Release notes, new features, deprecations, and announcements from Salesforce and AWS.
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Aurora Limitless Database is now GA. It automatically scales PostgreSQL-compatible Aurora beyond the limits of a single writer instance by sharding data across multiple database shards transparently. Applications connect to a single endpoint and the router distributes queries. Supports distributed transactions and cross-shard joins.
The new Step Functions Workflow Studio v2 features an improved drag-and-drop editor with inline testing, real-time ASL preview, reusable workflow snippets, and direct integration with over 200 AWS services. The editor now runs in your browser without needing the console.
Claude 4 Sonnet and Haiku are now available in Amazon Bedrock across US and EU regions. Sonnet offers improved reasoning and coding capabilities. Haiku provides the fastest response times for cost-sensitive workloads. Both support the Bedrock Converse API and Knowledge Bases.
Claude 4 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku are now available in Amazon Bedrock. Includes improved tool use, better instruction following, and expanded context windows.
Glue 5.0 includes Spark 3.5 with improved performance for joins and aggregations, Python 3.11 runtime, native Iceberg table support, and faster job startup times (reduced by up to 40%). Existing Glue 4.0 jobs continue to work but should be migrated for performance gains.
Python 3.13 is now available as a managed runtime in AWS Lambda. Includes the new JIT compiler for improved performance and free-threaded mode (experimental).
Flow Orchestration, previously a paid add-on, is now included as a standard Flow type for all eligible Salesforce editions. Customers can build multi-step, multi-user business processes with stages and steps without purchasing a separate license.
Apex now supports the null-coalescing operator (??). Write `String name = account.Name ?? 'Unknown';` instead of ternary checks. Also available: null-safe navigation combined with coalescing (`contact?.Account?.Name ?? 'N/A'`). Available in API version 66.0+.
Spring '26 adds Flow Logging for native runtime monitoring and troubleshooting, AI-powered flow generation reaching GA so admins can describe a process in plain language and get a draft flow, inline editing and column sorting in Flow Data Tables, and orchestration debug improvements that let developers set custom start and end points to test specific segments of long orchestrations.
R8g instances powered by Graviton4 processors deliver up to 30% better compute performance over Graviton3. Available in US East, US West, and EU West regions.
S3 Express One Zone, the single-digit millisecond latency storage class, is now available in 10 additional regions. Up to 10x faster than S3 Standard for frequently accessed data.
Cognito User Pools now support passkeys and WebAuthn as a primary authentication factor. Users can sign in with biometrics (Face ID, fingerprint) or hardware security keys instead of passwords. Available in all commercial regions.
HTTP APIs now support mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication, previously only available on REST APIs. Clients present certificates validated against a truststore in S3. Useful for B2B integrations and zero-trust architectures.
EventBridge now supports detailed execution logging at error, info, and trace levels for both event buses and Pipes, with output to CloudWatch Logs, S3, or Kinesis Data Firehose. Logs capture matched rules, target invocation results, and optionally full event payloads, enabling faster root-cause analysis with no additional service charge.
Lambda SnapStart is now GA for Python 3.12+ and .NET 8+ managed runtimes, reducing cold start latency from several seconds to sub-second with minimal or no code changes. The feature was later expanded to 23 additional regions in June 2025.
CloudWatch Application Signals is now GA in 28 commercial regions, providing an OpenTelemetry-compatible APM dashboard that surfaces volume, availability, latency, faults, and errors per service. Runtime metrics support for garbage collection, memory, and CPU was added in November 2024, and GovCloud availability followed in November 2025.
Announced at AWS re:Invent 2023, ElastiCache Serverless lets you create a fully managed, highly available cache for Redis 7.1 or Memcached 1.6 in under a minute with no cluster sizing or capacity planning required. The service scales instantly to meet demand, stores data redundantly across multiple Availability Zones with a 99.99% SLA, and charges only for data stored and ECPUs consumed.
Cost Optimization Hub is a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature that aggregates over 15 types of cost optimization recommendations, including EC2 rightsizing, Graviton migration, idle resource detection, and Savings Plans suggestions, into a single dashboard across all AWS Organizations member accounts and regions. The feature is available at no additional charge in all commercial regions outside China and GovCloud.
Dynamic Forms, which lets admins place individual fields and sections anywhere on a Lightning record page and control their visibility with filter conditions, reached general availability for standard objects in Winter '24. Previously limited to custom objects and a small pilot set of standard objects, Dynamic Forms expanded to hundreds of LWC-enabled standard objects including Account, Contact, Opportunity, Case, and Lead. Admins can now migrate existing page layouts to Dynamic Forms using the one-click migration wizard in Lightning App Builder, eliminating the need to maintain separate compact and full layouts and enabling field-level conditional visibility without code.
AWS launched EC2 Instance Connect Endpoint (EIC Endpoint), a free feature that lets you open SSH or RDP sessions to EC2 instances in private subnets directly from the AWS console, CLI, or any SSH client -- with no bastion host, no public IP on the instance, no VPN, and no agent required. An EIC Endpoint acts as a VPC resource that proxies the connection from your workstation through AWS private networking to the target instance, with all sessions logged in CloudTrail and access controlled via IAM. The feature is available at no additional charge in all commercial and GovCloud regions and supports both Linux and Windows instances.
AWS Lambda now supports response payload streaming, a new invocation pattern that lets functions progressively send partial responses back to clients as data becomes available rather than waiting for the entire payload to be ready. Functions can return payloads up to 20 MB via function URLs using RESPONSE_STREAM invoke mode or through the new InvokeWithResponseStream SDK API, compared to the 6 MB limit for buffered responses. The feature dramatically improves time-to-first-byte for web and mobile workloads such as AI-generated content and large file downloads. Node.js 14.x and later runtimes support native streaming helpers, and custom runtimes can use the runtime API directly.
AWS Step Functions launched Distributed Map, a new Map state mode that can iterate over millions of objects in Amazon S3 and launch up to 10,000 parallel child workflow executions concurrently -- far exceeding the previous 40-iteration inline Map limit. The feature enables serverless ETL, batch inference, and large-scale data processing without managing infrastructure.
Amazon RDS introduced a new Multi-AZ deployment option for MySQL 8.0.28+ and PostgreSQL 13.4+ that places one primary and two readable standby instances across three Availability Zones. The configuration delivers up to 2x faster transaction commit latency compared to single-standby Multi-AZ and supports automated failovers typically completing in under 35 seconds.
