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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.
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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 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 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 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 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 - 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 awsgagovernmentaws-s3aws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece, launches
AWS has launched a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece, expanding its global infrastructure. This zone supports data residency requirements for customers in Greece by enabling in-country data processing for services like S3 and EBS. It offers various EC2 instance types, S3 One Zone-IA storage, and integrates with other AWS services, benefiting public sector, financial, and gaming use cases.
feature announcement - 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.
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