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 aiinfraawsengineeraws-eksaws-ecs ·
Amazon EKS Auto Mode reduces GPU management fees
Amazon EKS Auto Mode is reducing management fees for GPU and accelerated instance types, with reductions of 35% for G-series and 60% for P-series and AWS Trainium starting July 1, 2026. These savings aim to make EKS Auto Mode, which simplifies GPU infrastructure management for ML and other accelerated workloads, more cost-effective for customers. The fee reductions apply automatically to all existing and new EKS Auto Mode clusters, with identical reductions also available for Amazon ECS.
patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineerautomotiveaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EVS adds support for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and 9.1
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1, allowing users to run the latest VCF versions within their Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances. This update gives users complete control over their VCF environments, enabling them to use familiar tools and processes. A new GitHub repository with IaC examples is also launched to aid adoption, and this feature is available in all EVS-supported regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsaws-iam ·
AWS CodePipeline now available in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region
AWS CodePipeline, a continuous delivery service for automating software release processes, is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region. This expansion allows organizations in that area to model, visualize, and automate their software release pipelines, integrating with various AWS and third-party tools. Users can access the service via the AWS Management Console, with pay-as-you-go pricing.
announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-eksaws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod adds AMI versioning and auto-patching
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now provides visibility into AMI versions and automatically applies security patches to clusters without disrupting workloads. This enhances security and consistency by enabling administrators to detect drift, roll back to previous versions, and apply patches non-disruptively. These features are available for HyperPod clusters orchestrated by Amazon EKS in all supported AWS Regions.
feature patch - 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 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 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 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 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.
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 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 governanceawsengineer ·
AWS Capability Insights: Open-source solution for regional capabilities data
AWS has launched Capability Insights, an open-source solution for deploying regional capabilities data within your own VPC. This self-hosted dashboard helps teams managing multi-Region architectures by providing data ownership, governance, and compliance within their network perimeter. The solution auto-refreshes data daily and includes a workload analysis tool that filters services based on your actual usage from CloudTrail and CloudFormation logs, simplifying gap analysis.
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