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 awshealthcare ·
AWS HealthOmics adds ephemeral storage for private workflows
AWS HealthOmics now offers ephemeral storage for private workflows, providing dedicated local volumes for temporary data. This enhancement improves run performance and potentially lowers costs for I/O-intensive bioinformatics tasks like sequence alignment and variant calling. The feature is HIPAA-eligible and available across multiple AWS regions, with a default allocation of 16 GiB per task.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails gets automated policy refinement
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers automated refinement workflows for its Automated Reasoning checks, simplifying policy improvement for generative AI responses. These new features help customers reduce hallucinations and improve validation accuracy with less manual effort by iteratively refining policies based on test cases or resolving ambiguities in variable descriptions. Both workflows are available via API and the AWS Management Console in all regions supporting Guardrails Automated Reasoning checks.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transform for Migrations Expands Target Regions
AWS Transform for migrations now allows users to select any AWS commercial region as a migration target, simplifying deployment for data residency and workload distribution. This expansion benefits customers by offering greater flexibility in choosing where their migrated resources are deployed. The feature is now available within the AWS Transform for migrations workflow, enabling users to pick from an expanded list of regions worldwide. This update aims to ease the process of meeting compliance and performance needs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda MicroVMs Offer Isolated, Fast, State-Preserving Compute
AWS Lambda MicroVMs introduce a new serverless compute primitive offering VM-level isolation, rapid launch and resume speeds, and state preservation. This enables developers to securely run user or AI-generated code in isolated environments without managing virtualization infrastructure, addressing needs for multi-tenant applications like coding assistants and data analytics. Previously, developers had to compromise between isolation, speed, or state retention, but MicroVMs provide all without trade-offs. The feature is available today in select AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon MSK introduces AI Agent Skills for operational guidance
Amazon MSK now provides AI Agent Skills, offering developers expert guidance for operational tasks like troubleshooting, sizing, and monitoring. These skills enable faster, more informed cluster management and accelerate migrations to MSK Express, offering significant performance and efficiency benefits. Teams can integrate these skills with existing AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor to streamline operations and simplify Kafka management.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awshealthcare ·
AWS HealthOmics adds support for Nextflow profiles
AWS HealthOmics now supports Nextflow profiles, allowing users to define and select reusable execution settings at runtime. This feature simplifies switching between different configurations, like development and production, without altering workflow code, reducing errors and accelerating portability. The update benefits users of nf-core workflows and is available across multiple AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Outposts Adds Self-Service Lifecycle Management
AWS Outposts now offers self-service lifecycle management for configuration, ordering, and decommissioning directly through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and API. This change empowers customers to manage their Outposts lifecycle independently, reducing reliance on AWS teams for these operations. The new capabilities include a real-time quoting tool and guided workflows for renewals and decommissioning, available in all commercial AWS Regions supporting Outposts.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaarchitectaws-iam ·
AWS IAM Identity Center increases account and application quotas
AWS IAM Identity Center now supports separate quotas for AWS accounts and applications, allowing up to 7,000 of each by default. This change matters for organizations managing large numbers of accounts and applications, preventing one quota from consuming the other's capacity. Customers with existing higher limits will have them applied to both quotas automatically. This update is available globally in all AWS Regions where IAM Identity Center is offered.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
AWS Batch adds ordered instance allocation strategies
AWS Batch now supports Best Fit Progressive Ordered (BFPO) and Spot Capacity Optimized Prioritized (SCOP) instance allocation strategies. These features allow users to manually define instance type ordering for compute environments, offering more control over workload performance characteristics. The updates are available via the AWS Batch API and Management Console in all AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
AWS Parallel Computing Service adds NVIDIA Blackwell UltraServer support
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) now supports the new Amazon EC2 P6e-GB200 and P6e-GB300 UltraServer instances, which utilize NVIDIA Blackwell architecture. This enhancement allows customers to run large-scale GPU workloads within Slurm-managed clusters, simplifying HPC deployment and scaling. The new servers offer significant GPU memory and compute capabilities, with availability in regions supporting both PCS and EC2 Capacity Blocks for UltraServers.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineerfinance ·
CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Multilocation Canary Support
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows running canaries across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point. This feature reduces operational overhead and configuration drift compared to managing separate canaries per region. It ensures consistent user experience, identifies region-specific issues, and enhances alert confidence by requiring multi-location failures. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions supporting CloudWatch Synthetics, and existing canaries can be upgraded.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineer ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal adds Ubuntu 24.04 support in China
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports Ubuntu 24.04 LTS bundles, bringing updated packages and security improvements to users in the AWS China (Ningxia) Region. This release provides a migration path for older Amazon Linux 2 WorkSpaces, offering access to the latest software ecosystem and an extended support lifecycle. Customers can select the Ubuntu 24.04 bundle when creating a new Linux WorkSpace.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaaws-s3aws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam launches generally available
AWS announced the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, extending AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This zone is notable for being one of the first in APAC to support Amazon S3 and EBS Local Snapshots, aiding data residency requirements. It offers low-latency access to core services like EC2, S3, and EBS for various workloads, and can be enabled via the AWS console or API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon GameLift Servers: Container fleet improvements
Amazon GameLift Servers now supports customizable Linux capabilities for containers and a new SDK action to discover co-located containers. These features enhance flexibility and inter-container communication for game server deployments, giving developers finer control over permissions and enabling seamless service discovery. The improvements are available in all supported AWS regions and work with server SDK 5.x and engine plugins.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon MSK Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters
Amazon MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers now support Intelligent Rebalancing on existing clusters at no additional cost. This feature automatically balances Kafka partitions for improved performance and capacity utilization without manual intervention. It is now available on all MSK Provisioned clusters with Express brokers in all AWS Regions where Express brokers are supported, benefiting engineers and architects managing Kafka workloads.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineermediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX GPUs now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances offer significant performance improvements for AI inference and graphics workloads compared to G6, supporting applications like language translation, real-time graphics rendering, and game streaming. G7 instances are now available in two AWS Regions and can be purchased through various pricing models.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-eksaws-iam ·
Amazon EKS enables customer-routed control plane egress
Amazon EKS now supports customer-routed control plane egress, allowing Kubernetes API server traffic to flow through your VPC. This enhances security and compliance by enabling control over routing, security groups, and egress paths for sensitive operations like webhook callbacks. It's particularly beneficial for organizations with strict data perimeter requirements or private network infrastructure. The feature is available in all EKS regions at no additional cost, configurable via the controlPlaneEgressMode setting.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases storage limits for gp3 volumes
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports significantly larger and higher-performing General Purpose (gp3) storage volumes. This update allows for larger databases and improved I/O performance, benefiting demanding workloads like OLTP and analytics systems. Customers can scale individual volumes up to 64 TiB and provision up to 80,000 IOPS and 2,000 MiB/s throughput, with additional volumes further increasing capacity per instance. Pricing remains the same, with charges based on provisioned storage, IOPS, and throughput.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS enables faster service auto scaling with high-resolution metrics
Amazon ECS service auto scaling now supports high-resolution (20-second) metrics, significantly reducing scale-out and provisioning times. This enhancement allows for reduced baseline capacity and lower compute costs while maintaining service reliability. The feature is available for CPU and memory utilization target tracking policies and is accessible across all AWS regions and compute options.
feature patch - AWS What's New networkingawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-sqsaws-sns ·
Amazon SNS SMS sending now available in Seoul region
Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS messages from the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region to over 200 countries and territories. This expands the global reach of SNS for customers using the Seoul region, enabling them to broadcast SMS via AWS End User Messaging. This feature is now generally available for users operating in the Seoul region.
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