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AWS: what changed

In the last 90 days, 102 summarized changes: 3 security advisories, 1 end-of-life notices, 1 license or pricing changes, 97 changes. Stackdiff reads AWS's own feeds (aws.amazon.com) and writes two sentences per change with a link to the source; it never republishes release notes. Sources last checked .

Needs attention

Breaking changes, security advisories, end-of-life and license changes from the last 90 days, worst first.

Securitycritical
Amazon EMR extends support at no additional cost for customers migrating off older releases
10.6.28Securitymedium
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3
Securitymedium
Amazon RDS now supports the latest CU and GDR updates for Microsoft SQL Server
1.34End of lifehigh
Amazon EKS 1.34 reaches end of life on 2026-12-02
ActionPlan the upgrade before the date.
License / pricingmedium
Amazon CloudFront announces API support for flat-rate pricing plans

End of life

Support windows from endoflife.date. An entry appears the day a date enters the 120-day horizon.

CycleWhatPublished
1.34Amazon EKS 1.34 reaches end of life on 2026-12-02

Latest changes

Newest first, every type. Releases and fixes sit below anything that can hurt you in the weekly brief; here they are in order.

Changed
Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
Changed
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports model caching for faster inference autoscaling and reduced cold starts
News
I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Changed
AWS Lambda now supports direct read configuration for Amazon S3 Files
3.0Changed
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports multimodal embeddings for video, audio, and image content with TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0
Changed
AWS HealthOmics now publishes real-time run metrics to Amazon CloudWatch
Changed
AWS DevOps Agent adds support for bidirectional Slack communication
News
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
Changed
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Supplemental Patch Bundle for July 2026 Release Update
News
Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
1.34End of lifehigh
Amazon EKS 1.34 reaches end of life on 2026-12-02
ActionPlan the upgrade before the date.
Changed
Amazon API Gateway now supports 1 MB execution logs with configurable delivery destinations
Changed
AWS Transform for .NET now generates unit tests for modernized code
Changed
AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in Europe Sovereign Cloud
Changed
AWS Lambda durable functions integrates with Pydantic AI
4.3Changed
Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ 4.3
Changed
Announcing second-generation single-rack AWS Outposts
Changed
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is now available on v0 by Vercel
Changed
Amazon ECS expands IAM condition key support for RunTask and StartTask APIs
Changed
Amazon Redshift RG instances now available in Europe (Zurich) Region
News
Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
News
Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Changed
Amazon CloudWatch now supports network health indicator for TGW inter-Region peering using synthetic monitors
Changed
AWS Elemental MediaLive adds support for A/B forensic watermarking
Changed
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports Low-Latency HLS ad insertion
Changed
AWS Elemental introduces Dynamic Multiview for live video
Changed
AWS Storage Gateway now supports FIPS-compliant private connectivity for Amazon S3 File Gateway
Changed
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now offers Yield Optimization to automatically fill ad breaks with Amazon Ads demand
Changed
AWS Elemental Inference now generates contextual metadata from live video in real time
Changed
Amazon EVS is now available in more regions

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