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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 678 AWS releases · Updated
- endoflife.date eolamazon-eks ·
Amazon EKS 1.33 has reached end of life
Amazon EKS 1.33 reached end of life on 2026-07-29. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - AWS What's New dataawsengineerfinanceaws-redshift ·
Redshift Serverless adds 3-year all-upfront pricing for cost savings
Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers an all-upfront payment option for 3-year reservations, providing up to 50% savings. This new option helps users optimize compute costs and improve predictability for their analytics workloads. It is available to all Redshift Serverless users and can be purchased via the console or API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-eksaws-iam ·
Amazon EKS supports AWS PrivateLink for OIDC endpoint
Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for its cluster OIDC discovery and JWKS endpoint. This allows tools within your VPC to reach the IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) endpoint privately, eliminating the need for internet egress. The feature is available in all EKS regions at no additional cost beyond standard PrivateLink pricing.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineermedia ·
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode adds EFS and FSx for Lustre support
AWS DataSync's Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations, removing previous limitations. This enhancement simplifies large-scale data movement for workloads like AI/ML training and media rendering. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and accessible via the DataSync console.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-eks ·
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane improves pod autoscaling speed
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane now scales pods faster by increasing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) sync concurrency significantly beyond default Kubernetes values. This enhancement reduces the time for workloads to scale in response to load, improving responsiveness. It is available to all EKS Provisioned Control Plane customers without requiring configuration changes.
patch - AWS What's New dataawsazureengineer ·
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and Hyper-V agent support
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports agent-based transfers from HDFS, Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage, with agents deployable on Microsoft Hyper-V. This enables customers to leverage Enhanced mode's parallelism and detailed metrics for these new locations, including robust HDFS features for regulated industries. The update is available in all AWS Regions where DataSync is offered.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinance ·
AWS Console Home Adds Cost Widget for Germany Sovereign Cloud
AWS Console Home now includes the Cost and Usage widget for the European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, enabling customers to display Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub data directly on their dashboard. This feature allows tracking of current and projected costs, identification of savings, and analysis of spend by service. Users can add the widget via the AWS Management Console.
feature - AWS What's New awsgovernment ·
AWS Outposts racks now available in Mumbai region
Second-generation AWS Outposts racks are now supported in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, extending AWS infrastructure and services to on-premises data centers. This allows organizations, including those in the public sector, to optimize for latency and data residency needs while maintaining a consistent hybrid experience. The expansion offers greater flexibility for customers connecting their Outposts to different AWS Regions.
announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 Tables add Variant type for Apache Iceberg V3
Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3, enabling direct ingestion of semi-structured data like JSON without upfront schema definition. This feature accelerates data landing while maintaining efficient analytical query performance by automatically shredding data and generating Parquet column statistics for query optimization. The support is available across numerous AWS regions and includes ongoing table maintenance for Variant columns.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsaws-iam ·
Amazon Neptune adds IAM tag-based access control for data plane operations
Amazon Neptune now supports tag-based access control (TBAC) for IAM, allowing control over data-plane operations using resource and principal tags. This enhances security for large-scale deployments by enabling dynamic, attribute-based access management, reducing the need to manage individual cluster ARNs in policies. The feature is available in all AWS Regions for Neptune engine version 1.2.0.0 or later with IAM authentication enabled.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-s3aws-sagemaker ·
AWS Glue Data Quality Adds Distribution Statistics for Data Profiling
AWS Glue Data Quality now includes a Distribution Analyzer for generating frequency distribution profiles. This feature helps users understand data patterns, identify outliers, and reduce the need for custom code in data pipelines. It integrates with existing rulesets and stores statistics in Amazon S3 for querying via services like Athena or visualization in SageMaker Studio. The functionality is available in all commercial and GovCloud regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS Glue Data Quality adds anomaly detection and Catalog integration
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection for data quality evaluations, using ML-powered forecasting to identify unexpected changes without manual threshold rules. It also allows writing evaluation results, including anomaly predictions, back to AWS Glue Data Catalog tables for queryable records. These features benefit data engineers monitoring many tables and offer a consistent experience across ETL jobs and Catalog evaluations, available in all commercial and GovCloud regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-s3aws-rds ·
RDS for SQL Server supports TDE restore on Multi-AZ instances
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now allows restoring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-enabled databases on Multi-AZ instances and read replicas using native backup and restore. This feature simplifies migration and recovery workflows by enabling high availability for encrypted databases, previously a limitation to Single-AZ instances. It requires backing up the TDE certificate to S3 and restoring it to the RDS instance with TDE enabled. The capability is available in all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerretailmedia ·
Amazon GameLift Streams Adds Custom Aspect Ratio and Dynamic Resolution
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports custom aspect ratios and dynamic resolution to enhance player streaming experiences. Custom aspect ratio allows specific resolutions matching player devices, eliminating letterboxing and supporting various screen formats. Dynamic resolution automatically adjusts stream quality based on network fluctuations to maintain smooth playback. These features are available in all GameLift Streams regions, with Dynamic Resolution enabled by default for new stream groups.
feature - 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 What's New awsmedia ·
AWS Elemental MediaTailor: Configurable ad timeout and concurrency
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now allows direct configuration of ad decision server (ADS) timeout and concurrency settings via the console, CLI, or SDKs. This update empowers users to optimize ad delivery for better ad fill rates and faster video startup, particularly for live and VOD workflows. The new AdsPersonalizationTimeouts and AdsPersonalizationConcurrency parameters offer granular control over HTTP request timeouts and personalization time budgets. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where MediaTailor is offered.
feature - 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 infraawsaws-s3 ·
Amazon MWAA adds support for Apache Airflow 2.11.2
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.11.2. This update brings security improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades to the managed Airflow service. Existing and new MWAA environments in all regions can be updated to this version. The release enhances security patching, stability, and logging features.
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