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 dataawsengineeraws-s3aws-redshift ·
Redshift Serverless preserves integrations during snapshot restores
Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically keeps zero-ETL and S3 event integrations intact when restoring a namespace from a snapshot. This enhancement eliminates manual recreation of integrations after restores, reducing downtime and administrative effort for disaster recovery and testing. The feature is available in all regions where Redshift Serverless is offered and applies only to restores within the same namespace.
patch - AWS What's New securitycomplianceawsengineergovernmentaws-iam ·
AWS IAM Identity Center Achieves FedRAMP Class C Certification
AWS IAM Identity Center is now certified for FedRAMP Class C compliance in four US regions, enabling secure workforce access to government cloud services. This certification is crucial for U.S. government agencies and contractors needing to meet stringent security standards for cloud deployments. IAM Identity Center is the recommended service for managing this type of access.
announcement - AWS What's New aisecurityawsengineeraws-sagemakeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon GuardDuty adds AI Protection for AI workloads
Amazon GuardDuty now offers AI Protection, expanding threat detection to AI workloads like Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker. This new capability addresses the security gap for AI services by continuously monitoring for threats such as anomalous model invocations, cost harvesting, and prompt injection without requiring manual configuration. It analyzes CloudTrail events and integrates with Bedrock Guardrails, with findings flowing into Security Hub for a unified view and prioritized response. AI Protection is available with a 30-day free trial for existing GuardDuty customers.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon Aurora DSQL expands to Europe (Spain) Region
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available for single-Region clusters in the Europe (Spain) Region, extending its global reach. This distributed SQL database offers high availability and scalability for always-on applications. Aurora DSQL is now available in numerous AWS regions worldwide, with a free tier for new users.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 C8id, M8id, R8id instances expand to new AWS regions
Amazon EC2 has expanded the availability of C8id, M8id, and R8id instances to additional AWS regions in Asia Pacific and Europe. These instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offer significant performance and memory bandwidth improvements over previous generations, benefiting compute, balanced, and memory-intensive workloads. They are available through various purchasing options including On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot instances.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances now available in AWS GovCloud
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances featuring Graviton4 processors and up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe SSD storage are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and GovCloud (US-West) Regions. These instances offer up to 30% better performance than Graviton3, high-speed local storage, and enhanced network/EBS bandwidth options. They are suitable for applications requiring fast, low-latency local storage and are accessible via the AWS Management Console.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 M8gd and R8gd Instances Expand to More AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 M8gd and R8gd instances powered by Graviton4 processors are now available in additional AWS regions including Europe (Paris, Stockholm, Milan) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Osaka, Melbourne, Singapore, Taipei). These instances offer up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe storage and improved performance, making them suitable for applications requiring high-speed, low-latency local storage. Customers can also now adjust network and EBS bandwidth allocation via instance bandwidth weighting.
feature - AWS What's New aisecurityawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemakeraws-bedrock ·
AWS Security Hub adds AI inventory for organization-wide asset visibility
AWS Security Hub now offers an AI inventory to provide central security teams with an organization-wide view of AI assets and their security posture. This feature addresses the growing challenge of visibility into rapidly deployed AI workloads across AWS environments. It automatically discovers and catalogs AI assets using various AWS services and includes security findings for prioritization, available at no additional cost.
feature - AWS What's New awsmedia ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal enhances protocol migration with rollback
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports automated rollback and migration of stopped WorkSpaces, simplifying large-scale protocol changes. Migrating to the Amazon DCV protocol offers broader OS support, enhanced security, and improved performance. These features are available in all supported AWS regions and require no manual intervention for rollback or starting stopped instances.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Storage Gateway adds console support for copying file shares
AWS Storage Gateway now allows copying file shares between gateways via the console. This feature preserves compatible settings, significantly reducing manual effort for migrations and upgrades. It includes a guided experience to address any necessary configuration adjustments before creation and is available in commercial AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-cloudfront ·
CloudFront Functions can now log custom data to access logs
Amazon CloudFront Functions can now write custom data directly into CloudFront access logs using a new helper method, `cf.logCustomData()`. This simplifies analysis by consolidating function decisions and request outcomes into a single log record, eliminating the need to correlate separate logging systems. This enhancement is available today in all CloudFront edge locations and works with both real-time and standard (v2) logging configurations.
feature - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawspreviewengineeraws-eksaws-iam ·
Build Stateful IT Service Desk Agent with LangGraph on EKS
This post demonstrates building an AI-powered IT service desk agent using LangGraph on Amazon EKS that can autonomously handle routine L1 support requests and escalate complex issues to human engineers. The agent leverages LangGraph's stateful workflow capabilities, such as interrupt() and checkpointing, with Amazon DynamoDB for state persistence, providing context-preserving escalations and durable state across failures. The solution uses Amazon OpenSearch Serverless for retrieval, Anthropic's Claude on Amazon Bedrock for generation, and Karpenter for efficient node autoscaling, offering a portable and scalable pattern for IT support automation.
feature announcement - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
AWS introduces Loom for secure AI agent development and deployment
AWS has released Loom, an enterprise-grade platform designed to simplify the secure development, deployment, and operation of AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This addresses challenges organizations face in implementing security and governance frameworks for agentic capabilities. Loom offers a unified management UI, identity provider integration, and built-in security best practices, targeting platform engineering teams looking to build AI applications on AWS.
feature announcement - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
AWS Open Data Registry Adds AI-Powered Dataset Discovery
AWS has released an open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its Registry of Open Data (RODA), enabling AI assistants to discover and evaluate datasets. This feature aims to simplify the research process by allowing users to ask natural language questions to find relevant datasets and preview their contents. The MCP server supports AI assistants like Kiro and Claude Code, making the discovery of RODA's extensive data catalog more efficient for researchers across various domains.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiawsfinancemedia ·
AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization to charge bots for content access
AWS WAF now offers an AI traffic monetization capability allowing content owners to charge AI bots for accessing web content at the network edge. This feature enables per-request pricing based on content path, bot category, or verification tier, with payments settled in stablecoins to a specified wallet. The capability addresses the growing cost of serving AI bot traffic which now exceeds 50% of web traffic for many providers, without a corresponding increase in traditional revenue streams. It is available for web ACLs associated with Amazon CloudFront distributions, requiring AWS WAF Bot Control to be enabled.
feature - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 GPUs now available
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 G7 instances, the first major cloud provider offering with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances provide significant performance gains for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads compared to previous generations. They are suitable for a wide range of GPU-enabled applications and are now available in two AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS Open Source Blog bloggovernanceawsengineer ·
AWS Supports New Open Governance Model for MySQL
Oracle has announced a new community governance model for MySQL, enabling broader participation in the project's development. This move is supported by AWS, which views open governance as crucial for producing better software and fostering community investment. The model establishes defined roles for contributors and a Steering Committee with external representation, aiming to strengthen MySQL's long-term health and innovation. AWS will hold a seat on the committee, focusing on performance, vector search, and the extensions framework.
announcement feature - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
AWS Open Sources MCP Gateway and Registry for AI Asset Governance
AWS has released the open-source MCP Gateway and Registry, an Apache 2.0 licensed project designed to help enterprises govern and discover AI assets at scale. This tool addresses the need for both human users and AI agents to access approved AI resources, functioning similarly to enterprise data and software catalogs but with an AI-first focus. It offers a UI for humans and a machine-readable API for AI agents, with deployment options on Kubernetes (EKS) or serverless (ECS Fargate), and supports federation with other registries.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogdataawsengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 adds annotations for rich, queryable object metadata
Amazon S3 now supports annotations, allowing users to attach up to 1 GB of rich, mutable metadata per object in flexible formats like JSON, XML, or plain text. This feature is designed to support AI agents and autonomous workflows by providing scalable, queryable context that moves with the object. When S3 Metadata annotation tables are enabled, annotations are automatically indexed into queryable Apache Iceberg tables accessible via Amazon Athena. This aims to simplify complex metadata management across industries by eliminating the need for separate databases or sidecar files.
feature - AWS News Blog bloginfraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances with Graviton5 processors now available
Amazon has launched new EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. These compute-optimized instances offer up to 25% higher performance per vCPU than previous generations, with faster memory, larger L3 cache, and enhanced network and EBS bandwidth. They are suitable for compute-intensive workloads including AI, analytics, and batch processing, and are available now in select AWS regions.
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