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 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 awsgaengineerfinance ·
AWS Console Home Adds Cost Widget for Germany Sovereign Cloud
AWS Console Home now includes the Cost and Usage widget for the European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) Region, enabling customers to display Cost Explorer and Cost Optimization Hub data directly on their dashboard. This feature allows tracking of current and projected costs, identification of savings, and analysis of spend by service. Users can add the widget via the AWS Management Console.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinanceaws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET now GA
AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for .NET is now generally available, allowing C# developers to build resilient, long-running workflows with durable functions. This SDK simplifies the creation of multi-step applications like payment processing or AI orchestration by automatically checkpointing progress and pausing execution for up to a year. It offers an idiomatic C# experience for tracking progress, integrating callbacks, durable invocation, and efficient suspension, with local testing support. Developers can install it via NuGet and find detailed guides in the Lambda durable functions developer guide.
feature announcement - AWS What's New governanceawsengineerfinance ·
AWS Billing: Configure Automatic Credit Memo Application
AWS now allows customers paying via electronic funds transfer to set preferences for how credit memos are automatically applied to invoices. This enhances payment process flexibility by offering options like applying credits to the original, next, or oldest unpaid invoice directly via the Billing and Cost Management console. These new automatic application preferences are now available across all commercial AWS Regions, offering a more tailored approach to managing outstanding balances.
feature - AWS What's New securityawshealthcarefinanceaws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda durable functions support customer-managed KMS encryption
AWS Lambda durable functions now supports encryption of execution data using customer-managed AWS KMS keys, offering enhanced control for regulated industries. This feature allows users in sectors like finance and healthcare to meet stricter data governance policies by managing their own encryption keys. It is available in all regions where Lambda durable functions are supported, with standard KMS charges applying.
feature - AWS What's New infraawspreviewengineerfinanceenergyaws-ec2 ·
AWS KNFSD File Cache enters preview to accelerate NFS performance
AWS has announced the preview of KNFSD File Cache, an open-source solution to deploy a high-speed NFS cache on AWS. This service offers significant performance gains for read-heavy workloads by caching data in memory and on local NVMe storage, reducing latency for compute fleets. It supports various NFS sources and clients, is built on standard Linux technologies, and is available across all AWS Regions, with users only paying for consumed resources.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineerfinance ·
CloudWatch Coding Agent Insights launched
Amazon CloudWatch now offers Coding Agent Insights to help engineering leaders track the ROI of AI coding tools like Claude Code, Codex, and GitHub Copilot. This feature integrates with Claude apps gateway and uses OpenTelemetry metrics to provide visibility into adoption, cost, and impact on delivery velocity. It is available in most AWS commercial regions and requires configuring the Claude apps gateway to emit telemetry to CloudWatch.
feature announcement - 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.
feature patch - AWS News Blog blogaiawsfinancemedia ·
AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization to charge bots for content access
AWS WAF now offers an AI traffic monetization capability allowing content owners to charge AI bots for accessing web content at the network edge. This feature enables per-request pricing based on content path, bot category, or verification tier, with payments settled in stablecoins to a specified wallet. The capability addresses the growing cost of serving AI bot traffic which now exceeds 50% of web traffic for many providers, without a corresponding increase in traditional revenue streams. It is available for web ACLs associated with Amazon CloudFront distributions, requiring AWS WAF Bot Control to be enabled.
feature - AWS What's New awsfinanceaws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in AWS GovCloud
Amazon Redshift RG instances, featuring AWS Graviton processors, are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These instances offer up to 2.4x faster data warehouse and data lake workloads at a lower cost, integrating Redshift's data lake query engine. They are available in two sizes and can be accessed by existing RA3 customers through upgrade options.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
Amazon Connect increases security profiles per user to 7
Amazon Connect now supports assigning up to seven security profiles per user, an increase from two. This change allows for more granular, scoped permission sets per agent, enabling better alignment with complex organizational structures. The feature is available in all AWS regions and enhances security by enforcing least privilege access. This benefits organizations, particularly in sectors like financial services, that manage multiple lines of business or distinct operational divisions.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinancemedia ·
AWS End User Messaging adds rich media and interactive RCS features
AWS End User Messaging now supports rich media and interactive messaging for RCS, enabling features like rich cards, carousels, and suggestion buttons. This allows users to take actions directly within their messaging app, integrating backend services and AI seamlessly. The update includes new RCS message types and actions, plus new pricing for conversations in 21 countries, benefiting developers building interactive customer experiences.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinanceaws-redshift ·
Amazon Redshift adds upfront pricing for RG reserved instances
Amazon Redshift now offers All Upfront and Partial Upfront payment options for 1-year and 3-year reserved instances on RG instances. This provides customers more flexibility to optimize costs compared to on-demand rates. These new options are available across numerous AWS Regions, complementing the existing No Upfront plan.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsarchitecthealthcarefinancegovernmentaws-iam ·
AWS Management Console Private Access adds VPC endpoint support
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows console traffic to flow through VPC endpoints, eliminating the need for internet access. This enhancement is critical for regulated industries and enterprises with strict security needs to manage AWS infrastructure securely from within VPCs. The feature leverages AWS PrivateLink and is available in all commercial AWS regions, with pricing based on PrivateLink usage.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Outposts Adds Self-Service Lifecycle Management
AWS Outposts now offers self-service lifecycle management for configuration, ordering, and decommissioning directly through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and API. This change empowers customers to manage their Outposts lifecycle independently, reducing reliance on AWS teams for these operations. The new capabilities include a real-time quoting tool and guided workflows for renewals and decommissioning, available in all commercial AWS Regions supporting Outposts.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineerfinance ·
CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Multilocation Canary Support
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows running canaries across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point. This feature reduces operational overhead and configuration drift compared to managing separate canaries per region. It ensures consistent user experience, identifies region-specific issues, and enhances alert confidence by requiring multi-location failures. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions supporting CloudWatch Synthetics, and existing canaries can be upgraded.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Partner Central adds funding for Business Value Realization
AWS Partner Central now supports the Business Value Realization (BVR) motion, offering funding for partners who drive customer adoption and business outcomes with AWS services. This new experience helps partners structure the customer adoption journey across defined stages, with AI agents generating weekly reports to identify risks and opportunities. Funding is automatically disbursed upon completion of stages, and the program is available to consulting, system integrator, and managed services partners with advance or premier tier status and a qualifying competency.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Partner Central agents now guide new partners through onboarding
AWS Partner Central has launched agentic onboarding capabilities for new partners, automating profile setup and guiding them through compliance requirements to become ready-to-sell. This feature aims to simplify the path for partners to start selling on AWS by providing personalized roadmaps, reducing the need for manual research. These capabilities are now generally available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be accessed via the console or programmatically.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinance ·
AWS Marketplace Storefront GA for Partners
AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, allowing AWS Partners to launch their own branded solution catalogs on their websites. This simplifies cloud marketplace management for channel partners and ISVs, enabling customers to discover and purchase solutions more easily. The storefront offers no-code branding, automated deal workflows, and integrates with existing AWS billing, with availability across all AWS Marketplace regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securitygovernanceawshealthcarefinancegovernmentaws-iam ·
AWS Management Console Private Access enhances VPC connectivity without internet
AWS Management Console Private Access now allows customers to access the AWS Console from VPCs without internet connectivity, improving network security for air-gapped environments. This enhancement, which leverages AWS PrivateLink, is particularly beneficial for regulated industries like finance, government, and healthcare, and enterprises with stringent security needs. The capability is available in all AWS commercial regions, with costs based on PrivateLink VPC endpoint usage.
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