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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CloudWatch Synthetics Adds Multilocation Canary Support
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now allows running canaries across multiple AWS Regions simultaneously from a single management point. This feature reduces operational overhead and configuration drift compared to managing separate canaries per region. It ensures consistent user experience, identifies region-specific issues, and enhances alert confidence by requiring multi-location failures. The feature is available in all AWS commercial Regions supporting CloudWatch Synthetics, and existing canaries can be upgraded.
feature - AWS What's New infraawsga ·
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.
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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 infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon ECS enables faster service auto scaling with high-resolution metrics
Amazon ECS service auto scaling now supports high-resolution (20-second) metrics, significantly reducing scale-out and provisioning times. This enhancement allows for reduced baseline capacity and lower compute costs while maintaining service reliability. The feature is available for CPU and memory utilization target tracking policies and is accessible across all AWS regions and compute options.
feature patch - AWS What's New networkingawsgaengineer ·
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ adds private networking
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports private networking, allowing brokers to connect to private VPC resources without public exposure. This enhances security and compliance for integrations with services like identity providers or other brokers, eliminating previous complex workarounds. The feature uses AWS VPC Lattice, RAM, and PrivateLink and is available for RabbitMQ brokers in regions with VPC Lattice.
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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.
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Amazon Connect Customer allows interrupting agents for urgent contacts
Amazon Connect Customer now supports interrupting agents for urgent contacts, overriding standard routing to allow callbacks or specific assignments. This feature enhances agent efficiency by enabling immediate attention to critical communications, even when agents are busy or in a custom status. It is available in all regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered and requires no prerequisites beyond standard configuration.
feature - 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 infraawsgaengineer ·
Amazon RDS adds M9g instances with Graviton5 processors
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports M9g database instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. These instances offer up to 30% performance improvement and up to 23% better price/performance compared to Graviton4 instances. The new instances are available in 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes and are currently deployed in three AWS regions.
feature patch - 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 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 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 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.
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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.
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Amazon RDS for SQL Server adds X2m instances with CPU optimization
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports X2m instances, based on EC2 X2iedn, offering up to 4 TB of memory and a 32:1 memory-to-vCPU ratio. These instances integrate the RDS Optimize CPU feature, potentially cutting SQL Server licensing costs by over 50% for memory-intensive workloads. Customers can migrate to these new instances via the RDS Management Console, SDK, or CLI, with pricing available on-demand and through AWS Database Savings Plans.
feature - AWS What's New dataawsgaengineer ·
Amazon Redshift Graviton instances expand to new AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift RG instances, powered by AWS Graviton processors, are now available in three new AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Bangkok), and Mexico (Central). These instances offer significant price-performance improvements and faster query execution for data warehousing workloads. Customers in these regions can provision new RG instances or upgrade existing ones to benefit from reduced compute and storage costs.
feature patch - 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.
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