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 678 AWS releases · Updated
- 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 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 - 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 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 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 dataawsengineer ·
Amazon MSK Replicator adds support for external Kafka to MSK Standard brokers
Amazon MSK Replicator now supports replicating data from external Apache Kafka clusters to Amazon MSK Standard brokers, in addition to existing support for MSK Express. This enhancement allows for easier migration to MSK Standard, disaster recovery setups, and hybrid/multi-cloud data distribution for users managing external Kafka deployments. The feature is available in all regions where MSK Replicator is offered and enables replication using SASL/SCRAM or mTLS authentication.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineermediaaws-s3aws-lambdaaws-kinesisaws-redshift ·
Amazon Aurora DSQL Change Data Capture (CDC) Now Generally Available
Amazon Aurora DSQL Change Data Capture (CDC) is now generally available, allowing real-time streaming of database changes to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. This feature simplifies event-driven architectures and data integration by automatically capturing insert, update, and delete operations with no infrastructure to manage. It's designed for zero impact on database performance and is available in all regions supporting Aurora DSQL, with free tier access available.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio Integrates with Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now allows users to connect existing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) environments directly within Studio projects. This integration enables data engineers and platform teams to manage Airflow workflows alongside their ML and analytics tasks, avoiding costly reconfigurations. The feature is available in all SageMaker Studio regions and offers a visual authoring experience for Airflow 3+ environments.
feature - AWS What's New datainfraawsgaaws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 Express One Zone expands to AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region
Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance storage class for frequently accessed data, is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) Region. This expansion offers up to 10x faster data access and 80% lower request costs compared to S3 Standard, benefiting latency-sensitive workloads like ML training and interactive analytics. It is now available in 8 AWS Regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineerhealthcareaws-sagemakeraws-iam ·
SageMaker Studio adds data lineage for IAM-based domains
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports OpenLineage compatible data lineage for IAM-based domains, integrating with Spark jobs from EMR, Glue, and SageMaker Visual ETL. This allows for interactive lineage graphing and programmatic management of data movement, enhancing visibility for data engineers and ML practitioners. The feature is now available in all SageMaker Unified Studio regions and complements existing support for IAM Identity Center-based domains.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion is now available in the Europe (Paris) region, enabling customers to ingest and process data for OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections. This fully managed service simplifies data ingestion by offering a no-code approach to filter, transform, and route data, automatically scaling resources to meet demand. It is now generally available across 17 AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server increases storage limits for gp3 volumes
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports significantly larger and higher-performing General Purpose (gp3) storage volumes. This update allows for larger databases and improved I/O performance, benefiting demanding workloads like OLTP and analytics systems. Customers can scale individual volumes up to 64 TiB and provision up to 80,000 IOPS and 2,000 MiB/s throughput, with additional volumes further increasing capacity per instance. Pricing remains the same, with charges based on provisioned storage, IOPS, and throughput.
feature - AWS What's New dataawspreviewengineeraws-s3 ·
AWS Glue Data Catalog adds business context and semantic search (Preview)
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports business context and semantic search in preview, enabling users to discover and understand data based on its meaning. This feature allows enrichment of data catalog entries with glossary terms and custom metadata, improving data discovery and grounding AI agents with trusted definitions. Data analysts and AI agents can now find tables by both technical structure and semantic meaning, with initial availability in select AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 Vectors increases similarity search results to 10,000
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports up to 10,000 similarity search results per query, a 100x increase from the previous limit. This enhancement is particularly useful for complex retrieval pipelines that require further processing to refine results. Engineers using the latest AWS SDK can update their applications to specify the higher limit and receive paged results.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-s3aws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift Graviton instances expand to new AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in three new AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These instances offer significant price-performance improvements and faster query execution for data warehousing workloads. Customers in these regions can provision new RG instances or upgrade existing ones to benefit from reduced compute and storage costs.
feature patch - AWS What's New dataawsengineerhealthcareaws-s3 ·
AWS Lake Formation Adds Direct S3 Data File Access via Table Permissions
AWS Lake Formation now allows direct read and write access to underlying Amazon S3 data files for tables using existing Lake Formation table grants, consolidating permissions for SQL and file-based operations. This enables Spark jobs for tasks like model training and feature engineering by providing temporary, scoped S3 credentials based on table permissions. The feature is integrated with Amazon EMR 7.13+ and logged in AWS CloudTrail, available at no extra charge across all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL adds support for version 18.3
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL major version 18.3, bringing community improvements for query performance, database management, and new capabilities like pg_roaringbitmap for efficient set operations. This update benefits users by improving query execution, reducing index overhead, and enabling faster logical replication. The feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, with multiple upgrade paths available.
feature patch - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 allows table configuration updates
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now supports updating data table configurations through the console and SDK/CLI. This allows customers to adopt new CUR 2.0 features without deleting and recreating existing exports. Previously, changes required manual deletion and recreation, disrupting ETL jobs. This update enables direct modification of preferences for future scheduled deliveries.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineerhealthcareaws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio Notebooks add EMR Serverless support
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Notebooks now integrate with Amazon EMR Serverless via Apache Spark Connect. This allows data engineers and analysts to choose EMR Serverless as their Spark runtime alongside Athena Spark for interactive analytics and data engineering. The feature supports PySpark and Spark SQL, offers unified Spark UI monitoring, pre-initialized capacity for faster starts, and VPC connectivity, and is available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-redshift ·
Redshift Serverless and RG manual snapshot costs reduced
Amazon Redshift has updated its billing for manual snapshots on Serverless and RG instances. Snapshots are now metered by unique data blocks rather than total size, reducing costs for users with multiple snapshots. This change benefits customers needing frequent snapshots for disaster recovery or retention by lowering storage expenses. The new model automatically applies to all snapshots across all available AWS regions.
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