AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
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AWS announcements (unofficial newsfeed)
88 new features AWS announced in the week of Nov 12 – Nov 18, 2025
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Tuesday, Nov 18
Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances with NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs are now available
EC2 Auto Scaling now offers a synchronous API to launch instances inside an Auto Scaling group
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now adds audit logs for data plane APIs
Amazon Bedrock introduces Priority and Flex inference service tiers
New AWS Well-Architected Lenses for AI and ML workloads
Amazon RDS Optimized Reads now supports R8gd and M8gd database instances
Amazon Polly expands Generative TTS engine with additional languages and region support
AWS Transfer Family announces Terraform module to automate scanning of transferred files
Amazon EC2 I7ie instances now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
AWS announces flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security
Amazon FSx for Lustre improves directory listing performance by up to 5x
Amazon Redshift now supports Just-In-Time (JIT) ANALYZE for Apache Iceberg tables
Safely handle configuration drift with AWS CloudFormation drift-aware change sets
AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with early validation and simplified troubleshooting
Workshops now available in AWS Builder Center
Amazon MSK Replicator is now available in two additional AWS Regions
Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions
Active threat defense now enabled by default in AWS Network Firewall
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2025 Release Update and Spatial Patch Bundle
AWS Backup launches a low-cost warm storage tier for Amazon S3 backups
Amazon Redshift announces support for the SUPER data type in Databases with Case-Insensitive Collation
AWS announces Supplementary Packages for Amazon Linux
AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.14
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.24, 10.11.15, and 11.4.9
Monday, Nov 17
Amazon Route 53 DNS Firewall adds protection against Dictionary-based DGA attacks
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications adds new instance types and configurable storage options
Amazon Redshift now supports writing to Apache Iceberg tables
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications expands the regional availability to Italy, Spain, Malaysia, and Israel
AWS Backup now supports backing up directly to a logically air-gapped vault
AWS Backup extends delegated administrator support to 17 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Route 53 Profiles now supports Resolver query logging configurations
Announcing EC2 Image Builder support for Lambda and Step functions
Amazon EC2 reduces costs for Microsoft SQL Server High-Availability deployments
Amazon U7i instances now available in AWS Europe (Ireland) Region
Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon ECR now supports PrivateLink for FIPS Endpoints
Amazon MWAA Introduces Serverless Deployment Option for Apache Airflow Workflows
Amazon Bedrock Data Automation supports 10 additional languages for speech analytics
AWS HealthImaging adds native JPEG 2000 Lossless support
AWS Backup extends cross-account management in four new AWS Regions
Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.44 and 8.4.7
Amazon VPC IPAM automates IP assignments from Infoblox IPAM
Amazon U7i instances now available in US East (Ohio) Region
Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.11 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.43) is now generally available
Amazon MQ now supports LDAP authentication for RabbitMQ
AWS Parallel Computing Service is now HIPAA eligible
AWS Marketplace now displays estimated tax and invoicing entity information
Friday, Nov 14
Amazon ECS improves Service Availability during Rolling deployments
AWS Lambda announces Provisioned Mode for SQS event source mapping (ESM)
Amazon SageMaker Catalog now supports read and write access to Amazon S3
Amazon RDS Blue/Green deployments now supports Aurora Global Database
Announcing agreement EventBridge notifications for AWS Marketplace
AWS IoT Services expand support of VPC endpoints and IPv6 connectivity
Announcing Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) version 8.0
AWS Lambda adds support for Rust
AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS New Zealand (Auckland) region
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 18
Amazon EventBridge introduces enhanced visual rule builder
Amazon SQS expands IPv6 support to the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda adds support for Java 25
Thursday, Nov 13
AWS CloudFormation Hooks adds granular invocation details for Hooks invocation summary
Amazon EC2 I7i instances now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
AWS IoT Core adds location resolution capabilities for Amazon Sidewalk enabled devices
AWS Health enhances Amazon EventBridge to give more flexibility and higher resilience
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23
AWS Transform automates Landing Zone Accelerator network configuration
Amazon Connect now provides metrics on completion of agent performance evaluations by managers
AWS Network Load Balancer now supports QUIC protocol in passthrough mode
Amazon U7i instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) Region
Amazon EC2 I8g instances now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC Multi-Viewer
Amazon EC2 G6f instances are now available in additional regions
Service Connect cross-account support available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge now supports targeting SQS fair queues
Wednesday, Nov 12
Application Load Balancer now supports client credential flow with JWT verification
Amazon ElastiCache supports M7g and R7g Graviton3-based nodes in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) launches new test scenarios for partial failures
Amazon Connect Cases adds conditional field visibility and dependent options
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports Network Load Balancer access logs
AWS Site-to-Site VPN announces 5 Gbps bandwidth tunnels
Announcing communication preferences for Security Incident Response
Amazon DCV now supports Amazon EC2 Mac instances
Amazon S3 Tables now support Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Spaces now available in AWS Builder Center
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector integrates with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
New AWS CUR 2.0 features: EC2 ODCR and Capacity Blocks for ML monitoring
Amazon EC2 F2 instances are now generally available in four additional AWS regions
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