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 infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery expands to six new regions
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (Bangkok, Malaysia, New Zealand, Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). This expansion makes the disaster recovery service available in 36 AWS Regions, offering enhanced resilience for critical applications and databases across a wider geographic footprint. The service supports recovery from various infrastructure sources like on-premises servers and other cloud environments, as well as enabling cross-region recovery for EC2 instances.
announcement - AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
Amazon SES introduces new tiered pricing plans
Amazon SES now offers tiered pricing plans (Essentials, Pro, Enterprise) to simplify access to capabilities previously sold individually. This change aims to make essential deliverability and management features more accessible and cost-effective for businesses relying on email communication. The plans vary in features, with higher tiers offering more advanced capabilities like dedicated IPs, global inbox visibility, and multi-region resilience. Pricing plans are available across most AWS regions, excluding UAE and Bahrain.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataaiawsengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-lambdaaws-rdsaws-sagemakeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds support for SQL Server 2025
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2025, bringing AI integration directly into the database engine. This allows customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL, enabling secure integration with AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker without application re-architecture. New features include a free developer edition, increased Standard Edition capacity, and a native vector data type for embeddings. Existing RDS users can upgrade, and on-premises users can migrate to take advantage of these capabilities.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineergovernmentaws-s3aws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Local Zone now generally available in Athens, Greece
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, bringing compute and storage services closer to users within the country. This expansion aims to help organizations meet data residency requirements and reduce latency for applications requiring in-country processing. The Athens Local Zone supports a range of services including EC2, S3, EBS, ECS, and EKS, and is accessible via standard AWS APIs.
feature announcement - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances with Graviton4 now in AWS GovCloud
AWS has launched new EC2 I8ge instances, powered by Graviton4 processors and third-gen Nitro SSDs, in AWS GovCloud regions. These storage-optimized instances offer up to 60% better compute and 55% better storage performance than previous generations, with significantly lower I/O latency. They are suitable for demanding workloads requiring rapid local storage and are available in various sizes through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgagovernmentaws-s3aws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece, launches
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, expanding its global infrastructure. This zone supports data residency requirements for customers in Greece by enabling in-country data processing for services like S3 and EBS. It offers various EC2 instance types, S3 One Zone-IA storage, and integrates with other AWS services, benefiting public sector, financial, and gaming use cases.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawspreviewengineerfinanceenergyaws-ec2 ·
AWS KNFSD File Cache enters preview to accelerate NFS performance
AWS has announced the preview of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source solution to deploy a high-speed NFS cache on AWS. This service offers significant performance gains for read-heavy workloads by caching data in memory and on local NVMe storage, reducing latency for compute fleets. It supports various NFS sources and clients, is built on standard Linux technologies, and is available across all AWS Regions, with users only paying for consumed resources.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineerfinance ·
CloudWatch Coding Agent Insights launched
Amazon CloudWatch now offers Coding Agent Insights to help engineering leaders track the ROI of AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot. This feature integrates with Claude apps gateway and uses OpenTelemetry metrics to provide visibility into adoption, cost, and impact on delivery velocity. It is available in most AWS commercial regions and requires configuring the Claude apps gateway to emit telemetry to CloudWatch.
feature announcement - AWS What's New complianceawsgovernment ·
Amazon Aurora DSQL now FedRAMP Moderate in scope on AWS
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now in scope for FedRAMP Moderate compliance in three US AWS regions. This enables government agencies and contractors to use the distributed SQL database for regulated workloads. Aurora DSQL offers high availability and scale for applications requiring zero infrastructure management. The announcement details specific regions and provides links for further information on FedRAMP and Aurora DSQL.
announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
AWS Billing Dashboards add Cost Efficiency widget
AWS Billing and Cost Management now supports a Cost Efficiency widget in its dashboards, offering a unified view of spending, commitments, and optimization performance. This allows users to track cost efficiency trends alongside other cost management tools, such as Cost Explorer and Budgets. The widget is available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional charge and integrates with dashboard exports and email reports.
feature announcement - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
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