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 infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C7a instances now available in US West (N. California)
Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the US West (N. California) Region. These compute-optimized instances offer up to 50% higher performance and significantly more memory bandwidth than C6a instances, along with support for new processor capabilities and increased EBS volume attachments. They are ideal for compute-intensive and latency-sensitive workloads, available via On-Demand, Spot Instances, and Savings Plans.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8a instances expand to Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region
Amazon EC2 M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) region. These instances offer significant performance and price-performance improvements over M7a instances, making them suitable for latency-sensitive and high-throughput workloads. They are SAP-certified and available in 12 sizes, including bare metal options, ideal for diverse applications like financial services and gaming.
feature - AWS What's New governanceinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Organizations doubles Resource Control Policy limit to 2,000
AWS Organizations has increased the quota for resource control policies (RCPs) from 1,000 to 2,000 per organization. This change benefits customers managing large, complex AWS environments by allowing more granular, centralized access control configurations across member accounts without encountering policy limits. The increased quota is available at no additional cost in all supported AWS Regions and applies automatically to existing organizations.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsaws-ec2 ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.56.0 adds new resources and enhancements
Terraform AWS provider version 6.56.0 introduces new resources for ElastiCache, S3, and Secrets Manager, alongside enhancements for EKS, MSK, and Bedrock Agent. These updates provide expanded control and configuration options for managing AWS services via Terraform. The release also includes several bug fixes, improving the stability and reliability of existing resources. This update is relevant for engineers and architects managing AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon Corretto Releases July 2026 Quarterly Updates
Amazon has released its July 2026 quarterly security and critical updates for multiple Amazon Corretto LTS and FR versions of OpenJDK. This update includes new default Docker images based on Amazon Linux 2023 and removes JavaFX binaries from Corretto 8. These updates are now available for download and are relevant for all users of Amazon Corretto.
patch security - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2aws-eks ·
Amazon EKS Adds EFA and Placement Groups Support
Amazon EKS now supports Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) and EC2 Placement Groups for node pools configured with EKS Auto Mode and Karpenter. This enhancement allows for optimized performance and availability of distributed workloads, such as training and inference, by providing finer control over network interface configuration and instance placement. These features are now available in all AWS Regions where EKS is offered.
feature - 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 infraawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS advanced deployment strategies now available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon ECS now offers built-in blue/green, linear, and canary deployment strategies within the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. This enhancement improves the safety and speed of software updates for containerized applications by eliminating the need for custom tooling and providing production-ready controls. These features are available for new or existing ECS services using various load balancers and can be configured via multiple AWS interfaces.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances expand to new regions
Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions, bringing enhanced network performance to these locations. These instances, powered by Intel Xeon processors and the AWS Nitro System, offer up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth, benefiting network-intensive workloads like distributed caches and big data analytics. They come in various sizes with options for EBS bandwidth, IOPS, and instance storage, and are purchasable via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances expand to more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 R6in and R6idn instances are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) and Canada (Central) regions. These network-optimized instances offer higher network bandwidth and packet processing performance, making them suitable for network-intensive workloads like databases and caches. They come in various sizes with options for EFA networking and local NVMe storage, and are available via multiple purchase options.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C6in instances now available in Asia Pacific (Taipei)
Amazon EC2 C6in instances, optimized for networking performance, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Taipei) region. These instances offer up to 200Gbps of network bandwidth and are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. They are suitable for a variety of demanding workloads, including network appliances, Telco 5G UPF, data analytics, and HPC, and are available in 10 sizes.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-s3aws-ecsaws-kinesis ·
Amazon ECS Action Logs offer deployment and orchestration visibility
Amazon ECS now provides Action Logs, a new feature offering detailed, timestamped records of ECS operations during service deployments and Managed Daemon updates. This enhancement improves visibility for monitoring and troubleshooting containerized workloads without needing AWS Support. Action Logs are available at the cluster level, can be configured via the console or APIs, and logs can be sent to CloudWatch Logs, S3, or Kinesis Data Firehose. Amazon Q integration provides automated issue detection and remediation guidance.
feature - 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 infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances expand to Stockholm and Zurich regions
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in the Europe (Stockholm, Zurich) regions, offering enhanced performance and memory bandwidth powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. These instances provide up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous generations, making them suitable for memory-intensive and SAP workloads. This expansion allows more European customers to leverage these advanced compute capabilities.
feature - 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 securityinfraawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS CloudTrail enhances network activity event filtering by IAM identity
AWS CloudTrail now allows selective logging of network activity events for VPC endpoints based on the IAM user identity making the API call. This feature helps reduce logging costs and noise by filtering out routine traffic from trusted identities, enabling focus on critical security events like access denials. It is available in all regions supporting CloudTrail network activity events and can be configured via the console, CLI, and SDKs.
feature patch - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
AWS Backup restore testing expands to 7 new regions
AWS Backup's restore testing capability is now available in seven additional AWS regions across Asia Pacific, Israel, Mexico, and Canada. This feature helps automate the validation of disaster recovery plans, ensuring readiness and compliance with RTOs. It is accessible via the AWS console, CLI, and SDKs for users managing backups across these expanded regions.
feature - AWS What's New securityinfraaws ·
AWS Backup adds logically air-gapped vault support to 7 new regions
AWS Backup has expanded logically air-gapped vault support to seven new AWS Regions, offering immutable and isolated backup storage. This enhancement allows customers to store backups that are locked by default and encrypted, improving data resilience against ransomware and accidental deletion. The feature is now available to all users through the AWS Backup console, CLI, and SDKs, with detailed documentation available.
feature - 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 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.
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