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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 observabilityawsengineeraws-s3 ·
CloudWatch Logs now supports Application Load Balancer logs
Amazon CloudWatch Logs has added support for Application Load Balancer (ALB) logs, enabling direct analysis and debugging of network traffic within CloudWatch. This integration simplifies monitoring by allowing automatic configuration of logging for ALB resources across an organization. Engineers can now leverage CloudWatch Logs Insights, metric filters, and Live Tail for detailed traffic pattern analysis, enhancing observability and troubleshooting capabilities.
feature - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineeraws-bedrockaws-iam ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore enables unified observability for AI agents
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now consolidates agent traces and prompts into a single Amazon CloudWatch log group, simplifying debugging and access control for AI agents. Previously, telemetry was split across different log groups, complicating troubleshooting. This enhancement allows developers to correlate traces and logs, apply fine-grained IAM policies, and use customer-managed keys at the individual agent level. Unified observability is enabled by default for new agents and can be configured for existing ones.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-lambdaaws-sqsaws-sns ·
AWS Secrets Manager integrates with EventBridge for secret update notifications
AWS Secrets Manager now publishes events directly to Amazon EventBridge when secret values change, simplifying real-time monitoring and response. This eliminates the need to parse CloudTrail logs, allowing for more direct event-driven workflows. Developers can configure EventBridge rules to trigger actions like Lambda functions or SNS topics upon secret updates, enabling proactive application refreshes or service restarts. This feature is available across all AWS Regions at no extra cost.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds agent queue metrics to analytics dashboards
Amazon Connect now displays real-time and historical metrics for agent queues on customer dashboards, enabling supervisors to track agent performance within specific queues. This feature allows for proactive management of wait times and resource allocation based on contact volume. It is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect is offered.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus increases metric and rule limits
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports 1.5 billion active metric time series and 200,000 rules per workspace, enabling larger-scale monitoring. This enhancement allows customers to store and analyze billions of Prometheus metrics organization-wide across many workspaces. It is designed for high-cardinality workloads in various environments and integrates with AWS security services. To utilize the increased limits, users must file a service limit increase request.
feature - 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 observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch UI adds one-click dashboard migration
Amazon OpenSearch Service now offers one-click migration from legacy OpenSearch Dashboards to the new OpenSearch UI. This feature reduces operational complexity by making existing tenants and saved objects reusable in the new interface, supporting both domains and serverless collections. The migration can consolidate multiple tenants into single or separate workspaces and is available in all regions where OpenSearch UI is supported.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
AWS Billing Dashboards add Cost Efficiency widget
AWS Billing and Cost Management now supports a Cost Efficiency widget in its dashboards, offering a unified view of spending, commitments, and optimization performance. This allows users to track cost efficiency trends alongside other cost management tools, such as Cost Explorer and Budgets. The widget is available in all AWS commercial regions at no additional charge and integrates with dashboard exports and email reports.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Logs Insights adds 25 new query commands and functions
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has added 25 new query commands and functions to enhance log analysis capabilities. These additions support statistical aggregation, time-series data handling, outlier detection, and event enrichment, enabling deeper insights for engineers analyzing logs. The new commands are available today in all commercial AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds intelligent storage tiering
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now offers intelligent tiering to automatically move log data between Standard, Infrequent Access, and Archive Instant Access tiers based on usage patterns. This feature enables cost savings for long-term log retention while maintaining query capabilities and unified visibility, reducing operational overhead for engineers managing logs. Intelligent tiering is available in most AWS commercial regions and can be enabled at the account level.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiobservabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Service integrates with AWS Agent Toolkit
Amazon OpenSearch Service now integrates with the Agent Toolkit for AWS, allowing AI coding agents to manage OpenSearch domains and collections via natural language. This integration, powered by the AWS MCP server and a curated OpenSearch skill, simplifies tasks like migration, operations, search, and analytics without requiring infrastructure changes. Support is available in all AWS regions where OpenSearch Service and OpenSearch Serverless are offered, with setup involving the aws-data-analytics plugin.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch adds lookup processor for log enrichment
Amazon CloudWatch now supports a lookup processor to enrich log events with context from CSV lookup tables directly within CloudWatch Pipelines. This feature allows engineers to map log fields to reference data at ingestion, eliminating the need for external enrichment logic and providing immediate context for queries and alarms. The processor is available in all commercial AWS regions supporting CloudWatch pipelines.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus expands to Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring solution, is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. This expansion allows customers to monitor and alert on operational metrics at scale within this new geographic area. The service supports sending up to 1 billion active metric series per workspace, with multiple workspaces configurable per account.
announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-s3aws-lambdaaws-sqsaws-sns ·
Timestream for InfluxDB publishes database events to EventBridge
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now emits events to EventBridge for database state changes, including lifecycle operations, scaling, and maintenance. This allows customers to programmatically react to these events without API polling, enabling automation for DevOps, alerting for operations teams, and audit trails for compliance. The feature is available in all regions where Timestream for InfluxDB is offered.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawspreviewengineeraws-eks ·
CloudWatch Application Signals Adds Automatic Service Event Capture
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now automatically captures exception, latency, function-level performance, and deployment events without code changes. This helps users quickly identify deployment-related errors and performance issues. The feature is available to applications with Application Signals enabled via ADOT SDKs or the EKS add-on, and supports Java, Python, and JavaScript in all commercial AWS Regions.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawspreviewengineer ·
CloudWatch Application Signals adds dynamic instrumentation
Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports dynamic instrumentation, allowing developers to capture runtime state from live applications without restarts. This feature helps debug difficult-to-reproduce production issues by inspecting variable values and method arguments at specific code locations. It requires the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) SDKs and is available in all commercial AWS regions for Java, Python, and JavaScript/TypeScript applications.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineeraws-sns ·
CloudWatch alarms from log queries streamline monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch now allows creating alarms directly from log queries, eliminating intermediate metric filters. This change simplifies setting up proactive monitoring and alerting on log data anomalies for engineers and architects working with AWS logs. The feature supports standard CloudWatch Alarm actions and is available in most commercial AWS Regions, accessible via console, CLI, CloudFormation, and SDKs.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds log analytics engine
Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes a new engine purpose-built for log analytics, offering up to 4x better price-performance and up to 70% lower storage costs. This enhancement allows teams to perform fast analytical queries and retains more data at lower cost, benefiting those managing growing log volumes from cloud-native and AI workloads. Users can enable this new engine for domains running OpenSearch 3.5 or above via the AWS console, with availability in 12 regions globally.
feature patch - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch pipelines adds OpenTelemetry metric processing and enrichment
Amazon CloudWatch pipelines now supports processing and enriching OpenTelemetry metrics during ingestion, eliminating the need for custom processing layers. This feature allows users to centrally apply metric transformations, add business context, reduce storage costs by stripping high-cardinality labels, and enforce naming conventions. The OTel metric processing is available in all supported AWS Regions at no additional cost beyond standard ingestion pricing.
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