What's new in the Amazon Tools for PowerShell - Amazon Tools for PowerShell (version 5)
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Version 5 (V5) of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell has been released!

For information about breaking changes and migrating your applications, see the migration topic.

What's new in the Amazon Tools for PowerShell

For high-level information about new developments related to the Amazon Tools for PowerShell, see the product page at http://www.amazonaws.cn/powershell/ and the change logs.

The following is what's new in the Tools for PowerShell.

June 23, 2025: Version 5 of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell

Version 5 (V5) of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell is generally available! For information about migrating your applications to V5, see Migrating to V5. Also see the blog post Amazon Tools for PowerShell V5 now Generally Available.

February 10, 2025: GA release for observability

Observability is the extent to which a system's current state can be inferred from the data it emits. Observability has been added to the Tools for PowerShell, including an implementation of a telemetry provider. For more information, see Observability in this guide and the blog post Announcing the general availability of Amazon .NET OpenTelemetry libraries.

January 15, 2025: New default behavior for integrity protection

Beginning with version 4.1.737 of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell, the tools provide default integrity protections by automatically calculating a CRC32 checksum for uploads. For more information, see the announcement on GitHub at https://github.com/aws/aws-tools-for-powershell/issues/370. The Tools also provide global settings for data integrity protections that you can set externally, which you can read about in Data Integrity Protections in the Amazon SDKs and Tools Reference Guide.

November 18, 2024: Preview 1 release for version 5

Preview 1 of the Amazon Tools for PowerShell version 5 was released on November 18, 2024. For more information about this preview, see the blog post Preview 1 of Amazon Tools for PowerShell V5.