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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 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 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 aigovernanceawsengineeraws-s3aws-bedrock ·
AWS Data Exports adds standardized Bedrock metadata
AWS Data Exports now provides standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock, enabling FinOps teams and administrators to consistently understand Bedrock costs. This eliminates the need for custom logic to parse varied product metadata in the Cost and Usage Report (CUR). The standardized attributes, including model provider, name, pricing unit, inference type, and feature, are available by default at no extra cost to customers using AWS Data Exports.
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 awsengineermediaaws-s3 ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Apps Adds OneDrive, Google Drive to Multi-Session Fleets
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now integrates Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage for multi-session fleets, enhancing user access to cloud files within streaming sessions. This feature improves cost efficiencies for organizations using multi-session fleets by allowing familiar enterprise storage access alongside existing S3-backed home folders. It is available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Applications is offered, with no additional charges beyond standard streaming session pricing. Prerequisites include a WorkSpaces Applications agent or image update released on or after June 29, 2026.
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 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 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 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.
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