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 infraawsautomotiveaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EVS expands to additional AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Zurich), and Europe (Stockholm) Regions, offering more options for running VMware workloads on AWS. This expansion enables lower latency and supports data residency requirements for organizations migrating VMware environments to the cloud. It includes support for VCF 9.0 and 9.1, allowing users to leverage the latest VMware features.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineerautomotiveaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EVS adds support for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and 9.1
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1, allowing users to run the latest VCF versions within their Amazon VPC on EC2 bare-metal instances. This update gives users complete control over their VCF environments, enabling them to use familiar tools and processes. A new GitHub repository with IaC examples is also launched to aid adoption, and this feature is available in all EVS-supported regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsfinanceenergyautomotiveaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances now available in Europe (Ireland)
Amazon EC2 M8azn instances, powered by fifth generation AMD EPYC processors, are now available in the Europe (Ireland) Region. These general purpose instances offer significant performance improvements in CPU frequency, memory bandwidth, network throughput, and cache size compared to previous generations, making them suitable for latency-sensitive and compute-intensive workloads. They are ideal for industries like finance, automotive, and energy, and are available in 9 sizes including bare metal options.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerautomotive ·
Amazon EVS increases host limit to 32 per environment
Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) now supports up to 32 ESXi hosts per environment, doubling the previous limit. This allows customers to scale up to a larger single cluster or manage fewer environments, reducing operational overhead. The enhanced support is available in all EVS regions.
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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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