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 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 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 aiawsengineeraws-bedrock ·
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models see pricing update on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI has announced updated pricing for its GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models, which are now available on Amazon Bedrock. GPT-5.6 Terra offers balanced performance at a lower cost, while GPT-5.6 Luna is optimized for high-volume, low-latency inference. This pricing update aligns with OpenAI's first-party rates and counts towards AWS commitments, impacting users leveraging these models for production workloads.
announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineermediaaws-bedrock ·
xAI's Grok 4.3 now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud
xAI's Grok 4.3 large language model is now available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West), expanding model choices for generative AI development. This reasoning-first model offers configurable effort levels, strong tool use, and token efficiency, making it suitable for enterprise workloads like customer support and financial document analysis. It runs on Bedrock's new Mantle inference engine, optimized for price performance.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineermediaaws-bedrock ·
Gemma 4 models available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family of open-weight models is now accessible via Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). This expansion enables the development of generative AI applications with enhanced reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic capabilities. The offering includes three variants tailored for different use cases, with Gemma 4 31B optimized for complex workloads and Gemma 4 E2B for low-latency interaction.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon OpenSearch Service Adds OpenSearch 3.7 Support
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 3.7, bringing significant improvements in vector search performance and relevance. The update includes 1-bit scalar quantization for reduced vector storage, faster vector retrieval without reindexing, enhanced Search Relevance Workbench capabilities, and new Query Insights features like automated recommendations and a finished-queries cache. This release is now available in all AWS Regions and aims to help engineers and architects optimize vector workloads and analyze query performance.
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 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 aiawsengineeraws-s3 ·
AWS GovCloud gains new Claude models and user activity monitoring
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 models, enhancing reasoning and efficiency for complex tasks. Additionally, Kiro IDE provides enterprise administrators with user activity monitoring, including usage dashboards and per-user reports stored in customer S3 buckets. These updates are available to users with updated IDE/CLI versions and can be accessed via the model selector.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Opus 5 available on AWS with zero data retention
Anthropic's most advanced Claude Opus 5 model is now available on AWS, offering significant improvements in coding, long-running agents, and complex document analysis. This release is crucial for teams building advanced applications that require top-tier AI capabilities and data governance. Customers can access Claude Opus 5 via Amazon Bedrock with zero data retention (ZDR) enabled by default, or through the Claude Platform on AWS with ZDR available on request.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
AWS releases open-source benchmark for AI agents on AWS
AWS has announced a research preview of aws-bench, an open-source benchmark designed to measure the accuracy and efficiency of AI agents performing tasks on AWS infrastructure. This tool addresses the need for objective, reproducible performance measurement and failure diagnosis for AI researchers and model providers. It includes a public suite of test cases based on real AWS usage scenarios and offers a CLI for easy execution and scoring, available now on GitHub.
announcement feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Inference Adds NVIDIA G7 Instances for Faster LLM Deployment
Amazon SageMaker now supports G7 instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for AI inference. These instances offer up to 4.6x performance improvement over previous generations, with higher GPU memory and networking, making them suitable for cost-effectively serving medium-to-large generative AI models. G7 instances are available for various inference workloads in select AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgovernmentaws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker AI inference adds G6 instances in AWS GovCloud
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G6 instances in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region. Powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs, these instances offer up to 2x deep learning inference performance compared to G4dn instances, providing government agencies with enhanced capabilities for generative AI workloads. This expansion enables compliance with strict data residency requirements for agencies operating in GovCloud.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-ec2aws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker G7e instances expand to Seoul, London, and Tokyo
Amazon SageMaker AI inference now supports G7e instances in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). These instances offer high-performance NVIDIA GPUs and increased memory, crucial for deploying large language models and other generative AI workloads with reduced latency. This expansion enables users to deploy inference endpoints closer to their users in these regions, supporting medium-to-large models efficiently.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-bedrock ·
Claude Sonnet 5 available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 model is now accessible via Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US). This availability enhances capabilities for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work within the secure government cloud environment. It integrates with AWS features like Guardrails and Knowledge Bases, keeping data within AWS infrastructure. Users can access Sonnet 5 through bedrock-runtime or bedrock-mantle endpoints.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineeraws-bedrockaws-iam ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables unified observability for AI agents
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now consolidates agent traces and prompts into a single Amazon CloudWatch log group, simplifying debugging and access control for AI agents. Previously, telemetry was split across different log groups, complicating troubleshooting. This enhancement allows developers to correlate traces and logs, apply fine-grained IAM policies, and use customer-managed keys at the individual agent level. Unified observability is enabled by default for new agents and can be configured for existing ones.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
AWS Entity Resolution Adds Real-Time Advanced Matching
AWS Entity Resolution now supports real-time matching for advanced rulesets, enabling sub-second record matching with complex logic via the GenerateMatchId API. This addresses a gap where sophisticated rulesets were previously limited to slower batch processing, impacting use cases like fraud detection. Customers can now achieve real-time entity resolution with advanced logic without additional infrastructure by setting a flag in their matching workflows. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where Entity Resolution is offered.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineeraws-s3aws-sagemakeraws-redshift ·
SageMaker Studio Integrates with Amazon OpenSearch for Unified Data Analysis
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now directly supports Amazon OpenSearch as a data source, allowing engineers and analysts to query and analyze search and log data within the studio alongside other data assets. This integration streamlines workflows by enabling correlation between operational data in OpenSearch and structured datasets from sources like Redshift and S3. The feature is available in all regions where SageMaker Unified Studio is offered, simplifying cross-source data pipelines and analysis without context switching.
feature - AWS What's New dataaiawsengineeraws-s3aws-ec2aws-lambdaaws-rdsaws-sagemakeraws-bedrock ·
Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds support for SQL Server 2025
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server 2025, bringing AI integration directly into the database engine. This allows customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL, enabling secure integration with AWS services like Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker without application re-architecture. New features include a free developer edition, increased Standard Edition capacity, and a native vector data type for embeddings. Existing RDS users can upgrade, and on-premises users can migrate to take advantage of these capabilities.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aigovernanceawsengineeraws-s3aws-bedrock ·
AWS Data Exports adds standardized Bedrock metadata
AWS Data Exports now provides standardized product metadata for Amazon Bedrock, enabling FinOps teams and administrators to consistently understand Bedrock costs. This eliminates the need for custom logic to parse varied product metadata in the Cost and Usage Report (CUR). The standardized attributes, including model provider, name, pricing unit, inference type, and feature, are available by default at no extra cost to customers using AWS Data Exports.
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