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Cloud Changelog
AWS GovCloud (US) changelog
223 announcements since January 2025 · 20 GA · 1 price change · 1 deprecation · 65 Region expansions
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November 20261
October 20268
Agent gets real-time internet search with citations in AWS GovCloud (US)Region
GPT-5.6 Cyber for vulnerability research offered to eligible customers in GovCloud (US-East)Region
ACME support for public certificates in GovCloud (US-East) and GovCloud (US-West)Region
Public endpoints for Valkey caches now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Available in AWS GovCloud (US) for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge workGA
Both models available in Kiro IDE and CLI in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Fastest Claude 5.5 model offered through Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)GA
September 20269
Single 4,096-byte session token limit, plus token size metrics in CloudTrail and CloudWatch
EKS add-on for Kubernetes and Connector for Active Directory added in both GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Server migration capabilities available in GovCloud (US-West), targeting both GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) for GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.6 Terra and LunaRegion
Racks can connect to AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) RegionsRegion
Anthropic's frontier model on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US)GA
August 202615
Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) with 500k context windowGA
Remote Iceberg REST catalog federation added in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Available on Bedrock in GovCloud (US-West) and (US-East) with 1 million token contextGA
Managers can chat with their data in plain language across 150+ metrics
Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions through Amazon Bedrock with zero data retentionRegion
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), bringing the total to 8 RegionsRegion
New status check probes application port and path over HTTP or HTTPS every 60 secondsGA
In-place migration from ZooKeeper to KRaft on existing clusters, which stay available throughoutGA
Memory, policy and managed harness added in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Extended Support patch coverage extended to November 7, 2027; support dates set for more versionsPrice
In scope for FedRAMP, SOC, ISO, CSA STAR and PCI; HIPAA eligible
Real-time vector indexing and search with single-digit millisecond latency at 99%+ recallGA
SQL Server Audit logs can be published to CloudWatch, S3, or both
July 202624
31B, 26B-A4B and E2B variants available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West), adding xAI as a model provider thereRegion
Cross-account replication of file systems in AWS GovCloud (US)Region
Adds Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 5 and user activity monitoring for administratorsGA
Available on Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud (US) via bedrock-runtime and bedrock-mantle endpointsRegion
G6 instances added for inference in AWS GovCloud (US-East)Region
Node lifecycle actions run custom scripts at defined points in a compute node's lifecycleGA
Adds EFA network interface configuration and EC2 placement groups for node pools
Supports up to 1.5 billion active series and 200,000 rules per workspace
Graviton4 storage-optimized instances with up to 120TB local NVMe, in US-East and US-WestRegion
FedRAMP High authorized in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West)
Graviton4 R8g and M8g database instances added in more Regions, including GovCloud (US-East)Region
Connector and zero-ETL integrations added in AWS GovCloud (US-West, US-East)Region
One-click setup prompt configures coding agents with AWS Serverless skills and Serverless MCP server
Graviton4 instances with local NVMe added in GovCloud (US-East, US-West)Region
Storage optimized Graviton4 instances added in GovCloud (US East, US West)Region
Free sandboxes from eligible workshops, 8 hours of access, one per week
Added in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and GovCloud (US-East)Region
Run A/B tests and multivariate experiments with AI-assisted design and exposure controlGA
FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorized in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
June 202621
Pre-deployment validation now runs on Create Stack and Update Stack, plus three new warnings
Deployments up to 4x faster by skipping stabilization checks, with rollback disabled by default
Managed in-place Slurm upgrades up to three major versions without disrupting running jobs
Added in Cape Town, Jakarta, Osaka and both AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Adds rich cards, carousels, media and suggestion buttons via SendRcsMessage API in 22 countries
Adds OpenAI GPT-5.4 and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B models to IDE and CLI
FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 approved in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 authorized in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Support cases routed by default to US-based, US-citizen engineers, 24/7, no opt-in needed
Customer-ordered allocation strategies BFPO and SCOP for instance type priority
Support added for more Intel instance families and AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West)
Managed RAG service with six data source connectors and agentic retrievalGA
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) RegionsRegion
Reserve GPU capacity on P6-B200 and P6-B300 instances in GovCloud (US-West, US-East)Region
Blackwell GPU instances available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)Region
IAM-based authorization for S3 Tables and Iceberg materialized views in GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
May 202612
Supports AWS PrivateLink for FIPS endpoints in GovCloud (US) and several other Regions
Pause hooks and ContinueServiceDeployment API for service deployments, with timeouts up to 14 days
Available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for EC2, Fargate and ECS Managed InstancesRegion
13 more services and 619 new SDK API actions, including Lambda Managed InstancesGA
Added in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West), bringing coverage to 30 RegionsRegion
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) with 8 Blackwell GPUs and 1440 GB GPU memoryRegion
Data plane API logging to CloudTrail, including PutEvents, configured per event bus
April 202613
Customer managed domains now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
GPT OSS 120B/20B and four Nemotron models offered on Amazon Bedrock in GovCloud (US)GA
Added in Asia Pacific (New Zealand) and both AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Single-AZ (HA) file systems added in 17 more commercial and GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Kafka event source mapping Provisioned Mode added in Taipei and GovCloud (US-East, US-West)Region
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) with 8 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUsRegion
Added in London, Hyderabad, Sao Paulo and GovCloud (US-West)Region
DNS delegation for private hosted zone subdomains in AWS GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Supports IPv6 and dual stack network types in all Regions, at no additional charge
Audit and enforce encryption in transit in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West)Region
March 202617
Sends OTP messages by SMS or voice to over 200 countries using AWS-owned numbers and sender IDsGA
Offered in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions for SQL Server 2019 and 2022Region
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) RegionsRegion
WebRTC supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) RegionsRegion
FIPS-compliant mode for Graviton and GPU instances in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Adds FSx for ONTAP volume filesystems, DCV token expiration setting, custom login links, VDI restart
Supports slurmdbd and cgroups Slurm settings via console, CLI or SDK
Lets AI coding assistants like Kiro, Claude Code and Cursor build and manage serverless apps
Dynamic Resource Allocation driver for Amazon EKS on Trainium instancesGA
Adds NVIDIA NIXL support for KV-cache transfer in disaggregated LLM inference on EC2
Added in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West)Region
Open source server with 20 tools to manage Landing Zone Accelerator through AI assistants
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) RegionsRegion
Configurable scale down delay of 20 minutes to 1 week for managed compute environments
February 202613
VifConnectionStatus and VifBgpSessionState metrics added in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West)
Snapshot export in Apache Parquet format now offered in GovCloud (US) RegionsRegion
Shows AI bot and agent traffic; Bot Control now tracks over 650 bots
Adds Graviton4 c8g, m8g, r8g and r8gd instances in 12 more RegionsRegion
Adds storage optimized I7i instances with up to 23% better compute performance than I4i
Available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West), using IAM Identity Center authenticationRegion
U7i and U7in instances added in Sao Paulo, Milan, GovCloud (US-East) and LondonRegion
Default quotas raised 25x to 5,000,000 tokens and 1,000 requests per minute
Amazon EC2 High Memory U7i-6TB instances now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon EKS simplifies providing IAM permissions to EKS add-ons in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
January 20264
Amazon Managed Grafana now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Bedrock Reserved Tier available now for Claude Sonnet 4.5 in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
Amazon S3 Storage Lens is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Bedrock introduces API keys to streamline development in GovCloud regions