Last updated: 20 March 2026
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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) · )
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 ·
Virtual servers in the cloud. Launched in beta in 2006, went GA on 23 October 2008. (
Persistent block storage for EC2 instances. Before EBS, your data disappeared when your instance stopped.
Amazon CloudFront - 18 November 2008 (preview) · )
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 ·
Monitoring and observability. Launched alongside Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing.
Amazon VPC - 26 August 2009 (preview) ·
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 ·
The service that controls who can do what in your AWS account. Went GA on 3 May 2011. (
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 ·
Email sending service.
AWS CloudFormation - 25 February 2011 ·
Dedicated network connection from your data centre to AWS.
Amazon ElastiCache - 22 August 2011 ·
Managed NoSQL database.
AWS Trusted Advisor - 30 January 2012 ·
Workflow coordination service. Largely superseded by Step Functions these days.
Amazon S3 Glacier - 20 August 2012 ·
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 ·
Managed data warehouse. Launched on Valentine's Day, which feels appropriate for a service data teams love.
AWS OpsWorks - 18 February 2013 ·
Hardware security modules in the cloud.
AWS CloudTrail - 13 November 2013 ·
Virtual desktops. Went GA on 26 March 2014. (
Real-time data streaming. Went GA on 16 December 2013. (
Visualise and analyse your AWS spending over time.
Amazon Cognito - 10 July 2014 ·
Enterprise document storage and sharing. Originally launched as Amazon Zocalo.
AWS Directory Service - 21 October 2014 ·
Automated code deployments to EC2, Lambda, and on-premises servers.
AWS Config - 12 November 2014 ·
Managed encryption keys.
Amazon Aurora - 12 November 2014 (preview) · )
AWS Lambda - 13 November 2014 (preview) · )
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - 13 November 2014 (preview) · )
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) · )
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) - 9 April 2015 (preview) ·
Set custom cost and usage budgets with alerts.
AWS CodeCommit - 9 July 2015 ·
Continuous delivery pipeline service.
AWS Device Farm - 9 July 2015 ·
Create and manage approved IT service catalogues.
Amazon API Gateway - 9 July 2015 ·
Managed search and analytics. Originally launched as Amazon Elasticsearch Service, rebranded in 2021.
AWS WAF - 6 October 2015 ·
Physical data transport device. Ship your data to AWS on a rugged appliance.
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose - 7 October 2015 ·
Automated security assessment. Went GA on 19 April 2016. (
Business intelligence and data visualisation. Went GA on 15 November 2016. (
Connect IoT devices to the cloud. Went GA on 18 December 2015. (
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 ·
Managed game server hosting.
Amazon Lumberyard - 9 February 2016 ·
Migrate databases to AWS with minimal downtime.
AWS Application Discovery Service - 19 April 2016 (preview) · )
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink - 11 August 2016 ·
Migrate on-premises workloads to AWS.
AWS Organizations - 29 November 2016 (preview) · )
Amazon Athena - 30 November 2016 ·
Simple virtual private servers with fixed monthly pricing. AWS's answer to DigitalOcean.
Amazon Polly - 30 November 2016 ·
Image and video analysis using deep learning.
Amazon Lex - 30 November 2016 (preview) · )
AWS IoT Greengrass - 30 November 2016 (preview) · )
AWS Snowball Edge - 30 November 2016 ·
A literal shipping container truck for exabyte-scale data transfer. My favourite AWS Service of all time.
AWS CodeBuild - 1 December 2016 ·
Personalised view of AWS service health events affecting your resources.
AWS Shield - 1 December 2016 ·
Visual workflow orchestration for distributed applications.
Amazon AppStream 2.0 - 1 December 2016 ·
Targeted push notifications and campaign management.
AWS Glue - 1 December 2016 (preview) · )
AWS Artifact - 7 December 2016 ·
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 ·
Video conferencing and online meetings.
Amazon Connect - 28 March 2017 ·
Unified interface for managing software development activities.
AWS X-Ray - 19 April 2017 ·
Track application migrations across multiple AWS tools.
Amazon Macie - 14 August 2017 ·
Run VMware workloads on AWS infrastructure.
AWS PrivateLink - 8 November 2017 ·
Build full-stack web and mobile apps. Started as a JavaScript library, now a full development platform.
AWS Elemental MediaConvert - 26 November 2017 ·
Live video encoding.
AWS Elemental MediaPackage - 26 November 2017 ·
Storage optimised for media.
AWS Elemental MediaTailor - 26 November 2017 ·
Threat detection for your AWS account. Analyses CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, and DNS logs.
Amazon MQ - 28 November 2017 ·
Managed GraphQL APIs with real-time data and offline support.
AWS Fargate - 29 November 2017 ·
Onboard, organise, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale.
AWS Systems Manager - 29 November 2017 ·
Natural language processing - extract insights from text.
Amazon FreeRTOS - 29 November 2017 ·
Stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics and ML.
Amazon SageMaker - 29 November 2017 ·
Deep learning-enabled video camera for developers.
AWS IoT 1-Click - 29 November 2017 (preview) ·
Analytics for IoT data.
Amazon Transcribe - 29 November 2017 (preview) ·
Neural machine translation.
Amazon Neptune - 29 November 2017 (preview) · )
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) - 29 November 2017 (preview) · )
AWS IoT Device Defender - 29 November 2017 (preview) · )
AWS Serverless Application Repository - 30 November 2017 (preview) · )
AWS Cloud9 - 30 November 2017 ·
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 ·
Managed private certificate authority.
AWS Secrets Manager - 4 April 2018 ·
No-cost, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Went GA on 31 January 2019. (
Share AWS resources across accounts.
AWS Transfer Family - 25 November 2018 ·
Automated data transfer between on-premises storage and AWS.
AWS Global Accelerator - 26 November 2018 ·
Develop, test, and deploy robotics applications.
AWS Transit Gateway - 26 November 2018 ·
Detect and respond to events from IoT sensors.
AWS IoT Things Graph - 26 November 2018 (preview) ·
Collect and analyse industrial equipment data. Went GA on 9 July 2020. (
Reliable live video transport.
AWS Cloud Map - 28 November 2018 ·
Custom ML inference chip designed by AWS.
AWS License Manager - 28 November 2018 ·
Attach GPU-powered inference acceleration to any EC2 or SageMaker instance.
Amazon FSx for Lustre - 28 November 2018 ·
Managed Windows-native file system.
AWS App Mesh - 28 November 2018 (preview) ·
Autonomous 1/18th scale race car for learning reinforcement learning.
Amazon Managed Blockchain - 28 November 2018 (preview) ·
Managed Apache Kafka.
Amazon Textract - 28 November 2018 (preview) ·
ML-powered personalisation. Went GA on 10 June 2019. (
Centralised security findings. Went GA on 24 June 2019. (
Time-series forecasting using ML. Went GA on 22 August 2019. (
Quantum Ledger Database - immutable, cryptographically verifiable transaction log. Went GA on 10 September 2019. (
Run AWS infrastructure on-premises. Went GA on 3 December 2019. (
Managed time-series database. Went GA on 30 September 2020. (
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 ·
Centralised backup across AWS services.
Amazon WorkLink - 23 January 2019 ·
Communicate with satellites. Yes, actual satellites.
AWS Control Tower - 24 June 2019 ·
Define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages instead of YAML/JSON.
Amazon EventBridge - 11 July 2019 ·
ChatOps for AWS - get notifications and run commands in Slack and Teams.
AWS Elemental Appliances & Software - 7 August 2019 ·
Build, secure, and manage data lakes.
AWS Data Exchange - 13 November 2019 ·
Guided deployments for enterprise applications like SQL Server and SAP.
AWS DeepComposer - 1 December 2019 (preview) ·
Identify resources shared with external entities.
Amazon Braket - 2 December 2019 (preview) · )
Amazon EC2 Image Builder - 2 December 2019 ·
ML-powered recommendations for right-sizing compute resources.
Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) - 3 December 2019 (preview) ·
ML-powered code reviews and application performance recommendations.
Amazon Detective - 3 December 2019 (preview) · )
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) - 3 December 2019 (preview) · )
Amazon Kendra - 3 December 2019 (preview) · )
Amazon Fraud Detector - 3 December 2019 (preview) · )
AWS Wavelength - 3 December 2019 (preview) · )
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 ·
Managed artifact repository for software packages (npm, PyPI, Maven, etc.).
AWS Snowcone - 17 June 2020 ·
Build mobile and web apps without code using a spreadsheet-like interface.
Amazon RDS Proxy - 30 June 2020 ·
Containerise existing .NET and Java applications.
Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) - 15 July 2020 ·
AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project for distributed tracing and metrics.
AWS Glue DataBrew - 11 November 2020 ·
Managed network firewall for VPCs.
Amazon MWAA - 24 November 2020 ·
End-to-end machine monitoring system using sensors and ML.
Amazon ECS Anywhere - 1 December 2020 (preview) ·
Spot product defects using computer vision. Went GA on 24 February 2021. (
Detect abnormal equipment behaviour for predictive maintenance. Went GA on 8 April 2021. (
ML-powered operations service that identifies application issues. Went GA on 4 May 2021. (
Automated infrastructure provisioning for container and serverless deployments. Went GA on 9 June 2021. (
Add computer vision to existing cameras. Went GA on 20 October 2021. (
Continuously audit your AWS usage for compliance.
Amazon Lookout for Metrics - 8 December 2020 (preview) · )
Amazon HealthLake - 8 December 2020 (preview) · )
AWS CloudShell - 15 December 2020 ·
Managed Grafana for operational dashboards. Went GA on 31 August 2021. (
Managed Prometheus for container monitoring. Went GA on 29 September 2021. (
Maps, geofencing, and location-based services. Went GA on 1 June 2021. (
Chaos engineering - run controlled experiments to test resilience.
Amazon Nimble Studio - 28 April 2021 ·
Data management and analytics for the financial services industry.
AWS App Runner - 18 May 2021 ·
Lift-and-shift migration to AWS.
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis - 19 August 2021 ·
Managed NetApp ONTAP file system on AWS.
Amazon MSK Connect - 16 September 2021 ·
A uniform API for creating, reading, updating, and deleting AWS resources.
AWS Resilience Hub - 10 November 2021 ·
Scalable, cost-effective disaster recovery to AWS.
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS - 30 November 2021 ·
Build digital twins of real-world systems. Went GA on 21 April 2022. (
Migrate and modernise mainframe applications. Went GA on 8 June 2022. (
Deploy and manage your own private 5G network. Went GA on 11 August 2022. (
Collect and transfer vehicle data to the cloud. Went GA on 27 September 2022. (
IP address management at scale.
AWS Cloud WAN - 2 December 2021 (preview) · )
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 ·
Game backend service.
Amazon EMR Serverless - 1 June 2022 ·
AI-powered code suggestions. Went GA on 13 April 2023. (
Run analytics without managing data warehouse infrastructure.
AWS Wickr - 26 July 2022 (preview) ·
Custom ML training chip. EC2 Trn1 instances went GA.
Amazon Verified Permissions - 28 November 2022 (preview) · )
AWS SimSpace Weaver - 29 November 2022 ·
Store, query, and analyse genomic and biological data.
AWS Supply Chain - 29 November 2022 (preview) · )
AWS Verified Access - 29 November 2022 (preview) · )
Amazon Security Lake - 29 November 2022 (preview) · )
AWS Application Composer - 1 December 2022 (preview) · )
Amazon CodeCatalyst - 1 December 2022 (preview) · )
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 ·
Analyse combined datasets without sharing raw data.
Amazon VPC Lattice - 31 March 2023 ·
Access foundation models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API. Went GA on 28 September 2023. (
Managed cryptographic operations for payment processing.
AWS AppFabric - 27 June 2023 ·
Store, access, and analyse medical imaging data at scale.
AWS HealthScribe - 26 July 2023 (preview) · )
AWS Entity Resolution - 26 July 2023 ·
Data management service for cataloguing, discovering, and governing data.
AWS B2B Data Interchange - 27 November 2023 ·
Generative AI assistant for software development and AWS operations. Went GA on 30 April 2024. (
Managed render farm for visual effects and animation.
AWS App Studio - 10 July 2024 (preview) · )
AWS End User Messaging - 29 July 2024 ·
Physical locations for high-speed data uploads to AWS.
AWS Security Incident Response - 1 December 2024 ·
Amazon's own family of foundation models, available through Bedrock. Includes text, multimodal, and image generation models.
Amazon Aurora DSQL - 3 December 2024 (preview) · )
Amazon S3 Tables - 3 December 2024 (preview) ·
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. () (
Infrastructure for deploying and running AI agents. Includes runtime, memory, gateway, identity, and observability components. Went GA on 14 October 2025. (
Build AI agents that automate browser-based UI workflows - form filling, search and extract, QA testing.
Amazon S3 Vectors - 2 December 2025 ·
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 ·
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!
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