Last updated: 20 March 2026
Last week I made a 6-minute video about the history of AWS and S3 to celebrate S3's 20th birthday (our baby is all grown up!). I did extensive research for this and as part of this I kept finding myself looking up things like "when did Lambda launch?" and "was DynamoDB before or after Redshift?" and getting frustrated that there wasn't a single page with all the dates in one place.
I've always wanted to put one together, but I was too lazy to manually go through hundreds of launch announcements across 20 years of What's New posts. But now we live in the future!
Then I started using the AWS MCP Server - a remote Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants authenticated access to AWS documentation, APIs, and pre-built workflows. One of its tools (search_documentation) lets you search across all AWS documentation, including the "What's New" announcements. This is super handy for keeping track of launches too - if you want to learn more, I have a whole blog on this called "You Should Just Use the Docs MCP to Keep Up with Launches During re:Invent Because Everything Else Is Too Annoying". (You can tell I did not use AI to write that title because it breaks every rule there is!)
So buckle up, here we go - every AWS service launch date I could find, from SQS in 2004 to Route 53 Global Resolver in 2026. Some services have both a preview and a general availability (GA) date so I've included everything that was available. And every launch links back to the original announcement so you can read it yourself.
Looking for a specific service?
Here are the most-searched AWS service launch dates. Click through to the full entry below for links to the original announcements.
- Amazon SQS - 3 November 2004 (preview), 11 July 2006 (GA)
- Amazon S3 - 13 March 2006
- Amazon EC2 - 24 August 2006 (preview), 23 October 2008 (GA)
- Amazon RDS - 27 October 2009
- Amazon DynamoDB - 18 January 2012
- Amazon Redshift - 14 February 2013
- AWS Lambda - 13 November 2014 (preview), 9 April 2015 (GA)
- Amazon ECS - 13 November 2014 (preview), 9 April 2015 (GA)
- Amazon API Gateway - 9 July 2015
- Amazon Aurora - 12 November 2014 (preview), 27 July 2015 (GA)
- Amazon EKS - 29 November 2017 (preview), 5 June 2018 (GA)
- AWS Fargate - 29 November 2017
- Amazon SageMaker - 29 November 2017
- Amazon EventBridge - 11 July 2019
- AWS CDK - 11 July 2019
- Amazon Bedrock - 13 April 2023 (preview), 28 September 2023 (GA)
- Amazon Aurora DSQL - 3 December 2024 (preview), 28 May 2025 (GA)
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - 21 July 2025 (preview), 14 October 2025 (GA)
What did AWS launch in 2004?
This is my favourite trivia question to ask user groups - did you know that the first AWS Service was SQS? It all started with a queue!
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) - 3 November 2004 (preview) · announcement
A managed message queue service. SQS was the very first AWS service, launching in preview more than a year before S3 existed. It went GA on 11 July 2006. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2006?
S3 and EC2. Two services, and suddenly you could store objects and run virtual servers without owning hardware.
Amazon S3 - 13 March 2006 · announcement
Object storage. The service that started it all (well, after SQS). S3 turned 20 in 2026.
Amazon EC2 - 24 August 2006 (preview) · announcement
Virtual servers in the cloud. Launched in beta in 2006, went GA on 23 October 2008. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2008?
EC2 went GA, and EBS gave instances persistent storage for the first time.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) - 20 August 2008 · announcement
Persistent block storage for EC2 instances. Before EBS, your data disappeared when your instance stopped.
Amazon CloudFront - 18 November 2008 (preview) · announcement
Content delivery network. Went GA on 9 November 2010 with custom origin support. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2009?
Monitoring, managed databases, and networking. You could now run an app on EC2, put it in a VPC, store data in RDS, and watch it all with CloudWatch.
Amazon EMR - 2 April 2009 · announcement
Managed Hadoop (and now Spark, Hive, Presto, and more). Originally called Elastic MapReduce - the name tells you what era of big data this came from.
Amazon CloudWatch - 17 May 2009 · announcement
Monitoring and observability. Launched alongside Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing.
Amazon VPC - 26 August 2009 (preview) · announcement
Virtual private networking. Originally optional - now every AWS resource lives inside a VPC by default.
Amazon RDS - 27 October 2009 · announcement
Managed relational databases. Started with MySQL, now supports PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, SQL Server, and (later) Aurora.
What did AWS launch in 2010?
SNS, Route 53, and IAM. Messaging, DNS, and the service that controls who can do what.
Amazon SNS - 7 April 2010 · announcement
Pub/sub messaging and push notifications.
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) - 2 September 2010 (preview) · announcement
The service that controls who can do what in your AWS account. Went GA on 3 May 2011. (GA announcement)
Amazon Route 53 - 6 December 2010 · announcement
DNS and domain registration. Named after the port number for DNS (53).
What did AWS launch in 2011?
CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, SES, Direct Connect, and ElastiCache. Deploying and managing apps got a lot easier.
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk - 19 January 2011 · announcement
Platform-as-a-service for deploying web apps. You give it your code, it handles the infrastructure.
Amazon SES - 25 January 2011 · announcement
Email sending service.
AWS CloudFormation - 25 February 2011 · announcement
Infrastructure as code using JSON/YAML templates. The original IaC service on AWS.
AWS Direct Connect - 3 August 2011 · announcement
Dedicated network connection from your data centre to AWS.
Amazon ElastiCache - 22 August 2011 · announcement
Managed Redis and Memcached.
What did AWS launch in 2012?
DynamoDB, Glacier, SWF, Trusted Advisor, and Storage Gateway.
Amazon DynamoDB - 18 January 2012 · announcement
Managed NoSQL database.
AWS Trusted Advisor - 30 January 2012 · announcement
Automated best-practice checks for your AWS account.
Amazon Simple Workflow Service (SWF) - 21 February 2012 · announcement
Workflow coordination service. Largely superseded by Step Functions these days.
Amazon S3 Glacier - 20 August 2012 · announcement
Cold archival storage. Originally a standalone service, now integrated as S3 storage classes.
AWS Storage Gateway - 29 October 2012 · announcement
Hybrid cloud storage that connects on-premises environments to AWS.
What did AWS launch in 2013?
Redshift, CloudTrail, Kinesis, WorkSpaces, and a few others. Analytics and streaming showed up alongside the first virtual desktops.
Amazon Elastic Transcoder - 28 January 2013 · announcement
Media transcoding service.
Amazon Redshift - 14 February 2013 · announcement
Managed data warehouse. Launched on Valentine's Day, which feels appropriate for a service data teams love.
AWS OpsWorks - 18 February 2013 · announcement
Configuration management using Chef and Puppet.
AWS CloudHSM - 26 March 2013 · announcement
Hardware security modules in the cloud.
AWS CloudTrail - 13 November 2013 · announcement
API call logging. Records every action taken in your AWS account.
Amazon WorkSpaces - 13 November 2013 (preview) · announcement
Virtual desktops. Went GA on 26 March 2014. (GA announcement)
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams - 14 November 2013 (preview) · announcement
Real-time data streaming. Went GA on 16 December 2013. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2014?
Lambda, Aurora, ECS, Cognito, KMS, Config, and CodeDeploy. A big November - Lambda and ECS both previewed on the 13th.
AWS Cost Explorer - 8 April 2014 · announcement
Visualise and analyse your AWS spending over time.
Amazon Cognito - 10 July 2014 · announcement
User authentication and identity management for apps.
Amazon WorkDocs - 10 July 2014 (preview) · announcement
Enterprise document storage and sharing. Originally launched as Amazon Zocalo.
AWS Directory Service - 21 October 2014 · announcement
Managed Microsoft Active Directory in the cloud.
AWS CodeDeploy - 12 November 2014 · announcement
Automated code deployments to EC2, Lambda, and on-premises servers.
AWS Config - 12 November 2014 · announcement
Tracks configuration changes across your AWS resources.
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) - 12 November 2014 · announcement
Managed encryption keys.
Amazon Aurora - 12 November 2014 (preview) · announcement
MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud. Went GA on 27 July 2015. (GA announcement)
AWS Lambda - 13 November 2014 (preview) · announcement
Run code without provisioning servers. Went GA on 9 April 2015. (GA announcement)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - 13 November 2014 (preview) · announcement
Managed container orchestration. Went GA on 9 April 2015. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2015?
API Gateway, IoT Core, OpenSearch (then Elasticsearch), WAF, Snowball, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and more. Eighteen services across the year.
Amazon WorkMail - 28 January 2015 (preview) · announcement
Managed business email and calendar. Went GA on 4 January 2016. (GA announcement)
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) - 9 April 2015 (preview) · announcement
Managed NFS file storage for EC2.
AWS Budgets - 29 June 2015 · announcement
Set custom cost and usage budgets with alerts.
AWS CodeCommit - 9 July 2015 · announcement
Managed Git repositories.
AWS CodePipeline - 9 July 2015 · announcement
Continuous delivery pipeline service.
AWS Device Farm - 9 July 2015 · announcement
Test mobile apps on real devices in the cloud.
AWS Service Catalog - 9 July 2015 · announcement
Create and manage approved IT service catalogues.
Amazon API Gateway - 9 July 2015 · announcement
Create, publish, and manage REST and WebSocket APIs.
Amazon OpenSearch Service - 1 October 2015 · announcement
Managed search and analytics. Originally launched as Amazon Elasticsearch Service, rebranded in 2021.
AWS WAF - 6 October 2015 · announcement
Web application firewall.
AWS Snowball - 7 October 2015 · announcement
Physical data transport device. Ship your data to AWS on a rugged appliance.
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose - 7 October 2015 · announcement
Load streaming data into data stores and analytics services.
Amazon Inspector - 7 October 2015 (preview) · announcement
Automated security assessment. Went GA on 19 April 2016. (GA announcement)
Amazon QuickSight - 7 October 2015 (preview) · announcement
Business intelligence and data visualisation. Went GA on 15 November 2016. (GA announcement)
AWS IoT Core - 8 October 2015 (preview) · announcement
Connect IoT devices to the cloud. Went GA on 18 December 2015. (GA announcement)
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) - 21 December 2015 · announcement
Managed Docker container registry.
What did AWS launch in 2016?
Certificate Manager and DMS shipped in Q1, Flink arrived mid-year, and then November brought Lightsail, Athena, Polly, Rekognition, Step Functions, and a dozen more. Over 25 services this year.
AWS Certificate Manager - 21 January 2016 · announcement
Free SSL/TLS certificates for AWS services.
Amazon GameLift - 9 February 2016 · announcement
Managed game server hosting.
Amazon Lumberyard - 9 February 2016 · announcement
Game engine. (Later evolved into Open 3D Engine.)
AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) - 15 March 2016 · announcement
Migrate databases to AWS with minimal downtime.
AWS Application Discovery Service - 19 April 2016 (preview) · announcement
Discover on-premises applications for migration planning. Went GA on 12 May 2016. (GA announcement)
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink - 11 August 2016 · announcement
Real-time stream processing. Originally launched as Amazon Kinesis Analytics.
AWS Server Migration Service - 24 October 2016 · announcement
Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS.
AWS Organizations - 29 November 2016 (preview) · announcement
Centrally manage multiple AWS accounts. Went GA on 27 February 2017. (GA announcement)
Amazon Athena - 30 November 2016 · announcement
Query data in S3 using SQL. No infrastructure to manage.
Amazon Lightsail - 30 November 2016 · announcement
Simple virtual private servers with fixed monthly pricing. AWS's answer to DigitalOcean.
Amazon Polly - 30 November 2016 · announcement
Text-to-speech service.
Amazon Rekognition - 30 November 2016 · announcement
Image and video analysis using deep learning.
Amazon Lex - 30 November 2016 (preview) · announcement
Build conversational interfaces (the tech behind Alexa). Went GA on 19 April 2017. (GA announcement)
AWS IoT Greengrass - 30 November 2016 (preview) · announcement
Run AWS Lambda functions on edge devices. Went GA on 7 June 2017. (GA announcement)
AWS Snowball Edge - 30 November 2016 · announcement
Snowball with local compute capabilities.
AWS Snowmobile - 30 November 2016 · announcement
A literal shipping container truck for exabyte-scale data transfer. My favourite AWS Service of all time.
AWS CodeBuild - 1 December 2016 · announcement
Managed build service for compiling and testing code.
AWS Personal Health Dashboard - 1 December 2016 · announcement
Personalised view of AWS service health events affecting your resources.
AWS Shield - 1 December 2016 · announcement
DDoS protection.
AWS Step Functions - 1 December 2016 · announcement
Visual workflow orchestration for distributed applications.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 - 1 December 2016 · announcement
Stream desktop applications to any device.
Amazon Pinpoint - 1 December 2016 · announcement
Targeted push notifications and campaign management.
AWS Glue - 1 December 2016 (preview) · announcement
Serverless ETL (extract, transform, load) service. Went GA on 14 August 2017. (GA announcement)
AWS Artifact - 7 December 2016 · announcement
On-demand access to AWS compliance reports.
AWS Managed Services - 12 December 2016 · announcement
AWS operates your infrastructure for you.
What did AWS launch in 2017?
Connect and X-Ray shipped in the spring. The Elemental media suite arrived in November. Fargate, SageMaker, EKS, and GuardDuty followed days later. Over 30 services this year - the most in a single year until that point.
AWS Batch - 5 January 2017 · announcement
Run batch computing workloads.
Amazon Chime - 13 February 2017 · announcement
Video conferencing and online meetings.
Amazon Connect - 28 March 2017 · announcement
Cloud-based contact centre.
AWS CodeStar - 19 April 2017 · announcement
Unified interface for managing software development activities.
AWS X-Ray - 19 April 2017 · announcement
Distributed tracing for debugging production applications.
AWS Migration Hub - 14 August 2017 · announcement
Track application migrations across multiple AWS tools.
Amazon Macie - 14 August 2017 · announcement
Discover and protect sensitive data using machine learning.
VMware Cloud on AWS - 28 August 2017 · announcement
Run VMware workloads on AWS infrastructure.
AWS PrivateLink - 8 November 2017 · announcement
Private connectivity between VPCs and AWS services without traversing the public internet.
AWS Amplify - 21 November 2017 · announcement
Build full-stack web and mobile apps. Started as a JavaScript library, now a full development platform.
AWS Elemental MediaConvert - 26 November 2017 · announcement
File-based video transcoding.
AWS Elemental MediaLive - 26 November 2017 · announcement
Live video encoding.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage - 26 November 2017 · announcement
Video origination and packaging.
AWS Elemental MediaStore - 26 November 2017 · announcement
Storage optimised for media.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor - 26 November 2017 · announcement
Server-side ad insertion for video.
Amazon GuardDuty - 28 November 2017 · announcement
Threat detection for your AWS account. Analyses CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs.
Amazon MQ - 28 November 2017 · announcement
Managed message broker for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ.
AWS AppSync - 28 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Managed GraphQL APIs with real-time data and offline support.
AWS Fargate - 29 November 2017 · announcement
Run containers without managing servers. Serverless compute for ECS and EKS.
AWS IoT Device Management - 29 November 2017 · announcement
Onboard, organise, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale.
AWS Systems Manager - 29 November 2017 · announcement
Operational hub for managing AWS resources. Patch management, parameter store, run commands, and more.
Amazon Comprehend - 29 November 2017 · announcement
Natural language processing - extract insights from text.
Amazon FreeRTOS - 29 November 2017 · announcement
Operating system for microcontrollers.
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams - 29 November 2017 · announcement
Stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics and ML.
Amazon SageMaker - 29 November 2017 · announcement
Build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
AWS DeepLens - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Deep learning-enabled video camera for developers.
AWS IoT 1-Click - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Trigger Lambda functions from simple IoT devices.
AWS IoT Analytics - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Analytics for IoT data.
Amazon Transcribe - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Automatic speech-to-text.
Amazon Translate - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Neural machine translation.
Amazon Neptune - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Managed graph database. Went GA on 30 May 2018. (GA announcement)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Managed Kubernetes. Went GA on 5 June 2018. (GA announcement)
AWS IoT Device Defender - 29 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Security management for IoT devices. Went GA on 2 August 2018. (GA announcement)
AWS Serverless Application Repository - 30 November 2017 (preview) · announcement
Discover and deploy serverless applications. Went GA on 21 February 2018. (GA announcement)
AWS Cloud9 - 30 November 2017 · announcement
Cloud-based IDE.
AWS IAM Identity Center - 7 December 2017 · announcement
Centrally manage single sign-on access to multiple AWS accounts. Originally launched as AWS SSO.
What did AWS launch in 2018?
Secrets Manager, Private CA, and Firewall Manager shipped in April. Then November and December brought a wave of preview announcements — many with GA dates stretching into 2019 and even 2020. Transit Gateway and the FSx family also arrived.
AWS Firewall Manager - 4 April 2018 · announcement
Centrally manage firewall rules across accounts.
AWS Private CA - 4 April 2018 · announcement
Managed private certificate authority.
AWS Secrets Manager - 4 April 2018 · announcement
Store, rotate, and manage secrets like database credentials and API keys.
Amazon Corretto - 14 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
No-cost, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Went GA on 31 January 2019. (GA announcement)
AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) - 21 November 2018 · announcement
Share AWS resources across accounts.
AWS Transfer Family - 25 November 2018 · announcement
Managed SFTP, FTPS, and FTP for S3 and EFS. Originally launched as AWS Transfer for SFTP.
AWS DataSync - 26 November 2018 · announcement
Automated data transfer between on-premises storage and AWS.
AWS Global Accelerator - 26 November 2018 · announcement
Improve availability and performance using the AWS global network.
AWS RoboMaker - 26 November 2018 · announcement
Develop, test, and deploy robotics applications.
AWS Transit Gateway - 26 November 2018 · announcement
Connect VPCs and on-premises networks through a central hub.
AWS IoT Events - 26 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Detect and respond to events from IoT sensors.
AWS IoT Things Graph - 26 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Visually connect devices and web services for IoT applications.
AWS IoT SiteWise - 26 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Collect and analyse industrial equipment data. Went GA on 9 July 2020. (GA announcement)
AWS Elemental MediaConnect - 27 November 2018 · announcement
Reliable live video transport.
AWS Cloud Map - 28 November 2018 · announcement
Service discovery for cloud resources.
AWS Inferentia - 28 November 2018 · announcement
Custom ML inference chip designed by AWS.
AWS License Manager - 28 November 2018 · announcement
Manage software licences across AWS and on-premises.
Amazon Elastic Inference - 28 November 2018 · announcement
Attach GPU-powered inference acceleration to any EC2 or SageMaker instance.
Amazon FSx for Lustre - 28 November 2018 · announcement
High-performance file system for compute-intensive workloads.
Amazon FSx for Windows File Server - 28 November 2018 · announcement
Managed Windows-native file system.
AWS App Mesh - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Service mesh for microservices.
AWS DeepRacer - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Autonomous 1/18th scale race car for learning reinforcement learning.
Amazon Managed Blockchain - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Create and manage blockchain networks.
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Managed Apache Kafka.
Amazon Textract - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Extract text and data from documents using ML.
Amazon Personalize - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
ML-powered personalisation. Went GA on 10 June 2019. (GA announcement)
AWS Security Hub - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Centralised security findings. Went GA on 24 June 2019. (GA announcement)
Amazon Forecast - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Time-series forecasting using ML. Went GA on 22 August 2019. (GA announcement)
Amazon QLDB - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Quantum Ledger Database - immutable, cryptographically verifiable transaction log. Went GA on 10 September 2019. (GA announcement)
AWS Outposts - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Run AWS infrastructure on-premises. Went GA on 3 December 2019. (GA announcement)
Amazon Timestream - 28 November 2018 (preview) · announcement
Managed time-series database. Went GA on 30 September 2020. (GA announcement)
AWS Well-Architected Tool - 29 November 2018 · announcement
Review your workloads against AWS best practices.
What did AWS launch in 2019?
CDK and EventBridge went GA in July. Control Tower shipped in June. Lake Formation arrived in August. December brought another batch of previews including Braket, Detective, and Kendra.
Amazon DocumentDB - 8 January 2019 · announcement
MongoDB-compatible managed document database.
AWS Backup - 16 January 2019 · announcement
Centralised backup across AWS services.
Amazon WorkLink - 23 January 2019 · announcement
Secure mobile access to internal websites and web apps.
AWS Ground Station - 23 May 2019 · announcement
Communicate with satellites. Yes, actual satellites.
AWS Control Tower - 24 June 2019 · announcement
Set up and govern a multi-account AWS environment.
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) - 11 July 2019 · announcement
Define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages instead of YAML/JSON.
Amazon EventBridge - 11 July 2019 · announcement
Serverless event bus. Connect applications using events from AWS services, SaaS apps, and your own code.
AWS Chatbot - 24 July 2019 · announcement
ChatOps for AWS - get notifications and run commands in Slack and Teams.
AWS Elemental Appliances & Software - 7 August 2019 · announcement
On-premises video processing hardware and software.
AWS Lake Formation - 9 August 2019 · announcement
Build, secure, and manage data lakes.
AWS Data Exchange - 13 November 2019 · announcement
Find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud.
AWS Launch Wizard - 13 November 2019 · announcement
Guided deployments for enterprise applications like SQL Server and SAP.
AWS DeepComposer - 1 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
ML-powered music composition. A musical keyboard for learning generative AI.
AWS IAM Access Analyzer - 2 December 2019 · announcement
Identify resources shared with external entities.
Amazon Braket - 2 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
Quantum computing service. Went GA on 13 August 2020. (GA announcement)
Amazon EC2 Image Builder - 2 December 2019 · announcement
Automate the creation and maintenance of AMIs.
AWS Compute Optimizer - 3 December 2019 · announcement
ML-powered recommendations for right-sizing compute resources.
Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) - 3 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
Human review workflows for ML predictions.
Amazon CodeGuru - 3 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
ML-powered code reviews and application performance recommendations.
Amazon Detective - 3 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
Investigate security findings. Went GA on 31 March 2020. (GA announcement)
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) - 3 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
Managed Cassandra-compatible database. Went GA on 23 April 2020. (GA announcement)
Amazon Kendra - 3 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
ML-powered enterprise search. Went GA on 11 May 2020. (GA announcement)
Amazon Fraud Detector - 3 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
Detect online fraud using ML. Went GA on 28 July 2020. (GA announcement)
AWS Wavelength - 3 December 2019 (preview) · announcement
Ultra-low latency applications at 5G network edges. Went GA on 6 August 2020. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2020?
Fewer net-new services than previous years. Network Firewall, CloudShell, MWAA (managed Airflow), and a batch of ML services. A lot of 2019 previews also went GA.
Amazon AppFlow - 22 April 2020 · announcement
Transfer data between SaaS apps and AWS without code.
AWS CodeArtifact - 10 June 2020 · announcement
Managed artifact repository for software packages (npm, PyPI, Maven, etc.).
AWS Snowcone - 17 June 2020 · announcement
The smallest Snow family device. Portable, rugged edge computing and data transfer.
Amazon Honeycode - 24 June 2020 (preview) · announcement
Build mobile and web apps without code using a spreadsheet-like interface.
Amazon RDS Proxy - 30 June 2020 · announcement
Managed database proxy that makes applications more scalable and resilient.
AWS App2Container - 1 July 2020 · announcement
Containerise existing .NET and Java applications.
Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) - 15 July 2020 · announcement
Managed live streaming.
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry - 21 October 2020 (preview) · announcement
AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project for distributed tracing and metrics.
AWS Glue DataBrew - 11 November 2020 · announcement
Visual data preparation tool - clean and normalise data without writing code.
AWS Network Firewall - 19 November 2020 · announcement
Managed network firewall for VPCs.
Amazon MWAA - 24 November 2020 · announcement
Managed Apache Airflow for workflow orchestration.
Amazon Monitron - 1 December 2020 · announcement
End-to-end machine monitoring system using sensors and ML.
Amazon ECS Anywhere - 1 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Run ECS tasks on your own infrastructure.
Amazon Lookout for Vision - 1 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Spot product defects using computer vision. Went GA on 24 February 2021. (GA announcement)
Amazon Lookout for Equipment - 1 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Detect abnormal equipment behaviour for predictive maintenance. Went GA on 8 April 2021. (GA announcement)
Amazon DevOps Guru - 1 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
ML-powered operations service that identifies application issues. Went GA on 4 May 2021. (GA announcement)
AWS Proton - 1 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Automated infrastructure provisioning for container and serverless deployments. Went GA on 9 June 2021. (GA announcement)
AWS Panorama - 1 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Add computer vision to existing cameras. Went GA on 20 October 2021. (GA announcement)
AWS Audit Manager - 8 December 2020 · announcement
Continuously audit your AWS usage for compliance.
Amazon Lookout for Metrics - 8 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Detect anomalies in business metrics. Went GA on 25 March 2021. (GA announcement)
Amazon HealthLake - 8 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Store, transform, and analyse health data. Went GA on 15 July 2021. (GA announcement)
AWS CloudShell - 15 December 2020 · announcement
Browser-based shell with the AWS CLI pre-installed.
Amazon Managed Grafana - 15 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Managed Grafana for operational dashboards. Went GA on 31 August 2021. (GA announcement)
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus - 15 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Managed Prometheus for container monitoring. Went GA on 29 September 2021. (GA announcement)
Amazon Location Service - 16 December 2020 (preview) · announcement
Maps, geofencing, and location-based services. Went GA on 1 June 2021. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2021?
App Runner, MemoryDB, FSx for OpenZFS, Fault Injection Simulator, Resilience Hub, and Elastic Disaster Recovery. Fewer services than the 2017–2019 peak, but this year had a lot of smaller feature launches that are not listed here.
AWS Fault Injection Simulator - 16 March 2021 · announcement
Chaos engineering - run controlled experiments to test resilience.
Amazon Nimble Studio - 28 April 2021 · announcement
Cloud-based content creation for visual effects and animation studios.
Amazon FinSpace - 3 May 2021 · announcement
Data management and analytics for the financial services industry.
AWS App Runner - 18 May 2021 · announcement
Deploy containerised web apps and APIs from source code or a container image.
AWS Application Migration Service - 18 May 2021 · announcement
Lift-and-shift migration to AWS.
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis - 19 August 2021 · announcement
Redis-compatible, durable, in-memory database.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP - 2 September 2021 · announcement
Managed NetApp ONTAP file system on AWS.
Amazon MSK Connect - 16 September 2021 · announcement
Managed Kafka Connect connectors for streaming data in and out of Apache Kafka.
AWS Cloud Control API - 30 September 2021 · announcement
A uniform API for creating, reading, updating, and deleting AWS resources.
AWS Resilience Hub - 10 November 2021 · announcement
Define, validate, and track the resilience of your applications.
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery - 17 November 2021 · announcement
Scalable, cost-effective disaster recovery to AWS.
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS - 30 November 2021 · announcement
Managed OpenZFS file system.
AWS IoT TwinMaker - 30 November 2021 (preview) · announcement
Build digital twins of real-world systems. Went GA on 21 April 2022. (GA announcement)
AWS Mainframe Modernization - 30 November 2021 (preview) · announcement
Migrate and modernise mainframe applications. Went GA on 8 June 2022. (GA announcement)
AWS Private 5G - 30 November 2021 (preview) · announcement
Deploy and manage your own private 5G network. Went GA on 11 August 2022. (GA announcement)
AWS IoT FleetWise - 30 November 2021 (preview) · announcement
Collect and transfer vehicle data to the cloud. Went GA on 27 September 2022. (GA announcement)
Amazon VPC IPAM - 1 December 2021 · announcement
IP address management at scale.
AWS Cloud WAN - 2 December 2021 (preview) · announcement
Build and manage a global wide area network. Went GA on 12 July 2022. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2022?
CodeWhisperer arrived in preview mid-year just before I started my job with AWS. Trainium went GA in October. The end of the year brought Verified Permissions, Supply Chain, Security Lake, and Application Composer.
AWS Billing Conductor - 17 March 2022 · announcement
Customise your billing data for showback and chargeback.
Amazon GameSparks - 23 March 2022 (preview) · announcement
Game backend service.
Amazon EMR Serverless - 1 June 2022 · announcement
Run Spark and Hive without managing clusters.
Amazon CodeWhisperer - 23 June 2022 (preview) · announcement
AI-powered code suggestions. Went GA on 13 April 2023. (GA announcement)
Amazon Redshift Serverless - 12 July 2022 · announcement
Run analytics without managing data warehouse infrastructure.
AWS Wickr - 26 July 2022 (preview) · announcement
End-to-end encrypted messaging.
AWS Trainium - 10 October 2022 · announcement
Custom ML training chip. EC2 Trn1 instances went GA.
Amazon Verified Permissions - 28 November 2022 (preview) · announcement
Fine-grained authorisation using Cedar policy language. Went GA on 13 June 2023. (GA announcement)
AWS SimSpace Weaver - 29 November 2022 · announcement
Run large-scale spatial simulations.
Amazon Omics - 29 November 2022 · announcement
Store, query, and analyse genomic and biological data.
AWS Supply Chain - 29 November 2022 (preview) · announcement
ML-powered supply chain management. Went GA on 4 April 2023. (GA announcement)
AWS Verified Access - 29 November 2022 (preview) · announcement
Zero-trust access to corporate applications without a VPN. Went GA on 28 April 2023. (GA announcement)
Amazon Security Lake - 29 November 2022 (preview) · announcement
Centralise security data in OCSF format. Went GA on 30 May 2023. (GA announcement)
AWS Application Composer - 1 December 2022 (preview) · announcement
Visually design serverless applications. Went GA on 7 March 2023. (GA announcement)
Amazon CodeCatalyst - 1 December 2022 (preview) · announcement
Unified software development service. Went GA on 20 April 2023. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2023?
Bedrock went GA in September. Amazon Q previewed in November. Clean Rooms, VPC Lattice, and Payment Cryptography also shipped.
AWS Telco Network Builder - 21 February 2023 · announcement
Deploy and manage telco networks on AWS.
AWS Clean Rooms - 21 March 2023 · announcement
Analyse combined datasets without sharing raw data.
Amazon VPC Lattice - 31 March 2023 · announcement
Service-to-service connectivity, security, and monitoring across VPCs and accounts.
Amazon Bedrock - 13 April 2023 (preview) · announcement
Access foundation models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API. Went GA on 28 September 2023. (GA announcement)
AWS Payment Cryptography - 12 June 2023 · announcement
Managed cryptographic operations for payment processing.
AWS AppFabric - 27 June 2023 · announcement
Connect SaaS applications for security and management.
AWS HealthImaging - 25 July 2023 · announcement
Store, access, and analyse medical imaging data at scale.
AWS HealthScribe - 26 July 2023 (preview) · announcement
Generate clinical documentation from patient-clinician conversations. Went GA on 27 November 2023. (GA announcement)
AWS Entity Resolution - 26 July 2023 · announcement
Match and link related records across data sources.
Amazon DataZone - 4 October 2023 · announcement
Data management service for cataloguing, discovering, and governing data.
AWS B2B Data Interchange - 27 November 2023 · announcement
Automate EDI (electronic data interchange) document transformations.
Amazon Q - 28 November 2023 (preview) · announcement
Generative AI assistant for software development and AWS operations. Went GA on 30 April 2024. (GA announcement)
What did AWS launch in 2024?
Eight new services including Deadline Cloud, App Studio, Nova, Aurora DSQL (in preview), and a lot of ‘feature launches’ that are not full services so they’re not on this list.
AWS Deadline Cloud - 2 April 2024 · announcement
Managed render farm for visual effects and animation.
AWS App Studio - 10 July 2024 (preview) · announcement
Build enterprise applications using natural language. Went GA on 18 November 2024. (GA announcement)
AWS End User Messaging - 29 July 2024 · announcement
Send and manage messages across SMS, MMS, and push channels.
AWS Data Transfer Terminal - 1 December 2024 · announcement
Physical locations for high-speed data uploads to AWS.
AWS Security Incident Response - 1 December 2024 · announcement
Triage and respond to security incidents in your AWS account.
Amazon Nova - 3 December 2024 · announcement
Amazon's own family of foundation models, available through Bedrock. Includes text, multimodal, and image generation models.
Amazon Aurora DSQL - 3 December 2024 (preview) · announcement
Serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability. PostgreSQL-compatible. Went GA on 28 May 2025. (GA announcement)
Amazon S3 Tables - 3 December 2024 (preview) · announcement
Cloud object store with built-in Apache Iceberg support, optimised for analytics workloads.
What did AWS launch in 2025?
AWS Transform went GA in May for mainframe, VMware, and .NET workloads. Bedrock AgentCore previewed in July and went GA in October. December brought Nova Act, S3 Vectors, and the next generation of Nova models.
AWS Transform - 28 May 2025 · announcement
Automates modernisation of mainframe, VMware, and .NET workloads using AI. Launched with support for mainframe, VMware, and .NET workloads, with a custom transformation capability added at re:Invent 2025. (VMware GA) (.NET GA) (Custom GA)
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore - 21 July 2025 (preview) · announcement
Infrastructure for deploying and running AI agents. Includes runtime, memory, gateway, identity, and observability components. Went GA on 14 October 2025. (GA announcement)
Amazon Nova Act - 2 December 2025 · announcement
Build AI agents that automate browser-based UI workflows - form filling, search and extract, QA testing.
Amazon S3 Vectors - 2 December 2025 · announcement
Vector storage and querying built into S3.
What has AWS launched in 2026 so far?
We're only a few months in, but new services are already arriving.
AWS Elemental Inference - 24 February 2026 · announcement
AI-powered live video processing. Automatically generates vertical content and highlight clips for mobile and social platforms in real time, alongside encoding.
Amazon Connect Health - 5 March 2026 · announcement
Agentic AI for healthcare, built on Amazon Connect. Five AI agents handle patient verification, appointment management, patient insights, ambient documentation, and medical coding.
Amazon Route 53 Global Resolver - 9 March 2026 · announcement
Anycast DNS resolver across 30 AWS Regions. Resolves public and private domains from anywhere, with DNS query filtering and centralised logging. Previewed at re:Invent 2025.
What’s missing from this list?
I am definitely sure I have missed something on this list, but I hope you’ll let me know in the comments! There were so many to get through, but then there’s also the thing where AWS has a habit of launching features that blur the line between “new service” and “major feature of an existing service.” So, I decided to try and include things that would have their own console entry, or their own pricing page, or their own “What’s New” launch announcement. There’s also some services I deliberately left out because they’re features rather than standalone services (So things like S3 Intelligent-Tiering, Lambda Layers, EC2 Auto Scaling). And there’s probably others I left out because it was a skill issue on my part. Live laugh love launches!
If you spot a gap, please let me know - I am extremely online and you can find me on LinkedIn or X.
If you want to do your own research like this, the AWS MCP Server is a great place to start! You can use it in Kiro, Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever AI Agent is your current favourite. It’s the reason this post exists - I’d been meaning to compile this list for years and never had the time until I had a tool that could help me find 250 announcements without opening 250 browser tabs.
About the Author:
Brooke Jamieson is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS, focused on AI agents and developer tools. A former fashion model turned mathematician turned AI Engineer, Brooke moved from Australia to New York City for this role. They make byte-sized tech content about AI and AWS, and you can find them on LinkedIn, Instagram or X.
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