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Category: AWS Command Line Interface

Updating AWS SDK defaults – AWS STS service endpoint and Retry Strategy

AWS announces important configuration updates coming July 31st, 2025, affecting AWS SDKs and CLIs default settings. Two key changes include switching the AWS Security Token Service (STS) endpoint to regional and updating the default retry strategy to standard. These updates aim to improve service availability and reliability by implementing regional endpoints to reduce cross-regional dependencies and introducing token-bucket throttling for standardized retry behavior. Organizations should test their applications before the release date and can opt-in early or temporarily opt-out of these changes. These updates align with AWS best practices for optimal service performance and security.

CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in familiar programming languages and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. The AWS CDK consists of three major components: The core framework for modeling reusable infrastructure components A CLI for deploying CDK applications The AWS Construct Library, a set […]

We want to hear from you!

Based on community feedback, we have decided to return feature requests to GitHub issues. We’re always looking to make your life easier, and want to hear your ideas on how to make the AWS CLI even better for you! Today, we’ve opened up a site on UserVoice, that allows you to post your suggestions and […]