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 Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support to 6 more regions
AWS Backup logically air-gapped vaults are now available in six additional AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Taipei) and Mexico (Central). This expansion allows more users to store immutable, isolated backups with enhanced security features like default locking and encryption. The feature is accessible through the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs, and is now supported by a wider geographic footprint.
feature - AWS What's New complianceawsengineergovernment ·
Amazon Managed Grafana Achieves FedRAMP High Authorization in AWS GovCloud
Amazon Managed Grafana has received FedRAMP High authorization for use in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. This enables U.S. federal agencies and public sector organizations to leverage the service for operational data visualization while adhering to stringent security and compliance mandates. The service is a managed offering based on open-source Grafana, simplifying the analysis of operational data at scale.
announcement - AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
AWS Backup restore testing expanded to six new regions
AWS Backup restore testing is now available in six additional AWS Regions across Asia Pacific, Mexico, and Canada. This feature helps users automate and validate their disaster recovery readiness by testing restores against defined objectives. The expansion allows more customers to meet compliance requirements for business continuity. Users can access this functionality via the AWS Backup console, CLI, or SDKs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 surfaces public SSM parameters for public AMIs
Amazon EC2 now includes public Systems Manager Parameter Store parameters in the metadata for public AMIs. This change simplifies discovering and referencing the latest AMI versions in infrastructure configurations. Previously, this required manual searching, but now the parameter is surfaced directly when describing an AMI. This feature is available to all customers at no additional cost across all AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
AWS Sustainability service adds water withdrawal data
AWS Sustainability now includes annual water withdrawal data for customer workloads, complementing existing carbon emissions figures. This allows organizations to better track their environmental impact across carbon and water usage, with data available by region, service, and account via the console and API. The data, reflecting operational water use and efficiency, is provided at no extra cost in all available AWS Regions.
feature patch - AWS What's New awspreviewengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 Now in Preview Environment
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is now available in the RDS Database Preview Environment for evaluation. This pre-release version brings features like parallel autovacuum, native SQL Property Graph Queries, and dynamic logical replication for improved performance and reduced downtime. Beta 2 includes bug fixes and stability enhancements from Beta 1 testing, offering a managed environment for testing PostgreSQL 19's capabilities before general availability.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 surfaces public SSM parameters for AMIs
Amazon EC2 now includes public SSM Parameter Store parameters directly within the metadata of public AMIs. This change simplifies the discovery and use of these parameters, allowing engineers to easily reference the latest AMI versions in configurations. This feature is available at no additional cost across all AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerfinanceaws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge Graviton-powered instance sizes
Amazon Redshift has launched two new Graviton-powered instance sizes, rg.large and rg.12xlarge, offering improved query performance and cost savings. These instances provide greater flexibility for right-sizing clusters for various workloads and are now generally available on the current track. Customers can migrate existing clusters to these new sizes using standard methods.
feature patch - AWS What's New awsgaengineeraws-s3aws-lambdaaws-sqsaws-sns ·
S3 Event Notifications Include System-Generated Tags
Amazon S3 Event Notifications now include system-generated tags for events delivered to destinations like EventBridge, SQS, SNS, and Lambda. This feature allows for efficient event filtering across thousands of buckets using a single EventBridge rule, simplifying management for users. System-generated tags are automatically included if applied by AWS services, with no additional cost or configuration changes required.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances launch in Paris
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7in-24TB instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances are powered by Intel Sapphire Rapids processors and offer 24 TiB of DDR5 memory, providing up to 45% better price performance than previous generations. They are designed for mission-critical in-memory databases and include high network and EBS bandwidth.
feature - 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 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 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 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.
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