# Document history for the AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery User Guide The following are the latest documentation updates for AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. We update the documentation frequently to address the feedback that you send us. **** | Change | Description | Date | | --- | --- | --- | | Updated AWS managed policies | Created new revisions of managed policies to support a change in SSM. [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/doc-history.html) | July 3, 2025 | | Updated AWS managed policies | Created new revisions of managed policies to support a change in authentication with EBS APIs. [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/doc-history.html) | January 6, 2025 | | AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery - Flexible Instance Types feature | Release of Flexible Instance Types in AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS). For more information, see [Flexible Instance Types](https://docs.aws.amazon.com//drs/latest/userguide/flexible-instance-types.html) | July 30, 2024 | | Updated AWS managed policies | Created new revisions of managed policies to support additional parameter types in SSM Parameter Store for post-launch actions. The following managed policies were updated: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/doc-history.html) | May 19, 2024 | | AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Support for AWS Outposts | AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery now supports AWS Outposts. For more information see: [ Working with AWS DRS and Outposts. ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/outposts.html) | April 18, 2024 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Created a new revision of the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy.md) policy, to support replicating marketplace licenses to launched instances. | January 28, 2024 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Created new revision of the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy.md) policy, to support replicating marketplace licenses to launched instances. | January 28, 2024 | | Updated AWS managed policies | Updated policies to support managed prefix lists for network replication and recovery. The following managed policies were updated: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/doc-history.html) | January 3rd, 2024 | | Updated AWS managed policies | Created new revisions of managed policies to support DRS to GovCloud and added Sid to statements in managed policies. The following managed policies were updated: [\[See the AWS documentation website for more details\]](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/drs/latest/userguide/doc-history.html) | November 27, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Created new revision of [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy.md) policy to support DRS in GovCloud | November 27, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess.md) policy to support describing additional post-launch actions. | November 27, 2023 | | New AWS managed policy | Added the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess\$1v2](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess_v2.md) policy to support running predefined post-launch actions from the console. | November 27, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy.md) policy to support managed prefix lists for network replication and recovery. | October 15, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess.md) and [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryLaunchActionsPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryLaunchActionsPolicy.md) policies to support recovery into an existing instance. | October 15, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy.md) policy to allow sending installation result metrics to AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. | October 10, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy.md) policy to allow sending installation result metrics to AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery. | October 10, 2023 | | New AWS managed policy | Added the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryLaunchActionsPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryLaunchActionsPolicy.md) policy to support post-launch actions. | September 13, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryReadOnlyAccess.md) policy to support post-launch actions. | September 13, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy.md) policy to support network replication and recovery. | June 13, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentInstallationPolicy.md) policy to support network replication and recovery. | June 13, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess.md) policy to support network replication and recovery. | June 13, 2023 | | New AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryNetworkReplicationPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryNetworkReplicationPolicy.md) policy to support network replication and recovery. | June 13, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryServiceRolePolicy.md) policy to support network replication and recovery. | June 13, 2023 | | New AWS managed policy | Added the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryCrossAccountReplicationPolicy.md) policy to support cross-account failback. | May 7, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryRecoveryInstancePolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryRecoveryInstancePolicy.md) policy to support cross-account failback by the agent after reverse replication. | May 7, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryEc2InstancePolicy.md) policy to support cross-account replication by the agent. | May 7, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryConsoleFullAccess.md) policy to support default EC2 launch templates and bulk editing of source server EC2 launch templates. | April 19, 2023 | | Updated AWS managed policy | Updated the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentPolicy ](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryAgentPolicy.md) policy to support the kernel upgrade feature. | April 1, 2023 | | New AWS managed policy | Added the [AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryStagingAccountPolicy\$1v2](security-iam-awsmanpol-AWSElasticDisasterRecoveryStagingAccountPolicy_v2.md) policy to support the recovery of source servers into a separate target account and to allow failing back. | December 11, 2022 | | Cross-Region failback and cross-Availability-Zone recovery | Added support for [cross-Region failback](failback-failover-region-region.md) and [cross-Availability-Zone recovery](failback-failover-cross-availability-zone-failback.md). | November 27, 2022 |