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 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.
patch security - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-sqsaws-sns ·
AWS Secrets Manager integrates with EventBridge for secret update notifications
AWS Secrets Manager now publishes events directly to Amazon EventBridge when secret values change, simplifying real-time monitoring and response. This eliminates the need to parse CloudTrail logs, allowing for more direct event-driven workflows. Developers can configure EventBridge rules to trigger actions like Lambda functions or SNS topics upon secret updates, enabling proactive application refreshes or service restarts. This feature is available across all AWS Regions at no extra cost.
feature - AWS What's New complianceawsengineer ·
AWS Marketplace simplifies seller signature management for India
AWS Marketplace now allows India-based sellers to self-manage their seller signatures and GSTIN registration via AWS Partner Central. This automates a previously manual process, streamlining tax invoicing and regulatory compliance for transactions in India. The new system offers real-time validation and a tax summary dashboard, providing sellers immediate visibility into their compliance status. This feature is now available for all India-based sellers.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
AWS Direct Connect adds 100 Gbps in Lima, Peru
AWS has expanded its Direct Connect service with 100 Gbps connections at a new location in Lima, Peru. This expansion offers customers dedicated, private network access to AWS Regions, improving network consistency over the public internet. This is the first Direct Connect location in Peru offering 100 Gbps with MACsec encryption. Customers can now leverage these enhanced connections for greater performance and security.
feature - 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 governanceawsengineer ·
AWS Partner Central agents now support all funding programs
AWS Partner Central agents have expanded to cover all AWS funding programs, offering faster, automated guidance for eligibility, applications, and program details. This enhancement, which includes Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) and AWS Growth Initiative (AGI) programs, aims to reduce manual data entry and errors for AWS Partners. The agents are now available in all commercial AWS Regions, providing quicker, documentation-backed answers and automating parts of the funding request process.
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 dataawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio adds custom visual transforms for ETL
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom visual transforms within visual ETL flows, allowing data engineers to create reusable transformation logic without coding. This feature enables teams to share and discover custom transforms, promoting consistency and reducing duplicated effort across ETL jobs. The capability is now available in all SageMaker Studio regions.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsengineer ·
Amazon SES introduces new tiered pricing plans
Amazon SES now offers tiered pricing plans (Essentials, Pro, Enterprise) to simplify access to capabilities previously sold individually. This change aims to make essential deliverability and management features more accessible and cost-effective for businesses relying on email communication. The plans vary in features, with higher tiers offering more advanced capabilities like dedicated IPs, global inbox visibility, and multi-region resilience. Pricing plans are available across most AWS regions, excluding UAE and Bahrain.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds agent queue metrics to analytics dashboards
Amazon Connect now displays real-time and historical metrics for agent queues on customer dashboards, enabling supervisors to track agent performance within specific queues. This feature allows for proactive management of wait times and resource allocation based on contact volume. It is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
feature - AWS What's New dataaiawsengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-lambdaaws-rdsaws-sagemakeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds support for SQL Server 2025
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2025, bringing AI integration directly into the database engine. This allows customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL, enabling secure integration with AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker without application re-architecture. New features include a free developer edition, increased Standard Edition capacity, and a native vector data type for embeddings. Existing RDS users can upgrade, and on-premises users can migrate to take advantage of these capabilities.
feature announcement - 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.
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