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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.
Tracking 680 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS News Blog bloginfraawsengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-sqs ·
Amazon SQS celebrates 20 years with significant scalability and feature enhancements
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary, marking two decades of reliable message queuing for AWS customers. Recent updates have focused on dramatically increasing throughput, enhancing security defaults, and adding flexibility for complex workloads, including AI applications. These advancements benefit developers and architects building distributed systems and AI-driven applications who rely on decoupled communication for resilience and scale.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
AWS Weekly Roundup: AI agents, Hanoi Local Zone, Grok 4.3, price cuts
AWS announced several new AI agent capabilities, including features for working, securing, and building code, with new deployments like the Hanoi Local Zone in Vietnam to meet data residency requirements. Several new models and tools were introduced on Amazon Bedrock, such as Grok 4.3 from xAI, and Amazon S3 now supports object annotations for AI agents. Additionally, AWS detailed price reductions on services like S3 Vectors and GameLift Servers, alongside enhancements to ECS auto scaling and EC2 G7 instances.
feature patch announcement - AWS News Blog bloginfraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Transform adds continuous tech debt analysis and remediation (preview)
AWS Transform now includes a continuous modernization capability for autonomous tech debt analysis and remediation at scale, addressing the fragmentation of existing tooling and the rapid accumulation of debt due to AI-assisted development. This new feature provides continuous code scanning, prioritized findings, and automated pull request generation for fixes, helping engineering organizations reduce manual effort and maintain code currency. It is available today in preview and integrates with AWS Security Agent.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiinfraawsengineeraws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Introduces MicroVMs for Isolated, Stateful Workloads
AWS Lambda now offers MicroVMs, a new compute primitive providing virtual machine-level isolation and stateful execution environments for user- or AI-generated code. Powered by Firecracker, this feature enables near-instant launch and resume capabilities, addressing the need for secure, dedicated environments in multi-tenant applications like AI assistants and interactive code editors. Customers can now run untrusted code with robust isolation and low latency without managing underlying infrastructure, with MicroVMs complementing existing Lambda Functions for event-driven tasks.
feature - AWS News Blog blogaiinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Weekly Roundup: Builder Center Anniversary, Security Hub Enhancements, SageMaker, EKS/ECS GPU Cost Reduction
This AWS weekly roundup highlights the first anniversary of the AWS Builder Center, which has grown into a significant ecosystem for developers. Key updates include new capabilities in AWS Security Hub for network scanning and Azure integration, enhanced Hugging Face integration in Amazon SageMaker Studio, and significant cost reductions for GPU instance management in Amazon EKS and ECS. Additionally, Amazon Aurora DSQL change data capture (CDC) is now generally available, alongside new developments in building secure AI agents with Loom and managing Claude models via a new gateway.
feature patch announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds web search grounding
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers a generally available Web Search tool that grounds AI agent responses in current, cited web knowledge without data egress. This feature leverages Amazon's search infrastructure and knowledge graph to provide more accurate and relevant information than traditional web search, allowing developers to focus on agent building rather than search integration. It is available today in US East (N. Virginia) with usage-based pricing.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS Certificate Manager adds ACME support for public TLS certificates
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now supports the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol for issuing public TLS certificates. This allows organizations to automate certificate renewal and management using existing ACME clients, addressing challenges with shorter certificate validity periods and fragmented visibility. PKI administrators gain centralized control, fine-grained access management via IAM roles, and enhanced monitoring through CloudTrail and CloudWatch. The feature is available now for public certificates issued by Amazon Trust Services.
feature - AWS News Blog bloginfraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS DevOps Agent adds preview release management features
AWS DevOps Agent now offers preview release management capabilities, including release readiness reviews and autonomous release testing. These features aim to help teams assess code changes against production standards and automatically test them, addressing the increased volume of code, especially from AI tools. The capabilities are designed for engineers and architects working with CI/CD pipelines across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsengineer ·
AWS CloudFormation Express mode accelerates infrastructure deployments
AWS CloudFormation now offers an Express mode that significantly reduces deployment times, up to 4x faster for iterative development and AI tools by skipping extended stabilization checks. This mode completes deployments once resource configuration is applied, benefiting use cases like rapid infrastructure iteration and AI-assisted development where sub-minute feedback is valuable. Express mode is available today in all AWS commercial regions and works with existing templates, though rollback is disabled by default. Developers using the AWS Management Console, CLI, SDKs, CDK, or AI tools like Kiro can leverage this new deployment option.
feature - AWS News Blog blogaiinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Weekly Roundup: New instances, AI, OpenSearch, and service lifecycle updates
AWS announced several new features and updates, including Graviton5-powered EC2 instances, CloudFormation Express mode, EKS version rollbacks, and ACME support in ACM. New AI capabilities include Claude Sonnet 5 on AWS, Amazon WorkSpaces for AI agents, and SageMaker AI enhancements. Additionally, the update details several AWS service lifecycle changes, including services moving to Maintenance, Sunset, and End of Support phases.
feature patch deprecation announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base simplifies enterprise AI data integration
AWS announced Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a new capability for building enterprise-grade generative AI applications using proprietary data. It simplifies the complex process of connecting to disparate data sources, optimizing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) accuracy, and managing scalable infrastructure. This managed primitive abstracts away RAG pipeline components, allowing developers to focus on outcomes. It offers native data connectors, automatic parsing strategies, and an "Agentic Retriever" for complex queries, aiming to accelerate development and improve AI application accuracy. It's available now in the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Bedrock consoles.
feature - AWS News Blog blogaiawsgaengineer ·
AWS Summit New York: Key announcements in AI agents, security, and developer tools
AWS announced significant updates at its New York Summit, focusing on enhancing AI agents with new knowledge connection and retrieval capabilities via Amazon Bedrock. Key features include improved agent security with AWS Continuum, faster development cycles with tools like Kiro and AWS DevOps Agent, and enhanced data context with Amazon S3 annotations. These advancements aim to empower developers and enterprises to build, secure, and deploy more capable AI-driven applications and autonomous workflows. Notable updates include Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, Web Search on Bedrock AgentCore, and new Amazon ECS auto-scaling capabilities.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsgaengineeraws-eks ·
Amazon EKS adds Kubernetes version rollback feature
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollbacks, allowing cluster administrators to revert to a previous Kubernetes minor version within seven days of an upgrade if issues arise. This feature provides a safety net, addressing a long-standing limitation in Kubernetes where control plane upgrades were a one-way operation. It applies to all EKS clusters and offers enhanced functionality for EKS Auto Mode with a cancel API for node rollbacks, aiming to reduce upgrade friction and keep clusters on supported versions. The capability is available today at no additional cost in all commercial AWS Regions.
feature patch - 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 News Blog bloginfraawsgaengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS adds high-resolution metrics for faster service auto scaling
Amazon ECS now supports high-resolution (20-second) metrics for service auto scaling, enabling faster detection and response to load changes. This improvement reduces scale-out time by up to 76% and overall scaling time by up to 72%, leading to better application performance, cost optimization, and simpler configurations. The feature is available today for all ECS compute options and requires enabling high-resolution metrics in CloudWatch, which may incur additional costs.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineer ·
AWS Partner Central: Share partner qualifications across subsidiary accounts
AWS Partner Central now supports sharing partner qualifications, including specializations and certifications, across subsidiary and acquired accounts. This enhancement allows partners to consolidate their AWS partnership standing beyond revenue, benefiting from a unified public profile and consolidated scorecard. The feature is available today in all commercial AWS Regions and can be self-serviced within AWS Partner Central.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
DocumentDB adds 46 MongoDB operators for better compatibility
Amazon DocumentDB now supports 46 additional MongoDB aggregation operators and cursor methods in version 8.0.1. This update significantly enhances query API compatibility, easing the migration of MongoDB workloads by reducing the need for application code modifications. The new features are available across all DocumentDB regions.
patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-eks ·
Amazon EKS Auto Mode adds Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
Amazon EKS Auto Mode now integrates with Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal shift to automatically protect Kubernetes applications from Availability Zone (AZ) disruptions. This enhancement ensures application availability by rerouting network traffic away from impaired AZs without requiring additional customer configuration. The feature is available for EKS Auto Mode clusters in all supported AWS Regions.
feature - 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.
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