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 678 AWS releases · Updated
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AWS HealthOmics adds support for Nextflow 26.04
AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow version 26.04, providing access to new features like record types, a strict syntax parser, and enhanced logging. This update helps healthcare and life sciences customers improve workflow readability, reduce costs, and simplify downstream integrations. The new version is available in all AWS HealthOmics regions, with detailed documentation available for workflow developers.
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AWS HealthOmics supports Nextflow version pinning at runtime
AWS HealthOmics now lets users specify a Nextflow engine version when starting a run via the StartRun API, allowing for controlled migration and testing of workflows. This feature provides explicit control over execution by overriding any version specified in the workflow manifest, which is particularly useful for regulated environments. It is now available across all AWS HealthOmics regions.
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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.
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Amazon WorkSpaces Applications supports Windows Desktop OS BYOL
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for Windows Desktop operating systems, allowing customers to use existing licenses for streaming desktop applications. This change offers potential cost savings by eliminating OS fees and provides a consistent user experience between on-premises and cloud environments. The feature is available in multiple AWS Regions and requires meeting Microsoft's licensing requirements.
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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 awsengineerhealthcarefinance ·
AWS Clean Rooms adds mutable payment configurations for collaborations
AWS Clean Rooms now allows mutable fine-grained payment configurations for collaboration members, offering greater flexibility and control over cost responsibilities. Customers can specify which partners pay for specific cost types like queries, PySpark jobs, and ML training after a collaboration is established. This enhancement, available through change requests requiring member approval, particularly benefits scenarios like pharmaceutical research collaborating with healthcare organizations where different payment responsibilities can be assigned.
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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.
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AWS ships hundreds of service updates a month across EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, EKS and the rest of the catalogue — far more than anyone can follow by reading the official What's New feed. ReleaseBytes ingests announcements from AWS's official release channels and the Terraform AWS provider changelog, summarises each one in plain English, and tags anything that is a breaking change, security advisory or deprecation so you can see at a glance whether it affects your workloads.
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