2.42.1 2026-02-24

AWS Elemental Inference

• Features

  • Initial GA launch for AWS Elemental Inference including capabilities of Smart Crop and Live Event Clipping

AWS Elemental MediaLive

• Features

  • AWS Elemental MediaLive - Added support for Elemental Inference for Smart Cropping and Clipping features for MediaLive.

Amazon CloudWatch

• Features

  • This release adds the APIs (PutAlarmMuteRule, ListAlarmMuteRules, GetAlarmMuteRule and DeleteAlarmMuteRule) to manage a new Cloudwatch resource, AlarmMuteRules. AlarmMuteRules allow customers to temporarily mute alarm notifications during expected downtime periods.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

• Features

  • Adds httpTokensEnforced property to ModifyInstanceMetadataDefaults API. Set per account or manage organization-wide using declarative policies to prevent IMDSv1-enabled instance launch and block attempts to enable IMDSv1 on existing IMDSv2-only instances.

Amazon Elasticsearch Service

• Features

  • Fixed HTTP binding for DescribeDomainAutoTunes API to correctly pass request parameters as query parameters in the HTTP request.

Amazon OpenSearch Service

• Features

  • Fixed HTTP binding for DescribeDomainAutoTunes API to correctly pass request parameters as query parameters in the HTTP request.

CloudWatch Observability Admin Service

• Features

  • Adding a new field in the CreateCentralizationRuleForOrganization, UpdateCentralizationRuleForOrganization API and updating the GetCentralizationRuleForOrganization API response to include the new field

Partner Central Selling API

• Features

  • Added support for filtering opportunities by target close date in the ListOpportunities API. You can now filter results to return opportunities with a target close date before or after a specified date, enabling more precise opportunity searches based on expected closure timelines.