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 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 dataawsgaengineermediaaws-s3 ·
Amazon MSK Express delivers Kafka data to Apache Iceberg streaming tables
Amazon MSK Express can now continuously materialize Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon S3. This new capability reduces ingestion costs by up to 60% and query costs by up to 30% compared to self-managed deployments. It simplifies integration for near real-time analytics, eliminating the need for complex custom pipelines and addressing the small-file problem. The feature is available today in all AWS Regions offering MSK Express.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon MSK Express delivers Kafka data to Amazon S3
Amazon MSK Express now offers a managed capability to deliver Apache Kafka data directly to Amazon S3. This feature simplifies data ingestion for common use cases like archival and ML model training, reducing costs and operational overhead compared to self-managed solutions. It supports high throughput and scales automatically, available now in all AWS Regions offering MSK Express.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS Glue REST API connector adds VPC, filter pushdown, and partition support
AWS Glue's REST API connector now supports VPC connections, filter pushdown, and partition support, allowing secure access to private data sources and improving ingestion performance. These enhancements enable engineers to integrate data from proprietary systems without custom code, reducing costs and speeding up ETL pipelines. The new capabilities are available in all AWS commercial regions.
feature - 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 - AWS What's New dataawsengineerfinanceaws-redshift ·
Redshift Serverless adds 3-year all-upfront pricing for cost savings
Amazon Redshift Serverless now offers an all-upfront payment option for 3-year reservations, providing up to 50% savings. This new option helps users optimize compute costs and improve predictability for their analytics workloads. It is available to all Redshift Serverless users and can be purchased via the console or API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsengineermedia ·
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode adds EFS and FSx for Lustre support
AWS DataSync's Enhanced mode now supports Amazon EFS and Amazon FSx for Lustre as source or destination locations, removing previous limitations. This enhancement simplifies large-scale data movement for workloads like AI/ML training and media rendering. The feature is available in all AWS Regions and accessible via the DataSync console.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsazureengineer ·
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode adds HDFS, Azure Blob, and Hyper-V agent support
AWS DataSync Enhanced mode now supports agent-based transfers from HDFS, Azure Blob Storage, and self-managed object storage, with agents deployable on Microsoft Hyper-V. This enables customers to leverage Enhanced mode's parallelism and detailed metrics for these new locations, including robust HDFS features for regulated industries. The update is available in all AWS Regions where DataSync is offered.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 Tables add Variant type for Apache Iceberg V3
Amazon S3 Tables now support the Variant data type for Apache Iceberg V3, enabling direct ingestion of semi-structured data like JSON without upfront schema definition. This feature accelerates data landing while maintaining efficient analytical query performance by automatically shredding data and generating Parquet column statistics for query optimization. The support is available across numerous AWS regions and includes ongoing table maintenance for Variant columns.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineeraws-s3aws-sagemaker ·
AWS Glue Data Quality Adds Distribution Statistics for Data Profiling
AWS Glue Data Quality now includes a Distribution Analyzer for generating frequency distribution profiles. This feature helps users understand data patterns, identify outliers, and reduce the need for custom code in data pipelines. It integrates with existing rulesets and stores statistics in Amazon S3 for querying via services like Athena or visualization in SageMaker Studio. The functionality is available in all commercial and GovCloud regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS Glue Data Quality adds anomaly detection and Catalog integration
AWS Glue Data Quality now supports anomaly detection for data quality evaluations, using ML-powered forecasting to identify unexpected changes without manual threshold rules. It also allows writing evaluation results, including anomaly predictions, back to AWS Glue Data Catalog tables for queryable records. These features benefit data engineers monitoring many tables and offer a consistent experience across ETL jobs and Catalog evaluations, available in all commercial and GovCloud regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-s3aws-rds ·
RDS for SQL Server supports TDE restore on Multi-AZ instances
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now allows restoring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-enabled databases on Multi-AZ instances and read replicas using native backup and restore. This feature simplifies migration and recovery workflows by enabling high availability for encrypted databases, previously a limitation to Single-AZ instances. It requires backing up the TDE certificate to S3 and restoring it to the RDS instance with TDE enabled. The capability is available in all supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineermedia ·
AWS Clean Rooms adds larger worker types for SQL
AWS Clean Rooms now supports larger worker types with 32 vCPUs and 244 GB of memory for SQL analyses, enabling more compute-intensive workloads. This enhancement can improve performance for complex queries on large datasets and optimize costs. The feature is available now, allowing organizations to accelerate their data analysis and collaboration efforts without sharing underlying data.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineermediaaws-kinesis ·
Kinesis Data Streams now supports scaling down ingest capacity
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams' on-demand streams now support scaling down ingest capacity via warm throughput. This enhancement allows users to proactively manage stream write throughput up or down, ensuring optimal performance and cost efficiency by releasing excess capacity. The feature is available at no additional cost for all on-demand streams with On-demand Advantage mode enabled in supported AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineeraws-sagemaker ·
SageMaker Studio adds custom visual transforms for ETL
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports custom visual transforms within visual ETL flows, allowing data engineers to create reusable transformation logic without coding. This feature enables teams to share and discover custom transforms, promoting consistency and reducing duplicated effort across ETL jobs. The capability is now available in all SageMaker Studio regions.
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 dataawsengineermedia ·
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink adds support for Flink 2.3
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now supports Apache Flink version 2.3, bringing adaptive partition selection for better backpressure handling and improved out-of-order updates for CDC pipelines. This release also includes new SQL functions for stream conversion, benefiting developers and data engineers working with real-time streaming data. The update is available across all AWS Regions and can be accessed via new applications or in-place upgrades.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsaws-s3 ·
Amazon S3 drops 30-day minimum for Standard-IA and One Zone-IA transitions
Amazon S3 now allows immediate transitions to Standard-IA and One Zone-IA storage classes, eliminating the previous 30-day minimum retention in S3 Standard. This change offers up to 40% lower storage costs for data accessed infrequently, benefiting workloads like backups and log analytics. Users can configure these rules starting from 0 days after object creation via the S3 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs across all available regions.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineerfinanceaws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift adds rg.large and rg.12xlarge Graviton-powered instance sizes
Amazon Redshift has launched two new Graviton-powered instance sizes, rg.large and rg.12xlarge, offering improved query performance and cost savings. These instances provide greater flexibility for right-sizing clusters for various workloads and are now generally available on the current track. Customers can migrate existing clusters to these new sizes using standard methods.
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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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