2026/04/03 - 1 updated api methods
Changes Added queryDuration, bytesScanned, and userIdentity fields to the QueryInfo response object returned by DescribeQueries. Customers can now view detailed query cost information including who ran the query, how long it took, and the volume of data scanned.
2026/04/02 - 3 updated api methods
Changes We are pleased to announce that our logs transformation csv processor now has a destination field, allowing you to specify under which parent node parsed columns be placed under.
2026/03/30 - 5 new api methods
Changes Adds Lookup Tables to CloudWatch Logs for log enrichment using CSV key-value data with KMS encryption support.
2026/03/26 - 6 updated api methods
Changes This release adds parameter support to saved queries in CloudWatch Logs Insights. Define reusable query templates with named placeholders, invoke them using start query. Available in Console, CLI and SDK
2026/03/03 - 1 new 1 updated api methods
Changes CloudWatch Logs updates- Added support for the PutBearerTokenAuthentication API to enable or disable bearer token authentication on a log group. For more information, see CloudWatch Logs API documentation.
2025/12/15 - 4 new api methods
Changes This release allows you to import your historical CloudTrail Lake data into CloudWatch with a few steps, enabling you to easily consolidate operational, security, and compliance data in one place.
2025/12/02 - 5 new 2 updated api methods
Changes CloudWatch Logs adds managed S3 Tables integration to access logs using other analytical tools, as well as facets and field indexing to simplify log analytics in CloudWatch Logs Insights.
2025/11/24 - 1 new 2 updated api methods
Changes New CloudWatch Logs feature - LogGroup Deletion Protection, a capability that allows customers to safeguard their critical CloudWatch log groups from accidental or unintended deletion.
2025/11/19 - 3 updated api methods
Changes Adding support for ocsf version 1.5, add optional parameter MappingVersion
2025/11/18 - 6 new api methods
Changes CloudWatch Logs updates: Added capability to setup a recurring schedule for log insights queries. Logs introduced Scheduled Queries (managed through Create/Update/Get/Delete/List/History Scheduled Query APIs). For more information, see CloudWatch Logs API documentation.
2025/09/16 - 4 updated api methods
Changes Cloudwatch Logs added support for 2 new API parameters in metric and subscription filter APIs to filter log events based on system field values and emit system field values as dimensions and send them to customer destination as additional metadata.
2025/07/18 - 1 new 3 updated api methods
Changes CloudWatchLogs launches GetLogObject API with streaming support for efficient log data retrieval. Logs added support for new AccountPolicy type METRIC_EXTRACTION_POLICY. For more information, see CloudWatch Logs API documentation
2025/07/16 - 10 updated api methods
Changes CloudWatch Logs updates: Added X-Ray tracing for Amazon Bedrock Agent resources. Logs introduced Log Group level resource policies (managed through Put/Delete/Describe Resource Policy APIs). For more information, see CloudWatch Logs API documentation.
2025/06/18 - 3 updated api methods
Changes Added CloudWatch Logs Transformer support for converting CloudTrail, VPC Flow, EKS Audit, AWS WAF and Route53 Resolver logs to OCSF v1.1 format.
2025/05/14 - 1 new 1 updated api methods
Changes This release adds a new API "ListLogGroups" and an improvement in API "DescribeLogGroups"
2025/04/30 - 2 updated api methods
Changes CloudWatch Logs supports "DELIVERY" log class. This log class is used only for delivering AWS Lambda logs to Amazon S3 or Amazon Data Firehose.
2024/12/02 - 4 new 5 updated api methods
Changes Adds PutIntegration, GetIntegration, ListIntegrations and DeleteIntegration APIs. Adds QueryLanguage support to StartQuery, GetQueryResults, DescribeQueries, DescribeQueryDefinitions, and PutQueryDefinition APIs.
2024/11/22 - 9 new 8 updated api methods
Changes Adds "Create field indexes to improve query performance and reduce scan volume" and "Transform logs during ingestion". Updates documentation for "PutLogEvents with Entity".
2024/10/29 - 1 updated api methods
Changes Added support for new optional baseline parameter in the UpdateAnomaly API. For UpdateAnomaly requests with baseline set to True, The anomaly behavior is then treated as baseline behavior. However, more severe occurrences of this behavior will still be reported as anomalies.
2024/10/25 - 1 updated api methods
Changes Adding inferred token name for dynamic tokens in Anomalies.
2024/09/04 - 2 new 3 updated api methods
Changes Update to support new APIs for delivery of logs from AWS services.
2024/08/30 - 1 updated api methods
Changes This release introduces a new optional parameter: Entity, in PutLogEvents request