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
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds latest Microsoft CU and GDR updates
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates (CU) and General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2022. These updates include security patches for vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-40370, improving instance security and stability. All Amazon RDS for SQL Server users are recommended to upgrade their instances to benefit from these fixes.
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Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server adds latest CU/GDR updates
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest Cumulative Updates and General Distribution Releases, including versions for SQL Server 2019 and 2022. This enhancement allows users to easily apply critical security patches and performance improvements to their database instances. The updates are available for all RDS Custom for SQL Server users and can be applied via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds support for latest Microsoft GDR updates
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for multiple SQL Server versions, including specific patch identifiers. These GDR updates address critical vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-32167 and CVE-2026-32176, enhancing security for SQL Server instances. Users running SQL Server 2016 through 2022 on RDS are recommended to upgrade their instances to benefit from these security fixes, which can be performed via the RDS Management Console, AWS SDK, or CLI.
security patch - AWS What's New securityawssecurity-advisoryengineeraws-rds ·
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server adds latest GDR updates
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports recent General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for Microsoft SQL Server, including critical security patches. This enhancement is available for SQL Server 2019 and 2022 instances, offering improved security and stability. Users can apply these updates via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI.
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About AWS release tracking on ReleaseBytes
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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