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 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 - 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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 aiawsgapreviewengineer ·
AWS announces Claude Fable 5, a generally available AI model
AWS has made Claude Fable 5, a state-of-the-art Mythos-class AI model, generally available. This model offers enhanced autonomous knowledge work and coding capabilities for developers and enterprises building AI applications. Claude Fable 5 is designed for professional tasks across various industries and can be accessed via Amazon Bedrock or the Claude Platform on AWS. Amazon Bedrock offers AWS-managed features and data residency, while the Claude Platform provides direct Anthropic access with unified billing.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awspreviewengineer ·
AWS FinOps Agent preview announced
AWS announces the preview of its FinOps Agent, a new tool designed to help FinOps practitioners and engineering teams manage cloud costs. The agent can answer cost-related questions, identify optimization opportunities, investigate anomalies, and automate workflows. It is currently available in preview in the US East (N. Virginia) Region and offers cost and usage data for most AWS Regions at no charge during the preview period.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awspreviewengineer ·
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 Now Available in Preview
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 is now available in the RDS Database Preview Environment, enabling evaluation of PostgreSQL 19 features on a managed service. Key enhancements include native graph query support (SQL/PGQ), concurrent table repacking for maintenance, and improved logical replication for sequences and dynamic enablement. This preview is available for 60 days and includes pricing details for the US East (Ohio) region.
feature announcement - 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 securityawspreviewengineer ·
AWS Shield Advanced adds DDoS attack flow logs
AWS Shield Advanced now offers DDoS attack flow logs, providing packet-level visibility into traffic during attacks. This feature aids forensic analysis and compliance by publishing detailed log data to S3, CloudWatch Logs, or Data Firehose. Available in all Shield Advanced regions, it requires protection with Shield Advanced and log delivery configuration.
feature - AWS What's New networkingawsazuregapreviewengineer ·
AWS Interconnect adds free 500 Mbps tier for multicloud connectivity
AWS Interconnect now offers a free 500 Mbps tier for private multicloud connectivity, simplifying cross-cloud connections for customers. This managed service provides resilience and is compatible with Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud, with Azure support planned. The free tier allows evaluation and operation of workloads between AWS and another CSP at no charge on the AWS side, including a CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor.
feature announcement - AWS What's New mlawsgapreviewengineer ·
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 Adds Trainium3 Capabilities and New NKI Kernels
AWS Neuron 2.30.0 is now generally available, introducing new hardware capabilities for AWS Trainium3 and 22 new NKI Library kernels, enhancing model porting and optimization. This release offers features like scalar engine instructions, FP8 support, and expanded Agentic Development skills, benefiting ML developers working with Trainium and Inferentia instances. The update also includes a Neuron DRA Driver for Kubernetes and performance improvements for the Graph Compiler and Runtime, with availability across all regions supporting Neuron instances.
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