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 observabilityawsengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon MWAA Serverless supports EventBridge notifications
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) Serverless now integrates with Amazon EventBridge, allowing for event-driven automation of Airflow workflows. This eliminates the need for custom polling by emitting events for workflow and task state changes, such as success or failure. Data engineering and platform teams can leverage this feature to automate alerts, restart dependent pipelines, or log state transitions, enhancing operational efficiency and compliance.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Elastic Beanstalk console integrates CloudWatch Logs
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now integrates CloudWatch Logs directly into the console's Logs tab, eliminating the need to navigate to the CloudWatch console. This feature allows users to view log events, select log groups and streams, and provides direct links for deeper analysis in CloudWatch Logs Insights. The integration is available across all supported Elastic Beanstalk platform branches and AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New securityinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Workload Credentials Provider automates certificate and secret distribution
AWS has released the Workload Credentials Provider, a new client-side tool that automates the deployment and caching of certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. This simplifies certificate renewal management, especially with shorter certificate lifetimes mandated by the CA/B Forum, and unifies secret and certificate distribution across cloud and on-premises workloads. The provider is open source, available for Windows and Linux, and supports common web servers, aiming to prevent expiry-related failures for users.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus adds out-of-order ingestion and rule query offset
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports out-of-order sample ingestion and a workspace-level rule query offset. These features help reduce data loss and improve alerting accuracy for workloads with distributed collectors or variable network latency. This update is available in all regions where the service is generally available and benefits users with intermittent ingestion delays.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds IDE integration for observability
Amazon OpenSearch Service now integrates with agentic IDEs like VS Code and Claude Desktop through MCP Apps, allowing AI agents to investigate incidents using logs, traces, and metrics. This feature enables users to perform root cause analysis and review results in interactive visualizations within their IDE without context switching. The integration supports various observability workflows, from alerting to cross-signal correlation, and is available in all AWS Regions offering OpenSearch UI.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsmediaaws-bedrock ·
OpenAI GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models now on Amazon Bedrock
AWS has expanded the availability of OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 models to the US East (N. Virginia) Region on Amazon Bedrock. These models offer advanced reasoning, coding, and agentic task capabilities for building generative AI applications. GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's most capable model for complex tasks, while GPT-5.4 supports frontier reasoning and long-context workflows. Both support a 272K-token context window with text and image inputs and are available via the Responses API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons Add Inter-Task Visibility and Communication
Amazon ECS Managed Daemons now support inter-task visibility and communication, allowing the deployment of tracing, profiling, and security agents that need access to application processes and shared IPC resources. This enhancement enables platform teams to deploy agents as daemons rather than sidecars, ensuring consistent coverage across workloads. The feature is available in all AWS Regions at no additional cost, and requires configuring new `pidMode` and `ipcMode` settings in daemon definitions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 Future-dated Capacity Reservations Can Now Be Cancelled
Amazon EC2 now allows customers to cancel future-dated capacity reservations, offering flexibility for changing plans. Cancellation may incur a charge, with terms presented for review and acceptance before processing. This feature is available to all existing customers and its regional availability can be found on the AWS Capabilities by Region website.
feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsaws-ec2aws-iam ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.50.0 adds new resources and bug fixes
HashiCorp's Terraform AWS Provider has released version 6.50.0, introducing several new resources including AWS Bedrock Agent Core policy and ECS daemon definitions. This update also enhances existing resources like the Bedrock Agent Gateway Target and includes numerous bug fixes for services such as Secrets Manager and CloudWatch. The release primarily impacts users managing AWS infrastructure with Terraform, offering expanded capabilities and improved stability.
feature patch announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
New Amazon EC2 M8, R8 metal instance sizes launch
AWS has launched new metal-48xl and metal-96xl instance sizes for M8 and R8 EC2 instances, offering up to 43% better compute performance and significantly higher network and EBS bandwidth. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon processors and AWS Nitro cards, targeting workloads like big data analytics, in-memory caches, AI/ML clusters, and storage-intensive applications. The new sizes are initially available in the US East (N. Virginia) region.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 allows table configuration updates
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports updating data table configurations through the console and SDK/CLI. This allows customers to adopt new CUR 2.0 features without deleting and recreating existing exports. Previously, changes required manual deletion and recreation, disrupting ETL jobs. This update enables direct modification of preferences for future scheduled deliveries.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs now in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. These instances deliver up to twice the performance of P5en instances for AI training and inference workloads, featuring advanced GPUs, increased memory bandwidth, and enhanced networking capabilities. They are designed for secure and scalable AI workloads within Amazon EC2 UltraClusters and are also available in other US regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineermediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances with Graviton5 processors are GA
Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are now generally available. These new instances offer up to 25% better compute performance than previous generations and are designed for general-purpose and agentic AI workloads. They are available in select regions and purchasing options, with M9gd instances providing high-speed local NVMe storage for specific use cases like media processing.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsmedia ·
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS Intelligent-Tiering expands to 8 new AWS Regions
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports its Intelligent-Tiering storage class in eight new AWS Regions. This feature automatically optimizes storage costs by moving data across access tiers, benefiting workloads like file shares and media libraries. The expansion makes cost-effective, high-performance storage more accessible to users across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineerhealthcareaws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio Notebooks add EMR Serverless support
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now integrate with Amazon EMR Serverless via Apache Spark Connect. This allows data engineers and analysts to choose EMR Serverless as their Spark runtime alongside Athena Spark for interactive analytics and data engineering. The feature supports PySpark and Spark SQL, offers unified Spark UI monitoring, pre-initialized capacity for faster starts, and VPC connectivity, and is available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-eks ·
AWS Backup adds EKS support to Germany's European Sovereign Cloud
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS in the European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, offering managed data protection for EKS clusters. This feature enables automated scheduling, retention, immutable vaults, and cross-Region copies, benefiting users needing disaster recovery or compliance in that specific region. The solution is agent-free and can protect entire clusters, namespaces, or persistent volumes.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineeraws-s3aws-iam ·
Amazon S3 Access Grants available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany)
Amazon S3 Access Grants can now be created in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, simplifying access management for S3 datasets. These grants map directory identities to S3 data, enabling scalable permission management by granting access based on corporate identities. This feature is now available in Germany and can be explored further on the S3 product page.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgapreviewengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS announces Claude Fable 5, a generally available AI model
AWS has made Claude Fable 5, a state-of-the-art Mythos-class AI model, generally available. This model offers enhanced autonomous knowledge work and coding capabilities for developers and enterprises building AI applications. Claude Fable 5 is designed for professional tasks across various industries and can be accessed via Amazon Bedrock or the Claude Platform on AWS. Amazon Bedrock offers AWS-managed features and data residency, while the Claude Platform provides direct Anthropic access with unified billing.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awspreviewengineer ·
AWS FinOps Agent preview announced
AWS announces the preview of its FinOps Agent, a new tool designed to help FinOps practitioners and engineering teams manage cloud costs. The agent can answer cost-related questions, identify optimization opportunities, investigate anomalies, and automate workflows. It is currently available in preview in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and offers cost and usage data for most AWS Regions at no charge during the preview period.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineerhealthcareaws-sagemaker ·
Amazon EMR Serverless adds interactive workloads via Spark Connect
Amazon EMR Serverless now supports interactive sessions using Spark Connect, allowing developers to run Spark applications from local environments like SageMaker, Jupyter, and VS Code. This enhances productivity by enabling ad hoc exploration, iterative debugging, and incremental development by decoupling the client from the Spark driver. The feature is available on EMR release 7.13 in all EMR Serverless regions.
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