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 dataawsengineer ·
AWS Glue REST API connector adds VPC, filter pushdown, and partition support
AWS Glue's REST API connector now supports VPC connections, filter pushdown, and partition support, allowing secure access to private data sources and improving ingestion performance. These enhancements enable engineers to integrate data from proprietary systems without custom code, reducing costs and speeding up ETL pipelines. The new capabilities are available in all AWS commercial regions.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineerretail ·
AWS WAF adds pre-parse transformations and new text transformations
AWS WAF now supports pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new text transformations, enhancing request normalization. These features help standardize how AWS WAF inspects requests, preventing evasion tactics like HTTP parameter pollution and parser differentials. The update is available in all AWS Regions and impacts engineers and architects responsible for web application security.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh integrated with CloudFormation
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports the Instance Refresh feature directly within AWS CloudFormation update policies. This integration allows CloudFormation to automatically trigger instance refreshes when properties change, offering capabilities like root volume replacement and controlled rollouts with bake times. Existing Auto Scaling features and health checks remain active during updates, ensuring service continuity. The feature is available across all AWS Regions at no additional cost.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift Data API adds long polling, session visibility, flexible batching
Amazon Redshift Data API now supports long polling to reduce redundant API calls for statement status and results. New session management features allow applications to enumerate and filter active sessions, improving visibility. Flexible batch execution allows statements to run independently, preventing partial failures from rolling back entire batches, and enables parameter reuse.
feature patch - AWS What's New securityawsengineeraws-iam ·
AWS IAM Identity Center adds multi-Region replication for its own directory
AWS IAM Identity Center now allows replication of its own identity directory to secondary regions, enhancing resilience and enabling geographically distributed application deployments. This feature, previously limited to external identity providers, extends to users managing their workforce directly within Identity Center. It is available in 17 commercial AWS Regions for organization instances, requiring a multi-Region KMS key.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsazuregapreviewengineer ·
AWS Interconnect GA enables multicloud connectivity with OCI
AWS Interconnect is now generally available, offering direct, private connections between AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to simplify multicloud networking. This aims to reduce the complexity of managing large-scale, multi-layered networks across different cloud providers. The service is available for OCI in us-east-1, with Google Cloud support and Microsoft Azure support coming later.
feature announcement - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineer ·
Amazon EFS cross-account Replication now supported in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon EFS now enables cross-account replication of file systems within AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This feature simplifies disaster recovery, business continuity, and compliance by automating file data synchronization between separate AWS accounts. It benefits customers using multi-account strategies for operational excellence and security, eliminating the need for custom replication processes.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsengineer ·
Amazon EFS adds cross-account replication for AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon EFS now supports cross-account replication within AWS GovCloud (US), enabling customers to copy file systems between accounts. This feature simplifies disaster recovery, business continuity, and multi-account data management. It is now available for configuration via the EFS Console, AWS CLI, CloudFormation, and APIs.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationretail ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.57.0: New EKS and Bedrock resources, deprecations
HashiCorp's AWS provider has released version 6.57.0, introducing several new resources for EKS and AWS Bedrock, including evaluation jobs and access management. It also includes enhancements to VPC, Secrets Manager, and Flow Logs, along with important deprecations for memory strategy configurations. This release provides expanded capabilities for managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform, with some existing configurations requiring updates due to deprecated attributes.
feature patch announcement - 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 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 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.
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