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 284 AWS releases · Updated
- AWS What's New dataawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Glue Data Catalog adds business context and semantic search (Preview)
AWS Glue Data Catalog now supports business context and semantic search in preview, enabling users to discover and understand data based on its meaning. This feature allows enrichment of data catalog entries with glossary terms and custom metadata, improving data discovery and grounding AI agents with trusted definitions. Data analysts and AI agents can now find tables by both technical structure and semantic meaning, with initial availability in select AWS regions.
feature announcement - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsgadeprecationengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.51.0: New resources, enhancements, and bug fixes
This release introduces new resources for AWS services like ACM, Bedrock Agent, and SageMaker Hub, along with several enhancements to existing resources, including EKS cluster configurations and CloudFront distributions. Several bug fixes are also included, addressing issues with ACM certificates, DMS S3 endpoints, and Elasticache replication groups, among others. Users should note a deprecation in the DMS S3 endpoint resource for KMS key ARN configurations.
feature patch announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions adds Spark Connect support
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now supports Apache Spark Connect, enabling developers to run Spark applications from local IDEs and notebooks on AWS Glue's serverless infrastructure. This feature simplifies development workflows by decoupling client applications from the Spark execution environment, improving debugging and iterative development. It is available in specific AWS regions and provides enhanced observability.
feature - 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 awsgaengineer ·
Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL extend 5.7 support to June 2029
Amazon Aurora and RDS for MySQL now offer Extended Support for MySQL 5.7 until June 30, 2029, extending from the previous February 2027 deadline. This provides customers with more time to plan upgrades while still receiving security patches and bug fixes without additional cost. This extension is available in all regions where Aurora MySQL and RDS for MySQL are offered, and AWS recommends upgrading to MySQL 8.0 or compatible versions.
patch announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineerhealthcaremedia ·
AWS HealthOmics streams workflow logs to CloudWatch in real time
AWS HealthOmics now streams workflow engine logs to Amazon CloudWatch in real time, allowing for immediate monitoring of workflow execution. This feature accelerates development and debugging for researchers and bioinformaticians by providing instant access to execution details. The streamed logs include orchestration events, task scheduling, import/export activity, and error stack traces, which can be used for alarms, dashboards, and integration with existing observability tools. This capability is now available for Nextflow, WDL, and CWL workflows in all HealthOmics regions.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsengineermedia ·
AWS Outposts adds AMD-based bmn-cx3a instances with accelerated networking
AWS Outposts now supports bmn-cx3a instances, featuring 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and NVIDIA ConnectX-7 for up to 800 Gbps network bandwidth. This enables high-throughput workloads like real-time data processing and media distribution for customers with second-generation Outposts racks. The instances are available globally where Outposts racks are supported.
feature - AWS What's New aisecurityawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Security Agent adds AI-powered threat modeling
AWS Security Agent now offers AI-powered threat modeling to automatically generate threat models for applications. This feature analyzes design documents or source code, identifies threats using the STRIDE framework, and suggests mitigations, reducing manual effort and specialized expertise requirements. Available in public preview for all AWS Security Agent regions, it integrates with IDEs and can be used by developers and security teams.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aisecurityawsengineer ·
AWS Security Agent adds Kiro, Claude Code, and simulated validation
AWS Security Agent, now part of AWS Continuum, has added support for Kiro and Claude Code, allowing developers to run security scans from their IDE. The agent now simulates exploits in a sandbox to validate findings, reducing false positives and prioritizing remediation. New integrations with GitLab, GitHub Enterprise, Bitbucket, and Confluence are also included, enhancing its utility for development teams.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsgapreviewengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds production agent optimization
AWS has introduced new optimization capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, allowing agents to learn from production usage to improve continuously. These features address silent agent failures by surfacing insights into agent behavior and recommending specific, data-grounded fixes. The new tools, including failure, intent, and trajectory insights, are aimed at developers and architects building and managing AI agents, with some features available in preview and others generally available across multiple AWS Regions.
feature patch - AWS What's New awsgapreviewengineer ·
AWS DevOps Agent adds preview release management
AWS DevOps Agent now includes a preview release management capability for reviewing code changes and running autonomous tests to ensure safe production deployments. This feature extends the agent's functionality to cover both delivery and operations, accelerating code validation and improving application uptime across diverse environments. It assesses code for safety, checks dependency impacts, and generates test plans to catch regressions, aiming to help teams ship faster and reduce mean time to resolution.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore harness now GA
AWS Bedrock AgentCore harness is now generally available, allowing teams to deploy production-grade agents quickly by defining them in configuration rather than coding the orchestration loop. This managed capability handles tool execution, state persistence, and session isolation, improving agent performance and reducing development time. Customers can also switch models mid-session and export their configurations to code for custom orchestration needs.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aisecurityawsengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds Guardrails for AI agent safety
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now integrates with Bedrock Guardrails, enhancing safety and security for AI agents in production by providing real-time defense against prompt injection and data exposure. This feature offers centralized enforcement outside agent code, with logging via AgentCore observability, and is available in select AWS regions. It requires no new infrastructure and uses consumption-based pricing for policy evaluations.
feature - AWS What's New securityawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Continuum for rapid security risk management announced
AWS announced AWS Continuum, a new service designed to discover, prioritize, validate, and remediate security risks at machine speed within defined guardrails. This aims to shift security teams from manual triage to strategic oversight by automating the post-discovery vulnerability lifecycle, including prioritization, exploitability validation, and remediation. The service is available in a gated preview and integrates with existing AWS security tools.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awspreviewengineer ·
AWS Transform adds continuous modernization for tech debt
AWS Transform now offers a continuous modernization capability to autonomously detect, prioritize, and remediate tech debt in enterprise software portfolios. This feature simplifies tech debt management, allowing for automatic remediation with human oversight and enabling readiness assessments for AI agents. The capability is available in preview in specific AWS regions and integrates with AWS Security Agent for vulnerability remediation.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base GA
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed RAG service, is now generally available. This feature allows developers to build AI agents grounded in enterprise data without managing vector databases or data pipelines. It supports multiple data sources and advanced retrieval capabilities, integrating with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for seamless agent creation. The service is available in several AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering expands to 13 new AWS Regions
Amazon FSx for Lustre Intelligent-Tiering is now available in 13 additional AWS Regions, including Africa, Europe, Asia Pacific, and South America. This expansion offers users cloud-native, elastic Lustre file storage with automatic data tiering and optional SSD caching at a lower cost. The feature is designed for workloads with mixed hot and cold data access patterns, benefiting HPC and AI/ML users.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
Amazon S3 Vectors increases similarity search results to 10,000
Amazon S3 Vectors now supports up to 10,000 similarity search results per query, a 100x increase from the previous limit. This enhancement is particularly useful for complex retrieval pipelines that require further processing to refine results. Engineers using the latest AWS SDK can update their applications to specify the higher limit and receive paged results.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon S3 adds large-scale annotations for data discovery by AI and analytics tools
Amazon S3 now supports annotations, a new metadata capability allowing custom JSON, XML, or YAML context (up to 1GB per object) to be attached directly to S3 objects at scale. This feature enables AI agents and analytics tools to discover and understand data without requiring separate metadata systems, enhancing data discovery and usability. Annotations are available in all AWS Regions and can be accessed via S3 Metadata or queried using tools like Amazon Athena and SageMaker.
feature - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails adds API for granular agentic AI workflow control
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers the InvokeGuardrailChecks API, enabling granular, per-request control over safeguards in agentic AI applications. This new resourceless API allows developers to apply individual content, prompt attack, and sensitive information filters at any point in an agent's loop, returning severity and confidence scores for custom actions. It addresses the challenge of scaling guardrails in iterative AI workflows by operating in a detect-only mode, offering flexibility for evolving requirements. The API is available today in select AWS Regions.
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