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Tracking 1,476 AWS releases · Updated
- endoflife.date eolmysql ·
MySQL 8.2 end-of-life date moved to 2024-01-16
The end-of-life date for MySQL 8.2 changed from 2023-12-14 to 2024-01-16.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolmysql ·
MySQL 8.3 end-of-life date moved to 2024-04-30
The end-of-life date for MySQL 8.3 changed from 2024-04-10 to 2024-04-30.
deprecation - endoflife.date eolmysql ·
MySQL 9.7 end-of-life date moved to 2034-04-30
The end-of-life date for MySQL 9.7 changed from 2034-04-21 to 2034-04-30.
deprecation - AWS What's New infraawsgaarchitectaws-ec2 ·
AWS EC2 M8i and M8i-flex Instances Now Available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous generations, with up to 20% performance gains over M7i/M7i-flex. They target general-purpose workloads like web servers, databases, and microservices, showing significant speed improvements for PostgreSQL, NGINX, and AI deep learning models. M8i instances are SAP-certified and include new larger sizes, while M8i-flex provides optimized price-performance for common workloads.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex Instances Now Available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, offer up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. They provide significant performance gains for workloads like web applications, AI deep learning, and Memcached stores. Customers can leverage these instances via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances for various compute-intensive and memory-intensive applications.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
AWS Messaging and SES Add AI Agent Skills to MCP Server
AWS End User Messaging and Amazon SES now offer AI agent skills for the AWS MCP Server, enabling developers to build and send messages using natural language commands. This integration with AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor streamlines tasks such as verifying sending identities or creating branded Rich Communication Services (RCS) agents. Developers can now complete messaging workflows directly through their agents, eliminating manual documentation searches and console navigation. To use these capabilities, developers must connect the AWS MCP Server to their AI agent and install the relevant channel skills.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineeraws-ec2 ·
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex Instances Now Available in AWS European Sovereign Cloud
Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These memory-optimized instances deliver up to 15% better price-performance and 2.5x more memory bandwidth than previous Intel-based generations. They offer significant performance gains for workloads like PostgreSQL, NGINX, AI deep learning, and mission-critical SAP applications. The expansion caters to customers requiring high-performance, memory-intensive compute within the sovereign cloud environment, available via Savings Plans, On-Demand, and Spot instances.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitect ·
Amazon Transcribe Adds Customer-Managed KMS Keys for Custom Resources
Amazon Transcribe now allows users to encrypt custom vocabularies, vocabulary filters, and language models at rest using customer-managed AWS KMS keys. This enhancement provides greater control over key permissions, access management, and offers a comprehensive audit trail through AWS CloudTrail for compliance. Users can opt to supply their own symmetric KMS key when creating or updating these resources; otherwise, encryption continues with AWS-owned keys. The feature is generally available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Transcribe operates.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsgaarchitectaws-iam ·
AWS IAM Outbound Federation Adds Private OIDC Discovery via VPC Endpoints
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation now supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery APIs. This enables AWS workloads to privately access OIDC metadata and JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) verification keys from within a VPC using AWS PrivateLink, removing the need for traffic to traverse the public internet. The enhancement addresses network security requirements for workloads in VPCs with restricted internet access, allowing external services to verify JWTs without public endpoint access. This capability is available in all AWS commercial, GovCloud (US), and China Regions at standard PrivateLink rates.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS End User Messaging Adds WhatsApp Voice Calling Capabilities
AWS End User Messaging now allows businesses to place and receive voice calls with customers directly within WhatsApp, leveraging their existing verified business identity. This enhancement facilitates seamless transitions from chat to voice conversations, preventing context loss and keeping interactions within a single channel. Both customers and businesses can initiate calls, with outbound business calls requiring prior customer permission. The feature is manageable via the AWS End User Messaging console or API and is available in all regions where the service's Social component is offered.
feature - AWS Containers Blog bloginfraawsarchitectaws-eksaws-ecs ·
AWS Named a Leader in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Container Management
AWS has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management for the fourth consecutive year. This recognition highlights their vision for a seamless container platform that supports diverse workloads, from microservices to complex AI agents. The report underscores recent innovations like Amazon ECS Express Mode, EKS Capabilities for operational burden reduction, and EKS Auto Mode for AI acceleration. These advancements aim to simplify operations, provide flexibility, and offer a resilient foundation for customers leveraging AWS container services.
announcement - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
AWS DataSync Launches Monitoring Dashboard for Task Executions
AWS DataSync has launched a new monitoring dashboard within its console, providing a unified view of data transfers across an account. This dashboard enables users to track task execution status, transfer rates, and identify errors, eliminating the need for individual execution reviews or custom CloudWatch setups. It is particularly useful for managing large migrations and concurrent recurring transfers by simplifying health, performance, and progress monitoring. The new dashboard is available at no additional cost in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions supporting DataSync.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports Graviton-based source servers
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (DRS) now enables disaster recovery for AWS Graviton-based (arm64) source servers. This enhancement allows users to protect and recover their Graviton workloads with the same reliability as x86 workloads, preserving the architecture end-to-end. DRS automatically detects arm64 source servers and recovers them onto Graviton instances, requiring no extra configuration. The capability is available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions where DRS is offered.
feature - AWS Containers Blog bloginfraawsarchitectaws-eks ·
Standardizing Edge Container Deployments with Amazon EKS: A Strategy Guide
This post provides a strategy to avoid fragmentation when deploying containers at the edge across many diverse locations. It explains how to standardize on Amazon EKS as a single Kubernetes platform and separate it from site-specific deployment models. The article details how to choose the right EKS deployment model—from fully self-managed to AWS managed—based on a site's connectivity and existing infrastructure. This approach ensures workload portability and consistent operations across an entire fleet.
announcement - AWS Developer Tools Blog blogawsgaengineer ·
AWS SDK for Java 2.x Introduces Client Warm-Up to Reduce Cold Starts
The AWS SDK for Java 2.x now includes an SDK client warm-up feature, available in version 2.54.0 and later. This new capability addresses cold-start latency by pre-initializing the SDK request path and HTTP client connections during application startup. Developers can choose to warm all clients on their classpath or specify particular client classes for optimized startup performance. It is particularly beneficial for applications running on AWS Lambda with SnapStart, ensuring clients are warm within the snapshot for faster subsequent invocations.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinance ·
AWS Billing and Cost Management Adds API for Account Billing Context
AWS Billing and Cost Management now offers the ListBillingViewSegments API, which provides the billing context of an account over a specified time period. This API helps users understand their account's position in the billing hierarchy and identify managing accounts or applicable rate settings. It supports direct calls or interaction via an AI agent, and segments data to reflect changes in billing context mid-period. The API is available in all commercial AWS Regions at no additional charge, providing billing context without cost and usage data.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineermedia ·
Amazon EventBridge Relaunches Custom Event Buses for Enterprise Scale
Amazon EventBridge has relaunched its Custom event buses with an enhanced version designed to build scalable, decoupled, event-driven applications. The new Custom event bus introduces capabilities such as cross-account sharing, strict event ordering, and support for open event formats like CloudEvents. It includes 24 hours of built-in retention, extendable to a year, and a new Subscriber resource for filtering events to over 250 AWS services. The enhanced bus also features a new pricing model based on data transferred, and is available in fourteen AWS regions globally.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineeraws-eksaws-sagemaker ·
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway for Scalable LLM Inference
AWS has launched the SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway, a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing system designed for scalable LLM inference. Deployed as an EKS managed add-on, it replaces traditional load balancing with real-time inference-signal-driven routing, significantly reducing first-token latency and p99 Time-To-First-Token (TTFT) by up to 82% and 98% respectively. The gateway works with any OpenAI-compatible model server, enabling a single endpoint to serve multiple models without client-side changes. It is now generally available in all AWS Regions that support the SageMaker HyperPod inference add-on.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon GameLift Servers Expands to 5 New AWS Regions and 8 Local Zones
Amazon GameLift Servers, a fully managed service for deploying and scaling multiplayer game servers, has expanded its global footprint. This expansion includes 5 new AWS Regions and 8 AWS Local Zones across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia. The increased availability allows game developers and studios to deploy server fleets closer to players, significantly reducing latency and improving gameplay responsiveness. This directly addresses common challenges in multiplayer game development related to geographic distance.
feature - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineeraws-iam ·
Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore Adds Resource Tagging and TBAC
Amazon ElastiCache Global Datastore now supports resource tagging and tag-based access control (TBAC), enabling consistent permission and cost-allocation models across an entire ElastiCache fleet. This enhancement addresses a prior limitation where Global Datastore lacked tagging, preventing uniform policy application. Users can now apply tags, reference them in IAM and SCPs, and benefit from automatic tag propagation across regions, ensuring consistent policies without per-region operations. This feature is available at no additional cost in all regions where ElastiCache Global Datastore is offered.
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