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
- AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-eks ·
CloudWatch adds OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying
Amazon CloudWatch now supports ingesting metrics via OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) and querying them using PromQL, enabling unified analysis of custom and AWS vended metrics. This new capability benefits engineers and architects using Prometheus-compatible tools like Grafana, offering a more integrated monitoring experience. The feature is available in most commercial AWS Regions with per-GB ingestion pricing and included storage.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch UI now available in AWS GovCloud regions
Amazon OpenSearch Service has extended its operational analytics UI to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and US-West regions, allowing unified insights from managed domains and serverless collections. This expansion includes enhanced Workspaces for team collaboration and a revamped Discover interface with improved usability and multi-source support for languages like PPL and SQL. The availability ensures users can leverage the latest UI features and tools across different OpenSearch versions, connecting to domains above 1.3 or serverless collections.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-s3aws-eksaws-kinesis ·
Amazon EKS Capabilities support CloudWatch Vended Logs
Amazon EKS Capabilities can now use Amazon CloudWatch Vended Logs to monitor managed controllers for Argo CD, ACK, and kro. This enables reliable log delivery to CloudWatch Logs, S3, or Kinesis Data Firehose for easier troubleshooting. The feature is available in all supported AWS Regions with standard CloudWatch Vended Logs pricing.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
AWS IoT Core adds connectivity and authentication logs
AWS IoT Core now provides two new CloudWatch log event types, Ping and Connection.AuthNError, to help troubleshoot device connectivity and authentication issues. These logs allow identification of dropped connections and faster resolution of credential or certificate problems. The new events are available in all AWS Regions where IoT Core is supported, requiring configuration of event-level logging and opt-in.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds real-time dashboard alerts for conversational analytics
Amazon Connect now allows contact center supervisors to set up real-time dashboard alerts for detected keywords, phrases, or sentiment during live calls and chats. This feature enables faster agent coaching and issue resolution, potentially reducing customer churn. Real-time conversational analytics alerts are available in supported AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon SES adds inbox placement and blocklist monitoring
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now offers inbox placement metrics and blocklist monitoring for outbound email sending. This feature helps customers understand spam folder placement and proactively monitor domain/IP reputation on public blocklists, aiding in content optimization for better engagement. It expands on existing Virtual Deliverability Manager capabilities by providing visibility into spam folder placement, a previously unavailable metric. The new features are available globally where SES is supported.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds string, encode/decode, and parse commands
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights now supports 13 new query commands and functions for string manipulation, encoding/decoding, and log parsing. These enhancements allow users to derive deeper insights by performing operations like URL encoding, Base64 decoding, logfmt parsing, and calculating geographic distances directly within queries. The new capabilities are available today in all commercial AWS Regions and are particularly useful for analyzing non-JSON log formats and complex data.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs increases query result limit to 100,000
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports retrieving up to 100,000 query results, an increase from the previous limit of 10,000. This enhancement allows customers to view, visualize, and export larger result sets directly, simplifying data analysis and reducing the need for complex query splitting. The update is available in all commercial AWS regions and supports pagination via the GetQueryResults API.
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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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