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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 680 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 terraforminfraawsgadeprecationengineeraws-s3 ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.43.0 Adds New Data Sources and Resources
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.43.0 introduces several new data sources and resources, including capabilities for Security Hub, DB Subnet Groups, and EC2 Network Insights. Enhancements focus on resource identity support across various services like Audit Manager and Security Hub, alongside a deprecation for `current_deployment` in `aws_ecs_express_gateway_service`. Several bug fixes address plan-time errors and improve handling of transient API issues, benefiting users managing AWS infrastructure.
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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