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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

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  • Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawspreviewdeprecationengineerretailaws-bedrock ·

    Terraform AWS Provider v6.53.0: New Bedrock features, breaking changes, and enhancements

    Terraform AWS Provider v6.53.0 introduces new data sources and resources for AWS Bedrock, alongside breaking changes in Pinpoint SMS Voice V2 phone number management. It also includes several enhancements and bug fixes across services like API Gateway, ECS, and CloudWatch. Users should review the breaking changes and deprecations for potential impact on their infrastructure as code.

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  • Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsaws-s3aws-iam ·

    Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0: New resources, breaking change, and enhancements

    HashiCorp's AWS provider has released version 6.42.0, introducing multiple new resources and enhancements across various AWS services. A notable breaking change affects `aws_mq_configuration` resource destruction, now requiring explicit `mq:DeleteConfiguration` IAM permissions or opting into `skip_destroy`. This release adds new data sources and list resources for services including EC2, API Gateway, CloudWatch, and EBS, benefiting engineers managing cloud infrastructure via Terraform.

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About AWS release tracking on ReleaseBytes

AWS ships hundreds of service updates a month across EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, EKS and the rest of the catalogue — far more than anyone can follow by reading the official What's New feed. ReleaseBytes ingests announcements from AWS's official release channels and the Terraform AWS provider changelog, summarises each one in plain English, and tags anything that is a breaking change, security advisory or deprecation so you can see at a glance whether it affects your workloads.

Frequently asked questions

How often are AWS release notes updated on ReleaseBytes? ›

Continuously. ReleaseBytes monitors the official AWS release channels around the clock and publishes a plain-English summary of each announcement shortly after it lands.

What kinds of AWS changes does ReleaseBytes track? ›

New features, enhancements, bug fixes, security advisories, breaking changes, deprecations and end-of-life announcements. Every item is tagged by type so you can filter to just the changes that need action.

How can I get alerts for new AWS releases? ›

Set up a free email or Slack alert filtered to AWS, subscribe to the weekly digest, or follow the RSS feed. Teams can also install the ReleaseBytes GitHub App or connect via MCP.

Where does the AWS release data come from? ›

From the official sources: Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider. Every item links back to the original vendor announcement.