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Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
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- AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus expands to Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This expansion allows customers to monitor and alert on operational metrics at scale within this new geographic area. The service supports sending up to 1 billion active metric series per workspace, with multiple workspaces configurable per account.
announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod now supports custom AMIs for Slurm clusters
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now allows custom AMIs for Slurm-orchestrated clusters, simplifying the deployment of pre-configured, security-hardened environments for AI/ML workloads. This addresses challenges with complex lifecycle scripts, enabling faster startup times, improved reliability, and enhanced security compliance. The feature is available in all supported AWS Regions and can be specified via several SageMaker APIs.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-iam ·
Amazon DocumentDB added as a skill to AWS Agent Toolkit
Amazon DocumentDB is now available as a specialized database skill within the Agent Toolkit for AWS, enabling AI coding agents to manage clusters via guided workflows. This integration aims to reduce errors and accelerate development by automating complex operations like provisioning, migration, and optimization. The skill supports seven distinct workflows and can be executed with enhanced security via the AWS MCP Server or locally through the AWS CLI. It is offered at no additional charge.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker JumpStart offers OpenAI PII detection and masking model
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now provides a privacy-filter model from OpenAI for detecting and masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text. This feature allows AWS customers to build data sanitization workflows on AWS infrastructure, making it easier to comply with privacy regulations. The model is readily deployable via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK for various AI use cases.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker JumpStart adds Qwen3 embedding and reranking models
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B and Qwen3-Reranker-4B, enhancing retrieval pipelines with multimodal understanding and refined result ranking. These models enable developers to build advanced search capabilities on AWS infrastructure, accepting diverse inputs for embedding and precise relevance scoring for reranking. Both models can be deployed with a few clicks via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
Gemma-4-E2B-it model available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers Google DeepMind's Gemma-4-E2B-it, a multimodal, instruction-tuned foundation model. This model supports text, image, and audio input, generating text output and featuring advanced reasoning capabilities for building AI applications on AWS. It's accessible with a few clicks via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK, allowing customers to deploy it for various AI use cases.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineermediaaws-sagemaker ·
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Mistral AI's Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for real-time speech transcription. This multilingual model enables low-latency audio-to-text applications and supports 13 languages with configurable delays. Customers can deploy it easily via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK, allowing for quick integration into specific AI use cases.
feature announcement - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.46.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.40 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.40 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.40.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.41.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.42 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.42 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.42.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.43 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.43 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.43.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.44 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.44 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.44.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.45 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.45 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.45.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.46 reaches end of life in 19 days
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.46 reaches end of life on 2026-07-31 (19 days from now). Extended support runs until 2029-07-31. Latest release in this cycle: 8.0.46.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mariadb ·
Amazon RDS for MariaDB 10.5 reaches end of life in 50 days
Amazon RDS for MariaDB 10.5 reaches end of life on 2026-08-31 (50 days from now). Latest release in this cycle: 10.5.29.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-msk ·
Amazon MSK 3.7 reaches end of life in 51 days
Amazon MSK 3.7 reaches end of life on 2026-09-01 (51 days from now). Latest release in this cycle: 3.7.x.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-eks ·
Amazon EKS 1.33 reaches end of life in 17 days
Amazon EKS 1.33 reaches end of life on 2026-07-29 (17 days from now). Extended support runs until 2027-07-29. Latest release in this cycle: 1.33-eks-41.
deprecation - AWS What's New aiinfraawsengineeraws-s3aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod simplifies Slurm cluster setup with AMI-based configuration
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports AMI-based node lifecycle configuration for Slurm clusters using continuous provisioning. This eliminates the need for manual script uploads, speeding up node availability for AI/ML workloads. The feature is available in all SageMaker HyperPod regions and targets engineers and architects managing ML infrastructure.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 R8in, R8ib, R8idn, R8idb Instances Expand to New Regions
Amazon EC2 R8in, R8ib, R8idn, and R8idb instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland) regions, offering enhanced performance for demanding workloads. Powered by custom Intel processors and AWS Nitro cards, these instances provide up to 43% better compute performance per vCPU and significantly higher network and EBS bandwidth than previous generations. They are suitable for workloads ranging from AI/ML caching and Telco applications to high-performance databases and data lakes, with specific instance types optimized for network or storage intensity.
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