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 securityawsarchitecthealthcarefinancegovernmentaws-iam ·
AWS Management Console Private Access adds VPC endpoint support
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows console traffic to flow through VPC endpoints, eliminating the need for internet access. This enhancement is critical for regulated industries and enterprises with strict security needs to manage AWS infrastructure securely from within VPCs. The feature leverages AWS PrivateLink and is available in all commercial AWS regions, with pricing based on PrivateLink usage.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in Instances Available in Seoul
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These instances provide 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and custom Intel Xeon Scalable processors, offering up to 45% better price performance than previous generations. They are designed for mission-critical in-memory databases and support high bandwidth for EBS and networking.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon Neptune adds CloudFormation support for global databases
AWS CloudFormation now supports Neptune global databases, allowing users to provision and manage multi-region graph database topologies as code. This feature automates deployment, enables source control integration, and fits into CI/CD pipelines, benefiting global read access, disaster recovery, and high availability. It is available in all regions supporting Neptune global databases.
feature - AWS What's New aisecurityawspreviewengineer ·
Amazon GuardDuty adds AI-powered threat investigations (Preview)
Amazon GuardDuty is introducing a preview of AI-powered investigations to help security teams automatically analyze findings and distinguish true threats. This feature aims to reduce manual investigation time and alert fatigue, accelerating incident response for cloud security analysts. It provides disposition assessments, MITRE ATT&CK classifications, and recommendations, and is available in preview across 10 AWS Regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-iam ·
CloudWatch Dashboards Now Support Tags
Amazon CloudWatch dashboards now support tags, allowing users to organize, categorize, and control access to dashboards. This feature enables grouping by team, project, or environment, and supports attribute-based access control via IAM policies. The update enhances management and filtering capabilities for dashboards across all available AWS Regions at no additional cost.
feature - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
Claude Tag beta launched for Slack integration on AWS Marketplace
Anthropic has released Claude Tag in beta, integrating the Claude AI assistant into Slack channels for collaborative task delegation. Available to AWS customers using Claude Enterprise via AWS Marketplace, this feature allows teams to tag Claude for specific tasks. It offers context awareness, task planning, and enhanced security/governance controls with consumption-based pricing.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-eks ·
CloudWatch OTel Container Insights for EKS Launched
Amazon CloudWatch now offers OTel Container Insights for Amazon EKS, collecting infrastructure metrics at 30-second granularity using open-source receivers and OpenTelemetry semantic conventions. This feature simplifies correlating metrics across your Kubernetes workloads and provides immediate visibility through pre-built dashboards or existing Prometheus and Grafana setups via the CloudWatch PromQL endpoint. It's available via the EKS console or CloudWatch Observability add-on, Helm, or CloudFormation.
feature - AWS What's New securitygovernanceawsengineer ·
Amazon Cognito supports customer-managed KMS keys for data encryption
Amazon Cognito now allows user pools to use customer-managed keys from AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for encrypting data at rest. This feature provides enhanced control over encryption keys, enabling better data governance and auditing capabilities for organizations. It is available for Essentials and Plus tiers with standard KMS charges applying.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs adds managed syslog ingestion
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports managed syslog ingestion, allowing customers to send syslog messages from infrastructure devices and servers directly into CloudWatch Logs without agents. This feature simplifies log collection and centralizes visibility by automatically parsing messages into structured fields, enabling easier querying and analysis. It is available in most commercial AWS Regions and supports various syslog formats over TCP, TCP+TLS, or UDP.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
MSK Replicator adds mTLS for external Kafka to MSK Express
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication, allowing replication from external Kafka clusters to MSK Express brokers. This enhances hybrid and multi-cloud data migration, disaster recovery, and distribution scenarios. Previously limited to SASL/SCRAM, this feature expands connectivity options for migrating workloads and ensures data integrity during replication. It is available in all AWS Regions where MSK Express brokers are offered.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e GPU instances
Amazon SageMaker Studio notebooks now support G7e instances, featuring up to 8 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs per instance. These instances are optimized for demanding AI and graphics workloads, including LLMs and spatial computing, and are now available in specific AWS regions. This enables users to leverage higher GPU performance for their machine learning development within SageMaker Studio.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds AI to migration assistant
Amazon OpenSearch Service Migration Assistant now features an AI-assisted workflow to streamline migrations from self-managed Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch deployments. This enhancement leverages AI tools to aid in planning, infrastructure deployment, and data migration execution, making the complex process faster and more reliable. The update also includes live traffic capture and replay for Solr migrations and is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Notebook Instances Add Support for G6e EC2 Instances
Amazon SageMaker notebook instances now support EC2 G6e instances, featuring NVIDIA L40s GPUs and AMD EPYC processors. This enhancement offers up to 2.5x better performance than G5 instances, enabling faster interactive model training and deployment for generative AI, LLMs, and diffusion models. G6e instances are available in select AWS regions and are suitable for users working with large models.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3aws-kinesisaws-bedrockaws-sns ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory adds cross-account access
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory now supports cross-account access, enabling the creation of multi-account architectures for memory resources and agents. This feature allows permission grants between accounts using resource-based policies and configuration of delivery destinations in separate accounts. It is available in all supported AWS Regions, simplifying complex, distributed AI agent deployments.
feature - 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.
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