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 680 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering expands to 13 new AWS Regions
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering is now available in 13 additional AWS Regions, including Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. This expansion offers users cloud-native, elastic Lustre file storage with automatic data tiering and optional SSD caching at a lower cost. The feature is designed for workloads with mixed hot and cold data access patterns, benefiting HPC and AI/ML users.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transform for mainframe streamlines mainframe modernization
AWS Transform for mainframe now offers a connected workflow for mainframe modernization, spanning assessment to code generation. This new capability significantly reduces the time and manual effort previously required for mainframe application modernization. Enterprises running z/OS COBOL and PL/I workloads can now benefit from an integrated process that compresses years of manual effort into months. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Transform for mainframe is already offered.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Partners streamline co-sell deals with express private offers
AWS Partners can now automate pricing within co-sell workflows using express private offers. This feature allows partners to pre-configure pricing rules, enabling faster deal closure from opportunity to offer within minutes. This enhances partner visibility in AWS-led sales and speeds up customer engagement, with onboarding available via the AWS Marketplace Seller Guide.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Marketplace lowers professional services listing fee to 0.5%
AWS Marketplace has reduced the listing fee for professional services private offers from 2.5% to 0.5%. This change aims to make it more cost-effective for partners to transact services on the platform, retaining procurement and billing benefits. The reduced fee applies automatically to new private offers for partners with existing listings, while customers can discover and procure services alongside software.
feature - AWS What's New infraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Transform adds public preview for FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage migration
AWS Transform for migrations now supports migrating block storage workloads to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in public preview. This capability automates storage migration alongside compute and network, reducing the complexity and risk associated with traditional storage migration tools. The feature is designed for application owners, database administrators, and cloud migration teams moving to AWS, especially those leveraging NetApp ONTAP or other storage appliances.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS adds cross-region on-demand data replication
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS now supports on-demand data replication to and from AWS opt-in Regions, enhancing disaster recovery and global data access capabilities. This feature allows incremental transfer of volume snapshots to non-default AWS Regions, expanding cross-Region data architectures. It is available in all regions offering FSx for OpenZFS with no additional charge beyond standard data transfer costs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon GameLift Servers offers free network bandwidth for newer instances
Amazon GameLift Servers now includes all inbound and outbound network bandwidth at no extra cost for instance generations 6 and later. This change simplifies pricing by eliminating unpredictable bandwidth costs, which is a significant concern for multiplayer game servers. The benefit is available immediately to existing customers on eligible fleets in most regions.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C8i instances expand to Stockholm region
Amazon EC2 C8i instances, featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances offer improved performance and memory bandwidth compared to previous generations, making them suitable for memory-intensive workloads. They are available through the AWS Management Console via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot instances.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineermediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C7i Instances Now Available in Israel (Tel Aviv)
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 C7i instances in the Israel (Tel Aviv) region, powered by custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. These instances offer up to 15% better price-performance for compute-intensive workloads and include enhanced features like larger instance sizes and support for Intel accelerators. They are now available to customers for various demanding applications.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for MariaDB Adds Support for Latest MariaDB Minor Versions
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. Upgrading to these versions is recommended to address security vulnerabilities and benefit from community bug fixes and performance improvements. Users can leverage automatic minor version upgrades or Managed Blue/Green deployments for smoother updates.
patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS Express Mode now available in AWS GovCloud Regions
Amazon ECS Express Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions, enabling rapid deployment of containerized web applications and APIs. This feature simplifies orchestration and management while providing a public domain name, automatic scaling, and intelligent routing via a single Application Load Balancer. It offers full control over provisioned resources and is available at no extra charge, with deployment supported via console, SDK, CLI, and IaC tools.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Managed Instances adds tag propagation
AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, automatically applying specified tags to provisioned EC2 instances, EBS volumes, and ENIs. This addresses a gap for organizations using tagging for cost tracking and governance, enabling better cost allocation and policy enforcement. The feature is available in all commercial AWS regions where LMI is generally available and can be configured via capacity provider APIs or standard AWS tools.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS DevOps Agent adds custom SRE agents and headless access
AWS DevOps Agent now supports custom SRE agents, allowing teams to automate recurring workflows, and headless access via MCP/A2A protocols for integration with existing tools. This enables teams to build agents for tasks like health reports or anomaly detection, and invoke the agent from IDEs or coding assistants without leaving their current environment. These enhancements aim to streamline SRE operations and broaden integration possibilities for developers, with availability expanding to five new regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon Lightsail expands availability to Hong Kong, São Paulo, and Spain
Amazon Lightsail is now available in three new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion allows customers in these geographies to benefit from lower latency, improved performance, and local data residency options. Developers and businesses in these regions can now access Lightsail's full suite of services, including instances, managed databases, and container services, with simple pricing. Resources can be provisioned via the Lightsail Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.
announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-eksaws-iam ·
Amazon EKS local clusters on Outposts now support EC2 instance store
Amazon EKS local clusters on AWS Outposts now support EC2 instances that boot from instance store on first and second-generation Outposts racks. This expansion provides static stability for Kubernetes control planes, aiding data residency and mitigating network disconnect impacts. The new architecture offers greater parity with cloud EKS clusters and supports several advanced features, now generally available in commercial AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 I7i instances launched in Paris region
Amazon EC2 I7i instances, featuring 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances offer improved compute and storage performance, making them ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads. They are available in eleven sizes and provide up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i Instances Expand to Paris Region
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-8TB instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances, powered by Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, offer 8 TiB of DDR5 memory and up to 45% better price performance than previous generations. They are designed for mission-critical in-memory databases and support high EBS and network bandwidth, making them suitable for large-scale data environments.
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 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.
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