Release notes, new features, deprecations, and announcements from Salesforce and AWS.
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Salesforce
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AWS
8 notices (Announcement)
For new integrations, Salesforce now recommends using External Client Apps instead of Connected Apps. Connected Apps still work but External Client Apps provide better lifecycle management and security controls.
New certification validating expertise in building and deploying AI agents with Agentforce. Covers agent configuration, prompt templates, action libraries, and guardrails. $200 exam fee.
Hyperforce expanded to over 38 global regions in 2025, up from 4 at launch, with 90% of Salesforce customers now eligible for migration. New regions include additional Asia Pacific and European data centers, giving customers greater control over data residency and compliance.
Salesforce renamed Einstein Copilot to Agentforce as part of its broader shift toward autonomous AI agents, with the feature now appearing in Setup as Agentforce (Default). No functionality changed, but UI labels, permissions, and help documentation were updated to reflect the new branding introduced at Dreamforce 2024.
Aurora Serverless v2 can now scale down to 0 ACUs, automatically pausing the database after a configurable idle period with no compute charges while paused. This resolves a long-standing gap between v1 and v2, making Aurora Serverless v2 a true pay-per-use option for dev and test workloads.
Salesforce launched Foundations, a free upgrade available to all Sales Cloud and Service Cloud Enterprise Edition and above customers, bundling Data Cloud, Marketing, Commerce, and cross-department features at no additional license cost. The Data Cloud allotment includes 10,000 segmentation and activation credits, automatic data harmonization for AI readiness, and a unified customer profile that feeds Agentforce. Email campaigns are included up to 2,000 sends per month. Foundations replaces the need to purchase separate Data Cloud licenses for customers who want basic data unification without a full Data Cloud contract.
As Salesforce migrated customer orgs to Hyperforce, Apex workloads benefit from elastic compute scaling, faster sandbox provisioning via Quick Clone, and zero-downtime major release upgrades introduced in Summer '24. Orgs on Hyperforce also gain access to Apex Guru and Scale Center, AI-powered tools that detect and surface code-level performance anti-patterns at runtime.
At Dreamforce 2023, Salesforce announced the Einstein 1 Platform, a rebrand and architectural consolidation of its core product suite around three pillars: Data Cloud for real-time customer data unification, Einstein AI for predictions and generative capabilities, and Flow for automation. Data Cloud was included at no additional cost for Enterprise Edition and above customers. Einstein Copilot Studio was introduced as a low-code builder for custom prompts, skills, and AI models. The Einstein 1 branding unified what had previously been marketed as separate products -- Tableau, MuleSoft, Slack, and the core CRM -- under a single platform narrative backed by the Salesforce metadata framework.
