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 dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in the Europe (Paris) region, enabling customers to ingest and process data for OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections. This fully managed service simplifies data ingestion by offering a no-code approach to filter, transform, and route data, automatically scaling resources to meet demand. It is now generally available across 17 AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New networkingaws ·
Route 53 Global Resolver allows DNS view sharing across AWS accounts
Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver now supports sharing DNS views between AWS accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager. This allows consumer accounts to associate their Route 53 private hosted zones with a shared DNS view for centralized resolution without transferring ownership. Teams can maintain ownership while enabling centralized global resolution, with granular access control via AWS RAM permissions.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinanceaws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift adds upfront pricing for RG reserved instances
Amazon Redshift now offers All Upfront and Partial Upfront payment options for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances on RG instances. This provides customers more flexibility to optimize costs compared to on-demand rates. These new options are available across numerous AWS Regions, complementing the existing No Upfront plan.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift Now Generally Available
The AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift has reached general availability, allowing Swift developers to create native IoT applications for Apple platforms and Linux. This SDK fills a gap by providing production-ready APIs for managing IoT device fleets and building cross-platform solutions. It includes features for device state synchronization, remote operations, secure onboarding, and TLS 1.3 support on Apple devices.
feature announcement - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 adds AMI Watermarks for governance
Amazon EC2 now supports AMI watermarks, allowing custom identifiers to be embedded in private AMIs. These watermarks persist through AMI copies and sharing, aiding in tracking provenance and enforcing governance policies. This feature helps identify trusted AMIs, filter related AMIs, and can be integrated with existing governance tools for scale. AMI watermarks are available at no additional cost in all AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Nested virtualization expanded on Intel EC2 instances and GovCloud regions
AWS has expanded nested virtualization support to new Intel instance families (like C7i, R7i, M7i) and additional AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This allows customers to run hypervisors like KVM and Hyper-V on EC2 instances, enabling use cases such as mobile app emulation and running WSL. This feature is now available for broader adoption within government and specialized commercial environments.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineerhealthcare ·
Amazon EMR Serverless supports live configuration updates
Amazon EMR Serverless now allows live updates to key application configurations like maximum capacity and custom images without requiring application restarts. This change reduces operational overhead and allows for immediate responses to changing demands or image updates. The feature is available for all EMR releases and regions where EMR Serverless is supported.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsaws-ec2 ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.52.0 Enhances S3, Bedrock, DynamoDB, and Fixes Bugs
HashiCorp's Terraform AWS Provider has released version 6.52.0, introducing new resources and data sources for S3, Bedrock, and DynamoDB, alongside numerous enhancements and bug fixes. Key updates include improved handling of LakeFormation permissions for views, a new random generator for provider names, and fixes for ElastiCache and CloudWatch Log Delivery issues. These changes primarily affect engineers and architects managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform, with some requiring manual state reconciliation for specific Serverless Application Repository deployments.
feature patch announcement - 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.
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