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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 governanceawsengineergovernment ·
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ can now be deployed in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany), an independent EU-based cloud designed for regulated industries and public sector organizations. This managed message broker service allows customers to use familiar RabbitMQ APIs and protocols for migrating workloads without code rewrites. It supports RabbitMQ engine version 4.2 and Graviton3-based m7g instances for high-performance messaging.
feature announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsaws-kinesisaws-iam ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.48.0: New Resources and Enhancements
HashiCorp's Terraform AWS provider has released version 6.48.0, introducing several new resources and enhancements across various AWS services. Key additions include new data sources and resources for EC2, Clean Rooms, and Pinpoint SMS Voice, alongside significant updates to Bedrock Agent Core and DataZone configurations. These changes aim to provide broader coverage and improved management capabilities for users of these AWS services through Terraform. The release also includes bug fixes for API Gateway and Bedrock Agent Core, benefiting users managing these services.
feature patch announcement - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS Step Functions integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for AI reasoning
AWS Step Functions now supports AI agent reasoning steps via integration with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, currently in preview. This feature automates complex tasks like document classification or data extraction within workflows, allowing for parallel execution, human approval, and detailed audit trails. It's available in select AWS Regions, with standard pricing for both services applying.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgagovernmentaws-bedrock ·
OpenAI GPT-5.4 available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, specifically within the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. This enables government and regulated industries to leverage advanced AI capabilities with enhanced security and compliance features. The model runs on a new, high-performance inference engine, ensuring data privacy by keeping prompts and responses within the customer's AWS environment.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances launched in New Zealand
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. These instances feature custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offering significant performance and memory bandwidth improvements over previous generations. They are suitable for a wide range of general-purpose workloads, including databases, web applications, and AI models, with M8i-flex instances providing a price-performance benefit for common use cases.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity supports BYO secrets with Secrets Manager
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now allows referencing existing AWS Secrets Manager secrets directly, enhancing governance and control. Previously, secrets were service-managed, hindering custom encryption, tagging, and policy enforcement. This update enables customers to manage their secrets with their own policies and CMKs, providing full ownership and governance, and is now generally available across 14 AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex now available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers production access to OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 models, alongside Codex for AI-assisted software development. This integration provides enhanced capabilities for coding, data analysis, and autonomous tasks within the existing AWS security and governance framework. Pricing aligns with OpenAI's rates and counts towards AWS commitments, making these advanced AI models accessible for enterprise use.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-eksaws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod adds AI coding assistant troubleshooting skills
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now integrates troubleshooting skills with AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Cursor, and Kiro. This feature enables expert-level cluster diagnostics through natural language, streamlining the resolution of complex issues in large-scale AI/ML infrastructure. It benefits operators by reducing the time and expertise needed for debugging, without requiring modifications to existing HyperPod setups. The skills are available today as open source for Slurm and Amazon EKS orchestrated clusters.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsengineerhealthcaremediaaws-ec2aws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds Bring Your Own Media support
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Bring Your Own Media (BYOM), allowing customers to reuse existing Microsoft SQL Server licenses when migrating to AWS. This feature helps reduce costs for organizations moving SQL Server applications from on-premises or other cloud environments to Amazon RDS. It is particularly beneficial for companies looking to adopt a managed database service while leveraging their current license agreements. BYOM is integrated with AWS License Manager for tracking usage and compliance.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS End User Messaging adds RCS support in 20 new countries
AWS End User Messaging now supports Rich Communication Services (RCS) for Business in 20 additional countries, expanding availability to 22 nations. This enables businesses to send verified, branded messages to customers in these regions using the existing SendTextMessage API. The service ensures reliable delivery with an automatic fallback to SMS for unsupported devices, enhancing customer engagement through recognized business identities.
feature announcement - AWS What's New networkingawsazuregapreviewengineer ·
AWS Interconnect adds free 500 Mbps tier for multicloud connectivity
AWS Interconnect now offers a free 500 Mbps tier for private multicloud connectivity, simplifying cross-cloud connections for customers. This managed service provides resilience and is compatible with Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud, with Azure support planned. The free tier allows evaluation and operation of workloads between AWS and another CSP at no charge on the AWS side, including a CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsga ·
Oracle Database@AWS expands to 20 AWS Regions
Oracle Database@AWS is now available in eight additional AWS regions, bringing the total to twenty. This service allows customers to run Oracle Exadata systems within AWS data centers, enabling migration of on-premises Oracle Exadata and RAC applications. Customers in Europe, South America, and Asia Pacific can now leverage this for in-region data residency requirements, with setup managed via AWS Marketplace and the AWS Management Console.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
AWS Resilience Hub Next Generation GA
AWS Resilience Hub's next generation is now generally available, offering enhanced resilience assessment for critical workloads. This update introduces a new application model, dependency discovery, AI-powered failure analysis, and organization-wide reporting, benefiting platform engineering and SRE teams. It is available in select AWS Regions, with existing customers able to migrate at their own pace.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Opus 4.8 available on AWS via Bedrock and Claude Platform
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, their most capable general availability model, is now accessible on AWS. This model offers significant improvements in agentic coding, complex knowledge work, and long-running autonomous tasks, benefiting developers and enterprises building AI applications. Customers can access it through Amazon Bedrock for integrated AWS features or the Claude Platform on AWS for direct Anthropic experience with AWS billing and authentication.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless Next Generation GA
AWS announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, featuring 20x faster auto-scaling and resource provisioning in seconds. This fully managed search and vector engine offers scale-to-zero pricing, potentially saving customers up to 60%, and decouples compute and storage for independent scaling. It also simplifies network connectivity with new endpoints and offers native integrations with AI development platforms, making it available today in all commercial AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityinfraawsengineermediagovernmentaws-dynamodb ·
DynamoDB Streams adds PrivateLink for FIPS in AWS GovCloud
Amazon DynamoDB Streams now supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This enhancement enables government agencies to establish private connectivity to DynamoDB Streams, enhancing security and simplifying network architecture. This allows for secure, real-time data streaming applications that meet federal compliance requirements. The feature is available in AWS GovCloud (US) and other select AWS Regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
P5.48xl instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs now available on AWS SageMaker in Tokyo
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support P5.48xl instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. These instances offer up to 4x faster deep learning and HPC performance compared to previous generations, reducing ML model training costs by up to 40%. They are suitable for training and deploying large language and generative AI models, with general availability starting now.
feature announcement - 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 - 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.
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