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 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.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsgaengineer ·
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ adds private networking
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking, allowing brokers to connect to private VPC resources without public exposure. This enhances security and compliance for integrations with services like identity providers or other brokers, eliminating previous complex workarounds. The feature uses AWS VPC Lattice, RAM, and PrivateLink and is available for RabbitMQ brokers in regions with VPC Lattice.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker AI adds observability for inference endpoints
Amazon SageMaker AI now offers an observability capability for generative AI inference workloads, providing real-time visibility into token performance and infrastructure health. This feature automates the collection and display of key metrics, reducing manual troubleshooting time from hours to minutes. It is designed for engineers and architects managing production AI inference, with a new CloudWatch dashboard and Grafana integration available across multiple AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-sagemaker ·
Mistral-3-14B-Instruct model available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the Mistral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 foundation model, enabling multimodal reasoning and agentic AI capabilities. This compact 14B-parameter model supports advanced AI assistants, vision-enabled applications, and native function calling, with easy deployment via SageMaker Studio or SDK. It is optimized for edge deployment and handles multilingual text and image analysis.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsaws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds all-MiniLM-L12-v2 for semantic search
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the all-MiniLM-L12-v2 model for semantic search and sentence similarity. This allows AWS customers to efficiently build applications like information retrieval and document clustering using dense vector representations. The model is readily deployable via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK, ideal for production workloads needing fast, high-quality text embeddings.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
AWS Nested Virtualization Expands to More Intel Instances and GovCloud
AWS has expanded nested virtualization support to more Intel-based EC2 instance types, including C7i, R7i, M7i, and their variants, along with the new X8i instances. This capability is also now available in US GovCloud regions (US-East and US-West), broadening its accessibility. Nested virtualization allows users to run hypervisors like KVM or Hyper-V on EC2 instances, enabling scenarios such as mobile app emulation, automotive hardware simulation, and WSL on Windows.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
Amazon Connect Customer allows interrupting agents for urgent contacts
Amazon Connect Customer now supports interrupting agents for urgent contacts, overriding standard routing to allow callbacks or specific assignments. This feature enhances agent efficiency by enabling immediate attention to critical communications, even when agents are busy or in a custom status. It is available in all regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered and requires no prerequisites beyond standard configuration.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
AWS Compute Optimizer adds EBS volume performance metrics
AWS Compute Optimizer now analyzes IOPS and throughput spikes for EBS volumes, offering better rightsizing recommendations. This enhancement helps balance cost and performance for workloads with bursty traffic. It applies to most AWS Regions for EBS volumes on Nitro-based EC2 instances, with underlying CloudWatch metrics available at no extra cost.
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