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 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 securityawssnowflakeengineer ·
AWS Secrets Manager adds managed external secrets for Paddle and GitLab
AWS Secrets Manager now supports managed external secrets for Paddle API Keys and GitLab Access Tokens, enabling automatic rotation of third-party credentials directly within Secrets Manager. This enhancement simplifies credential management and enhances security by allowing seamless key rotation for supported services. These new integrations join existing ones, offering centralized management for a growing list of third-party software vended secrets across all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawspreviewengineer ·
CloudWatch Application Signals adds dynamic instrumentation
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports dynamic instrumentation, allowing developers to capture runtime state from live applications without restarts. This feature helps debug difficult-to-reproduce production issues by inspecting variable values and method arguments at specific code locations. It requires the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) SDKs and is available in all commercial AWS regions for Java, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript applications.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineer ·
AWS Certificate Manager supports ACME for public certificates
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now offers a managed ACME server endpoint for provisioning public TLS certificates with a 45-day validity. This feature automates certificate issuance and renewal using standard ACMEv2 clients, addressing the increasing difficulty of manual certificate management due to shorter mandated lifetimes. It allows PKI administrators to enforce governance and delegate certificate requests, with all activity logged in ACM and CloudTrail.
feature - 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 aiinfraawsengineeraws-sagemakeraws-iam ·
SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform provisioning
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports Terraform for provisioning, allowing platform teams to integrate SageMaker domains into existing infrastructure-as-code pipelines. This enhancement ensures consistency across environments and simplifies the deployment of managed workspaces with built-in governance and access control. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered and requires the Terraform AWS Cloud Control Provider.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 X8i instances expand to more AWS Asia Pacific regions
Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. These SAP-certified instances offer significant performance and memory improvements over the previous generation, benefiting memory-intensive workloads like SAP HANA and large databases. They are available in 14 sizes, including bare metal options, and can be purchased through various pricing models.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
Amazon Connect increases security profiles per user to 7
Amazon Connect now supports assigning up to seven security profiles per user, an increase from two. This change allows for more granular, scoped permission sets per agent, enabling better alignment with complex organizational structures. The feature is available in all AWS regions and enhances security by enforcing least privilege access. This benefits organizations, particularly in sectors like financial services, that manage multiple lines of business or distinct operational divisions.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds rule-based redaction for agent screen recordings
Amazon Connect now supports rule-based redaction for agent screen recordings, allowing customers to protect sensitive information by specifying applications or URLs to be redacted. This feature enhances compliance and privacy by automatically obscuring identified content in post-contact recordings. It is available in all AWS Regions where Connect is offered and supports Windows operating systems.
feature - AWS What's New securityawspreviewengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 Dedicated Hosts Add AMD SEV-SNP Support
Amazon EC2 now supports AMD SEV-SNP on Dedicated Hosts, allowing confidential computing workloads on dedicated physical servers. This provides confidential computing benefits alongside Dedicated Host features like placement control and host affinity. The feature is available in all AWS commercial regions with AMD instances.
feature - 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.
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