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 aiawsgaengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Inference Adds NVIDIA G7 Instances for Faster LLM Deployment
Amazon SageMaker now supports G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for AI inference. These instances offer up to 4.6x performance improvement over previous generations, with higher GPU memory and networking, making them suitable for cost-effectively serving medium-to-large generative AI models. G7 instances are available for various inference workloads in select AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker G7e instances expand to Seoul, London, and Tokyo
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7e instances in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances offer high-performance NVIDIA GPUs and increased memory, crucial for deploying large language models and other generative AI workloads with reduced latency. This expansion enables users to deploy inference endpoints closer to their users in these regions, supporting medium-to-large models efficiently.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Sonnet 5 available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 model is now accessible via Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This availability enhances capabilities for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work within the secure government cloud environment. It integrates with AWS features like Guardrails and Knowledge Bases, keeping data within AWS infrastructure. Users can access Sonnet 5 through bedrock-runtime or bedrock-mantle endpoints.
feature announcement - 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 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 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 securityawsgasecurity-advisoryengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds latest Microsoft CU and GDR updates
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022. These updates include security patches for vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-40370, improving instance security and stability. All Amazon RDS for SQL Server users are recommended to upgrade their instances to benefit from these fixes.
patch security - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus increases metric and rule limits
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports 1.5 billion active metric time series and 200,000 rules per workspace, enabling larger-scale monitoring. This enhancement allows customers to store and analyze billions of Prometheus metrics organization-wide across many workspaces. It is designed for high-cardinality workloads in various environments and integrates with AWS security services. To utilize the increased limits, users must file a service limit increase request.
feature - 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 observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch UI adds one-click dashboard migration
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers one-click migration from legacy OpenSearch Dashboards to the new OpenSearch UI. This feature reduces operational complexity by making existing tenants and saved objects reusable in the new interface, supporting both domains and serverless collections. The migration can consolidate multiple tenants into single or separate workspaces and is available in all regions where OpenSearch UI is supported.
feature - 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 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 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 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 infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 C8id, M8id, R8id instances expand to new AWS regions
Amazon EC2 has expanded the availability of C8id, M8id, and R8id instances to additional AWS regions in Asia Pacific and Europe. These instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offer significant performance and memory bandwidth improvements over previous generations, benefiting compute, balanced, and memory-intensive workloads. They are available through various purchasing options including On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot instances.
feature - 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 News Blog bloginfraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 GPUs now available
AWS has launched Amazon EC2 G7 instances, the first major cloud provider offering with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances provide significant performance gains for AI inference, graphics, and data analytics workloads compared to previous generations. They are suitable for a wide range of GPU-enabled applications and are now available in two AWS regions.
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