerald Rapids processors. These instances aim to accelerate AI training, offering up to twice the performance of P5en instances for tasks like fine-tuning large foundation models. This enhancement is particularly beneficial for developers working with LLMs and generative AI applications, providing more power for interactive development directly within JupyterLab or CodeEditor environments.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
P4de instances available on SageMaker Notebook Instances in Tokyo
Amazon EC2 P4de instances, featuring 8 NVIDIA A100 GPUs with 80GB HBM2e memory each, are now generally available on SageMaker notebook instances in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances offer up to 60% better ML training performance and 20% lower cost compared to P4d instances, accelerating time to market for large dataset training. This enhancement benefits ML engineers and architects working with high-resolution data.
feature announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecation ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.47.0: New Resources, Enhancements, and Bug Fixes
HashiCorp's Terraform AWS provider has been updated to version 6.47.0, introducing several new resources for AWS Bedrock Agent Core and S3 Control, alongside numerous enhancements and bug fixes. Key updates include additions for managing S3 multi-region access points and Bedrock agent configurations, plus deprecations for 'id' attributes in favor of more specific field names across several data sources. These changes primarily impact engineers and architects managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform, offering more granular control and improved consistency.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock adds Service Quotas support for bedrock-mantle endpoint
Amazon Bedrock now exposes inference quotas for its bedrock-mantle endpoint via AWS Service Quotas, providing customers with a unified view of their limits. This enhancement enables better planning for generative AI workloads by offering visibility into input and output token limits for supported models. Customers can access these quotas through the AWS Service Quotas console in all supported regions where the endpoint is available.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
AWS Elemental Inference Adds AI-Powered Live Subtitles
AWS Elemental Inference now offers AI-powered "Smart Subtitles" for live video streams, automatically generating real-time captions in TTML format across multiple languages. This feature aims to improve accessibility and reduce the need for manual captioning or third-party services for broadcasters and streamers. Users can enhance transcription accuracy via custom dictionaries and benefit from existing integrations with AWS Elemental MediaLive and other Elemental Inference capabilities.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Notebook Instances Add P5.4xl Instance Support
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 P5.4xl instances, featuring NVIDIA H100 GPUs for accelerated deep learning and HPC workloads. This enhancement can improve training times by up to 4x and reduce costs by up to 40%, benefiting engineers and data scientists working with large language models and generative AI applications. P5 instances are available in select AWS regions, with setup instructions provided in developer guides.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Notebook Instances add P5en.48xl instance types
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support the new EC2 P5en.48xl instance types, featuring H200 GPUs with enhanced memory and bandwidth. This upgrade significantly boosts AI training and inference performance, particularly for distributed workloads like deep learning and generative AI. These instances are now available in select AWS regions and are designed for users running demanding AI and HPC applications.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerhealthcaremedia ·
Amazon EMR GA Support for Apache Spark 4.0.2
Amazon EMR now generally available supports Apache Spark 4.0.2, enhancing data pipeline development with ANSI SQL and VARIANT data types. This update enables finer access control and strengthens compliance through Apache Iceberg v3, benefiting data engineers and analysts working with diverse data formats and regulatory requirements. It also improves real-time application deployment with enhanced streaming, and is available in all EMR regions, with an upgrade agent for existing applications.
feature patch - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS Glue adds large and memory-optimized workers in Spain region
AWS Glue has expanded its offerings in the Europe (Spain) region by introducing large and memory-optimized worker types. These new options, including G.12X, G.16X, R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X, enhance capabilities for complex data processing, aggregations, and memory-intensive Spark operations. Customers in the region can now leverage these resources for higher-volume data processing and intricate transformations, accessible via Glue Studio, notebooks, or APIs.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect uses generative AI for automated self-service interaction evaluation
Amazon Connect now integrates generative AI to automatically evaluate self-service customer interactions, providing managers with aggregated insights for improving customer experience. Users can define custom evaluation criteria in natural language, and the AI will assess interaction quality, offering detailed reasoning. This feature is available in select AWS regions and aims to help identify opportunities for enhancing AI agent performance.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod adds MinCount for Slurm clusters
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now allows users to specify minimum capacity requirements (MinCount) for Slurm-orchestrated clusters using continuous provisioning. This enhancement ensures distributed AI/ML training jobs start with a guaranteed number of nodes, preventing issues with partial cluster capacity. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker HyperPod is supported and is particularly beneficial for large-scale distributed training.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon Aurora MySQL integrates with Kiro Powers for AI-assisted development
Amazon Aurora MySQL now integrates with Kiro Powers, a repository of AI agent tools, to help developers build applications faster. This integration offers conversational control over database operations and configuration, reducing the need for complex syntax. It provides task-specific guidance for scaling, migration, and replication, and is available via one-click installation in all AWS Regions where Aurora MySQL is supported.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Backup adds OTP verification for multi-party approval
AWS Backup now requires one-time password (OTP) verification for multi-party approval actions on logically air-gapped vaults. This enhances security by ensuring only verified approvers authorize protected vault operations. The feature is automatically applied to all existing and new approval sessions for air-gapped vaults at no extra cost and requires no setup.
feature security - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 X8i instances expand to new AWS regions
Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in Singapore, Sydney, and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. These instances offer enhanced performance and memory capacity for memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA, databases, and analytics. They are suitable for users running these types of workloads and looking for improved performance compared to previous generations.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds tag-based access to agent login/logout report
Amazon Connect now allows tag-based access controls for the agent login/logout report, enabling granular permissions for accessing this data. Contact center administrators can leverage resource tags to restrict who views login and logout information for specific agents. This feature is available in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US-West) where Amazon Connect is offered.
feature - AWS What's New mlawsgapreviewengineeraws-ec2 ·
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 Adds Trainium3 Capabilities and New NKI Kernels
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 is now generally available, introducing new hardware capabilities for AWS Trainium3 and 22 new NKI Library kernels, enhancing model porting and optimization. This release offers features like scalar engine instructions, FP8 support, and expanded Agentic Development skills, benefiting ML developers working with Trainium and Inferentia instances. The update also includes a Neuron DRA Driver for Kubernetes and performance improvements for the Graph Compiler and Runtime, with availability across all regions supporting Neuron instances.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ replication now uses ENA Express
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ instances now leverage ENA Express, utilizing AWS's SRD protocol to enhance replication traffic between Availability Zones. This update promises up to 25 Gbps single-flow bandwidth, reduced latency variability, and increased write throughput for write-intensive workloads. The feature is available at no extra cost for several RDS engines and can be enabled on existing instances via a start-stop or compute scaling action.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances now in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances offer significant performance improvements and better price-performance compared to previous generations, benefiting a wide range of general-purpose workloads. They are available immediately for use via the AWS Management Console.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances offer up to 15% better price-performance and significantly higher memory bandwidth compared to previous generations. They are ideal for memory-intensive workloads, databases, web applications, AI recommendations, and SAP workloads, with R8i-flex providing flexible size options for varied compute utilization.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS VPC IPAM adds tags for pool allocations
AWS VPC IPAM now supports tags on IP address pool allocations, allowing users to organize and govern IP usage via existing AWS tagging workflows. This feature enables centralized governance through IAM and Service Control Policies, and simplifies searching and filtering allocations by tag. It is available in all AWS Regions where IPAM is supported at no additional cost.
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