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 dataawsengineermedia ·
AWS Clean Rooms adds larger worker types for SQL
AWS Clean Rooms now supports larger worker types with 32 vCPUs and 244 GB of memory for SQL analyses, enabling more compute-intensive workloads. This enhancement can improve performance for complex queries on large datasets and optimize costs. The feature is available now, allowing organizations to accelerate their data analysis and collaboration efforts without sharing underlying data.
feature - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Security Hub MCP App Preview Integrates Findings with Claude Desktop
AWS is previewing the Security Hub MCP App, a local server that integrates Security Hub exposure findings directly into Claude Desktop. This integration aims to accelerate security investigations by reducing context switching and enabling natural language interaction with security data. The tool provides text summaries and interactive visualizations for findings and remediation recommendations, running locally with read-only access. It is available at no additional cost in preview across commercial AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS News Blog blogaiinfraawsengineerenergyaws-lambda ·
AWS Weekly Roundup: Local Zone in Athens, Claude Opus 5 on AWS, Lambda Durable Execution for .NET
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, to support local data residency requirements and low-latency applications. This week also saw the general availability of AWS Lambda durable execution SDK for .NET, enabling resilient serverless workflows for .NET developers. Additionally, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 is now accessible via Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS, offering advanced AI capabilities with zero data retention by default. These updates affect developers and organizations looking to leverage AWS infrastructure closer to end-users, build more robust serverless applications, and utilize cutting-edge AI models.
feature announcement patch - AWS What's New awsazureengineermedia ·
Amazon Connect adds audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop
Amazon Connect now offers audio optimization for agents using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC, enabling direct call handling from virtual desktop sessions. This feature redirects media to the agent's local device, enhancing audio quality. It requires a one-time setup by IT administrators and is available in most AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineermediaaws-kinesis ·
Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams' on-demand streams now support scaling down ingest capacity via warm throughput. This enhancement allows users to proactively manage stream write throughput up or down, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency by releasing excess capacity. The feature is available at no additional cost for all on-demand streams with On-demand Advantage mode enabled in supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2aws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Managed Instances logs now available in CloudWatch
AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This provides visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations, helping customers monitor and troubleshoot their EC2 instances used for Lambda functions. The logs are automatically enabled by default in all commercial AWS regions where LMI is available and are structured in JSON format for easier filtering and analysis.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon SES simplifies SMTP email sending with Mail Manager guided setup
Amazon SES now offers a guided setup experience within Mail Manager to simplify configuring SMTP email sending. This reduces the multi-step manual process to a few clicks, providing developers with a ready-to-use SMTP endpoint and credentials. The feature is ideal for applications needing to send transactional emails quickly and is available across all SES regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3 ·
AWS GovCloud gains new Claude models and user activity monitoring
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 models, enhancing reasoning and efficiency for complex tasks. Additionally, Kiro IDE provides enterprise administrators with user activity monitoring, including usage dashboards and per-user reports stored in customer S3 buckets. These updates are available to users with updated IDE/CLI versions and can be accessed via the model selector.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Opus 5 available on AWS with zero data retention
Anthropic's most advanced Claude Opus 5 model is now available on AWS, offering significant improvements in coding, long-running agents, and complex document analysis. This release is crucial for teams building advanced applications that require top-tier AI capabilities and data governance. Customers can access Claude Opus 5 via Amazon Bedrock with zero data retention (ZDR) enabled by default, or through the Claude Platform on AWS with ZDR available on request.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances now available in more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, powered by Graviton4 processors and featuring third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, are now generally available in AWS Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. These storage-optimized instances offer significant improvements in compute and storage performance, with up to 60% better compute performance and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to previous generations. They are ideal for workloads requiring fast local storage and low latency access to large datasets, available in eleven sizes and offering high network and EBS bandwidth.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
AWS releases open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
AWS has announced a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark designed to measure the accuracy and efficiency of AI agents performing tasks on AWS infrastructure. This tool addresses the need for objective, reproducible performance measurement and failure diagnosis for AI researchers and model providers. It includes a public suite of test cases based on real AWS usage scenarios and offers a CLI for easy execution and scoring, available now on GitHub.
announcement feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinanceaws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET now GA
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET is now generally available, allowing C# developers to build resilient, long-running workflows with durable functions. This SDK simplifies the creation of multi-step applications like payment processing or AI orchestration by automatically checkpointing progress and pausing execution for up to a year. It offers an idiomatic C# experience for tracking progress, integrating callbacks, durable invocation, and efficient suspension, with local testing support. Developers can install it via NuGet and find detailed guides in the Lambda durable functions developer guide.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-s3 ·
CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs has added support for Application Load Balancer (ALB) logs, enabling direct analysis and debugging of network traffic within CloudWatch. This integration simplifies monitoring by allowing automatic configuration of logging for ALB resources across an organization. Engineers can now leverage CloudWatch Logs Insights, metric filters, and Live Tail for detailed traffic pattern analysis, enhancing observability and troubleshooting capabilities.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS Service Connect adds zone-aware routing
Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports zone-aware routing, automatically prioritizing service-to-service traffic within the same Availability Zone to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs and latency. This feature benefits customers deploying applications across multiple AZs for resiliency by eliminating the trade-off between cost and resilience. Zone-aware routing is enabled by default for new services and requires a one-time redeployment for existing services, with availability across all supported AWS regions.
feature patch - 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 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 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.
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