5/20/2025, 12:00:00 AM ~ 5/21/2025, 12:00:00 AM (UTC)

Recent Announcements

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports credential management with AWS Secrets Manager for databases using Oracle multitenant architecture

Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports credential management with AWS Secrets Manager for databases that adopt Oracle multitenant architecture. Oracle multitenant architecture enables customers to consolidate data and code from multiple databases into one database by setting up a multitenant container database (CDB) that can include multiple pluggable databases (PDBs). With this launch, customers can use AWS Secrets Manager to manage user credentials for their tenant pluggable databases.\n Using AWS Secrets Manager to manage user credentials for tenant pluggable databases allows customers to automate regular password rotations, use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access control to authorized users, encrypt credentials using AWS Key Management Service (KMS), and enhance security posture by replacing the use of plaintext password in application code with programmatic calls to retrieve credentials from AWS Secrets Manager. RDS database management operations such as database restore from Amazon S3 or a snapshot and point-in-time recovery automatically use credentials managed in AWS Secrets Manager. To learn more about using AWS Secrets Manager with Amazon RDS for Oracle database with the CDB architecture, see the Amazon RDS documentation. When storing database secrets in AWS Secrets Manager, your AWS account incurs charges. For information about AWS Secrets Manager pricing and capabilities, visit the AWS Secrets Manager product page. This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon RDS for Oracle and AWS Secrets Manager are available. For more information about regional availability, see the AWS Region table.

Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in US East (Ohio) region

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory U-1 instances with 18TB of memory (u-18tb1.112xlarge) are available in the US East (Ohio) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.\n Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and SAP BW/4HANA in production environments. For details, see the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory. For information on how to get started with your SAP HANA migration to EC2 High Memory instances, view the Migrating SAP HANA on AWS to an EC2 High Memory Instance documentation. To hear from Steven Jones, GM for SAP on AWS on what this launch means for our SAP customers, you can read his launch blog.

Announcing customer-initiated reboot migrations for EC2 Scheduled Events

AWS now enables automatic instance migration when you reboot after receiving EC2 scheduled reboot event notifications. This new capability of customer-initiated reboot migrations enables customers to action scheduled reboot event notifications by rebooting the instance at a time of their choosing which will then automatically migrate their instance to different hardware, eliminating the pending scheduled reboot event. With today’s launch, Nitro instances with no local store disks are opted-in to customer-initiated reboot migration by default.\n After receiving a scheduled reboot event notification, reboots initiated prior to the scheduled event will automatically migrate the instance. You can reboot your instance using the EC2 console or API. Customer-initiated reboot migrations for EC2 Scheduled Events is available in all commercial AWS Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and the China Regions. To learn more, see Manage Amazon EC2 instances scheduled for reboot in the AWS User Guide.

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Europe (Milan) Region

AWS Site-to-Site VPN Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control is now available in AWS Europe (Milan) Region, providing you with better visibility and control of your VPN tunnel maintenance updates.\n AWS Site-to-Site VPN is a fully-managed service that allows you to create a secure connection between your data center or branch office and your AWS resources using IP Security (IPSec) tunnels. Enabling Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle Control feature provides you with advanced notice of an upcoming maintenance updates to help you plan and minimize service disruptions for your VPN connections. It provides you with added flexibility to apply updates to your VPN tunnel endpoints at a time that best suits your business. To learn more, visit the documentation.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.5.29 and 10.6.22. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community.\n You can leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. You can also leverage Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates to your MariaDB instances. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including automatic minor version upgrades and Blue/Green Deployments, in the Amazon RDS User Guide. Amazon RDS for MariaDB makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale MariaDB deployments in the cloud. Learn more about pricing details and regional availability at Amazon RDS for MariaDB. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console.

AWS Organizations now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

AWS Organizations customers can now use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses, via our new dual-stack endpoints to connect to AWS Organizations over the public internet using IPv6, IPv4, or dual-stack clients. The existing AWS Organizations endpoints supporting IPv4 will remain available for backwards compatibility.\n To learn more on best practices for configuring IPv6 in your environment, visit the whitepaper on IPv6 in AWS. Support for IPv6 on AWS Organizations is available in the AWS Commercial Regions, the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, and the China Regions.

AWS service changes

At AWS, we understand that the decision to end support for a service or feature significantly impacts customers. We approach such decisions only after careful consideration. When end of support is necessary, we provide customers detailed guidance on available alternatives and comprehensive support for migration, ensuring minimal disruption to customer operations.\n We understand that changes in availability can impact your operations. Our team is committed to supporting you through these transitions. For specific guidance, consult the relevant service documentation or contact AWS Support. Services closing access to new customers We are closing access to new customers for the following services on June 20th 2025. Existing customers will be able to continue to utilize the service.

Amazon Timestream for LiveAnalytics 

Services announcing end of support We will be ending support for the following services. Review the specific end-of-support dates and migration paths for each service below.

Amazon Pinpoint 

AWS IQ

AWS IoT Analytics 

AWS IoT Events 

AWS SimSpace Weaver 

AWS Panorama

Amazon Inspector Classic 

Amazon Connect Voice ID

AWS DMS Fleet Advisor

Services and features reaching end of support The following services and features have reached their end of support date, and can no longer be accessed.

AWS Private 5G

AWS DataSync Discovery

To learn more about end of support dates, alternative solutions, and migration options, please visit the AWS Product Lifecycle Page.

The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in an additional region

The next generation of Amazon SageMaker is now available in AWS Europe (Stockholm).\n Amazon SageMaker is the center for all your data, analytics, and AI. From SageMaker Unified Studio, you can discover your data and put it to work using familiar AWS tools for model development, generative AI app development, data processing, and SQL analytics. Unified access to data is provided by Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, and catalog and governance features are available via SageMaker Catalog (built on Amazon DataZone) to help you meet enterprise security requirements. For more information on AWS Regions where the next generation of Amazon SageMaker is available, see Supported regions.

To get started, see the following resources:

SageMaker overview

SageMaker documentation

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals introduces auto-monitor support for EKS workloads

CloudWatch Application Signals, an application performance monitoring (APM) tool that simplifies health and performance monitoring for applications, now makes instrumentation easier for your EKS applications through a single configuration flag within the Amazon CloudWatch Observability add-on. Once enabled, you can gain access to pre-built, standardized dashboards within CloudWatch Application Signals and track application performance against key business or service-level objectives (SLOs), making it easier to troubleshoot issues for your EKS applications.\n SRE teams can now setup APM on CloudWatch on EKS by simply installing and configuring the Amazon CloudWatch EKS add-on, eliminating the need for manual coordination between teams and enabling rapid setup in just a few minutes. Once the add-on is installed and the flag is enabled, the add-on automatically discovers applications along with their dependencies. The add-on then instruments these applications with AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry SDKs (ADOT) to collect application metrics (throughput, latency, and errors), distributed traces and logs after the restarts. To get started, install or upgrade the Amazon CloudWatch EKS add-on to version v4.0.0-eksbuild.1 and enable Application Signals monitoring via the new configuration flag. All service workload applications deployed in EKS are monitored by default, but you can customize the configuration to focus on specific services that matter most to your business. See documentation to learn more. This enhancement is now available in all commercial AWS Regions where both EKS and CloudWatch Application Signals are supported. You can now opt in to the new bundled pricing for Application Signals. For pricing, see Amazon CloudWatch pricing.

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