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Amazon Web Services releases and Terraform AWS provider.
- AWS What's New aiinfraawsengineer ·
AWS Resilience Hub Next Generation Achieves General Availability
AWS Resilience Hub's next generation is now generally available, enhancing resilience assessment for critical workloads. This update introduces a new application model, dependency discovery, generative AI for failure mode analysis, and organization-wide reporting, benefiting platform engineering and SRE teams. The improvements aim to provide deeper insights and more actionable recommendations for workload resilience.
feature announcement - AWS What's New aiawsgaengineer ·
Claude Opus 4.8 available on AWS
AWS now offers Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's most capable generally available model, bringing significant improvements in coding, knowledge work, and autonomous tasks. This model offers enhanced reasoning, consistency, and error recovery, making it suitable for production AI applications. Developers and enterprises can access Claude Opus 4.8 via Amazon Bedrock for AWS-integrated data security or the Claude Platform on AWS for a native Anthropic experience with AWS billing and authentication.
feature announcement - AWS What's New securityawsgaengineer ·
AWS Backup adds OTP verification for logically air-gapped vaults
AWS Backup now requires one-time password (OTP) verification for Multi-party approval actions on logically air-gapped vaults, adding an extra security layer. Approvers must enter a code sent to their IAM Identity Center registered email to authorize protected vault operations. This feature is automatically applied to all existing and new Multi-party approval sessions for these vaults at no extra charge.
security patch - AWS What's New securityawssecurity-advisory ·
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server adds latest GDR updates
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server now supports the latest General Distribution Release (GDR) updates for SQL Server 2019 and 2022. These updates include critical security fixes for vulnerabilities CVE-2026-32167 and CVE-2026-32176. Affected users are encouraged to upgrade their instances via the AWS Management Console, SDK, or CLI to enhance security.
security patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsdeprecationengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.46.0: New resources, fixes, and enhancements
Terraform AWS Provider version 6.46.0 introduces several new resources, including those for AWS Bedrock Agent, IAM Access Keys, and Observability Admin. Enhancements improve existing resources like CloudFront distributions and Bedrock Agent runtimes, while bug fixes address issues with S3 bucket configurations and X-Ray resource policies. The `policy_name` change in `aws_xray_resource_policy` is noted as a potential breaking change due to previous incorrect functionality.
feature patch breaking - AWS What's New dataawsengineer ·
AWS open sources ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter
AWS announced version 0.1 of ExtendDB, an open source project that allows developers to use the DynamoDB API with pluggable storage backends. This enables running DynamoDB-compatible workloads locally, on-premises, or at the edge without rewriting application code, benefiting developers and architects for local development, testing, and hybrid deployments.
feature announcement - AWS What's New awsgaengineer ·
AWS Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye now generally available
AWS announced the general availability of a new Local Zone in Istanbul, Türkiye. This expansion brings AWS infrastructure closer to end-users in the region, enabling lower latency and supporting data residency requirements. Organizations can now leverage this zone for compute, storage, and networking services, including specific EC2 instance types and S3 storage classes, to accelerate cloud migration and modernization.
feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes securityinfraawsgcpgapreviewsecurity-advisoryengineerenergy ·
GCP May 2026 Updates: Backup, KMS, Load Balancing, GKE, Spanner
Google Cloud has released several updates across its services, including backup and DR enhancements, general availability for Cloud KMS metrics, new variables for Application Load Balancers, and support for concurrent node pool upgrades in GKE. These changes aim to improve performance, security, and flexibility for various workloads, impacting engineers and architects managing cloud infrastructure.
feature patch security announcement - Google Cloud release notes aisecurityawsgcpgapreviewsecurity-advisoryengineer ·
Google Cloud updates: BigQuery, Cloud Workstations, COS, Gemini
Google Cloud's latest updates include a billing label change for BigQuery Data Transfer Service, enhanced workstation authorization URLs in Cloud Workstations, and an LTS refresh for Container Optimized OS with numerous security fixes. Gemini Enterprise sees GA for its Box data store integration and an Early Access program for the Gemini Distillation Service is launching. These changes affect BigQuery users, Cloud Workstations administrators, COS users, and those leveraging Gemini Enterprise.
patch security feature announcement - Google Cloud release notes infraawsazuregcppreviewengineergovernment ·
Google Cloud Config Connector 1.149.1, VMware Engine, and SecOps updates
Google Cloud released Config Connector version 1.149.1 with new alpha resources for load balancing and parameter management, alongside updates for GKE Data Cache and controlled CR reconciliation. Additionally, the VMware Engine ve2 node type is now available in Europe, and Google SecOps has updated its list of supported default parsers. These updates affect users managing Google Cloud resources via Config Connector, those utilizing VMware Engine, and SecOps users integrating various security log sources.
feature patch announcement - OpenAI News aiawsengineer ·
OpenAI Models, Codex, and Managed Agents Available on AWS
OpenAI's GPT models, Codex, and Managed Agents are now accessible on AWS. This integration allows enterprises to develop and deploy AI applications securely within their existing AWS infrastructure.
announcement - Databricks Java SDK Releases sdkaiawsazuregcpdatabricksengineer ·
Databricks SDK Java v0.105.0: AI agent detection, breaking API changes
Databricks SDK Java version 0.105.0 introduces automatic detection of AI coding agents in user-agent strings and updates the logging abstraction. This release also includes several breaking changes to API method paths, requiring users to update their integrations. The SDK now better supports various AI environments and simplifies logging configurations.
breaking feature patch - Terraform AWS Provider Releases terraforminfraawsengineer ·
Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0 Adds New Resources and Features, Includes Breaking Change
Terraform AWS Provider v6.42.0 introduces multiple new data sources and resources, including support for EC2 service links, API Gateway v2, and various AWS services. A breaking change in the `aws_mq_configuration` resource now correctly deletes configurations, requiring the `mq:DeleteConfiguration` IAM permission. This release impacts engineers managing AWS infrastructure via Terraform who need to be aware of the breaking change and can leverage the new resources for expanded capabilities.
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