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 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 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 governanceawsgaengineer ·
AWS Managed Microsoft AD supports Standard to Enterprise upgrade
AWS Managed Microsoft AD now allows direct upgrades from Standard to Enterprise editions via the console, CLI, or API, eliminating the need for migration or re-joining workloads. This feature benefits customers outgrowing Standard Edition's 5,000-object limit by enabling in-place upgrades to Enterprise Edition's 500,000-object capacity. The upgrade preserves existing configurations like trust relationships and application integrations, and is available across all AWS Regions.
feature - 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 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 infraawsgaengineeraws-s3 ·
AWS Parallel Computing Service adds node lifecycle actions
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS) is now generally available with node lifecycle actions, allowing custom scripts to run automatically at defined points in a compute node's lifecycle. This enables automated node preparation, such as mounting storage or installing software, for HPC workloads managed by Slurm. The feature is available in all AWS PCS regions and provides logging for visibility.
feature - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Connect surfaces agent evaluation examples for coaching
Amazon Connect now automatically surfaces example agent evaluations when managers prepare coaching feedback, offering evidence-based guidance for tailored coaching. Managers receive examples of recent high or low scores on specific topics, with evaluator notes detailing agent behaviors. This feature accelerates agent performance improvement by saving managers time previously spent searching for examples and is available in all Amazon Connect 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 networkingawsazuregapreviewengineer ·
AWS Interconnect GA enables multicloud connectivity with OCI
AWS Interconnect is now generally available, offering direct, private connections between AWS and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to simplify multicloud networking. This aims to reduce the complexity of managing large-scale, multi-layered networks across different cloud providers. The service is available for OCI in us-east-1, with Google Cloud support and Microsoft Azure support coming later.
feature announcement - AWS What's New governanceawsgaengineer ·
Amazon EFS cross-account Replication now supported in AWS GovCloud (US)
Amazon EFS now enables cross-account replication of file systems within AWS GovCloud (US) regions. This feature simplifies disaster recovery, business continuity, and compliance by automating file data synchronization between separate AWS accounts. It benefits customers using multi-account strategies for operational excellence and security, eliminating the need for custom replication processes.
feature - 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 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 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 awsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances now available in more AWS regions
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances, powered by Graviton4 processors and featuring third-generation AWS Nitro SSDs, are now generally available in AWS Europe (London) and Canada (Central) regions. These storage-optimized instances offer significant improvements in compute and storage performance, with up to 60% better compute performance and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to previous generations. They are ideal for workloads requiring fast local storage and low latency access to large datasets, available in eleven sizes and offering high network and EBS bandwidth.
feature patch - 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 infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
EC2 High Memory U7i instances expand to new AWS regions
Amazon EC2 has expanded the availability of its High Memory U7i instances. U7i instances, powered by Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, offer up to 24 TiB of DDR5 memory and high network/storage bandwidth. These instances are now available in the South America (São Paulo) region (16TB) and Europe (Ireland) region (24TB), targeting customers running large in-memory databases like SAP HANA.
feature - AWS What's New awsgapreviewengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL adds MySQL 9.7 support in preview
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports community MySQL 9.7 in the RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of the latest LTS release. This allows users to test applications and new capabilities before general availability. The preview instances are retained for 60 days and priced the same as production instances in us-east-1.
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