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 infraawsaws-s3aws-ec2 ·
AWS Config adds support for 8 new resource types
AWS Config now includes support for eight additional resource types across services like API Gateway, EC2, and S3 Vectors. This enhancement offers broader coverage for discovering, auditing, and remediating resources within AWS environments. Automatic tracking begins for users who have enabled recording for all resource types, with the new types also available in Config rules and aggregators.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS Console adds real-time deployment observability
Amazon Elastic Container Service now offers real-time deployment progress tracking, health monitoring, and failure diagnosis within the AWS Management Console. This feature helps users understand deployment phases, identify issues immediately, and reduce troubleshooting time. It is available at no additional charge in all AWS commercial and GovCloud Regions for rolling update deployments.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
ECS Service Connect adds zone-aware routing
Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports zone-aware routing, which prioritizes service-to-service traffic within the same Availability Zone to cut data transfer costs and latency. This feature automatically balances load across services and redistributes traffic across healthy zones if local endpoints fail. It is enabled by default for new and existing services and available in all supported AWS regions at no additional cost.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
ECS adds configurable deployment circuit breaker settings
Amazon ECS now allows customization of deployment circuit breaker settings, enabling users to define failure thresholds and counting models for automatic rollbacks. This feature provides greater control over deployment behavior, accommodating different application needs and error tolerances. It is available in all AWS Regions and configurable via multiple AWS tools.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-sns ·
CloudWatch alarms from log queries streamline monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch now allows creating alarms directly from log queries, eliminating intermediate metric filters. This change simplifies setting up proactive monitoring and alerting on log data anomalies for engineers and architects working with AWS logs. The feature supports standard CloudWatch Alarm actions and is available in most commercial AWS Regions, accessible via console, CLI, CloudFormation, and SDKs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS Express Mode now supports custom task definitions
Amazon ECS Express Mode now allows the use of custom task definitions, enabling users to leverage existing configurations and advanced customizations with its simplified deployment experience. This integration allows for the reuse of task definitions across CI/CD pipelines and IaC workflows, maintaining established operational practices. This feature is now available in all AWS Regions and supports integration with observability, security, and logging tools.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore increases default runtime quotas
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore has increased default runtime quotas, providing customers with greater capacity for scaling AI agent workloads. New limits support up to 5,000 concurrent sessions in key US regions and 200 agent interactions per second globally. This enhancement allows for more simultaneous AI agents and higher throughput capabilities without immediate configuration changes, benefiting developers building AI-powered applications.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for Db2 supports self-managed Active Directory
Amazon RDS for Db2 now allows direct integration with self-managed Active Directory domains for Kerberos authentication and single sign-on. This simplifies compliance and reduces complexity by eliminating the need for AWS Managed Microsoft AD or directory trusts. The feature is generally available across all RDS for Db2 regions and is free to use.
feature patch - 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 - AWS What's New securitygovernancecomplianceawsgovernment ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Gains FedRAMP High, DoD IL-4/5 Authorization in AWS GovCloud
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus has achieved FedRAMP High and DoD CC SRG IL-4/5 authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This allows federal and public sector organizations to confidently monitor sensitive workloads, meeting stringent security and compliance standards. The service is a managed, Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution designed for scalable ingestion and storage of operational metrics.
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