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
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AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam launches generally available
AWS announced the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, extending AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This zone is notable for being one of the first in APAC to support Amazon S3 and EBS Local Snapshots, aiding data residency requirements. It offers low-latency access to core services like EC2, S3, and EBS for various workloads, and can be enabled via the AWS console or API.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineermedia ·
Amazon EC2 G7 instances with NVIDIA RTX GPUs now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of Amazon EC2 G7 instances, featuring NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. These instances offer significant performance improvements for AI inference and graphics workloads compared to G6, supporting applications like language translation, real-time graphics rendering, and game streaming. G7 instances are now available in two AWS Regions and can be purchased through various pricing models.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
SageMaker AI adds observability for inference endpoints
Amazon SageMaker AI now offers an observability capability for generative AI inference workloads, providing real-time visibility into token performance and infrastructure health. This feature automates the collection and display of key metrics, reducing manual troubleshooting time from hours to minutes. It is designed for engineers and architects managing production AI inference, with a new CloudWatch dashboard and Grafana integration available across multiple AWS regions.
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Mistral-3-14B-Instruct model available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the Mistral-3-14B-Instruct-2512 foundation model, enabling multimodal reasoning and agentic AI capabilities. This compact 14B-parameter model supports advanced AI assistants, vision-enabled applications, and native function calling, with easy deployment via SageMaker Studio or SDK. It is optimized for edge deployment and handles multilingual text and image analysis.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiaws ·
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart adds all-MiniLM-L12-v2 for semantic search
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart now offers the all-MiniLM-L12-v2 model for semantic search and sentence similarity. This allows AWS customers to efficiently build applications like information retrieval and document clustering using dense vector representations. The model is readily deployable via SageMaker Studio or the Python SDK, ideal for production workloads needing fast, high-quality text embeddings.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Harness GA
AWS has launched the managed agent harness in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, enabling faster development of functional agents. This feature provides the orchestration layer, tool execution, state management, and error recovery, previously requiring significant manual development. It allows customers to define agents via configuration rather than coding the loop, offering flexibility in model selection and integration with tools and knowledge sources. The harness is available today in all commercial AWS Regions where AgentCore is offered.
feature announcement - 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.
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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.
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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 aiawsgaarchitecthealthcare ·
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails Adds Automated Reasoning Checks in Sydney
Amazon Bedrock Guardrails now offers Automated Reasoning checks, utilizing formal verification to mathematically validate AI model outputs, a significant advancement over traditional sampling. This new capability enhances AI safety by reducing hallucinations, policy violations, and ambiguity, particularly benefiting regulated industries like finance and healthcare. The feature provides up to 99% accuracy with provable assurance, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, and can be accessed via the Bedrock console or SDK.
feature announcement - 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 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 aiawseolengineer ·
AWS Transform adds generative AI model migration assessment
AWS Transform now supports model-to-model migration assessment for generative AI workloads, producing a plan to move from third-party providers to Amazon Bedrock. This AI-powered agent scans code, identifies models, gathers requirements, and maps them to Bedrock equivalents with cost comparisons and code changes. The feature helps consolidate AI workloads on AWS, offering enhanced security and tooling, and is available in all AWS Transform regions at no extra charge.
feature announcement - AWS What's New infraawsengineer ·
AWS Transform for mainframe streamlines mainframe modernization
AWS Transform for mainframe now offers a connected workflow for mainframe modernization, spanning assessment to code generation. This new capability significantly reduces the time and manual effort previously required for mainframe application modernization. Enterprises running z/OS COBOL and PL/I workloads can now benefit from an integrated process that compresses years of manual effort into months. The feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Transform for mainframe is already offered.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsengineer ·
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, are now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. These instances offer up to 2x performance for AI training and inference compared to previous generations, featuring significant upgrades in GPU memory and networking capabilities. They are designed for large-scale AI workloads and are now available in multiple AWS regions, including Oregon, Virginia, Ohio, GovCloud, and Mumbai.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Blocks: Open-source framework for application backends (Preview)
AWS Blocks, an open-source TypeScript framework, is now in public preview, simplifying backend development on AWS by abstracting infrastructure tools. It allows developers to run a local environment with essential services and deploy the same code to production AWS services without modification. This framework aims to accelerate the development of applications by integrating database, authentication, and AI capabilities with full-stack type safety and built-in guidance for AI coding tools. It supports various frontend frameworks and is available at no extra charge, with deployment across all commercial AWS regions.
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