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 governanceawsengineer ·
AWS Wickr Adds Data Retention Service for Premium Users
AWS Wickr has launched a managed Data Retention Service for its Premium users, allowing organizations to archive conversations for compliance and auditing. This serverless, cloud-native feature simplifies data retention, replacing older container-based methods. It supports all conversation types and maintains end-to-end encryption, benefiting organizations needing robust data archiving capabilities.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineerfinance ·
AWS Billing: Configure Automatic Credit Memo Application
AWS now allows customers paying via electronic funds transfer to set preferences for how credit memos are automatically applied to invoices. This enhances payment process flexibility by offering options like applying credits to the original, next, or oldest unpaid invoice directly via the Billing and Cost Management console. These new automatic application preferences are now available across all commercial AWS Regions, offering a more tailored approach to managing outstanding balances.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsautomotiveaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EVS expands to additional AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions, offering more options for running VMware workloads on AWS. This expansion enables lower latency and supports data residency requirements for organizations migrating VMware environments to the cloud. It includes support for VCF 9.0 and 9.1, allowing users to leverage the latest VMware features.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgapreviewengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL adds MySQL 9.7 support in preview
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL 9.7 in the RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the latest LTS release. This allows users to test applications and new capabilities before general availability. The preview instances are retained for 60 days and priced the same as production instances in us-east-1.
feature announcement - 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 awshealthcare ·
AWS HealthOmics Private Workflows Expand to Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio) Regions
AWS HealthOmics private workflows are now available in two new AWS Regions, Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and US East (Ohio). This expansion provides regional compliance and accessibility for bioinformatics workflows in research, drug discovery, and agriculture. The service is HIPAA-eligible and supports popular workflow languages, helping customers accelerate scientific discovery.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgovernmentaws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker AI inference adds G6 instances in AWS GovCloud
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G6 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region. Powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs, these instances offer up to 2x deep learning inference performance compared to G4dn instances, providing government agencies with enhanced capabilities for generative AI workloads. This expansion enables compliance with strict data residency requirements for agencies operating in GovCloud.
feature announcement - 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 infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8id Instances Available in Europe (Ireland)
Amazon EC2 M8id instances, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the Europe (Ireland) region. These instances offer significant performance and memory bandwidth improvements over the previous generation, making them suitable for demanding workloads like databases and real-time analytics. They also include flexible bandwidth allocation and are available through various purchasing options.
feature - 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 aiobservabilityawsengineeraws-bedrockaws-iam ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables unified observability for AI agents
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now consolidates agent traces and prompts into a single Amazon CloudWatch log group, simplifying debugging and access control for AI agents. Previously, telemetry was split across different log groups, complicating troubleshooting. This enhancement allows developers to correlate traces and logs, apply fine-grained IAM policies, and use customer-managed keys at the individual agent level. Unified observability is enabled by default for new agents and can be configured for existing ones.
feature - 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 aiawsengineer ·
AWS Entity Resolution Adds Real-Time Advanced Matching
AWS Entity Resolution now supports real-time matching for advanced rulesets, enabling sub-second record matching with complex logic via the GenerateMatchId API. This addresses a gap where sophisticated rulesets were previously limited to slower batch processing, impacting use cases like fraud detection. Customers can now achieve real-time entity resolution with advanced logic without additional infrastructure by setting a flag in their matching workflows. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where Entity Resolution is offered.
feature - AWS What's New securityawshealthcarefinanceaws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda durable functions support customer-managed KMS encryption
AWS Lambda durable functions now supports encryption of execution data using customer-managed AWS KMS keys, offering enhanced control for regulated industries. This feature allows users in sectors like finance and healthcare to meet stricter data governance policies by managing their own encryption keys. It is available in all regions where Lambda durable functions are supported, with standard KMS charges applying.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
AWS NLB adds listener rules for IP-based traffic routing
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports listener rules for custom traffic routing, enabling connections to be directed to different target groups based on source IP address type. This feature allows dual-stack NLBs to send IPv6 client traffic to IPv6 targets and IPv4 traffic to IPv4 targets, preserving the original client IP address end-to-end. This eliminates the need for separate dual-stack load balancers or protocol translation, simplifying infrastructure and improving client IP preservation for TCP, UDP, TCP_UDP, and TLS listeners. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and GovCloud Regions at no additional charge.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3aws-sagemakeraws-redshift ·
SageMaker Studio Integrates with Amazon OpenSearch for Unified Data Analysis
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now directly supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, allowing engineers and analysts to query and analyze search and log data within the studio alongside other data assets. This integration streamlines workflows by enabling correlation between operational data in OpenSearch and structured datasets from sources like Redshift and S3. The feature is available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered, simplifying cross-source data pipelines and analysis without context switching.
feature - 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.
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