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Tracking 284 AWS releases · Updated
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AWS Partner Central adds funding for Business Value Realization
AWS Partner Central now supports the Business Value Realization (BVR) motion, offering funding for partners who drive customer adoption and business outcomes with AWS services. This new experience helps partners structure the customer adoption journey across defined stages, with AI agents generating weekly reports to identify risks and opportunities. Funding is automatically disbursed upon completion of stages, and the program is available to consulting, system integrator, and managed services partners with advance or premier tier status and a qualifying competency.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsengineerfinance ·
AWS Partner Central agents now guide new partners through onboarding
AWS Partner Central has launched agentic onboarding capabilities for new partners, automating profile setup and guiding them through compliance requirements to become ready-to-sell. This feature aims to simplify the path for partners to start selling on AWS by providing personalized roadmaps, reducing the need for manual research. These capabilities are now generally available in all commercial AWS Regions and can be accessed via the console or programmatically.
feature announcement - AWS What's New complianceaws ·
AWS Partner Central streamlines Foundational Technical Review
AWS Partner Central now validates Foundational Technical Review (FTR) in minutes using AI-powered analysis of SOC 2 Type II or AWS Well-Architected Framework Review (WAFR) reports. This accelerates partner validation, enabling immediate feedback and faster access to benefits. This streamlined process aligns with industry compliance standards and is available for solutions deployed on AWS.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsdeprecationarchitecthealthcare ·
AWS Amazon Connect Customer Competency Launched
AWS has launched the Amazon Connect Customer Competency, a new specialization recognizing partners with expertise in customer experience transformations using Amazon Connect. This Competency aims to help customers identify skilled partners for migrating legacy contact centers and implementing AI-native solutions. It replaces the Amazon Connect Service Delivery Program, which will be deprecated on June 1, 2027, offering customers confidence in validated partners.
deprecation announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS Partner Central adds lead enrichment and prospecting
AWS Partner Central now offers lead enrichment and prospecting features for AWS Partners. This allows partners to enrich leads with AWS-generated insights and receive recommendations for program eligibility. The capability is available to all ACE-eligible AWS Partners through the console or API, with the API currently in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
AWS Marketplace Adds AI Assistant for Product Listings
AWS Marketplace now offers an AI-assisted product listing feature within Partner Assistant chat. This capability helps ISVs and Consulting Partners automatically generate and optimize listings using existing digital assets, reducing manual effort and guesswork. It provides field-level recommendations and quality scores to improve discoverability by buyers. The feature is available in Partner Central and AMMP, excluding GovCloud and China Regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineerfinance ·
AWS Marketplace Storefront GA for Partners
AWS Marketplace Storefront is now generally available, allowing AWS Partners to launch their own branded solution catalogs on their websites. This simplifies cloud marketplace management for channel partners and ISVs, enabling customers to discover and purchase solutions more easily. The storefront offers no-code branding, automated deal workflows, and integrates with existing AWS billing, with availability across all AWS Marketplace regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Transform adds public preview for FSx for NetApp ONTAP storage migration
AWS Transform for migrations now supports migrating block storage workloads to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP in public preview. This capability automates storage migration alongside compute and network, reducing the complexity and risk associated with traditional storage migration tools. The feature is designed for application owners, database administrators, and cloud migration teams moving to AWS, especially those leveraging NetApp ONTAP or other storage appliances.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsmedia ·
xAI's Grok 4.3 available on Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers xAI's Grok 4.3 model, expanding choices for generative AI applications. Grok 4.3 is a reasoning-first model designed for consistent multi-step agent behavior and efficient token usage, making it suitable for enterprise workloads like contract review and financial analysis. It runs on Bedrock's new Mantle inference engine, optimized for performance and cost.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineermedia ·
Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics Unifies Log Querying, Streaming, and Analysis
Amazon CloudWatch Log Analytics is a new unified console experience that integrates Logs Insights for querying, Live Tail for real-time streaming, and Contributor Insights for identifying top contributors. This consolidation aims to streamline log analysis for engineers and architects by providing all these capabilities within a single interface. Log Analytics is now available in all commercial AWS Regions and uses the same pricing as its constituent services.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 C8i instances expand to Stockholm region
Amazon EC2 C8i instances, featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, are now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. These instances offer improved performance and memory bandwidth compared to previous generations, making them suitable for memory-intensive workloads. They are available through the AWS Management Console via On-Demand, Savings Plans, and Spot instances.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawspreviewengineer ·
Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall adds Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security (Preview)
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now offers Palo Alto Networks Advanced DNS Security in preview, allowing administrators to enforce threat protections directly within Route 53 rules. This integration simplifies security operations by eliminating the need for separate firewalls and provides unified threat protection across AWS and on-premises environments. Customers can subscribe to PANW threat intelligence through the AWS Marketplace within the Route 53 console. The feature is available in preview across several AWS regions.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsengineer ·
Amazon RDS for MySQL 5.7: Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521 available
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521, offering critical security and bug fixes beyond community support. This allows users up to three additional years to upgrade to a new major version, ensuring business continuity and security for existing MySQL databases on Aurora and RDS. Customers can upgrade to this version to address known vulnerabilities and bugs in prior releases.
patch security - AWS What's New awsgapreviewengineer ·
Amazon RDS for MariaDB Adds MariaDB 12.3 Preview Support
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3 in the RDS Database Preview Environment for evaluation before general availability. This version introduces Oracle TO_DATE() compatibility, JSON and XML data types, and performance improvements for query optimization. The preview environment is for testing and instances are retained for a maximum of 60 days.
announcement feature - AWS What's New observabilityawsgaengineer ·
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio GA
Amazon CloudWatch Query Studio is now generally available, offering a unified interface for querying and visualizing metrics across multiple AWS accounts and regions. This feature allows teams to use PromQL or Metrics Insights to explore OpenTelemetry and AWS-vended metrics from a single workspace, simplifying fleet-wide correlation of performance data. It provides visual query building, diverse visualization options, and integration with CloudWatch dashboards and Grafana, aiding engineers and architects in monitoring complex distributed systems.
feature announcement - AWS What's New observabilityawsengineer ·
CloudWatch Metrics Centralization now generally available
Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Centralization is now generally available, allowing users to replicate metrics across accounts and regions into a single destination. This feature helps enterprise teams gain a unified view of operational health in complex, multi-account deployments. Central teams can now own and query metrics for various operational needs, with support for both CloudWatch and OpenTelemetry metrics.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon Lightsail expands availability to Hong Kong, São Paulo, and Spain
Amazon Lightsail is now available in three new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (Spain). This expansion allows customers in these geographies to benefit from lower latency, improved performance, and local data residency options. Developers and businesses in these regions can now access Lightsail's full suite of services, including instances, managed databases, and container services, with simple pricing. Resources can be provisioned via the Lightsail Console, AWS CLI, or SDKs.
announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineergovernment ·
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML available in AWS GovCloud
Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, offering reserved GPU capacity for government and regulated industries. This feature allows customers to secure GPU instances for ML workloads like training and prototyping up to eight weeks in advance for durations up to six months. The service provides low-latency connectivity and can be shared across accounts via AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). This enablement is crucial for organizations needing assured, on-demand accelerated compute within the stringent compliance requirements of AWS GovCloud.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 I7i instances launched in Paris region
Amazon EC2 I7i instances, featuring 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and AWS Nitro SSDs, are now available in the AWS Europe (Paris) region. These instances offer improved compute and storage performance, making them ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads. They are available in eleven sizes and provide up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore adds Web Search
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now offers general availability for Web Search, a fully managed tool to ground AI agents in current web knowledge. This eliminates the need for custom integrations with external search providers, simplifying agent development and enhancing response accuracy with multi-source grounding. The feature is available today in the US East (N. Virginia) region and is optimized for token-efficient retrieval of relevant information.
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