Document History
The following table describes important changes to the documentation since the last release of the AWS GovCloud (US) User Guide.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
The UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/ResourceCredentialExfiltration.OutsideAWS finding type is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This finding detects when a host outside of AWS attempts to run AWS API operations using temporary AWS credentials that were created on a AWS Lambda resource in your AWS environment. | December 16, 2025 | |
The DefenseEvasion:IAMUser/BedrockLoggingDisabled finding type is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This finding detects when logging is disabled for Amazon Bedrock model invocations in your account, which could indicate attempts to hide malicious activity. | November 21, 2025 | |
Malware Protection for Backup is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US). This feature allows you to run on-demand malware scans of your EBS Snapshots, EC2 AMI’s, and S3 Recovery Points. There are usage costs associated with running these scans. | November 20, 2025 | |
GuardDuty Malware Protection for S3 now supports the scanning of existing objects in your protection plan enabled buckets through a new on-demand scanning API, SendObjectMalwareScan in the AWS GovCloud (US). There are usage costs associated with running these scans. | November 17, 2025 | |
GuardDuty RDS Protection is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This GuardDuty RDS Protection helps you detect potentially suspicious login behavior in supported Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL (including Limitless Database), and RDS for PostgreSQL. In the event of threat detection, GuardDuty generates an RDS Protection finding. For more information about supported databases and enabling this protection plan in the newly supported Regions, see RDS Protection. | November 12, 2025 | |
Updated information to create EventBridge rules in the How AWS Health differs for AWS GovCloud (US) section. | November 7, 2025 | |
Amazon EKS Auto Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) | October 22, 2025 | |
AWS Outposts servers are supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS Outposts. | October 20, 2025 | |
Updated the Not supported list to remove AWS Incident Detection and Response (IDR). | October 8, 2025 | |
AWS Cloud WAN is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US). For more information, see What is AWS Cloud WAN. | September 30, 2025 | |
Code signing for Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | September 24, 2025 | |
Amazon ECR cross-account support for Lambda is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | September 17, 2025 | |
Updated the Not supported list to add AWS Incident Detection and Response (IDR). Removed deprecated Account Discovery information for AMS Accelerate in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | September 16, 2025 | |
AWS Parallel Computing Service (AWS PCS) doesn’t support Amazon EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | September 15, 2025 | |
In Malware Protection for S3, the Extracted archive files default quota has been increased from 1,000 to 10,000 files. For more information, see Quotas in Malware Protection for S3. | September 12, 2025 | |
Runtime Monitoring is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This GuardDuty feature adds visibility into runtime behaviors, such as file access, process execution, command line arguments, and network connections, when activities occur on your Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS, and Amazon ECS-AWS Fargate resources. | August 26, 2025 | |
AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid Edition) is not available in this AWS GovCloud (US) Regions | August 5, 2025 | |
CloudTrail network activity events are only available for AWS KMS, Amazon S3, AWS CloudTrail, and AWS Secrets Manager. You can also log network activity events in Amazon CloudWatch that are sent through the monitoring VPC interface endpoint. For more information, see Using CloudWatch. | July 30, 2025 | |
The Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2) Amazon EBS volume type is now supported. | July 22, 2025 | |
AWS Parallel Computing Service is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | June 17, 2025 | |
CloudTrail enriched events are currently not supported. | May 29, 2025 | |
Amazon ECR cross-Region and cross-account replication is now supported. | May 13, 2025 | |
Malware Protection for EC2 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US). This helps you detect potential malware in your Amazon EC2 instances and container workloads by scanning attached Amazon EBS volumes. You can set up automated GuardDuty scans, run on-demand scans, or use both capabilities. Standard usage cost for scanning Amazon EBS volume will apply. | May 13, 2025 | |
AWS IoT SiteWise now support MQTT-enabled, V3 gateways in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | April 24, 2025 | |
VPC endpoint policies for CloudTrail and Amazon VPC are now available. | April 17, 2025 | |
VPC endpoint policies for CloudTrail and Amazon VPC are not supported. | April 10, 2025 | |
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES) functionality introduced in release version 2025.03 is not supported in AWS GovCloud (US-West). | March 20, 2025 | |
Database Insights is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | March 18, 2025 | |
Database Insights is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | March 18, 2025 | |
Extended Threat Detection is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US). With no activation needed, it detects multi-stage attacks that span data sources, multiple types of AWS resources, and time, within an AWS account. When potential threats are detected, it generates an attack sequence finding. | March 13, 2025 | |
Malware Protection for S3 is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US). It helps you detect potential presence of malware by scanning newly uploaded objects to your selected Amazon S3 buckets. | March 11, 2025 | |
Metadata bulk import and export operations are not available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) region. | January 24, 2025 | |
Image Builder doesn’t support ISO disk file import in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | January 9, 2025 | |
Amazon EKS Auto Mode and Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes aren’t available | December 10, 2024 | |
Image Builder doesn’t support AWS Marketplace software components in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | December 1, 2024 | |
Amazon Application Recovery Controller’s (ARC) Zonal Shift in Amazon EKS is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) | November 19, 2024 | |
Update AWS account root user differences. Some tasks that require the root user can be performed on member accounts in your organization with short-term privileged sessions. | November 14, 2024 | |
Image Builder doesn’t support macOS images, Dedicated Instances, or Dedicated Hosts in . | October 22, 2024 | |
Lambda SnapStart is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. | September 26, 2024 | |
The Node.js 20 ( | September 19, 2024 | |
AWS CodeConnections is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. | September 6, 2024 | |
AWS GovCloud (US-West) now supports the functionality introduced in release version 2024.08 of Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES). | September 3, 2024 | |
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES) functionality introduced in release version 2024.08 is not supported in AWS GovCloud (US-West). | August 29, 2024 | |
Amazon EKS Pod Identities are now available in AWS GovCloud (US) | August 14, 2024 | |
Added Account Discovery information for AMS Accelerate in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | August 7, 2024 | |
Removed references to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC in the service description, as well as updated feature names for clarity. | July 30, 2024 | |
The assessment summary generated by large language models (LLMs) on Amazon Bedrock is not supported in AWS GovCloud (US). See How AWS Resilience Hub differs for AWS GovCloud (US). | July 30, 2024 | |
The SMS, MMS, voice (text to speech), and push features of Amazon Pinpoint are now called AWS End User Messaging. | July 24, 2024 | |
The SMS, MMS, voice (text to speech), and push features of Amazon Pinpoint are now called AWS End User Messaging. | July 24, 2024 | |
Third party post-launch actions are not supported by Application Migration Service in AWS GovCloud (US). See How AWS Application Migration Service differs for AWS GovCloud (US). | July 8, 2024 | |
AWS CloudFormation Hooks is available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. | June 3, 2024 | |
Amazon Security Lake is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | May 30, 2024 | |
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | April 19, 2024 | |
Unified search is now available on the AWS Management Console. | April 4, 2024 | |
Added guidance for customers who update the name or email address associated with their AWS account. | April 3, 2024 | |
AWS Signer now supports all of its generally available CloudFormation resources in AWS GovCloud (US) Region. | March 28, 2024 | |
The Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver isn’t available as an Amazon EKS add-on and self-managed installation isn’t officially supported. | March 25, 2024 | |
Tape Gateway for Snowball Edge isn’t available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | March 18, 2024 | |
AWS Signer is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | March 14, 2024 | |
Amazon EKS Extended Support for Kubernetes Versions is now available. | January 22, 2024 | |
Amazon EKS Upgrade insights aren’t available. | January 8, 2024 | |
Amazon EKS Pod Identities aren’t available in AWS GovCloud (US). | December 26, 2023 | |
Update differences - Image lifecycle policies are not supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | December 12, 2023 | |
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | December 6, 2023 | |
App2Container Replatforming and Refactor Spaces are not supported by Application Migration Service in AWS GovCloud (US). See How AWS Application Migration Service differs for AWS GovCloud (US). | December 6, 2023 | |
Added missing statements that Amazon EKS Anywhere isn’t available. | December 4, 2023 | |
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES) is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-West). | November 13, 2023 | |
AWS Trusted Advisor now supports checks from AWS Config. See AWS Trusted Advisorin AWS GovCloud (US). | October 26, 2023 | |
AWS Resilience Hub is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | October 18, 2023 | |
AWS Mainframe Modernization is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | October 2, 2023 | |
The Python 3.11 ( | September 28, 2023 | |
ROSA is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | September 16, 2023 | |
Lambda Protection is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The service-linked role now includes AWS Lambda actions to retrieve information about your Lambda functions and tags ( | August 15, 2023 | |
Dashboard snapshot export API operations are not supported in AWS GovCloud (US). See How Amazon Quick Suite differs for AWS GovCloud (US). | July 24, 2023 | |
Amazon Location Service is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | July 17, 2023 | |
AWS SDK for SAP ABAP is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | June 30, 2023 | |
AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Network Firewall and DNS Firewall policies in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | June 8, 2023 | |
Application Migration Service is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | June 1, 2023 | |
SimSpace Weaver is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | May 31, 2023 | |
The In-App channel is not supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) for Amazon Pinpoint. See How Amazon Pinpoint differs for AWS GovCloud (US) | May 26, 2023 | |
Copying WorkSpaces Applications images between the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions is now supported. | May 17, 2023 | |
SageMaker Studio and SageMaker Studio notebooks are now supported. | May 15, 2023 | |
Amazon WorkSpaces is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East). | May 3, 2023 | |
Amazon RDS Proxy is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | May 1, 2023 | |
Amazon Verified Permissions is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | April 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | April 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Bedrock is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions | April 28, 2023 | |
Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | April 28, 2023 | |
AWS Verified Access is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | April 28, 2023 | |
AWS WickrGov is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | March 30, 2023 | |
AWS CloudFormation now supports resource AWS::Organizations::ResourcePolicy in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | March 27, 2023 | |
AWS IoT TwinMaker is only supported in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | March 25, 2023 | |
You can now enable EventBridge on Amazon S3 buckets to send events to Amazon EventBridge in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | March 22, 2023 | |
AWS Modular Data Center is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-West). | February 13, 2023 | |
Amazon Inspector is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | January 31, 2023 | |
AWS Compute Optimizer is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | January 25, 2023 | |
Amazon SageMaker AI is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-East). | January 25, 2023 | |
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. | December 8, 2022 | |
AWS Organizations now supports tag policies in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | November 17, 2022 | |
Amazon Timestream is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-West). | November 16, 2022 | |
Additional content filtering options are now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. | November 14, 2022 | |
AWS Control Tower is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | October 19, 2022 | |
Amazon Chime SDK is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | October 6, 2022 | |
Hyperledger Fabric on Amazon Managed Blockchain is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | September 7, 2022 | |
AWS Well-Architected Tool is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | August 17, 2022 | |
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | August 4, 2022 | |
AWS SSO is now IAM Identity Center. | July 26, 2022 | |
AWS Fault Injection Service is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | July 13, 2022 | |
AWS CloudShell is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | June 29, 2022 | |
Streaming Transcription is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | June 9, 2022 | |
AWS IoT SiteWise endpoints now support FIPS 140-3. | April 20, 2022 | |
AMS Accelerate is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | February 9, 2022 | |
AWS IAM Identity Center is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | January 5, 2022 | |
Amazon S3 on Outposts is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. | December 22, 2021 | |
Amazon Kendra is now supported in AWS GovCloud (US-West). | October 14, 2021 | |
AWS Cloud Control API is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. | September 30, 2021 | |
AWS IoT SiteWise is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | September 29, 2021 | |
AWS IAM Identity Center is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | September 22, 2021 | |
AWS IoT Events is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | September 22, 2021 | |
AWS Cloud Map is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. | September 8, 2021 | |
AWS Network Firewall is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. | June 24, 2021 | |
Amazon MQ | Amazon MQ is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon MQ. | June 16, 2021 |
AWS Firewall Manager | AWS Firewall Manager is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS Firewall Manager. | April 8, 2021 |
Service Quotas | Service Quotas is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Service Quotas. | March 31, 2021 |
Amazon Detective | Amazon Detective is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Detective. | March 24, 2021 |
AWS AppConfig | AWS AppConfig is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS AppConfig. | February 26, 2021 |
Amazon Lex | Amazon Lex is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Lex. | February 10, 2021 |
Amazon Connect | Amazon Connect is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Connect. | February 9, 2021 |
Amazon FSx | Amazon FSx is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon FSx. | December 16, 2020 |
AWS IoT Greengrass V2 | AWS IoT Greengrass V2 is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS IoT Greengrass V2. | December 15, 2020 |
AWS Lake Formation | AWS Lake Formation is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS Lake Formation. | November 11, 2020 |
Amazon EventBridge | Amazon EventBridgeis now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon EventBridge. | November 4, 2020 |
Amazon Quick Suite | Quick Suite is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon QuickSight. | October 28, 2020 |
AWS Transfer Family | AWS Transfer Family is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS Transfer Family. | September 30, 2020 |
Amazon Elastic Block StoreEBS direct APIs | EBS direct APIs is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Accessing the contents of an EBS snapshot. | September 15, 2020 |
Amazon SQS | Tagging Amazon SQS resources is now supported in all AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See Amazon SQS. | September 15, 2020 |
Amazon Textract | Amazon Textract is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Textract. | August 19, 2020 |
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) | Amazon DocumentDB is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon DocumentDB. | June 29, 2020 |
Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink | Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. | June 24, 2020 |
AWS Backup | AWS Backup is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS Backup. | June 24, 2020 |
Amazon Cognito | Amazon Cognito is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Cognito. | May 13, 2020 |
Amazon EKS | Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon EKS. | May 13, 2020 |
Amazon Comprehend Medical | Amazon Comprehend Medical is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Comprehend Medical. | May 8, 2020 |
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) | Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon MSK. | May 6, 2020 |
Amazon SES | Amazon Simple Email Service is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon SES. | April 30, 2020 |
Amazon Pinpoint | Amazon Pinpoint is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Pinpoint. | April 30, 2020 |
AWS Security Hub CSPM | AWS Security Hub CSPM is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS Security Hub. | April 22, 2020 |
AWS CodePipeline | AWS CodePipeline is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS CodePipeline. | April 8, 2020 |
AWS Outposts | AWS Outposts is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See AWS Outposts. | March 25, 2020 |
AWS X-Ray | AWS X-Ray is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See AWS X-Ray. | February 19, 2020 |
AWS Batch | AWS Batch is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See AWS Batch. | January 29, 2020 |
Amazon EC2Image Builder | Amazon EC2 Image Builder is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. See EC2 Image Builder. | December 3, 2019 |
Amazon S3 | Access points for S3 buckets. Customers can attach additional access-points to both existing and new buckets. See Amazon S3. | December 3, 2019 |
AWS DataSync | AWS DataSync is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. See AWS DataSync. | November 20, 2019 |
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications | Amazon WorkSpaces Applications is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See Amazon AppStream 2.0. | October 9, 2019 |
AWS Artifact | AWS Artifact is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS Artifact. | October 9, 2019 |
AWS Resource Groups | AWS Resource Groups is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS Resource Groups. | September 25, 2019 |
AWS Resource Access Manager | AWS Resource Access Manager is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. See AWS Resource Access Manager. | August 28, 2019 |
Amazon Neptune | Amazon Neptune is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See Amazon Neptune. | August 14, 2019 |
AWS Health | AWS Health is now supported in the AWS GovCloud US. See AWS Health. | August 7, 2019 |
Firehose | Firehose is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. See Amazon Data Firehose. | June 26, 2019 |
AWS IoT Greengrass | AWS IoT Greengrass is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS IoT Greengrass. | June 26, 2019 |
AWS Fargate | AWS Fargate is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See AWS Fargate. | June 24, 2019 |
AWS Secrets Manager | AWS Secrets Manager is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS Secrets Manager. | June 11, 2019 |
AWS DataSync | AWS DataSync is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS DataSync. | June 11, 2019 |
AWS Serverless Application Repository | AWS Serverless Application Repository is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS Serverless Application Repository. | June 11, 2019 |
AWS CodeBuild | AWS CodeBuild is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS CodeBuild. | June 11, 2019 |
Amazon Route 53 | Amazon Route 53 is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See Amazon Route 53. | May 29, 2019 |
Amazon Athena | Amazon Athena is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. See Amazon Athena. | May 13, 2019 |
Amazon Transcribe | Amazon Transcribe is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region | May 1, 2019 |
AWS Resource Access Manager | AWS Resource Access Manager is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region | April 25, 2019 |
AWS Organizations | AWS Organizations is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | April 18, 2019 |
AWS CodeCommit | AWS CodeCommit is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | April 17, 2019 |
AWS Service Catalog | AWS Service Catalog is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | March 20, 2019 |
AWS WAF | AWS WAF is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS WAF. | March 13, 2019 |
Amazon Comprehend | Amazon Comprehend is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | March 13, 2019 |
Updated the guide for the re-merge | Updated all the references from a single govCloud Region to multi-regions for GovCloud | February 6, 2019 |
Amazon Athena | Amazon Athena is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. | February 6, 2019 |
AWS Glue | AWS Glue is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. See AWS Glue. | February 6, 2019 |
AWS IoT Device Defender | AWS IoT Device Defender is now supported in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. See AWS IoT Device Defender. | November 14, 2018 |
