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 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 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 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 aiawsengineermediaaws-bedrock ·
Gemma 4 models available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 family of open-weight models is now accessible via Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West). This expansion enables the development of generative AI applications with enhanced reasoning, multimodal understanding, and agentic capabilities. The offering includes three variants tailored for different use cases, with Gemma 4 31B optimized for complex workloads and Gemma 4 E2B for low-latency interaction.
feature - 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 awsengineerretailmedia ·
Amazon GameLift Streams Adds Custom Aspect Ratio and Dynamic Resolution
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports custom aspect ratios and dynamic resolution to enhance player streaming experiences. Custom aspect ratio allows specific resolutions matching player devices, eliminating letterboxing and supporting various screen formats. Dynamic resolution automatically adjusts stream quality based on network fluctuations to maintain smooth playback. These features are available in all GameLift Streams regions, with Dynamic Resolution enabled by default for new stream groups.
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 awsmedia ·
AWS Elemental MediaTailor: Configurable ad timeout and concurrency
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now allows direct configuration of ad decision server (ADS) timeout and concurrency settings via the console, CLI, or SDKs. This update empowers users to optimize ad delivery for better ad fill rates and faster video startup, particularly for live and VOD workflows. The new AdsPersonalizationTimeouts and AdsPersonalizationConcurrency parameters offer granular control over HTTP request timeouts and personalization time budgets. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where MediaTailor is offered.
feature - AWS What's New awsazureengineermedia ·
Amazon Connect adds audio optimization for Azure Virtual Desktop
Amazon Connect now offers audio optimization for agents using Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC, enabling direct call handling from virtual desktop sessions. This feature redirects media to the agent's local device, enhancing audio quality. It requires a one-time setup by IT administrators and is available in most AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
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 awsengineermediaaws-s3 ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Apps Adds OneDrive, Google Drive to Multi-Session Fleets
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now integrates Microsoft OneDrive for Business and Google Drive as persistent storage for multi-session fleets, enhancing user access to cloud files within streaming sessions. This feature improves cost efficiencies for organizations using multi-session fleets by allowing familiar enterprise storage access alongside existing S3-backed home folders. It is available in all AWS Regions where WorkSpaces Applications is offered, with no additional charges beyond standard streaming session pricing. Prerequisites include a WorkSpaces Applications agent or image update released on or after June 29, 2026.
feature - 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 dataawsengineermedia ·
Amazon MSK Express Brokers support Kafka 4.2 with improved rebalancing
Amazon MSK Express Brokers now support Apache Kafka version 4.2, introducing enhancements for leader election correctness and a new consumer rebalance protocol for smoother, faster group rebalances. This update aims to bring the latest open-source reliability and performance improvements to MSK Express, which already offers significant throughput and scaling advantages. The support is available today for new and existing MSK Express clusters across all offered AWS regions.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawsengineermedia ·
AWS Managed Service for Apache Flink adds AI Agent Skills
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink now includes AI Agent Skills to provide expert guidance for building and operating Flink applications. These skills simplify common tasks and accelerate development, enabling users to keep applications performant and easily upgrade Apache Flink versions. Customers can use these skills with existing AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, or Cursor.
feature - AWS What's New awsmedia ·
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal enhances protocol migration with rollback
Amazon WorkSpaces Personal now supports automated rollback and migration of stopped WorkSpaces, simplifying large-scale protocol changes. Migrating to the Amazon DCV protocol offers broader OS support, enhanced security, and improved performance. These features are available in all supported AWS regions and require no manual intervention for rollback or starting stopped instances.
feature - 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 aiawsgaengineermediaaws-sagemaker ·
Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Mistral AI's Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-2602 model is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for real-time speech transcription. This multilingual model enables low-latency audio-to-text applications and supports 13 languages with configurable delays. Customers can deploy it easily via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK, allowing for quick integration into specific AI use cases.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsmediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA GPUs now in US East (N. Virginia)
Amazon EC2 G7 instances, powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. These instances offer significant performance improvements for AI inference, graphics workloads, and GPU-accelerated data analytics compared to G6 instances. They are suitable for a wide range of applications including AI model deployment, graphics rendering, and real-time data pipelines, featuring advanced hardware specifications. G7 instances can be accessed via the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDKs.
feature announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineermediaaws-s3aws-lambdaaws-kinesisaws-redshift ·
Amazon Aurora DSQL Change Data Capture (CDC) Now Generally Available
Amazon Aurora DSQL Change Data Capture (CDC) is now generally available, allowing real-time streaming of database changes to Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. This feature simplifies event-driven architectures and data integration by automatically capturing insert, update, and delete operations with no infrastructure to manage. It's designed for zero impact on database performance and is available in all regions supporting Aurora DSQL, with free tier access available.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsmedia ·
AWS Clean Rooms adds intermediate tables for SQL queries
AWS Clean Rooms now supports intermediate tables for SQL queries, enabling multi-step analytical workflows with partners. This feature allows customers to write query results to an intermediate table within a collaboration for reuse in subsequent analyses. It provides increased flexibility for complex workflows, such as building shared ID mapping tables, all while maintaining the privacy boundary of the collaboration. This enhancement is beneficial for publishers and advertisers looking to optimize data analysis costs and performance.
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