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 securityawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Artifact Assurance Assistant aids compliance inquiries
AWS Artifact now includes Assurance Assistant, an AI-powered tool that provides citation-backed answers to security and compliance questions about AWS services. This feature accelerates vendor assessments for risk managers, compliance officers, and auditors by grounding responses in verified AWS documentation. It offers single-question and bulk processing modes and is available at no additional charge in all commercial AWS Regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitectaws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecsaws-sns ·
Amazon GuardDuty adds sensitive file modification threat detections
Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring now detects when sensitive files are modified on EC2, EKS, and ECS workloads. These new threat detections, including Persistence:Runtime/SensitiveFileModified, help identify post-compromise attacker activities like persistence and privilege escalation. Designed for security teams and architects, this feature monitors specific file operations to catch obfuscated techniques and reduces false positives with correlation-based analysis. The detections are available to all customers with Runtime Monitoring enabled, with a 30-day free trial for new users.
feature - AWS What's New aiinfraawsengineeraws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Network Firewall Adds Container Attribute Inspection for EKS/ECS
AWS Network Firewall now supports container attribute-based rules for securing containerized workloads on EKS and ECS. This simplifies network security by allowing rules based on native constructs like namespaces and cluster names, rather than complex IP addresses. This enhancement is particularly beneficial for dynamic environments running generative AI applications, offering adaptive security and compliance.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS Partner Central integrates AWS Marketplace listings for co-selling
AWS Partner Central now allows partners to link existing AWS Marketplace solutions and products directly to co-sell opportunities, simplifying management and tracking. Previously, partners had to maintain separate solution sets, but this update enables associating up to 10 Marketplace Solutions and 10 Products per opportunity. This enhancement is now generally available in the AWS Console and via the AWS Partner Central Selling API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-lambdaaws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS AppConfig launches managed A/B testing and experimentation tools
AWS AppConfig now offers managed tools for running A/B tests and feature experiments, removing the need for separate infrastructure. These tools incorporate Amazon's best practices and AI-driven guidance to help users build robust experiments with controlled exposure and traffic allocation. Available for applications running on various AWS services and on-premises, this feature enables data-driven decision-making for feature rollouts. Users set up experiments in AppConfig and analyze results via CloudWatch or other tools, promoting winning variations through safe rollouts.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds log analytics engine
Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes a new engine purpose-built for log analytics, offering up to 4x better price-performance and up to 70% lower storage costs. This enhancement allows teams to perform fast analytical queries and retains more data at lower cost, benefiting those managing growing log volumes from cloud-native and AI workloads. Users can enable this new engine for domains running OpenSearch 3.5 or above via the AWS console, with availability in 12 regions globally.
feature patch - AWS What's New awsgaengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS adds cross-region automated backup replication to four new regions
Amazon RDS has expanded its Cross-Region Automated Backup replication feature to four additional AWS Regions. This enhancement improves disaster recovery capabilities for mission-critical databases by enabling automated replication of snapshots and transaction logs to a secondary region. This allows for quicker restoration and resumption of operations in the event of a primary region outage, with a recovery point objective of just minutes. The feature is available for multiple database engines via the RDS Management Console, SDK, or CLI.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Interconnect last mile enters gated preview with AT&T
AWS Interconnect - last mile is a new managed offering simplifying private, high-speed connections to AWS from on-premises locations. It automates complex network configuration, reduces setup friction, and ensures high availability. This new service is now available in a gated preview with AT&T for US customers, offering simplified partner adoption via an API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-eks ·
Amazon EKS supports Kubernetes version rollback
Amazon EKS now enables users to roll back to a previous Kubernetes minor version within 7 days post-upgrade, offering a safety net for production validation. This feature includes automated readiness checks and automatic worker node rollback for EKS Auto Mode clusters. It is available at no additional cost across all EKS regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore expands to four new AWS Regions
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a platform for building and optimizing agents, is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Europe (Milan), and Europe (Spain). This expansion allows customers in these regions to deploy agents with lower latency and closer proximity to their end users. All core AgentCore capabilities, including runtime, security, and tool connectivity, are available at launch in these new regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Security Agent expands to new regions with threat modeling and code review
AWS Security Agent, now part of AWS Continuum, is now available in three new AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and South America (São Paulo). This expansion offers customers enhanced security capabilities, including preview features for STRIDE-based threat modeling and full-repo/PR-level code reviews across popular platforms. On-demand penetration testing and simulated validation (US East only) are also available, aiming to scale security expertise alongside development velocity.
feature announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawspreviewdeprecationengineerretailaws-bedrock ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.53.0: New Bedrock features, breaking changes, and enhancements
Terraform AWS Provider v6.53.0 introduces new data sources and resources for AWS Bedrock, alongside breaking changes in Pinpoint SMS Voice V2 phone number management. It also includes several enhancements and bug fixes across services like API Gateway, ECS, and CloudWatch. Users should review the breaking changes and deprecations for potential impact on their infrastructure as code.
breaking feature patch announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch pipelines adds OpenTelemetry metric processing and enrichment
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion, eliminating the need for custom processing layers. This feature allows users to centrally apply metric transformations, add business context, reduce storage costs by stripping high-cardinality labels, and enforce naming conventions. The OTel metric processing is available in all supported AWS Regions at no additional cost beyond standard ingestion pricing.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Sonnet 5 now available on AWS via Bedrock and Claude Platform
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, their most capable Sonnet model yet, is now accessible on AWS through Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform. This model offers enhanced performance for coding, agentic tasks, and professional knowledge work at Sonnet pricing. Customers can choose Bedrock for AWS-managed features and data residency or Claude Platform for direct access to Anthropic's native experience with AWS billing and authentication.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd Instances with Graviton5 Processors Generally Available
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances, powered by fifth-generation AWS Graviton5 processors, are now generally available. These instances offer up to 25% better compute performance and are optimized for compute-intensive workloads like HPC, databases, and ML inference. They are available in select AWS regions and can be purchased through various pricing models, with availability starting today.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs adds resource tag enrichment to log events
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now automatically enriches log events with AWS resource tags at ingestion time. This feature simplifies filtering, searching, and analysis of logs using metadata like team ownership or environment, eliminating the need for custom pipelines or manual instrumentation changes. Tag enrichment is available in most commercial AWS Regions at no additional cost, requiring only a simple enablement setting.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-cloudfront ·
AWS CloudFormation/CDK Express Mode Speeds Deployments
AWS CloudFormation and CDK now offer an express mode that can speed up infrastructure deployments by up to 4x. This mode completes stack operations once resource configuration is applied, skipping lengthy stabilization checks, which is particularly beneficial for developers and AI agents building infrastructure. Express mode is available now in all supported AWS Regions and can be enabled via the AWS CLI, SDKs, or the AWS Management Console without template changes.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsaws-s3 ·
CloudFormation and CDK pre-deployment validation now runs on all stack operations
AWS CloudFormation and CDK have introduced pre-deployment validation for all stack operations, including Create Stack and Update Stack. This change allows developers to catch common deployment errors in seconds, accelerating development feedback loops and reducing wasteful provision-and-rollback cycles. The validation is enabled by default and provides detailed error reporting, benefiting engineers and architects working with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
feature - AWS What's New securityinfraawsengineer ·
Amazon GameLift Servers Adds DDoS Protection SDKs for C# and Unity
Amazon GameLift Servers now provides client SDKs for C# and Unity to protect multiplayer games against DDoS attacks. This feature integrates a relay network and token-based authentication to secure game sessions. It offers proactive UDP traffic protection with minimal latency, available at no extra cost to existing customers. The SDKs complement existing C++ and Unreal Engine support, enhancing developer flexibility.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 Auto Scaling adds reservations-then-balanced AZ distribution
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling introduces a new Availability Zone distribution strategy called reservations-then-balanced. This strategy prioritizes launching instances into pre-purchased capacity reservations before distributing remaining capacity across Availability Zones. It helps maximize utilization of reserved capacity while maintaining Auto Scaling's resilience, and is available today in all AWS commercial Regions.
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