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 securityawsengineerretail ·
AWS WAF adds pre-parse transformations and new text transformations
AWS WAF now supports pre-parse text transformations for query arguments and ten new text transformations, enhancing request normalization. These features help standardize how AWS WAF inspects requests, preventing evasion tactics like HTTP parameter pollution and parser differentials. The update is available in all AWS Regions and impacts engineers and architects responsible for web application security.
feature - 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 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 securityawsengineerretailaws-s3aws-dynamodbaws-eksaws-ecsaws-iam ·
Amazon GameLift Streams adds IAM role credentials for secure resource access
Amazon GameLift Streams now supports assigning an IAM role to a stream session, allowing secure access to AWS resources like S3 and DynamoDB without embedding long-lived access keys. This feature simplifies security and operations by automatically providing short-lived, auto-refreshing AWS credentials, similar to mechanisms used by ECS task roles and EKS Pod Identity. It reduces security risks and operational challenges for game developers needing their streamed applications to interact with AWS services. IAM role support is available in all AWS Regions where GameLift Streams is offered.
feature - AWS What's New awsretail ·
Amazon Connect Outbound Campaigns now in AWS Cape Town region
Amazon Connect Customer Outbound Campaigns now supports digital channels (SMS, WhatsApp, email) in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This expansion enables businesses in the region to deploy proactive, personalized engagement campaigns for various use cases. The feature is available through the Connect Customer admin website and APIs, offering built-in analytics and event-based triggers.
feature - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawspreviewdeprecationengineerretailaws-bedrock ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.53.0: New Bedrock features, breaking changes, and enhancements
Terraform AWS Provider v6.53.0 introduces new data sources and resources for AWS Bedrock, alongside breaking changes in Pinpoint SMS Voice V2 phone number management. It also includes several enhancements and bug fixes across services like API Gateway, ECS, and CloudWatch. Users should review the breaking changes and deprecations for potential impact on their infrastructure as code.
breaking feature patch announcement - AWS What's New awssnowflakeengineerretail ·
Amazon Quick adds 16 new integrations for design, communication, and data tools
Amazon Quick has launched 16 new connectors for tools including Adobe, Figma, Snowflake, and WhatsApp, enabling users to act on data insights without switching applications. This expansion integrates a wider range of productivity, design, analytics, and communication platforms, allowing for combined workflows. The new integrations are available in all AWS Regions where Quick is offered and can be added in minutes to enhance Quick Flows and Chat.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineerretailaws-ec2aws-iam ·
Amazon Inspector improves agent-based EC2 scanning
Amazon Inspector has launched the Inspector VM Scanner for agent-based EC2 instances, expanding vulnerability detection for applications like WordPress and Python packages. This new scanner also reduces CPU utilization during scans, minimizing impact on production workloads. Security teams benefit from this enhanced, more efficient scanning which brings agent-based coverage to parity with agentless methods. The update is available in all Inspector regions at no additional cost.
feature - AWS What's New awsengineerretailmediaaws-ec2 ·
Amazon GameLift Streams launches Generation 6e stream classes
Amazon GameLift Streams has launched new Generation 6e (G6e) stream classes featuring enhanced GPU performance for graphically demanding games and applications. These new classes leverage EC2 G6e instances with NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs, offering increased GPU memory and bandwidth. They are designed for users requiring maximum GPU performance for AAA-quality game streaming and are now available in select AWS Regions.
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AWS ships hundreds of service updates a month across EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, EKS and the rest of the catalogue — far more than anyone can follow by reading the official What's New feed. ReleaseBytes ingests announcements from AWS's official release channels and the Terraform AWS provider changelog, summarises each one in plain English, and tags anything that is a breaking change, security advisory or deprecation so you can see at a glance whether it affects your workloads.
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