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 datainfraaws ·
Amazon Aurora DSQL adds multi-Region cluster support in four more Regions
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports multi-Region clusters in four additional AWS Regions: Stockholm, Spain, Mumbai, and Singapore. This enhancement provides active-active high availability and strong consistency across regions, ensuring database availability even during region outages. The update benefits users requiring robust, distributed SQL databases with global reach.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-eksaws-ecs ·
CloudWatch adds managed Prometheus collectors
Amazon CloudWatch now offers managed collectors for Prometheus metrics, removing the need to deploy and manage agents for services like EKS and EC2. This simplifies monitoring by automating collection and enabling unified querying with other AWS metrics via PromQL. The feature is available in most AWS regions and is charged hourly plus standard ingestion fees.
feature - 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 - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, are now available in the Europe (Milan) region. These instances offer up to 15% better performance than comparable Intel processors on other clouds and up to 19% better price-performance than C6i instances, making them ideal for compute-intensive workloads that don't fully utilize all resources. They are suitable for web servers, databases, caches, and distributed systems like Kafka and Elasticsearch.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2aws-lambdaaws-ecs ·
AWS CodeDeploy Expands to Five New Regions
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS regions, including Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). This expansion allows customers in these areas to access the automated deployment service locally, improving latency and meeting data residency needs. The service supports deployments to EC2, on-premises servers, Lambda, and ECS, benefiting developers and DevOps engineers managing complex application updates. CodeDeploy is now available in 34 AWS commercial regions, plus GovCloud and China regions.
announcement feature - 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 aiawsengineeraws-sagemakeraws-iam ·
SageMaker Unified Studio Enhances Git Version Control Across Project Tools
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now offers full Git version control integrated directly into its project tools, replacing the previous automatic sync with flexible file-level tracking. This change provides a consistent source control experience for Notebooks, Query Editor, Visual ETL, and Workflows, and allows users to choose which files to track. The feature is available in all supported AWS regions for IAM and IAM Identity Center domains.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsengineeraws-iam ·
IAM Policy Simulator integrated into IAM console with new features
AWS IAM Policy Simulator has been integrated into the IAM console, replacing the standalone tool and adding capabilities to test Service Control Policies (SCPs) and condition keys. The update allows for more flexible scenario modeling, including policy exclusion and detailed cross-account decision reporting. These enhancements aim to improve policy validation and automation for security and platform teams, and are available in all regions where the simulator is offered.
feature - 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 networkingawsengineer ·
AWS Direct Connect Adds BGP Route Visibility for Virtual Interfaces
AWS Direct Connect now offers Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route visibility, enabling users to inspect routes exchanged with their on-premises routers across various virtual interfaces. This enhancement allows network administrators to better troubleshoot routing issues and monitor hybrid network connectivity by viewing accepted and advertised routes. The feature is available in all AWS commercial and China Regions via the Direct Connect console or API.
feature - 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.
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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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