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 infraawsengineer ·
AWS Control Tower AFT re-applies customizations on account OU move
AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) now automatically re-applies account customizations when an account moves between Organizational Units (OUs). This eliminates manual re-application, reducing operational overhead and configuration drift for organizations managing accounts with OU-specific settings. The feature can be enabled by setting `aft_customization_triggers = ["account_move"]` and offers options to skip specific accounts, with availability across all AFT regions.
feature - AWS Open Source Blog blogaiawsengineer ·
AWS Strands Agents SDK Enhances AI Agent Integration with Open Protocols
AWS's Strands Agents SDK now supports multiple open protocols like MCP and A2A, simplifying integration between AI agents and various systems. This approach reduces custom code and enables agents to collaborate and access tools more effectively. The SDK is now available as an open-source Apache 2.0 licensed project, making it easier for developers to build extensible AI agentic systems.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new query commands and functions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has added 25 new query commands and functions to enhance log analysis capabilities. These additions support statistical aggregation, time-series data handling, outlier detection, and event enrichment, enabling deeper insights for engineers analyzing logs. The new commands are available today in all commercial AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New awsretail ·
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now in AWS Cape Town region
Amazon Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns now supports digital channels (SMS, WhatsApp, email) in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This expansion enables businesses in the region to deploy proactive, personalized engagement campaigns for various use cases. The feature is available through the Connect Customer admin website and APIs, offering built-in analytics and event-based triggers.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7e instances with NVIDIA GPUs now in more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 G7e instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, are now available in additional AWS Regions, including Frankfurt, Stockholm, and Mumbai. These instances offer up to 2.3x inference performance for AI and spatial computing workloads compared to G6e. They are suitable for deploying LLMs, agentic AI, and multimodal generative AI models, featuring advanced GPU and networking capabilities. G7e instances can be purchased via On-Demand, Spot Instances, or Savings Plans.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds intelligent storage tiering
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers intelligent tiering to automatically move log data between Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access tiers based on usage patterns. This feature enables cost savings for long-term log retention while maintaining query capabilities and unified visibility, reducing operational overhead for engineers managing logs. Intelligent tiering is available in most AWS commercial regions and can be enabled at the account level.
feature patch - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineeraws-s3aws-dynamodbaws-redshift ·
AWS Glue adds SAP OData connector and zero-ETL to GovCloud regions
AWS Glue now offers SAP OData connector and zero-ETL integrations in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, supporting sources like DynamoDB, Salesforce, and SAP OData. This simplifies data replication into Redshift and S3 for customers in regulated environments, eliminating custom pipeline development. The new integrations are fully managed and accessible via the AWS Glue console, enabling efficient data ingestion and analysis.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawsengineer ·
Amazon Cognito adds support for importing users with password hashes
Amazon Cognito now allows importing users with pre-existing password hashes via CSV, eliminating the need for immediate password resets. This feature enables users to sign in with their existing credentials upon import, improving the user experience during migration. It supports common hashing algorithms like bcrypt, scrypt, Argon2id, and PBKDF2, and is available in all AWS Regions where Cognito is offered.
feature - AWS What's New infraaws ·
Amazon MQ allows configurable storage for RabbitMQ brokers
Amazon MQ now enables independent configuration of EBS disk storage size for RabbitMQ brokers, separate from instance type. This allows users to right-size storage for specific messaging workloads when creating or updating brokers. This feature is available for RabbitMQ M7g brokers on version 4.2+ in cluster deployments and can be managed via AWS Console, CloudFormation, CLI, or CDK.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineermedia ·
Amazon MSK Express Brokers support Kafka 4.2 with improved rebalancing
Amazon MSK Express Brokers now support Apache Kafka version 4.2, introducing enhancements for leader election correctness and a new consumer rebalance protocol for smoother, faster group rebalances. This update aims to bring the latest open-source reliability and performance improvements to MSK Express, which already offers significant throughput and scaling advantages. The support is available today for new and existing MSK Express clusters across all offered AWS regions.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS/Aurora add Graviton4 R8g instances in more regions, M8g instances wider
AWS Graviton4-based R8g instances are now generally available for Amazon RDS and Aurora, and M8g instances have expanded availability for RDS. These Graviton4 instances offer significant performance and price/performance improvements over previous generations. They are available through the RDS console and AWS CLI, with detailed engine version support in the documentation.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsaws-rds ·
RDS and Aurora add R8gd/M8gd instances in more regions
Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL now support R8gd and M8gd instances in 12 and 6 additional regions, respectively. These instances feature Optimized Reads with local NVMe SSDs, significantly improving throughput and price-performance for complex queries and index operations. Customers can deploy these instances via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDK. This enhancement targets users running complex workloads on Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for Db2 expands to more AWS Commercial regions
Amazon RDS for Db2 is now available in five additional AWS Commercial regions, including Asia Pacific (Thailand, Malaysia, Taipei) and North America (Central Mexico, Calgary). This expansion makes it easier for more customers to deploy and manage Db2 databases in the cloud with automatic optimal configuration and optional Multi-AZ high availability. Customers can choose between hourly licensing from AWS Marketplace or BYOL, with options for Standard, Advanced, and free Community Editions for development and testing.
feature announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.55.0: New Data Sources and Enhancements
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.55.0 introduces several new data sources and list resources, including `aws_elasticache_service_updates` and new resources for Autoscaling Groups, CloudWatch Log Streams, Kinesis Firehose, Network Interfaces, RDS Clusters, and Step Functions State Machines. Enhancements focus on Bedrock Agent Core resources with new configuration blocks and attributes for JWT authorizers and network settings, alongside updates for MSK Replicators. The release also includes bug fixes for Bedrock Agent Core and AWS Config organization rules.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with AWS Agent Toolkit
Amazon OpenSearch Service now integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing AI coding agents to manage OpenSearch domains and collections via natural language. This integration, powered by the AWS MCP server and a curated OpenSearch skill, simplifies tasks like migration, operations, search, and analytics without requiring infrastructure changes. Support is available in all AWS regions where OpenSearch Service and OpenSearch Serverless are offered, with setup involving the aws-data-analytics plugin.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch adds lookup processor for log enrichment
Amazon CloudWatch now supports a lookup processor to enrich log events with context from CSV lookup tables directly within CloudWatch Pipelines. This feature allows engineers to map log fields to reference data at ingestion, eliminating the need for external enrichment logic and providing immediate context for queries and alarms. The processor is available in all commercial AWS regions supporting CloudWatch pipelines.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8i instances now available in more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 M8in, M8idn, M8ib, and M8idb instances are now available in additional AWS regions including US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances, powered by Intel Xeon Scalable processors and AWS Nitro cards, offer significant improvements in network and storage bandwidth, benefiting demanding workloads like big data analytics, caching, and high-performance databases. They are available across multiple regions and purchasing options, including On-Demand, Spot instances, and Savings Plans.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-s3aws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda supports self-managed S3 for code storage
AWS Lambda now allows referencing code directly from your own S3 buckets, eliminating previous storage limits and reducing function activation times. This feature is beneficial for users managing large codebases or Lambda layers, offering a single source of truth and avoiding Lambda-managed storage quotas. Self-managed code storage is available in all commercial AWS Regions, with no additional Lambda charges beyond standard S3 costs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda console simplifies coding agent setup for serverless development
The AWS Lambda console now offers a one-click setup prompt for coding agents, automatically configuring them with AWS Serverless skills and the Serverless Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This feature streamlines the agent setup process for developers, embedding serverless best practices from the start and eliminating the need to consult multiple documentation pages. It is available in most commercial and AWS GovCloud Regions, benefiting developers at all stages of their Lambda journey.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineermedia ·
AWS Managed Service for Apache Flink adds AI Agent Skills
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now includes AI Agent Skills to provide expert guidance for building and operating Flink applications. These skills simplify common tasks and accelerate development, enabling users to keep applications performant and easily upgrade Apache Flink versions. Customers can use these skills with existing AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor.
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