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Tracking 680 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS News Blog blogsecurityawsengineer ·
AWS Security Agent Enhances DevSecOps with Threat Modeling and IDE Integrations
AWS Security Agent has introduced several new features, including threat modeling, expanded code review capabilities with pull request scanning and remediation, and new IDE integrations like Kiro power and a Claude Code plugin. These updates aim to proactively secure applications throughout the development lifecycle by identifying and mitigating risks earlier. The new features are available in AWS commercial regions and are geared towards engineers and architects involved in application security and development.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
AWS Weekly Roundup: AI CX Designer, EC2 AMI Watermarks, Open Governance for MySQL
AWS announced several updates, including a no-code AI-powered customer experience designer for Amazon Connect in preview, and EC2 AMI watermarking for private image identifiers. Lambda MicroVMs offer isolated compute with near-instant launch, while MSK and OpenSearch Service gain AI-assisted operational guidance. These updates aim to accelerate AI adoption and improve infrastructure management for developers and business teams.
feature announcement patch - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
OpenAI GPT-5.6 models now available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers general availability for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family of models: Sol, Terra, and Luna. These models provide enhanced intelligence and efficiency for complex problem-solving, with Sol for reasoning, Terra for balanced performance, and Luna for cost-efficient inference. They are accessible via the Responses API and are available in specific AWS regions, supporting features like prompt caching for cost savings.
feature announcement - 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-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 ·
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 aiawsmediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA GPUs now in US East (N. Virginia)
Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. These instances offer significant performance improvements for AI inference, graphics workloads, and GPU-accelerated data analytics compared to G6 instances. They are suitable for a wide range of applications including AI model deployment, graphics rendering, and real-time data pipelines, featuring advanced hardware specifications. G7 instances can be accessed via the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.
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