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 680 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New infraawsgaengineermediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C7i Instances Expand to New Regions
Amazon EC2 C7i instances, featuring custom 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, are now available in Europe (Milan) and Canada West (Calgary) regions. These instances offer up to 15% better performance and price-performance compared to previous generations and other cloud providers' offerings, making them suitable for compute-intensive workloads. Larger instance sizes and bare metal options with Intel accelerators are included.
feature patch - endoflife.date eolredis ·
Redis 8.0 end-of-life date moved to 2026-12-01
The end-of-life date for Redis 8.0 changed from 2026-02-11 to 2026-12-01.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolredis ·
Redis 8.2 end-of-life date moved to 2030-09-01
The end-of-life date for Redis 8.2 changed from 2026-05-25 to 2030-09-01.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.40 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.40 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.41 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.42 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.42 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.43 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.43 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.44 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.44 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.45 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.45 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolamazon-rds-mysql ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.46 has reached end of life
Amazon RDS for MySQL 8.0.46 reached end of life on 2026-07-31. It no longer receives fixes or security updates — plan the upgrade now.
deprecation - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift RG Instances Now on Trailing Track
Amazon Redshift now offers Graviton-based RG instances (rg.large, rg.12xlarge) on the trailing maintenance track, starting with patch P202. This enables customers prioritizing stability to leverage Graviton's performance benefits, offering up to 2.4x faster queries and 30% lower price per vCPU compared to RA3 instances. RG instances are now accessible on both leading and trailing tracks across all AWS regions where they are generally available.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon Bedrock lowers prices for OpenAI GPT-5.6 models
Amazon Bedrock is reducing prices for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra models, effective July 30, 2026. This move, aligning with OpenAI's first-party pricing adjustments, aims to enable customers to scale their AI applications and reduce per-task costs. The new pricing will be applied automatically to workloads in select AWS regions, with Luna optimized for high-volume tasks and Terra for balanced intelligence and cost.
feature patch - 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 - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.57.1 fixes UnknownError
Release 6.57.1 of the Terraform AWS Provider addresses a bug introduced in the previous version that caused an 'UnknownError' API error. This patch resolves the issue, ensuring smoother operation for users managing AWS resources with Terraform. The fix is available immediately.
patch - 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 - 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 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 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 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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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.
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