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 dataawsengineermedia ·
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink adds support for Flink 2.3
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 2.3, bringing adaptive partition selection for better backpressure handling and improved out-of-order updates for CDC pipelines. This release also includes new SQL functions for stream conversion, benefiting developers and data engineers working with real-time streaming data. The update is available across all AWS Regions and can be accessed via new applications or in-place upgrades.
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 aiawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds 50+ languages, new voices, and improved conversational AI
Amazon Connect now supports over 50 languages and offers more than 100 new voice options, enhancing AI agent interactions with more natural, fluid, and responsive conversations. These updates aim to create smoother customer experiences by improving response pacing, turn-taking, and allowing adjustments to speed, volume, and emotion. The new capabilities are available to Amazon Connect customers seeking to deliver more human-like self-service voice experiences across channels.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Synthetics supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows using customer-managed AWS KMS keys for encrypting canary environment variables, providing greater control over sensitive data. This feature enhances security for regulated industries by enabling specific key management policies and auditability. It is available in all commercial AWS Regions, with options for per-region keys in multi-location canaries.
feature - AWS News Blog blogaiawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-bedrock ·
AWS Weekly Roundup: AI Model Updates, S3 Enhancements, Lambda Features
AWS announced several updates, including new OpenAI models on Bedrock, faster S3 storage transitions, and improved Lambda code management. These changes aim to enhance AI capabilities, optimize storage costs, and streamline serverless development for engineers and architects. Notable additions include GPT-5.6 models, same-day S3 IA transitions, and self-managed code storage for Lambda.
feature patch - 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 aiawsengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker HyperPod supports partition-level topology for Slurm clusters
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now allows partition-level network topology configuration for Slurm clusters, enabling different topologies within a single cluster based on instance types. This change optimizes distributed training by aligning job placement with interconnect characteristics, improving GPU communication and throughput. The feature is available in all supported AWS Regions and is enabled by default for Slurm 25.11+ clusters.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineerretailaws-s3aws-dynamodbaws-eksaws-ecsaws-iam ·
Amazon GameLift Streams adds IAM role credentials for secure resource access
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports assigning an IAM role to a stream session, allowing secure access to AWS resources like S3 and DynamoDB without embedding long-lived access keys. This feature simplifies security and operations by automatically providing short-lived, auto-refreshing AWS credentials, similar to mechanisms used by ECS task roles and EKS Pod Identity. It reduces security risks and operational challenges for game developers needing their streamed applications to interact with AWS services. IAM role support is available in all AWS Regions where GameLift Streams is offered.
feature - 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 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 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 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 dataawsaws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 drops 30-day minimum for Standard-IA and One Zone-IA transitions
Amazon S3 now allows immediate transitions to Standard-IA and One Zone-IA storage classes, eliminating the previous 30-day minimum retention in S3 Standard. This change offers up to 40% lower storage costs for data accessed infrequently, benefiting workloads like backups and log analytics. Users can configure these rules starting from 0 days after object creation via the S3 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs across all available regions.
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.
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