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 aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Sonnet 5 available on AWS via Bedrock and Claude Platform
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, the latest generation Sonnet model, is now accessible on AWS. This release offers top-tier intelligence for coding, agents, and professional tasks at Sonnet pricing, balancing capability, cost, and speed. It's available through Amazon Bedrock with AWS managed features and directly via the Claude Platform on AWS, offering unified AWS billing and authentication. Customers can leverage its enhanced performance for complex coding, precise tool calling in agents, and structured analysis of knowledge work.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Capability Insights Open-Source Solution Launched
AWS has released Capability Insights, an open-source solution allowing users to deploy regional capabilities data within their own VPC. This self-hosted dashboard is designed for multi-Region architectures, data residency requirements, and compliance reporting, offering an alternative to publicly available data. It automatically updates with AWS service data and analyzes CloudTrail logs and CloudFormation stacks to provide a tailored view of used services, keeping all data within the user's VPC.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Inference speeds generative AI scale-out with container caching
Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports container image caching, reducing generative AI scale-out time by up to half. This feature pre-caches container images for new instances, eliminating the latency associated with pulling large images from ECR during scale-out events. The enhancement is automatically applied to existing SageMaker Inference configurations and is available in all AWS commercial regions.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawsgapreviewengineerhealthcare ·
Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents now generally available
Amazon WorkSpaces for agents is now generally available, allowing AI agents to securely operate desktop applications without modernization. This enables automation of critical business workflows like claims processing and trade settlement by providing agents with managed cloud workspaces that offer the same security and governance as human users. The service supports any agent framework using Model Context Protocol (MCP) and offers features like real-time session control and domain-joined fleet support.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsdeprecationengineeraws-sagemakeraws-bedrock ·
AWS Announces Service Availability Changes and Sunsets
AWS is announcing significant availability changes for numerous services, including some entering maintenance, sunset, or end-of-support phases. These changes will impact new and existing customers, with specific dates provided for when services will become inaccessible or cease operations. Customers are advised to consult migration guides and product pages to plan transitions away from affected services.
deprecation announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Opus 4.8 available on AWS GovCloud (US)
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is now generally available on AWS GovCloud (US), offering enhanced capabilities for coding, professional knowledge work, and autonomous tasks. This model provides deeper reasoning, better coding context, and improved agentic task handling for developers and enterprises. Access is provided through Amazon Bedrock, ensuring data stays within AWS infrastructure with managed features.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS GovCloud adds OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super
AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region now offers OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B models via the Kiro IDE and CLI. These models enhance AI application development with capabilities like complex reasoning, coding, and efficient inference. GPT-5.4 features a 272K context window, while Nemotron 3 offers efficient inference via a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture and a 256K context window. Users can access these models by updating and restarting their IDE or CLI.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aisecurityawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS WAF protects Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway
AWS WAF now offers protection for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, shielding agentic AI applications from common web exploits and abuse as they move to production. This feature allows security and platform teams to enforce consistent, customizable web protections like IP-based access controls and rate-based rules at the Gateway layer. A single configuration applied at the Gateway protects all downstream agents and integrations, and is available in all regions where both services are offered.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
Amazon Connect launches Agentic CX designer in preview
Amazon Connect now offers Agentic CX designer, a no-code canvas for building AI-powered self-service experiences, in preview. This feature combines agentic and deterministic AI to transform customer service, enabling business teams to design, test, and deploy experiences faster. It also introduces Live Sync, which guides users through web or mobile apps in real-time during voice or chat interactions, creating a unified guided experience.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C7a instances available in Singapore
Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. These instances offer up to 50% higher performance and 2.25x more memory bandwidth than C6a instances, with new processor capabilities and support for up to 128 EBS volumes. They are suitable for compute-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads and are available via On-Demand, Spot Instances, and Savings Plans.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawssecurity-advisoryengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server adds latest CU/GDR updates
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates and General Distribution Releases, including versions for SQL Server 2019 and 2022. This enhancement allows users to easily apply critical security patches and performance improvements to their database instances. The updates are available for all RDS Custom for SQL Server users and can be applied via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI.
patch security - AWS What's New aicomplianceawsengineergovernmentaws-bedrock ·
AWS GovCloud (US) adds FedRAMP High/DoD IL-4/5 approved OpenAI and NVIDIA models on Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) now offers FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approved OpenAI GPT, OpenAI GPT OSS, and NVIDIA Nemotron models. This enables federal and public sector organizations to build generative AI applications meeting stringent government security requirements. The models leverage Mantle, a high-performance inference engine on Bedrock, for serverless deployment with automated management and OpenAI API compatibility.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aisecurityawsgovernment ·
Kiro Achieves FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 Authorization on AWS GovCloud
Kiro, an agentic AI development platform, has achieved FedRAMP High and Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide (CC SRG) Impact Level (IL) 4 and 5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This allows federal agencies and public sector organizations to use Kiro for sensitive workloads with confidence in its security and compliance. Kiro aids in building applications by converting prompts into specs, code, and documentation, and integrates with enterprise resources via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
announcement - AWS What's New securityawssecurity-advisoryengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds support for latest Microsoft GDR updates
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for multiple SQL Server versions, including specific patch identifiers. These GDR updates address critical vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-32167 and CVE-2026-32176, enhancing security for SQL Server instances. Users running SQL Server 2016 through 2022 on RDS are recommended to upgrade their instances to benefit from these security fixes, which can be performed via the RDS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI.
security patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-s3 ·
AWS Backup improves S3 backup copy performance
AWS Backup now offers up to 8x faster S3 backup copy operations for large buckets with low change rates by enhancing its change tracking mechanism. This optimization reduces the time for cross-account and cross-Region S3 backup copies by eliminating full object scans. The enhancement is automatically applied to new copy jobs at no additional cost.
patch - 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 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 - 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 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 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.
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