AWS API Changes

2024/12/16 - 3 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for EBS local snapshots in AWS Dedicated Local Zones, which allows you to store snapshots of EBS volumes locally in Dedicated Local Zones.

2024/12/09 - 1 new 7 updated api methods

Changes This release includes a new API for modifying instance network-performance-options after launch.

2024/12/02 - 11 new 51 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for declarative policies that allow you to enforce desired configuration across an AWS organization through configuring account attributes. Adds support for Allowed AMIs that allows you to limit the use of AMIs in AWS accounts. Adds support for connectivity over non-HTTP protocols.

2024/11/26 - 12 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for Time-based Copy for EBS Snapshots and Cross Region PrivateLink. Time-based Copy ensures that EBS Snapshots are copied within and across AWS Regions in a specified timeframe. Cross Region PrivateLink enables customers to connect to VPC endpoint services hosted in other AWS Regions.

2024/11/22 - 3 new 12 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for requesting future-dated Capacity Reservations with a minimum commitment duration, enabling IPAM for organizational units within AWS Organizations, reserving EC2 Capacity Blocks that start in 30 minutes, and extending the end date of existing Capacity Blocks.

2024/11/20 - 15 updated api methods

Changes With this release, customers can express their desire to launch instances only in an ODCR or ODCR group rather than OnDemand capacity. Customers can express their baseline instances' CPU-performance in attribute-based Instance Requirements configuration by referencing an instance family.

2024/11/19 - 6 new 6 updated api methods

Changes This release adds VPC Block Public Access (VPC BPA), a new declarative control which blocks resources in VPCs and subnets that you own in a Region from reaching or being reached from the internet through internet gateways and egress-only internet gateways.

2024/11/18 - 16 updated api methods

Changes Adding request and response elements for managed resources.

2024/11/13 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds the source AMI details in DescribeImages API

2024/10/30 - 3 new 7 updated api methods

Changes This release adds two new capabilities to VPC Security Groups: Security Group VPC Associations and Shared Security Groups.

2024/10/24 - 1 new api methods

Changes This release includes a new API to describe some details of the Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) that were used to launch EC2 instances, even if those AMIs are no longer available for use.

2024/10/23 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 X8g, C8g and M8g instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors. X8g provide the lowest cost per GiB of memory among Graviton4 instances. C8g provide the best price performance for compute-intensive workloads. M8g provide the best price performance in for general purpose workloads.

2024/10/21 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 now allows you to create network interfaces with just the EFA driver and no ENA driver by specifying the network interface type as efa-only.

2024/10/10 - 5 new 5 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for assigning the billing of shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations.

2024/10/04 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Documentation updates for Amazon EC2.

2024/10/03 - 1 new api methods

Changes This release includes a new API for modifying instance cpu-options after launch.

2024/09/23 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 G6e instances powered by NVIDIA L40S Tensor Core GPUs are the most cost-efficient GPU instances for deploying generative AI models and the highest performance GPU instances for spatial computing workloads.

2024/08/28 - 4 updated api methods

Changes Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now allows customers to provision IPv4 CIDR blocks and allocate Elastic IP Addresses directly from IPAM pools with public IPv4 space

2024/08/21 - 1 updated api methods

Changes DescribeInstanceStatus now returns health information on EBS volumes attached to Nitro instances

2024/08/12 - 2 new 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds new capabilities to manage On-Demand Capacity Reservations including the ability to split your reservation, move capacity between reservations, and modify the instance eligibility of your reservation.

2024/08/08 - 15 updated api methods

Changes Launch of private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and Subnets. VPC IPAM supports the planning and monitoring of private IPv6 usage.

2024/07/18 - 3 new 9 updated api methods

Changes Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports Bring-Your-Own-IP (BYOIP) for IP addresses registered with any Internet Registry. This feature uses DNS TXT records to validate ownership of a public IP address range.

2024/07/10 - 6 updated api methods

Changes Add parameters to enable provisioning IPAM BYOIPv4 space at a Local Zone Network Border Group level

2024/07/02 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Documentation updates for Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

2024/06/25 - 24 updated api methods

Changes This release is for the launch of the new u7ib-12tb.224xlarge, R8g, c7gn.metal and mac2-m1ultra.metal instance types

2024/06/12 - 1 new 13 updated api methods

Changes Tagging support for Traffic Mirroring FilterRule resource

2024/06/04 - 24 updated api methods

Changes U7i instances with up to 32 TiB of DDR5 memory and 896 vCPUs are now available. C7i-flex instances are launched and are lower-priced variants of the Amazon EC2 C7i instances that offer a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to scale up to the full compute performance 95% of the time.

2024/05/28 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Providing support to accept BgpAsnExtended attribute

2024/05/08 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Adding Precision Hardware Clock (PHC) to public API DescribeInstanceTypes

2024/05/02 - 1 new api methods

Changes This release includes a new API for retrieving the public endorsement key of the EC2 instance's Nitro Trusted Platform Module (NitroTPM).

2024/04/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Launching capability for customers to enable or disable automatic assignment of public IPv4 addresses to their network interface

2024/04/23 - 2 new 2 updated api methods

Changes This release introduces EC2 AMI Deregistration Protection, a new AMI property that can be enabled by customers to protect an AMI against an unintended deregistration. This release also enables the AMI owners to view the AMI 'LastLaunchedTime' in DescribeImages API.

2024/04/04 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Gr6 instances also feature NVIDIA L4 GPUs and can be used for graphics workloads with higher memory requirements.

2024/03/28 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd and R7gd metal instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance than comparable Graviton2-based instances.

2024/03/25 - 2 new api methods

Changes Added support for ModifyInstanceMetadataDefaults and GetInstanceMetadataDefaults to set Instance Metadata Service account defaults

2024/03/19 - 1 new api methods

Changes This release adds the new DescribeMacHosts API operation for getting information about EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts. Users can now see the latest macOS versions that their underlying Apple Mac can support without needing to be updated.

2024/03/15 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Add media accelerator and neuron device information on the describe instance types API.

2024/01/29 - 12 updated api methods

Changes EC2 Fleet customers who use attribute based instance-type selection can now intuitively define their Spot instances price protection limit as a percentage of the lowest priced On-Demand instance type.

2024/01/24 - 6 updated api methods

Changes Introduced a new clientToken request parameter on CreateNetworkAcl and CreateRouteTable APIs. The clientToken parameter allows idempotent operations on the APIs.

2024/01/11 - 7 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for adding an ElasticBlockStorage volume configurations in ECS RunTask/StartTask/CreateService/UpdateService APIs. The configuration allows for attaching EBS volumes to ECS Tasks.

2024/01/08 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 R7iz bare metal instances are powered by custom 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2023/12/19 - 6 updated api methods

Changes Provision BYOIPv4 address ranges and advertise them by specifying the network border groups option in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Dallas AWS Local Zones.

2023/12/08 - 24 updated api methods

Changes M2 Mac instances are built on Apple M2 Mac mini computers. I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. C7i compute optimized, M7i general purpose and R7i memory optimized instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2023/12/06 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Releasing the new cpuManufacturer attribute within the DescribeInstanceTypes API response which notifies our customers with information on who the Manufacturer is for the processor attached to the instance, for example: Intel.

2023/12/05 - 12 updated api methods

Changes Adds A10G, T4G, and H100 as accelerator name options and Habana as an accelerator manufacturer option for attribute based selection

2023/11/20 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for Security group referencing over Transit gateways, enabling you to simplify Security group management and control of instance-to-instance traffic across VPCs that are connected by Transit gateway.

2023/11/17 - 6 new 34 updated api methods

Changes This release adds new features for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) Allowing a choice between Free and Advanced Tiers, viewing public IP address insights across regions and in Amazon Cloudwatch, use IPAM to plan your subnet IPs within a VPC and bring your own autonomous system number to IPAM.

2023/11/16 - 10 updated api methods

Changes Enable use of tenant-specific PublicSigningKeyUrl from device trust providers and onboard jumpcloud as a new device trust provider.

2023/11/15 - 3 new 24 updated api methods

Changes AWS EBS now supports Snapshot Lock, giving users the ability to lock an EBS Snapshot to prohibit deletion of the snapshot. This release introduces the LockSnapshot, UnlockSnapshot & DescribeLockedSnapshots APIs to manage lock configuration for snapshots. The release also includes the dl2q_24xlarge.

2023/11/13 - 1 new 1 updated api methods

Changes Adds the new EC2 DescribeInstanceTopology API, which you can use to retrieve the network topology of your running instances on select platform types to determine their relative proximity to each other.

2023/11/10 - 10 updated api methods

Changes EC2 adds API updates to enable ENA Express at instance launch time.

2023/11/09 - 3 new api methods

Changes AWS EBS now supports Block Public Access for EBS Snapshots. This release introduces the EnableSnapshotBlockPublicAccess, DisableSnapshotBlockPublicAccess and GetSnapshotBlockPublicAccessState APIs to manage account-level public access settings for EBS Snapshots in an AWS Region.

2023/10/31 - 2 new 13 updated api methods

Changes Capacity Blocks for ML are a new EC2 purchasing option for reserving GPU instances on a future date to support short duration machine learning (ML) workloads. Capacity Blocks automatically place instances close together inside Amazon EC2 UltraClusters for low-latency, high-throughput networking.

2023/10/26 - 1 new api methods

Changes Launching GetSecurityGroupsForVpc API. This API gets security groups that can be associated by the AWS account making the request with network interfaces in the specified VPC.

2023/10/19 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 C7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, are ideal for high performance, compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are next-generation memory optimized and powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2023/10/12 - 2 new 5 updated api methods

Changes This release adds Ubuntu Pro as a supported platform for On-Demand Capacity Reservations and adds support for setting an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) to disabled state. Disabling the AMI makes it private if it was previously shared, and prevents new EC2 instance launches from it.

2023/10/02 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Introducing Amazon EC2 R7iz instances with 3.9 GHz sustained all-core turbo frequency and deliver up to 20% better performance than previous generation z1d instances.

2023/09/28 - 16 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for Customer Managed Key encryption for Amazon Verified Access resources

2023/09/26 - 6 updated api methods

Changes The release includes AWS verified access to support FIPs compliance in North America regions

2023/09/22 - 24 updated api methods

Changes EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances are powered by Apple M2 Pro Mac Mini computers featuring 12 core CPU, 19 core GPU, 32 GiB of memory, and 16 core Apple Neural Engine and uniquely enabled by the AWS Nitro System through high-speed Thunderbolt connections.

2023/09/19 - 24 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for C7i, and R7a instance types.

2023/09/12 - 3 new api methods

Changes This release adds support for restricting public sharing of AMIs through AMI Block Public Access

2023/09/06 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds 'outpost' location type to the DescribeInstanceTypeOfferings API, allowing customers that have been allowlisted for outpost to query their offerings in the API.

2023/09/05 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Introducing Amazon EC2 C7gd, M7gd, and R7gd Instances with up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors, delivering up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances.

2023/08/24 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 M7a instances, powered by 4th generation AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 50% higher performance compared to M6a instances. Amazon EC2 Hpc7a instances, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors, deliver up to 2.5x better performance compared to Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances.

2023/08/17 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for SubnetConfigurations to allow users to select their own IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for Interface VPC endpoints

2023/08/11 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, deliver the highest performance in EC2 for deep learning (DL) and HPC applications. M7i-flex and M7i instances are next-generation general purpose instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2023/08/03 - 13 updated api methods

Changes This release adds new parameter isPrimaryIPv6 to allow assigning an IPv6 address as a primary IPv6 address to a network interface which cannot be changed to give equivalent functionality available for network interfaces with primary IPv4 address.

2023/07/27 - 7 updated api methods

Changes SDK and documentation updates for Amazon Elastic Block Store APIs

2023/07/25 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds an instance's peak and baseline network bandwidth as well as the memory sizes of an instance's inference accelerators to DescribeInstanceTypes.

2023/07/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Add "disabled" enum value to SpotInstanceState.

2023/07/17 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Add Nitro TPM support on DescribeInstanceTypes

2023/07/13 - 24 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for the C7gn and Hpc7g instances. C7gn instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and the fifth-generation AWS Nitro Cards. Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton 3E processors and provide up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth.

2023/07/06 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Add Nitro Enclaves support on DescribeInstanceTypes

2023/06/20 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for targeting Dedicated Host allocations by assetIds in AWS Outposts

2023/06/19 - 2 updated api methods

Changes API changes to AWS Verified Access to include data from trust providers in logs

2023/06/13 - 3 new 8 updated api methods

Changes This release introduces a new feature, EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint, that enables you to connect to a resource over TCP, without requiring the resource to have a public IPv4 address.

2023/05/18 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Add support for i4g.large, i4g.xlarge, i4g.2xlarge, i4g.4xlarge, i4g.8xlarge and i4g.16xlarge instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that deliver up to 15% better compute performance than our other storage-optimized instances.

2023/05/05 - 24 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support the inf2 and trn1n instances. inf2 instances are purpose built for deep learning inference while trn1n instances are powered by AWS Trainium accelerators and they build on the capabilities of Trainium-powered trn1 instances.

2023/04/27 - 7 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for AMD SEV-SNP on EC2 instances.

2023/04/24 - 1 updated api methods

Changes API changes to AWS Verified Access related to identity providers' information.

2023/04/04 - 24 updated api methods

Changes C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in and R6idn bare metal instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and offer up to 200 Gbps of network bandwidth.

2023/03/30 - 2 new 6 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for Tunnel Endpoint Lifecycle control, a new feature that provides Site-to-Site VPN customers with better visibility and control of their VPN tunnel maintenance updates.

2023/03/21 - 5 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for AWS Network Firewall, AWS PrivateLink, and Gateway Load Balancers to Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer, and it makes the path destination optional as long as a destination address in the filter at source is provided.

2023/03/14 - 3 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new DnsOptions key (PrivateDnsOnlyForInboundResolverEndpoint) to CreateVpcEndpoint and ModifyVpcEndpoint APIs.

2023/03/08 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Introducing Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances.

2023/03/03 - 6 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for a new boot mode for EC2 instances called 'UEFI Preferred'.

2023/02/28 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release allows IMDS support to be set to v2-only on an existing AMI, so that all future instances launched from that AMI will use IMDSv2 by default.

2023/02/14 - 3 updated api methods

Changes With this release customers can turn host maintenance on or off when allocating or modifying a supported dedicated host. Host maintenance is turned on by default for supported hosts.

2023/01/31 - 4 new 2 updated api methods

Changes This launch allows customers to associate up to 8 IP addresses to their NAT Gateways to increase the limit on concurrent connections to a single destination by eight times from 55K to 440K.

2023/01/30 - 4 updated api methods

Changes We add Prefix Lists as a new route destination option for LocalGatewayRoutes. This will allow customers to create routes to Prefix Lists. Prefix List routes will allow customers to group individual CIDR routes with the same target into a single route.

2023/01/25 - 9 new 19 updated api methods

Changes This release adds new functionality that allows customers to provision IPv6 CIDR blocks through Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) as well as allowing customers to utilize IPAM Resource Discovery APIs.

2023/01/20 - 24 updated api methods

Changes C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in and R6idn instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

2023/01/19 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Adds SSM Parameter Resource Aliasing support to EC2 Launch Templates. Launch Templates can now store parameter aliases in place of AMI Resource IDs. CreateLaunchTemplateVersion and DescribeLaunchTemplateVersions now support a convenience flag, ResolveAlias, to return the resolved parameter value.

2022/12/20 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for pagination in the EC2 DescribeImages API.

2022/12/12 - 9 updated api methods

Changes This release updates DescribeFpgaImages to show supported instance types of AFIs in its response.

2022/11/29 - 24 new 26 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for AWS Verified Access and the Hpc6id Amazon EC2 compute optimized instance type, which features 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

2022/11/29 - 5 new 10 updated api methods

Changes Introduces ENA Express, which uses AWS SRD and dynamic routing to increase throughput and minimize latency, adds support for trust relationships between Reachability Analyzer and AWS Organizations to enable cross-account analysis, and adds support for Infrastructure Performance metric subscriptions.

2022/11/18 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for copying an Amazon Machine Image's tags when copying an AMI.

2022/11/17 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new optional parameter "privateIpAddress" for the CreateNatGateway API. PrivateIPAddress will allow customers to select a custom Private IPv4 address instead of having it be auto-assigned.

2022/11/10 - 4 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new price capacity optimized allocation strategy for Spot Instances to help customers optimize provisioning of Spot Instances via EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet. It allocates Spot Instances based on both spare capacity availability and Spot Instance price.

2022/11/09 - 28 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 Trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium chips, are purpose built for high-performance deep learning training. u-24tb1.112xlarge and u-18tb1.112xlarge High Memory instances are purpose-built to run large in-memory databases.

2022/11/08 - 10 updated api methods

Changes This release enables sharing of EC2 Placement Groups across accounts and within AWS Organizations using Resource Access Manager

2022/11/07 - 12 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for two new attributes for attribute-based instance type selection - NetworkBandwidthGbps and AllowedInstanceTypes.

2022/11/04 - 1 new api methods

Changes This release adds API support for the recipient of an AMI account share to remove shared AMI launch permissions.

2022/10/31 - 4 new api methods

Changes Elastic IP transfer is a new Amazon VPC feature that allows you to transfer your Elastic IP addresses from one AWS Account to another.

2022/10/27 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Feature supports the replacement of instance root volume using an updated AMI without requiring customers to stop their instance.

2022/10/04 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Added EnableNetworkAddressUsageMetrics flag for ModifyVpcAttribute, DescribeVpcAttribute APIs.

2022/10/03 - 3 updated api methods

Changes Adding an imdsSupport attribute to EC2 AMIs

2022/09/29 - 24 updated api methods

Changes u-3tb1 instances are powered by Intel Xeon Platinum 8176M (Skylake) processors and are purpose-built to run large in-memory databases.

2022/09/23 - 3 updated api methods

Changes Letting external AWS customers provide ImageId as a Launch Template override in FleetLaunchTemplateOverridesRequest

2022/09/20 - 3 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for blocked paths to Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer.

2022/09/19 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds CapacityAllocations field to DescribeCapacityReservations

2022/09/15 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This feature allows customers to create tags for vpc-endpoint-connections and vpc-endpoint-service-permissions.

2022/09/14 - 8 new 10 updated api methods

Changes This update introduces API operations to manage and create local gateway route tables, CoIP pools, and VIF group associations.

2022/09/13 - 1 new 16 updated api methods

Changes Two new features for local gateway route tables: support for static routes targeting Elastic Network Interfaces and direct VPC routing.

2022/09/08 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support to send VPC Flow Logs to kinesis-data-firehose as new destination type

2022/09/07 - 8 updated api methods

Changes Documentation updates for Amazon EC2.

2022/08/22 - 24 updated api methods

Changes R6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC (Milan) processors delivering all-core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz. C6id, M6id, and R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake) delivering all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz.

2022/08/18 - 6 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for VPN log options , a new feature allowing S2S VPN connections to send IKE activity logs to CloudWatch Logs

2022/08/10 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for excluding specific data (non-root) volumes from multi-volume snapshot sets created from instances.

2022/07/29 - 8 updated api methods

Changes Documentation updates for Amazon EC2.

2022/07/22 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Added support for EC2 M1 Mac instances. For more information, please visit aws.amazon.com/mac.

2022/07/14 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds flow logs for Transit Gateway to allow customers to gain deeper visibility and insights into network traffic through their Transit Gateways.

2022/07/11 - 10 new 21 updated api methods

Changes Build, manage, and monitor a unified global network that connects resources running across your cloud and on-premises environments using the AWS Cloud WAN APIs.

2022/06/28 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new spread placement group to EC2 Placement Groups: host level spread, which spread instances between physical hosts, available to Outpost customers only. CreatePlacementGroup and DescribePlacementGroups APIs were updated with a new parameter: SpreadLevel to support this feature.

2022/06/21 - 7 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for Private IP VPNs, a new feature allowing S2S VPN connections to use private ip addresses as the tunnel outside ip address over Direct Connect as transport.

2022/05/26 - 24 updated api methods

Changes C7g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive workloads.

2022/05/24 - 8 updated api methods

Changes Stop Protection feature enables customers to protect their instances from accidental stop actions.

2022/05/12 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release introduces a target type Gateway Load Balancer Endpoint for mirrored traffic. Customers can now specify GatewayLoadBalancerEndpoint option during the creation of a traffic mirror target.

2022/05/11 - 8 updated api methods

Changes This release updates AWS PrivateLink APIs to support IPv6 for PrivateLink Services and Endpoints of type 'Interface'.

2022/05/10 - 1 new 5 updated api methods

Changes Added support for using NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot on EC2 instances.

2022/05/06 - 12 updated api methods

Changes Add new state values for IPAMs, IPAM Scopes, and IPAM Pools.

2022/05/05 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and feature up to 30 TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage

2022/05/03 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for allocating Dedicated Hosts on AWS Outposts. The AllocateHosts API now accepts an OutpostArn request parameter, and the DescribeHosts API now includes an OutpostArn response parameter.

2022/04/28 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support to query the public key and creation date of EC2 Key Pairs. Additionally, the format (pem or ppk) of a key pair can be specified when creating a new key pair.

2022/04/12 - 24 updated api methods

Changes X2idn and X2iedn instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.5 GHzAmazon EC2. C6a instances are powered by 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors.

2022/03/30 - 1 new 6 updated api methods

Changes This release simplifies the auto-recovery configuration process enabling customers to set the recovery behavior to disabled or default

2022/03/25 - 3 updated api methods

Changes This is release adds support for Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer to analyze path through a Transit Gateway.

2022/03/15 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Adds the Cascade parameter to the DeleteIpam API. Customers can use this parameter to automatically delete their IPAM, including non-default scopes, pools, cidrs, and allocations. There mustn't be any pools provisioned in the default public scope to use this parameter.

2022/02/28 - 9 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for new AMI property 'lastLaunchedTime'

2022/02/16 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Documentation updates for EC2.

2022/02/03 - 2 new api methods

Changes adds support for AMIs in Recycle Bin

2022/01/27 - 24 updated api methods

Changes X2ezn instances are powered by Intel Cascade Lake CPUs that deliver turbo all core frequency of up to 4.5 GHz and up to 100 Gbps of networking bandwidth

2022/01/20 - 24 updated api methods

Changes C6i, M6i and R6i instances are powered by a third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake) delivering all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz

2022/01/18 - 3 updated api methods

Changes Add support for AWS Client VPN client login banner and session timeout.

2022/01/12 - 24 updated api methods

Changes Hpc6a instances are powered by a third-generation AMD EPYC processors (Milan) delivering all-core turbo frequency of 3.4 GHz

2022/01/11 - 4 updated api methods

Changes EC2 Capacity Reservations now supports RHEL instance platforms (RHEL with SQL Server Standard, RHEL with SQL Server Enterprise, RHEL with SQL Server Web, RHEL with HA, RHEL with HA and SQL Server Standard, RHEL with HA and SQL Server Enterprise)

2022/01/10 - 3 new api methods

Changes New feature: Updated EC2 API to support faster launching for Windows images. Optimized images are pre-provisioned, using snapshots to launch instances up to 65% faster.

2022/01/06 - 11 updated api methods

Changes This release introduces On-Demand Capacity Reservation support for Cluster Placement Groups, adds Tags on instance Metadata, and includes documentation updates for Amazon EC2.

2022/01/05 - 1 new 3 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new API called ModifyVpcEndpointServicePayerResponsibility which allows VPC endpoint service owners to take payer responsibility of their VPC Endpoint connections.

2021/12/01 - 36 new 12 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM), which enables you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your workloads. This release also adds support for VPC Network Access Analyzer, which enables you to analyze network access to resources in your Virtual Private Clouds.

2021/11/30 - 28 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for Is4gen and Im4gn instances. This release also adds a new subnet attribute, enableLniAtDeviceIndex, to support local network interfaces, which are logical networking components that connect an EC2 instance to your on-premises network.

2021/11/29 - 5 new 27 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for G5g and M6a instances. This release also adds support for Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, a feature that enables you to archive your EBS snapshots; and Recycle Bin, a feature that enables you to protect your EBS snapshots against accidental deletion.

2021/11/23 - 1 new 12 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new parameter ipv6Native to the allow creation of IPv6-only subnets using the CreateSubnet operation, and the operation ModifySubnetAttribute includes new parameters to modify subnet attributes to use resource-based naming and enable DNS resolutions for Private DNS name.

2021/11/15 - 4 updated api methods

Changes Adds a new VPC Subnet attribute "EnableDns64." When enabled on IPv6 Subnets, the Amazon-Provided DNS Resolver returns synthetic IPv6 addresses for IPv4-only destinations.

2021/11/12 - 24 updated api methods

Changes C6i instances are powered by a third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor (Ice Lake) delivering all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. G5 instances feature up to 8 NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs and second generation AMD EPYC processors.

2021/11/11 - 4 updated api methods

Changes This release provides an additional route target for the VPC route table.

2021/11/08 - 6 updated api methods

Changes This release adds internal validation on the GatewayAssociationState field

2021/11/05 - 2 updated api methods

Changes DescribeInstances now returns customer-owned IP addresses for instances running on an AWS Outpost.

2021/11/04 - 4 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new instance replacement strategy for EC2 Fleet, Spot Fleet. Now you can select an action to perform when your instance gets a rebalance notification. EC2 Fleet, Spot Fleet can launch a replacement then terminate the instance that received notification after a termination delay

2021/10/29 - 2 updated api methods

Changes Support added for AMI sharing with organizations and organizational units in ModifyImageAttribute API

2021/10/28 - 26 updated api methods

Changes Added new read-only DenyAllIGWTraffic network interface attribute. Added support for DL1 24xlarge instances powered by Habana Gaudi Accelerators for deep learning model training workloads

2021/10/27 - 2 new 11 updated api methods

Changes This release adds: attribute-based instance type selection for EC2 Fleet, Spot Fleet, a feature that lets customers express instance requirements as attributes like vCPU, memory, and storage; and Spot placement score, a feature that helps customers identify an optimal location to run Spot workloads.

2021/10/25 - 6 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support to create a VPN Connection that is not attached to a Gateway at the time of creation. Use this to create VPNs associated with Core Networks, or modify your VPN and attach a gateway using the modify API after creation.

2021/10/13 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for additional VPC Flow Logs delivery options to S3, such as Apache Parquet formatted files, Hourly partitions and Hive-compatible S3 prefixes

2021/10/12 - 1 updated api methods

Changes EncryptionSupport for InstanceStorageInfo added to DescribeInstanceTypes API

2021/10/05 - 4 new 2 updated api methods

Changes Released Capacity Reservation Fleet, a feature of Amazon EC2 Capacity Reservations, which provides a way to manage reserved capacity across instance types. For more information: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/cr-fleets.html

2021/09/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes DescribeInstances now returns Platform Details, Usage Operation, and Usage Operation Update Time.

2021/09/21 - 2 new api methods

Changes This update adds support for downloading configuration templates using new APIs (GetVpnConnectionDeviceTypes and GetVpnConnectionDeviceSampleConfiguration) and Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) parameters for many popular CGW devices.

2021/09/14 - 22 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for vt1 3xlarge, 6xlarge and 24xlarge instances powered by Xilinx Alveo U30 Media Accelerators for video transcoding workloads

2021/09/13 - 13 updated api methods

Changes Adds support for T3 instances on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts.

2021/09/01 - 4 updated api methods

Changes Added LaunchTemplate support for the IMDS IPv6 endpoint

2021/08/27 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds the BootMode flag to the ImportImage API and showing the detected BootMode of an ImportImage task.

2021/08/26 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Support added for resizing VPC prefix lists

2021/08/25 - 3 updated api methods

Changes Support added for IMDS IPv6 endpoint

2021/08/20 - 22 updated api methods

Changes encryptionInTransitSupported added to DescribeInstanceTypes API

2021/08/19 - 2 updated api methods

Changes The ImportImage API now supports the ability to create AMIs with AWS-managed licenses for Microsoft SQL Server for both Windows and Linux.

2021/08/17 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for EC2 ED25519 key pairs for authentication

2021/07/29 - 22 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for G4ad xlarge and 2xlarge instances powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and AMD 2nd Generation EPYC processors

2021/07/22 - 3 new 16 updated api methods

Changes This release allows customers to assign prefixes to their elastic network interface and to reserve IP blocks in their subnet CIDRs. These reserved blocks can be used to assign prefixes to elastic network interfaces or be excluded from auto-assignment.

2021/07/20 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Added idempotency to the CreateVolume API using the ClientToken request parameter

2021/07/15 - 6 new 8 updated api methods

Changes This feature enables customers to specify weekly recurring time window(s) for scheduled events that reboot, stop or terminate EC2 instances.

2021/07/07 - 2 new 12 updated api methods

Changes This release adds resource ids and tagging support for VPC security group rules.

2021/07/01 - 12 updated api methods

Changes Adding a new reserved field to support future infrastructure improvements for Amazon EC2 Fleet.

2021/06/23 - 1 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for provisioning your own IP (BYOIP) range in multiple regions. This feature is in limited Preview for this release. Contact your account manager if you are interested in this feature.

2021/06/16 - 3 new 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for VLAN-tagged network traffic over an Elastic Network Interface (ENI). This feature is in limited Preview for this release. Contact your account manager if you are interested in this feature.

2021/06/15 - 22 updated api methods

Changes EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, R5dn metal instances with 100 Gbps network performance and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for ultra low latency

2021/06/11 - 2 new 1 updated api methods

Changes Amazon EC2 adds new AMI property to flag outdated AMIs

2021/06/10 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds a new optional parameter connectivityType (public, private) for the CreateNatGateway API. Private NatGateway does not require customers to attach an InternetGateway to the VPC and can be used for communication with other VPCs and on-premise networks.

2021/06/01 - 1 updated api methods

Changes Added idempotency to CreateNetworkInterface using the ClientToken parameter.

2021/05/26 - 2 new 16 updated api methods

Changes This release adds resource ids and tagging support for VPC security group rules.

2021/05/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for creating and managing EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations on Outposts.

2021/05/12 - 22 updated api methods

Changes High Memory virtual instances are powered by Intel Sky Lake CPUs and offer up to 12TB of memory.

2021/04/06 - 3 new api methods

Changes This release adds support for storing EBS-backed AMIs in S3 and restoring them from S3 to enable cross-partition copying of AMIs

2021/04/01 - 1 new api methods

Changes VPC Flow Logs Service adds a new API, GetFlowLogsIntegrationTemplate, which generates CloudFormation templates for Athena. For more info, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/console/vpc/flow-logs/athena

2021/03/30 - 5 new api methods

Changes ReplaceRootVolume feature enables customers to replace the EBS root volume of a running instance to a previously known state. Add support to grant account-level access to the EC2 serial console

2021/03/24 - 1 updated api methods

Changes maximumEfaInterfaces added to DescribeInstanceTypes API

2021/03/22 - 6 updated api methods

Changes This release adds support for UEFI boot on selected AMD- and Intel-based EC2 instances.

2021/03/19 - 22 updated api methods

Changes X2gd instances are the next generation of memory-optimized instances powered by AWS-designed, Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors.

2021/03/05 - 4 updated api methods