Document history
The following table describes the documentation for Amazon Location Service. For notification about updates you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Amazon Location Service releases a new SDK for JavaScript | To make developing Amazon Location applications easier with in web front ends, Amazon Location adds a new open source SDK that supports AWS SDK for JavaScript v3, simplifying authentication and using GeoJSON. For mor information, see Amazon Location SDK. | July 6, 2023 |
Amazon Location Service releases API keys to general availability | Amazon Location adds support for place and route and announce general availability of the API keys feature. For more information, see Using API keys. | July 6, 2023 |
Amazon Location Service adds Amazon EventBridge events for position updates | Amazon Location adds support for sending tracker position update events to EventBridge. For more information, including how to enable the events for a tracker, see Reacting to events with EventBridge. | July 6, 2023 |
Amazon Location adds metadata to geofences | Using the Amazon Location API, you can now add metadata properties to your geofences. These are stored with your geofence, and included in events related to the geofence in Amazon EventBridge. For more information, see Draw geofences and Create event rules. | June 15, 2023 |
Amazon Location adds categories for places | Amazon Location add categories in place search results, and filtering results by category. For more information, see Categories and filtering. | June 15, 2023 |
Amazon Location introduces political views | Amazon Location adds political views to certain map styles. For more information, see Political views. | May 23, 2023 |
Amazon Location introduces new demo and samples site | Amazon Location announces a new web site that gives you access to Amazon Location demos and samples. For more information, see Amazon Location demo site. | May 3, 2023 |
Amazon Location introduces longer routes in CalculateRouteMatrix | Amazon Location now allows unlimited length routes for route matrix routes created with the HERE data provider. For more information, see Longer route planning. | April 24, 2023 |
Amazon Location documentation adds feature differences by data provider | Amazon Location documentation has been updated with information regarding the differences between each data provider in Maps, Places search, and routing. For more information, see Features by data provider. | March 30, 2023 |
Amazon Location Open Data maps general availability | General availability of Amazon Location Service data provider and style, based on OpenStreetMap's Daylight maps. For more information, see Open Data. | March 7, 2023 |
Amazon Location adds new authorization method in preview | Amazon Location Service adds API keys as a new authorization method for anonymous users, in preview mode. For more information, see Allowing unauthenticated guest access to your application using API keys. | February 23, 2023 |
Amazon Location documentation updated with latest IAM best practices | Amazon Location Service documentation has been updated to meet the most recent AWS Identity and Access Management best practices. For more information, see Security in Amazon Location Service. | January 26, 2023 |
Amazon Location Service adds GrabMaps as a data provider in Southeast Asia | Amazon Location introduces GrabMaps as a data provider in Southeast Asia. For more information, see GrabMaps. | January 10, 2023 |
Amazon Location Service Open Data maps in preview | New Amazon Location data provider and style added in public preview, based on OpenStreetMap's Daylight maps. For more information, see Open Data (Preview). | December 15, 2022 |
New HERE satellite imagery styles | Two new map styles have been added for maps using HERE as a data provider, HERE Satellite Imagery and HERE Hybrid map styles. For more information, see HERE map styles. | October 25, 2022 |
Units in addresses | Amazon Location Service now supports units in addresses, for example "123 Main St, Apartment 3B, Anytown, USA". | September 20, 2022 |
Get places by ID | Amazon Location Service now includes support finding the exact location suggested by the
| September 20, 2022 |
Additional condition keys for IAM policy | Amazon Location Service now supports additional condition keys that let you set access for specific geofences or devices in IAM policy. See Condition keys. | August 23, 2022 |
Circle geofences | Amazon Location Service now supports geofences defined as a circle with a center point and a radius, to get events when devices are within a certain distance of a location. See Adding circular geofences. | August 11, 2022 |
Combined API reference | Amazon Location Service now has a single API reference guide, rather than separate guides for each subservice. For more information about the APIs, see Amazon Location APIs. | July 7, 2022 |
Service Quotas integration | Amazon Location is now integrated with Service Quotas allowing you to view and manage your quotas through the AWS Management Console or using the AWS CLI. | July 6, 2022 |
Updated concepts documentation chapter | The Amazon Location concepts chapter has been updated with more information for users of Amazon Location. | April 22, 2022 |
New Android quick start tutorial | A new quick start tutorial for Android development using Kotlin has been added to get developers up and running quickly. | April 15, 2022 |
New HERE Map styles | Two new map styles have been added for maps using HERE as a data provider. For more information, see HERE map styles. | March 15, 2022 |
Restructure documentation with added code examples and tutorials | This developer guide has been restructured to find topics more easily, including new Quick start and Code examples chapters. | February 25, 2022 |
Accuracy-based position filtering for trackers | You can now use accuracy-based filters when creating a tracker resource. | December 7, 2021 |
Autocomplete for place indexes | You can now use autocomplete when searching place indexes. | December 6, 2021 |
New Amplify tutorial for using maps | A new tutorial is available showing how to use AWS Amplify to display maps in a web application. The tutorial is available at Using the Amplify library with Amazon Location Service. | November 24, 2021 |
Place query extensions | Amazon Location Service now supports setting a preferred language for results when geocoding, or reverse geocoding, and adds the time zone and other information to the results. For more information about geocoding and reverse geocoding, see Geocoding, reverse geocoding, and searching. | November 16, 2021 |
Tracker position filtering | Amazon Location Service adds a new position filtering feature to trackers that can help you control costs. This feature filters out some position updates on devices before the updates are stored or evaluated against geofences. For more information about position filtering, see Trackers. | October 5, 2021 |
Update operations | The following operations have been added to the Amazon Location Service API References : UpdateMap, UpdatePlaceIndex, UpdateRouteCalculator, UpdateGeofenceCollection, and UpdateTracker. | July 19, 2021 |
Tutorial update: Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL user-defined functions | A new tutorial has been added for how to use Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL user-defined functions with Amazon Location to validate, clean, and enrich geospatial data. | July 19, 2021 |
AWS CloudFormation resources | Amazon Location now supports creating the following resource types in AWS CloudFormation
resources: | June 7, 2021 |
Tagging resources | You can now add tags to your Amazon Location resources to help manage, identify, organize, search, and filter your resources. | June 1, 2021 |
General availability | General availability release of the Amazon Location Service developer documentation: Region and endpoints and service quotas updated. | June 1, 2021 |
Esri Imagery | Amazon Location now supports the use of Esri map style: Esri
Imagery. For more information, see Esri World Imagery | June 1, 2021 |
Calculating routes | You can now use Amazon Location route calculators to calculate routes and estimate travel time based on up-to-date road network and live traffic information from your chosen data provider. | June 1, 2021 |
AWS KMS customer managed key encryption for data at rest | Amazon Location now supports the use of a symmetric customer managed key that you create, own, and manage to add a second layer of encryption over the existing AWS owned encryption. | June 1, 2021 |
Public preview release | Initial release of the public preview documentation. | December 16, 2020 |
Tutorial update: Displaying maps | Tutorials for displaying maps using MapLibre for Android and iOS have been updated to use the MapLibre native SDK. | March 17, 2020 |
