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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 284 AWS releases · Updated
- Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraaws ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.48.0: New Resources and Enhancements
HashiCorp's Terraform AWS provider has released version 6.48.0, introducing several new resources and enhancements across various AWS services. Key additions include new data sources and resources for EC2, Clean Rooms, and Pinpoint SMS Voice, alongside significant updates to Bedrock Agent Core and DataZone configurations. These changes aim to provide broader coverage and improved management capabilities for users of these AWS services through Terraform. The release also includes bug fixes for API Gateway and Bedrock Agent Core, benefiting users managing these services.
feature patch announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent adds conversation history
Amazon SageMaker Data Agent now supports conversation history within SageMaker Unified Studio. This feature allows data practitioners to maintain continuity across analytical sessions, resuming multi-step analyses and referencing past interactions. Conversation history is available in all regions where the Data Agent is offered and is accessible via a clock icon in the chat panel.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
SageMaker Studio adds notebook scheduling and orchestration
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now allows scheduling, parameterizing, and orchestrating notebook runs directly from the interface, reducing the need for external orchestration tools. This feature simplifies moving notebooks from experimentation to production by automating recurring tasks like daily reports and model retraining. It supports background runs, parameterized notebooks for reuse, and multi-notebook workflows. AI-assisted troubleshooting is also integrated to help resolve failures.
feature - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Step Functions integrates with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for AI reasoning
AWS Step Functions now supports AI agent reasoning steps via integration with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, currently in preview. This feature automates complex tasks like document classification or data extraction within workflows, allowing for parallel execution, human approval, and detailed audit trails. It's available in select AWS Regions, with standard pricing for both services applying.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgagovernment ·
OpenAI GPT-5.4 available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
OpenAI's GPT-5.4 model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, specifically within the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. This enables government and regulated industries to leverage advanced AI capabilities with enhanced security and compliance features. The model runs on a new, high-performance inference engine, ensuring data privacy by keeping prompts and responses within the customer's AWS environment.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Compute Optimizer adds 32-day lookback for EBS and ECS rightsizing
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports a 32-day lookback period for EBS volume and ECS service rightsizing recommendations, up from the previous 14 days. This enhancement allows the service to better capture monthly utilization patterns, potentially leading to more accurate optimization suggestions for cost and performance. The feature is available for multiple recommendation types and can be configured via the console, SDK, or CLI, impacting engineers and architects managing these AWS resources.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS ARC Region Switch Adds Aurora Scaling and Neptune Failover
Amazon Application Recovery Controller's Region switch now automates scaling and failover for Aurora and Neptune global databases. This feature reduces recovery time by eliminating manual database resizing and complex failover scripting during a regional outage. These new execution blocks are available now and support cross-account orchestration. This enhancement is primarily for engineers and architects managing multi-region database deployments.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon Keyspaces adds CDC iterator position for stream optimization
Amazon Keyspaces now returns a CDC iterator position in GetRecords responses, indicating if the stream tip has been reached. This feature helps optimize resource usage and reduce CDC consumption costs by allowing consumers to dynamically adjust polling frequency. The change is available in all supported AWS Regions and requires updating the AWS SDK.
feature patch - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
Amazon SageMaker Studio adds UI localization in 12 languages
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio now supports a user interface localized in twelve languages to improve global accessibility. This feature allows data professionals to work in their preferred language, enhancing productivity and reducing friction. Language is detected from browser settings or can be manually selected in profile settings and is available in all regions where SageMaker Studio is offered.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Config adds support for 9 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 9 additional resource types, including those for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker, enhancing visibility into your AWS environment. This expansion allows for better discovery, assessment, and auditing of a wider array of resources. Automatic tracking will begin if all resource types are already enabled for recording, and the new types are available in Config rules and aggregators.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon SageMaker AI adds multi-turn reinforcement learning
Amazon SageMaker AI now supports multi-turn reinforcement learning for customizing foundation models on multi-step, agentic tasks. This serverless capability simplifies the complex process of training AI agents by rewarding full decision sequences, enabling specialization of smaller models for specific workloads. It is available today through SageMaker Studio and the Python SDK, with support for various models and AWS compute options.
feature - AWS What's New aiinfraawsengineer ·
Amazon ECS Managed Instances add support for AWS Trainium and Inferentia
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia, purpose-built AI accelerators for generative AI workloads. This feature simplifies infrastructure management for ECS users by offloading operations to AWS, enhancing performance and reducing costs. Users can now select accelerated instance types and configure resource requirements within their task definitions to allocate accelerators efficiently. This update is available immediately via the AWS Console, ECS MCP Server, or IaC tooling.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon RDS for Db2 adds support for IBM Db2 v12.1 and Community Edition
Amazon RDS for Db2 now supports IBM Db2 v12.1, including Db2 Community Edition. This enables cost-effective development and testing of Db2 applications using a managed service. Community Edition offers full features without licensing fees for non-production use. It's available in all AWS Regions where RDS for Db2 is offered.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
AWS IoT Core adds connectivity and authentication logs
AWS IoT Core now provides two new CloudWatch log event types, Ping and Connection.AuthNError, to help troubleshoot device connectivity and authentication issues. These logs allow identification of dropped connections and faster resolution of credential or certificate problems. The new events are available in all AWS Regions where IoT Core is supported, requiring configuration of event-level logging and opt-in.
feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Connect adds real-time dashboard alerts for conversational analytics
Amazon Connect now allows contact center supervisors to set up real-time dashboard alerts for detected keywords, phrases, or sentiment during live calls and chats. This feature enables faster agent coaching and issue resolution, potentially reducing customer churn. Real-time conversational analytics alerts are available in supported AWS regions.
feature - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes 1.36
Amazon EKS and EKS Distro now support Kubernetes version 1.36, enabling users to run the latest Kubernetes features and fixes. This update is available for new clusters and upgrades to existing ones, with key enhancements like User Namespaces GA and In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling. The support extends to all AWS Regions where EKS is available, impacting engineers and architects managing Kubernetes workloads on AWS.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS CUR 2.0 adds Athena and Redshift integration
AWS Cost and Usage Report 2.0 now integrates with Athena and Redshift, allowing direct SQL analysis of cost data in S3 without custom data warehouses. Exports are automatically formatted for query engines, and data updates are reflected in tables without ETL. This feature is available in most commercial AWS Regions, benefiting customers needing streamlined cost data analysis.
feature patch - AWS What's New aiawsengineerfinance ·
Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey adds durability support
AWS has announced durability support for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, allowing workloads requiring low latency and high availability to prevent data loss. Customers can choose between synchronous or asynchronous writes to meet different data loss tolerance and latency requirements. This enhancement expands ElastiCache's applicability to critical use cases like AI agent memory and payment processing, and is available globally starting with Valkey 9.0.
feature - AWS What's New securitygovernanceawsengineer ·
AWS Config supports internal service-linked rules
AWS Config now supports internal service-linked rules, allowing AWS services to evaluate resource configurations using managed rules. This feature enables integrated security and compliance capabilities by letting services like Security Hub deploy and manage rule evaluations, with results delivered at no charge to customers. These rules operate independently of customer-managed recorders, offering enhanced governance and auditing flexibility.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Deadline Cloud adds persistent storage for Service-Managed Fleets
AWS Deadline Cloud now supports persistent storage for Service-Managed Fleets (SMF) by attaching Amazon EBS volumes to workers, allowing data and environments to persist across worker lifecycle events. This enhancement reduces worker startup times and speeds up job completion for users of the visual effects and rendering service. Persistent storage is available in all AWS Regions where Deadline Cloud is offered and is priced similarly to existing EBS volumes.
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