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AWS Health introduces the version catalog for software lifecycle management

Today, AWS Health introduces the version catalog which provides a centralized source of lifecycle information for software versions across AWS services. The version catalog helps customers move from reactive to proactive management of version upgrades and end-of-support risk. It is available in the AWS Health Dashboard, and customers on Business Support Plus, Enterprise Support, or Unified Operations can use the AWS Health API to integrate lifecycle data into their operational workflows. Customers running applications on AWS need to stay current with software versions to maintain a strong security and operational posture. AWS Health already …

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AWS Deadline Cloud now supports ECS containers on Linux Service-Managed Fleets

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports running jobs using Docker containers from Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) on Linux-based service-managed fleets. Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that helps teams run compute-intensive workloads in the cloud for visual effects, animation, product design, simulation, and gaming. Deadline Cloud customers can now bring their own software containers directly to the service using Docker-enabled fleets. Customers that already package software into container images can point Deadline Cloud to these images directly. This unlocks any container-deployed software use case, from rendering tools like Blende…

AWS What’s New · 5 days agoRead →
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Amazon Corretto 27 is now generally available

Amazon Corretto 27, a Feature Release (FR) version, is now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. You can download Corretto 27 for Linux, Windows, and macOS from our downloads page. Corretto 27 will be supported through April 2027. Noticeable features: G1 as the Default Garbage Collector in All Environments - Makes G1 the default garbage collector across all environments, delivering more consistent performance and predictable pause times regardless of where your application runs (JEP 523) Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS 1.3 - Adds protection against future quan…

AWS What’s New · 17 Sep 2026Read →
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AWS Client VPN is now supporting MacOS 27 Golden Gate

AWS Client VPN now supports MacOS 27 Golden Gate client with versions 6.0+ You can now run the AWS supplied VPN client on the latest MacOS versions. AWS Client VPN desktop clients are available free of charge, and can be downloaded here. AWS Client VPN is a managed service that securely connects your remote workforce to AWS or on-premises networks. It supports desktop clients for MacOS, Windows x64, Windows Arm64 and Ubuntu-Linux. With client version 6.0 onwards, Client VPN now supports the latest MacOS Golden Gate 27.0. It already supports Mac OS version 13.0, 14.0, 15.0, and 26.0, Windows 10 (x64) and Windows 11 (Arm64 and x64), and Ubuntu…

AWS What’s New · 16 Sep 2026Read →
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AWS Weekly Roundup: Claude Fable 5.1 on AWS, Amazon Linux 2027 preview, AWS Certified AI Business Strategist, and more (September 7, 2026)

Last week, Claude Fable 5.1 became available on AWS. According to Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 delivers frontier intelligence for ambitious tasks across coding, scientific research, and enterprise workflows. Claude Fable 5.1 is built for long-running, high-stakes work that runs for hours and spans many applications. It can own more of a software project on its […]

AWS News Blog · 07 Sep 2026Read →
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AWS Workload Credentials Provider is now available as a one-click install for Linux and Windows

Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces one-click installation for the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (AWCP) on Amazon Linux and Windows, reducing setup from a multi-step build-from-source process to a single command. AWCP resolves secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and caches them locally, enabling applications to retrieve secrets over a local HTTP endpoint. AWCP also enables you to pull your certificates from AWS Certificate Manager. Previously, customers who wanted to use AWCP on Amazon EC2 instances had approximately 6 steps, starting from cloning the Github repository to compiling the binary and setting up configurations. This multi-step …

AWS What’s New · 31 Aug 2026Read →
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Amazon CloudWatch agent adds support for journald logs

AWS announces support for collecting systemd journal (journald) logs with the Amazon CloudWatch agent. You can now configure the CloudWatch agent to read log entries directly from the systemd journal on Linux instances and send them to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, without first writing those logs to files on disk. Many modern Linux distributions, including Amazon Linux 2023, use systemd journal as the primary logging system and no longer write traditional text log files such as /var/log/messages by default. Previously, collecting these logs with the CloudWatch agent required additional configuration to export the journal to files on disk. With th…

AWS What’s New · 28 Aug 2026Read →
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AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)

Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Foundation open source projects gathered to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push the projects forward. […]

AWS News Blog · 17 Aug 2026Read →