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 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 infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 C7i-flex instances now available in Europe (Milan) region
Amazon EC2 C7i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Sapphire Rapids processors, are now available in the Europe (Milan) region. These instances offer up to 15% better performance than comparable Intel processors on other clouds and up to 19% better price-performance than C6i instances, making them ideal for compute-intensive workloads that don't fully utilize all resources. They are suitable for web servers, databases, caches, and distributed systems like Kafka and Elasticsearch.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2aws-lambdaaws-ecs ·
AWS CodeDeploy Expands to Five New Regions
AWS CodeDeploy is now available in five additional AWS regions, including Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), and Mexico (Central). This expansion allows customers in these areas to access the automated deployment service locally, improving latency and meeting data residency needs. The service supports deployments to EC2, on-premises servers, Lambda, and ECS, benefiting developers and DevOps engineers managing complex application updates. CodeDeploy is now available in 34 AWS commercial regions, plus GovCloud and China regions.
announcement feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transit Gateway adds Policy-Based Routing for granular traffic control
AWS Transit Gateway now supports Policy-Based Routing (PBR), allowing network administrators to direct traffic based on multiple packet attributes, not just destination IP. This feature simplifies network architectures by eliminating the need for complex multi-VPC setups for traffic steering and workload isolation. It's now available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be configured via the AWS Management Console, CLI, or SDK.
feature - 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 infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh integrated with CloudFormation
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports the Instance Refresh feature directly within AWS CloudFormation update policies. This integration allows CloudFormation to automatically trigger instance refreshes when properties change, offering capabilities like root volume replacement and controlled rollouts with bake times. Existing Auto Scaling features and health checks remain active during updates, ensuring service continuity. The feature is available across all AWS Regions at no additional cost.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.57.1 fixes UnknownError
Release 6.57.1 of the Terraform AWS Provider addresses a bug introduced in the previous version that caused an 'UnknownError' API error. This patch resolves the issue, ensuring smoother operation for users managing AWS resources with Terraform. The fix is available immediately.
patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationretail ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.57.0: New EKS and Bedrock resources, deprecations
HashiCorp's AWS provider has released version 6.57.0, introducing several new resources for EKS and AWS Bedrock, including evaluation jobs and access management. It also includes enhancements to VPC, Secrets Manager, and Flow Logs, along with important deprecations for memory strategy configurations. This release provides expanded capabilities for managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform, with some existing configurations requiring updates due to deprecated attributes.
feature patch announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-eksaws-iam ·
Amazon EKS supports AWS PrivateLink for OIDC endpoint
Amazon EKS now supports AWS PrivateLink for its cluster OIDC discovery and JWKS endpoint. This allows tools within your VPC to reach the IAM Roles for Service Accounts (IRSA) endpoint privately, eliminating the need for internet egress. The feature is available in all EKS regions at no additional cost beyond standard PrivateLink pricing.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-eks ·
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane improves pod autoscaling speed
Amazon EKS Provisioned Control Plane now scales pods faster by increasing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) sync concurrency significantly beyond default Kubernetes values. This enhancement reduces the time for workloads to scale in response to load, improving responsiveness. It is available to all EKS Provisioned Control Plane customers without requiring configuration changes.
patch - 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 infraawsaws-s3 ·
Amazon MWAA adds support for Apache Airflow 2.11.2
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports Apache Airflow version 2.11.2. This update brings security improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades to the managed Airflow service. Existing and new MWAA environments in all regions can be updated to this version. The release enhances security patching, stability, and logging features.
patch - AWS What's New infraawsaws-ec2 ·
EC2 Dedicated Hosts support host resource groups without self-managed licenses
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now allow creating Host Resource Groups (HRGs) without requiring self-managed licenses and AMI associations via AWS License Manager. This change offers greater flexibility for EC2 Mac Instances and hardware-isolation use cases. Customers can now choose to uncheck a restriction option during HRG creation in the EC2 console or via the AWS CLI. This feature is available in all AWS Regions supporting HRGs.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ec2aws-lambda ·
AWS Lambda Managed Instances logs now available in CloudWatch
AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. This provides visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations, helping customers monitor and troubleshoot their EC2 instances used for Lambda functions. The logs are automatically enabled by default in all commercial AWS regions where LMI is available and are structured in JSON format for easier filtering and analysis.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon SES simplifies SMTP email sending with Mail Manager guided setup
Amazon SES now offers a guided setup experience within Mail Manager to simplify configuring SMTP email sending. This reduces the multi-step manual process to a few clicks, providing developers with a ready-to-use SMTP endpoint and credentials. The feature is ideal for applications needing to send transactional emails quickly and is available across all SES regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineeraws-ecs ·
Amazon ECS Service Connect adds zone-aware routing
Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports zone-aware routing, automatically prioritizing service-to-service traffic within the same Availability Zone to reduce cross-AZ data transfer costs and latency. This feature benefits customers deploying applications across multiple AZs for resiliency by eliminating the trade-off between cost and resilience. Zone-aware routing is enabled by default for new services and requires a one-time redeployment for existing services, with availability across all supported AWS regions.
feature patch - 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 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 infraawsengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 M8id Instances Available in Europe (Ireland)
Amazon EC2 M8id instances, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the Europe (Ireland) region. These instances offer significant performance and memory bandwidth improvements over the previous generation, making them suitable for demanding workloads like databases and real-time analytics. They also include flexible bandwidth allocation and are available through various purchasing options.
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