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Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider.
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AWS Resilience Hub Next Generation Achieves General Availability
AWS Resilience Hub's next generation is now generally available, enhancing resilience assessment for critical workloads. This update introduces a new application model, dependency discovery, generative AI for failure mode analysis, and organization-wide reporting, benefiting platform engineering and SRE teams. The improvements aim to provide deeper insights and more actionable recommendations for workload resilience.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Claude Opus 4.8 available on AWS
AWS now offers Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's most capable generally available model, bringing significant improvements in coding, knowledge work, and autonomous tasks. This model offers enhanced reasoning, consistency, and error recovery, making it suitable for production AI applications. Developers and enterprises can access Claude Opus 4.8 via Amazon Bedrock for AWS-integrated data security or the Claude Platform on AWS for a native Anthropic experience with AWS billing and authentication.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
AWS Backup adds OTP verification for logically air-gapped vaults
AWS Backup now requires one-time password (OTP) verification for Multi-party approval actions on logically air-gapped vaults, adding an extra security layer. Approvers must enter a code sent to their IAM Identity Center registered email to authorize protected vault operations. This feature is automatically applied to all existing and new Multi-party approval sessions for these vaults at no extra charge.
security patch - AWS What's New securityawssecurity-advisory ·
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server adds latest GDR updates
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for SQL Server 2019 and 2022. These updates include critical security fixes for vulnerabilities CVE-2026-32167 and CVE-2026-32176. Affected users are encouraged to upgrade their instances via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI to enhance security.
security patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.46.0: New resources, fixes, and enhancements
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.46.0 introduces several new resources, including those for AWS Bedrock Agent, IAM Access Keys, and Observability Admin. Enhancements improve existing resources like CloudFront distributions and Bedrock Agent runtimes, while bug fixes address issues with S3 bucket configurations and X-Ray resource policies. The `policy_name` change in `aws_xray_resource_policy` is noted as a potential breaking change due to previous incorrect functionality.
feature patch breaking - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS open sources ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter
AWS announced version 0.1 of ExtendDB, an open source project that allows developers to use the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. This enables running DynamoDB-compatible workloads locally, on-premises, or at the edge without rewriting application code, benefiting developers and architects for local development, testing, and hybrid deployments.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of a new Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. This expansion brings AWS infrastructure closer to end-users in the region, enabling lower latency and supporting data residency requirements. Organizations can now leverage this zone for compute, storage, and networking services, including specific EC2 instance types and S3 storage classes, to accelerate cloud migration and modernization.
feature announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0 Adds New Resources and Features, Includes Breaking Change
Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0 introduces multiple new data sources and resources, including support for EC2 service links, API Gateway v2, and various AWS services. A breaking change in the `aws_mq_configuration` resource now correctly deletes configurations, requiring the `mq:DeleteConfiguration` IAM permission. This release impacts engineers managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform who need to be aware of the breaking change and can leverage the new resources for expanded capabilities.
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